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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / April 2007The mystery of kitty weight shifting
I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. Tiny Tabitha is the smallest of our kitties. I think she would probably weigh about 6 pounds soaking wet. She is so tiny that she can jump onto the bed and cause barely a noticeable thump. When she's in the kitty carrier for a trip to the vet or a move across country, you can pick up the carrier and mistake it for an empty one. So how is that this little tiny bundle of fluffy fur can sound like a herd of elephants when she runs up and down the stairs? Sammy, Harri, and Ranger together cause less noise when the three of them run up and down the stairs at the same time. I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a lightweight puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of kitty muscle. I totally relate... TV weighs almost 19 pounds and takes up less room in bed and is quieter all-round than stormmee who weighs right at six pounds, Lee > I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a lightweight > puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of kitty muscle. > So how is that this little tiny bundle of fluffy fur can sound like a > herd of elephants when she runs up and down the stairs? Sarsi can vary her bodyweight at will. Looking at her now as she's settling down after an early supper, she is such a tiny little girl! I can pick her up and she weighs almost nothing (Dunzi weighs nothing!) but should I wish to pick her up when she does not wish to be handled (Into a carrier for example) I need heavy lifting gear to move her! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs >I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a lightweight >puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of kitty muscle. Mudpie is heavy, but I don't notice when he jumps onto the bed right beside me ... but picking him up is another case entirely - he seems to weigh about twice what he really does. Sometimes I think Millie puts on combat boots to run around in the (tiled) hall - otherwise she's a tiny ball of fluff. Picking her up is like picking up a dropped Kleenex. She also has a curious way of climbing a bookcase: her weight (what there is of it) is well outside her points of support (and with clipped claws, she isn't digging in) yet she doesn't fall - she seems almost to float up from shelf to shelf. I haven't seem them do it, but I'm almost convinced that several of my cats levitate into the garage attic. Then come down by running down the vertical wall head first.  SignatureT.E.D. (tdavis@gearbox.maem.umr.edu) Remove "gearbox.maem" to get real address - that one is dead > I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > So how is that this little tiny bundle of fluffy fur can sound like a > herd of elephants when she runs up and down the stairs? ...Or at night on the bed, feel like each paw weighed two hundred pounds when she walks over you, yet be virtually weightless curled up asleep on top of you? > I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a > lightweight puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of > kitty muscle. LOL! I recently had to board Roxy at the vet's while I was on a week-long business trip, because she had to get medicine 3 times a day. Then I got snowed in on the day I was supposed to come home, so I wasn't around to pick Roxy up on the day I had planned to. So a friend of mine did it for me. The friend told me that as soon as she let Roxy out of the carrier, Roxy started racing around the apartment in her excitement to be home. A few days after I got back, I was chatting with my downstairs neighbor and I told her that story. She said, "Oh, I knew when Roxy got home - I could hear her galloping around the house!" Roxy weighs 10 lbs. (= 4.5 kg). Joyce PS - and her eye is looking a whole lot better these days! On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 19:11:42 +0000, jXwXeXrXmXoXnXt wrote: > > I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a > > lightweight puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > PS - and her eye is looking a whole lot better these days! And if she can gallop like that, she obviously feels much better. Purrs for Roxy's wellbeing. MLB > LOL! I recently had to board Roxy at the vet's while I was on a > week-long business trip, because she had to get medicine 3 times [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > PS - and her eye is looking a whole lot better these days! I'm so relieved to hear her eye is looking so much better! We will continue to send purrs and best wishes, Polonca and Soncek >I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a lightweight > puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of kitty muscle. Cats are like icebergs: there's far more to them, but the cute little furry things we know as 'cats' are the bit that is visible in the usual 3 dimensions we live in. Cats took "Flatland" and ran with it.... Yowie > Cats are like icebergs: there's far more to them, but the cute little furry > things we know as 'cats' are the bit that is visible in the usual 3 > dimensions we live in. LOL, I like this! Einstein should have studied cats - maybe they would have given him the key to the Grand Unified Theory he sought so desperately. :) Joyce If I could make myself into a lightweight, my doctor wouldn't be yelling at me so loudly. The kids have such a way of turning into boulders. When it's toothbrush time, our normally easygoing Brandy will hide so that Louie has to go nudge her tuchas with the business end of a hockey stick and he says it feels like poking a rock. And when did she get so heavy? Brandy isn't exactly a skinny princess at 15 pounds, but it takes God and Congress to move her when she's not in the mood. And our light, lithe Roxie once pulled down 4 pai8rs of jeans of her "bed" when we went to brush her. Roxie LaLanne, Roxie Weismuller. She has beaten the snot out me several times, and I have deep respect for her. Blessed be, Baha >I am constantly amazed by the way kitties seem to defy the laws of physics. > [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >I swear that she has the ability to transform herself from a lightweight >puff of kitty fur into a 30 or 40 pound bundle of kitty muscle. |
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