Cat experiment a success!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

No, not Dr. Frist's type of experiment. I just had a biscuit left over from last night's meal. Monty was near the kitchen when I picked it up, so he was aware, but was keeping quiet about it. Simba was being a bump and lying under the covers on my bed. I walked over to the bed and held the biscuit over it. Simba immediately crawled out and started yelling for the biscuit. I knew they have powerful senses of smell; this proves it!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Was it smell? Or telepathy?

I tend to believe cats can sense it when you even think about food.

[ET Awful]

2. The cat experiment I always wanted to try . . .

Now we know that cats almost always land on their feet when jumping or falling from any height. We also know that, inevitably, if you drop a piece of buttered toast, it will land with the butter side down so as to render it inedible.

My theory is this . . . if you tie a piece of buttered toast to a cats back and drop the cat, it will hover without ever touching the ground.

[Heidi]

3. Don't you think the cat actually . . .

would spin horizontally as it hovered, creating something akin to a black hole which eventually would suck in the contents of the room, including you?

I wouldn't try that experiment without witnesses, if I were you. However, if you do try it, please have one of the witnesses post photos here.

[ET Awful]

5. Hmmm, possible, but it makes you wonder if it would be possible

to harness the energy generated by such a phenomenon.

[Heidi]

7. It certainly does raise a great many

interesting questions. Further, do you suppose that hypothetical energy could be used somehow, existentially perhaps, to keep Terry Schiavo alive?

[Nay]

11. LOLOL! ET, that's hilarious! Gotta tell my cat lover friends that one.

[kedrys]

4. A third of the cat's brain is taken up by olfactory processing

I opened a can of sardines yesterday afternoon, and the yowling was amazing! They'd never smelled sardines, but they knew they wanted some.

The little black cat likes breakfast. I can't eat a breakfast bar by myself. She wakes up from a coma if she smells raspberries. She really likes Kashi Strawberry Fields cereal too. Go figure. :)

[purr]

6. I hear ya...

When I get up in the morning to make my coffee, I open the fridge to get my coffee out, and the second I do, both come FLYING down the stairs yapping away at me. I do believe they have an intense sense of smell and hearing.

I consider my 2 cats to be my 4th & 5th children :)

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

9. Welcome to DU, purr! (nice name)

My cats are my only children!

[derby378]

8. Here's some first-hand experience

A while back, Axl (our male tuxedo cat) had to get a tooth pulled, which in his case meant general anesthesia. When we brought him home, Bonnie (our female ragdoll) hissed at him and basically drove him off. Axl loves Bonnie like crazy, so he was pretty depressed.

About a week after his oral surgery, Bonnie still wouldn't have anything to do with Axl, but he was willing to come up to me and give me "kitty kisses" on my face. I had a hunch about why Bonnie was acting like that around Axl, so as Axl's little face hovered under my nose, I took a deep breath. I could smell the metallic tinge of anesthesia by-products on his breath.

For me, that was proof. If I could smell that stuff at close range, Bonnie could easily detect it from much farther away, and the smell really spooked her.

We tried getting Bonnie more used to the smell so she'd get used to Axi again, trying stuff like petting Axl and then petting Bonnie immediately afterwards. She didn't like having that smell on her, and it may not have helped at all, but in time Axl and Bonnie were chasing each other, grooming each other, and eating side-by-side as they always have. So all ended well there.

But yes, cats have an excellent sense of smell.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. Poor little guy!

I'm glad they worked it out. Monty and Simba always hate each other for a week after a trip to the vet's office because they smell that strange scent on each other. Crazy little things.

[derby378]

12. Thanks. But here's the grabber.

When Bonnie has to be sedated for dental cleaning, Axl is always nice to her, sitting next to her and grooming her when she comes back to recuperate. He doesn't his at her or make demon noises. So unfair...

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. Axl sounds like such a loving kitty

Very generous and devoted, not only to you, but to his friend.