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Wednesday proof that cats have no bones (Original Post) packman Apr 2015 OP
More than that - it's proof that The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2015 #1
Cute. Posting so that I can find this later. Xyzse Apr 2015 #2
I can't stop laughing NJCher Apr 2015 #3
a catfish tk2kewl Apr 2015 #4
There are Five states of matter Nac Mac Feegle Apr 2015 #5
heeee! BlancheSplanchnik Apr 2015 #6
Eight states jmowreader Apr 2015 #12
Cats can also dematerialize. JayhawkSD Apr 2015 #7
Yes they do that. murielm99 Apr 2015 #9
We lost a cat for nearly a week during a move. maddiemom May 2015 #23
And magically rematerialize right at your feet The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2015 #10
Wormholes should be called hifiguy Apr 2015 #14
And sometimes they just hide there. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2015 #15
Yep. Cats can warp spacetime around themselves. hifiguy May 2015 #17
Einstein was known to be fond of cats. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #18
For some reason I thought of this awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #22
They damn sure can. 3catwoman3 Apr 2015 #11
"I can't call her because she doesn't hear me." Spitfire of ATJ May 2015 #20
Another bar bet won. n/t sarge43 Apr 2015 #8
Yet more proof of that well known Law of Cartoon Physics: hifiguy Apr 2015 #13
Cat's thinking ..... left-of-center2012 May 2015 #16
Catfish Salad bobalew May 2015 #19
Check out Iwillnevergiveup May 2015 #21
Cat are definitely a liquid! station001 May 2015 #24
Is this a youtube video? Maynar May 2015 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author packman May 2015 #26
Right click on video (really a GIF) packman May 2015 #27
Ah. Okay Maynar May 2015 #28
We had two cats. We had to move and I had emptied out my young son's closet libdem4life May 2015 #29
thanks for a great start to my day! niyad May 2015 #30

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,587 posts)
1. More than that - it's proof that
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 02:41 PM
Apr 2015

cats can change their state of matter at will, to become liquid. A liquid is something that assumes the shape of its container. Q.E.D., cats are liquids when they want to be.

NJCher

(35,619 posts)
3. I can't stop laughing
Wed Apr 29, 2015, 05:14 PM
Apr 2015

That is truly amazing.

No wonder so much internet bandwidth is devoted to cats. They are such funny creatures.


Cher

 

JayhawkSD

(3,163 posts)
7. Cats can also dematerialize.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 10:58 AM
Apr 2015

Freddy disappeared one day. Gone. Could not find him. We frantically searched the house. He must have slipped outside. We were at the point of printing "lost cat" posters when we noticed him lying on top of a dresser in the closet, in plain sight, looking at us like, "What's all the excitement about?"

murielm99

(30,717 posts)
9. Yes they do that.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 02:44 PM
Apr 2015

I remember when we were caring for our daughter's cat. He had to stay for about six months while she straightened out her immigration to Canada.

We had a new bed delivered. The noise must have frightened Wilson. We looked for him for nearly a full day. We thought he had escaped the house. He showed up, tucked between a wall and inside a comforter, when he felt like it. He wasn't hiding. He liked it there.
He crawled out and looked at us like we were insane.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
23. We lost a cat for nearly a week during a move.
Sat May 2, 2015, 10:00 AM
May 2015

I'd left her in a bedroom while I took the dog to a boarding kennel and told the movers not to open the door to that room until I returned. Of course they did so, and one of them thought she'd run outside through an open door. She was nowhere to be found, but we left food, water and a litter box in the house to be safe. She was very shy about going outside, and the neighbors were on the lookout. One of the neighbors called a week later, saying she'd seen her through a window. We'd moved only about forty miles away and quickly drove back to look for her. She was nowhere to be found in the now empty house. We finally found her squeezed into an unbelievably narrow space between a fixed sink and a wall in the utility room. She had quite a few good years after that.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,587 posts)
10. And magically rematerialize right at your feet
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 03:08 PM
Apr 2015

if they hear the crinkling of a treat package or the rattling of a can opener. I think they are able to locate portals into other universes that they slip in and out of.

Cat physics is nothing like Newtonian physics.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
14. Wormholes should be called
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:50 PM
Apr 2015

"catholes." The distance between any two places in spacetime can be traversed by a feline in microseconds.

3catwoman3

(23,947 posts)
11. They damn sure can.
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 03:53 PM
Apr 2015

At least twice a month, one or the other of our 5, all of whom are indoor cats, will decide to hide. Several times, I have been convinced that someone has escaped and have walked the neighborhood calling for whomever.

One of our females, when she was really tiny (1.5 lbs), managed to squeeze herself into the space between the top of our dining room table and the table base. The only reason I knew she was there was that her slightly larger litter mate brother was on one of the dining room chairs peering into the space. He wanted to follow her, but his head was too big to fit thru the gap. I would never have thought to look for her there. She still likes to hide, and now, at age 11, she has gone deaf so I can't call her because she doesn't hear me.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
13. Yet more proof of that well known Law of Cartoon Physics:
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:49 PM
Apr 2015

A cat assumes the shape of its container.

Response to Maynar (Reply #25)

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
27. Right click on video (really a GIF)
Sun May 3, 2015, 10:40 AM
May 2015

go to "Properties" - sorry, best I can do - it will give the http/ link

 

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)
29. We had two cats. We had to move and I had emptied out my young son's closet
Sun May 3, 2015, 09:51 PM
May 2015

and dresser drawers. I had left the middle drawer partly open. When I came back, both cats were sitting in the empty drawer with eyes pleading "Do we get to go to?" (at least that was my cat language guess). Still have the photo. Yes, they went too.

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