Why are cats fluid?

[Baitball Blogger]

You've seen it in videos how cats have an incredible propensity to put themselves into the most compromising places. All they need is a gap and they will venture forward, sometimes to hilarious effect. I thought to myself, self, there has to be some reason for this and it occurred to me that they do this because their prey usually hides in the smallest orifices, so they boldly go where no dog has gone before.

So, am I right?

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[Agschmid]

1. I feel as if...

That cat is not happy... Also did it really get there itself?

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It seems to have happened before.

[progressoid]

9. We had a cat that did that.

He would chase anything into anything. Didn't take long for us to figure out a way to get him to run into a coat sleeve and get stuck.

And he would do it over and over and over.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Their clavicles are free-floating

Their "collar bones" are not connected, but are buried within the muscles. So, they can squeeze through any space that is wider than their heads.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Cats are comprised of a different, or at least flexible, state of matter.

Sometimes they are liquid (a liquid assumes the shape of its container, and we've all seen cats do that), and sometimes solid - but unlike other materials, they are not subject to the normal principles of physics that involve a temperature change when their state of matter changes. In other words, a cat can (for example) go from a solid to a liquid state without raising its temperature. Cat physics is not at all like regular Newtonian physics.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Don't forget gas. They can turn into a gaseous matter when they need to.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Nobody ever forgets cat gas. Ever.

[Arugula Latte]

7. It goes: solid, liquid, gas, kitty

[antiquie]

8. Itchy ear

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