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Put it in a pressurized hamster bubble suit and send it out like a soccer ball.
Sent it off with one powerful friendship kick to start their epic survival adventure.
Send it off with one powerful friendship kick to start their epic survival adventure.
I never expected to read these words in that order. Well done.
“friendship kick” - channel inner Messi
where water and food are unavailable and the only thing that can help you is miles away and possibly sleeping
On Mars you wouldn’t be able to have cabinets tall enough so that your cat can’t jump on them
The cabinet could be 20 feet tall and they’d still figure out how to get up there.
My parents have 4 cats and these ones are a lot different than all of the other cats we’ve had over the decades. My parents have a wall mounted cabinet where the bottom portion is about 5 feet off the ground and the top of it is about 8 feet off the ground. There’s about 6-9" between the top and the ceiling, and various decorations up there… The kitchen table is about a foot in front of it, at normal height, about 3-4 feet from the ground.
One day I noticed one of the cats was on top of the cabinet! That’s a good 6 foot jump at a steep angle (100°, 110°? I suck at Trig) and she didn’t move a single decoration!
An 8 foot leap is no big deal.
Vertically it is. That’s about 6-8x their body length.
Horizontally it’s nothing special.
I wonder what the maximum size is of a celestial body which a cat could jump with escape velocity
I got bored and was curious myself.
Assuming a cat can jump just over 2m (record is around 7’ apparently) then you have a launch velocity of around 6.5m/s. Plugging this in as an escape velocity works out to around a 1-2km diameter asteroid. Not huge, but not bad for a small animal.
My error bars are quite large, so it’s only an order of magnitude calculation.
Yeah thats not bad, assuming the asteroid is a perfect sphere, that comes out to a surface area of 12km2 for an interstellar cat colony that can move into orbit at will.
…same as earth if your cats are siamese…
Quick reminder: you SPCA will tell you that a cat living 100% indoors will ensure Kitty and the surrounding bird population are happier for many years longer.
“He rarely goes out” is the worst setting.
Your car isn’t somehow special either.
It used to be double. DOUBLE! now it’s even worse.
There are no birds on mars
Damn cats got em all
Doorknob… Parakeet… Spatula…!
Sorry. Couldn’t find the right words to respond to this, so… 🫣
So le random!
Holds up spork
instead of responding to the message - cats live longer indoors - you responded with garbage. indicating the value of your premise.
Huzzah, I found the correct words to respond to this. Have a nice day.
Fuck birds. They should have gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of the dinosaurs. This is the age of mammals. They had almost 200 million years (plus 65 million freeloading after their time was up), that should be way more than enough. Let the cats have their fun.
Just in case people do take this seriously, birds are important. If you want to take your cats out, supervise them or put them on a leash. The environment and your cats ARE better off not mangling with each other.
even if you dislike birds, cats don’t limit their murdersprees to just birds. they’re an invasive species; do yours a favor and keep it in like I do. Their lives are longer and better.
I am heavily questioning the life of a confined cat being better than the life of a cat that is free to go where it wants. The moment you have 2 cats that get along it’s unlikely to be a bad life, but you have no way of telling how another being unable to communicate complex thoughts to you considers their quality of life to be.
Oh yeah one of my cats is scarily good at murder. mice, shrews, moles, birds, snakes, probably other things too.
You also got to realize people are also putting their cats at risk by letting them go out on their own while there are wild life out. There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc. that will not hesitate in including house cats as their food. There are too many stories of cat owners losing their cats because they never came back home
That is true (well, where I live there are few actual dangers to cats but that’s just region dependent) but in general I believe a short, but more fulfilling life to be better than a longer, less fulfilling one. Which I’m aware is subjective.
There are coyotes, predatory birds, big cats, etc.
Not in the civilised world there ain’t. We ate, domesticated, or otherwise drove those to extinction hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
Most dangerous things around these parts (besides free-roaming cats) are cars, and a good public transport system together with a street and road network built around pedestrians and bikes (and said public transport) will get rid of most of those, too (though the reduction in noise might lead to more birds; nothing is perfect).
I can’t speak for where you live in, but these are still real considerations for any pet owner. Wild life still exists inside and outside of urban areas, especially suburban areas. Just because there may not be as much sightings of predators around the areas you live in doesn’t mean the same for other people who live in different areas
No, fuck you, birds rule
I hope my cat kills birds. I hate birds
That’s the spirit! Let bats take those ecological niches! Bats are cool, and unlike birds they don’t go crapping everywhere, they do it tidily in their caves.
Boobie
boob came out
Confirmed
cats don’t like doors
Holy shit, is this the reason of “can’t decide if want to be here or there, so I must scream”, not the wish to be on the other side but the very door itself?
I believe so. Cats’ brains seem to be unable to deal with closed doors, in my experience. If you add a passage, like a cat’s door to the door, then it’s fine.
This explains so much. If you see it from this perspective it makes perfect sense
*than here
Well spotted. 😅
This is why my cat lives safely indoors.
Because you’re on Mars? Exciting! How is it?
Honestly like a 4/10. Would be better without the Martians and mutants running amok.
If you moved to Mars and are upset because of the Martians there, then you’re the problem.
You know those equatorial martians aren’t sending their best, right?
Make Martian Poles Great Again
At least the gate to hell is closed.
The damned cat keeps scratching at the seal, though.
Have you tried introducing them to your cat?
Well it ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
…in fact, it’s chilly as heck…
The blue titties are gold!
Whoa NSFW!
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