Heavyweight
Posted: Fri 6 January, 2006 Filed under: Animals, Thoughts 1 Comment »How do cats manage to alter their weight so significantly?
Psycho Cat weighs, at most, about ten pounds. Probably a lot less – I’m cack at gauging weight of things like that. But at the end of the day he’s really not heavy. If I didn’t value my skin/face/arms, I could easily pick him up.
But at night, when he’s asleep on our bed, he seems to gain mass at an extraordinary rate. If he’s flat out, I can’t move the sod without major effort. All of a sudden there’s just this half-ton weight in the middle of the bed, taking up quilt, and it just can’t be moved.
It makes me start wondering if cats aren’t pan-dimensional, and capable of redistributing the weight and black mass of the universe. But only at night, of course.
They seem to make themselves heavier at will, too. If they don’t want to be moved, then they suddenly become like lead. Odd.