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Cat's claws are sharp because they are used for hunting, and those cats who had claws that were less sharp, or had no claws, did not hunt as well as the sharper-clawed ones and so did not survive to reproduce. Dog's claws are also sharp, in the wild, though not as sharp, because they cannot be retracted, and so get dulled by the surfaces the dogs walk on.

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