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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

2282.0. "It's gotta be physics...." by CLUSTA::TAMIR (ACMS design while-u-wait) Thu Mar 09 1989 17:27

    Can someone explain to me the physics behind this phenomenon?
    
    How is it that a little 5 pound cat can sit on your chest and apply no
    less than 300 pounds of pressure thru the 2 square inches her feet take
    up?????  
    
    I just cannot figure this out!!  Is it because little Julie has
    TurboPaws that she is able to do this??  I swear she's got some kind of
    hydraulics that cause this.
    
    Maybe I can get her into the space program....
    
    Mary
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2282.1Just another feline mysteryNZOV07::PARKINSONReunite Gondwanaland!Thu Mar 09 1989 17:5612
    Sura has had this talent since he was a kitten. He can increase
    his mass at will. It happens when he considers he hasn't been fed
    enough, and it's his little way of letting you know - he sits on
    your lap (or preferably stands for exta efficiency) and increases
    mass (and therefore pressure until you either give in or push him
    off.
    
    It's just one of those things that cats can do, but refuse to discuss.
    Like teleporting... but that's another story (Kimi is the teleporter
    of the family).
    
    Shayne (NZ)
2282.2CRUISE::NDCFri Mar 10 1989 12:107
    And they can gang up with it too!  When Mao and Isis decide its
    time to get me up the walk across my body and the preferred level.
    For Mao that's right across my chest at "nipple-level" and for
    Isis its "bladder level".  Either one would get a most satisfying
    response, together its too much!
      N
    
2282.3You're crushing me T.C.!!!!LAIDBK::RESKELife's a mystery & I haven't a clueFri Mar 10 1989 18:109
    re: .0
    
    
    If you think a 5 pound cat can apply painful pressure, just
    imagine what a 16 pound cat can do!!!!  T.C. has to climb
    on me every time he sees me lay down.  Of course it takes him
    10 minutes to find the perfect position to lay!! ;^)
    
    Donna T.C. and Rocco
2282.4ouch!PENPAL::TRACHMANFri Mar 10 1989 18:5810
    re.0
    
    I wanted to reply to this yesterday!  I have the same problem
    with my Sasha - sealpoint siamese - 6.5/7 lbs - her feet
    are killer feet when she sits on me!  I can't figure it
    out either - I really hate it when she wants to do that,
    and she wants to sit on me every night... we go through
    this battle - she is very stubborn and we have been
    doing this for almost 10 years!  The pressure is really 
    something else!
2282.5Milo's a loverCIVIC::JOHNSTONOK, _why_ is it illegal?Fri Mar 10 1989 19:0913
    nyaaah, nyaaah, nyah, nyaaah, nyaaah...
    
    this is how Milo give _me_ HUGS!!  He curls up on my legs and increases
    mass to give me hugs before going to sleep. [He's also up to a lean,
    leggy 9.8lbs before the hydraulics kick in]
    
    the girls, however, do the dainty feet from hell routine.  This is
    accomplished by placing all four dainty kitty-feet together in a bunch
    and then crouching on a tender spot while gazing with wide-eyed soulful
    innocence into the victims eyes and gradually increasing pressure. If
    I'm the victim they aim select the bladder or left-collarbone area.
    
      Ann