Big cats love Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men

[charlie]

Tigers, jaguars, cheetahs -- if it's a big kitty, it's fascinated with the stuff, which makes it a useful tool for zoologists and zookeepers. Leave it out of your safari kit, unless you can run like Usain Bolt.

"Oh, yeah, he loves that scent," Mr. Thomas said as Sasha blissfully cuddled up to a tree sprayed with Obsession for Men. "Just look at him."

Mr. Thomas's findings spread quickly through the Wildlife Conservation Society's network of global operations. Now, Obsession is widely used not only in zoos, but in the field, where it has helped produce breakthroughs in wildlife biology and conservation.

As it happens, big cats of all stripes are obsessive when it comes to the scent. Roan Balas McNab, a Wildlife Conservation Society program director in Guatemala, has been using Obsession for Men since 2007 to help study jaguars in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected tropical forest spanning 8,100 square miles.
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The Wildlife Conservation Society's Jaguar Conservation Program plans to expand the use of Obsession for Men to more of its population studies, tentatively scheduled for next year in sections of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. "I'd like to use this in every survey that we're involved with," says program coordinator John Polisar.

Obsession works so well that Mr. McNab hesitated at first to reveal its potency, fearing poachers would also use it. But he decided that spreading the word to other scientists outweighed the potential risk, particularly since poachers already use their own effective bait—dead animals—a tactic researchers' ethics forbid...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256452390636786.html

[xchrom]

1. Zany, wonderful and has me laughing my ass off. Nt

[charlie]

3. Me too

It's just so... nuts. Even big cats are as goofy as your homebound furniture shredder.

[TommyO]

5. Cats are cats, the only difference between the sizes of cats is that...

the tiny ones in our houses taste us with their licks, the big ones outside would be happy just chomping on us.

I wonder if CK Obsession for Men works on our housebound feline overlords?

[charlie]

6. I expect it would

As you say, cats is cats. But I won't be finding out anytime soon, not when I can buy bales of catnip for the same price.

On the flip side, I wonder if a bottle of soap bubbles could save you when a lion invades your camp?

[charlie]

11. Okay, found a place that would spritz some on a stick

for me to take home. Tried it on 6 cats, all were repelled. The stuff is a bust with house kitties.

[marmar]

2. At least someone,or something likes it.....I can't stand the smell of Obsession.

But Acqua di Gio rawks !!!

[Ian David]

4. Obsession for Men is PEOPLE! It's MADE FROM PEOPLE! n/t

[Orsino]

7. This suggests an efficient, if crude, way to dispose of men who wear Obsession. n/t

[drmeow]

10. ...

:spray:

[supernova]

8. LOL LOL LOL!

:orfl: :rofl:

[Nihil]

9. If they were to get access to the CK recipe ...

... they'd probably find it was derived from the same oils found
in the private parts of such creatures ...

Isn't that a thought: all of those "cool CK dudes" are rubbing themselves
with concentrated kitty cock ...

:evilgrin: