Have you ever thought your cat was missing...

tealady

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I think they can teleport.

So that's how they do it!

Pollycat

tealady wrote: »

So that's how they do it!

Yep, I think it is.
Cats could teach Doctor Who quite a lot of stuff.

sangie595

Pollycat wrote: »

Yep, I think it is.
Cats could teach Doctor Who quite a lot of stuff.

Sorry - it'd be Captain Kirk. Doctor Who doesn't teleport.

meritaten

Teleportation could be the only way a cat could be inside your locked house when you leave in the morning - and outside the door waiting for you when you get home. First cat Timmy was a master at this.

TBagpuss

tealady wrote: »

I believe that cats can materialise and dematerialise at will. I swear I have checked every inch of rooms sometimes, gone to the door only to take a last look round to see them staring at me. I swear they do it on purpose just to remind me who runs things around here (and it's not me!)

Caught one of mine walking through walls the other day.
Cat #1 was on my lap. Cat#2 shouted at me to open the door so he could get out of the room. So I got up, placing Cat #1 carefully on the warm spot on the sofa.
Got to the door to open it, (it is glazed, so see-through). Door firmly latched shut, and Cat #1 was sitting on the other side of it looking at me.

TBagpuss

Terry Pratchett had them sussed:

Less well known is the work by a group of scientists who failed to realise that Schrodinger was talking about a “thought experiment” 10, and did it. Box, radioactive source, bottle of poison, everything. And the cat, of course.
They left out one important consideration, though. While the observer might not know what was going on, the cat in the box damn well would. We can assume that if the prospect of hanging concentrates the mind, then the inkling that, any minute now, some guy in a white coat is going to lift the lid and there's a fifty-fifty chance that you are dead already, does wonders for the brain. Spurred by this knowledge, and perhaps by all the quantums floating around the laboratory, the cat nipped around a corner in space-time and was found, slightly bewildered, in the janitor's cupboard.
Evolution is always quick to exploit a new idea, however, and this novel way of getting out of tricky situations was soon passed on to its offspring. It had a large number of offspring.
Given its new-found talent, this is not surprising.
The important gene was so incredibly dominant that now many cats have a bit of Schrodinger in them. It is characterised by the ability to get in and out of locked boxes, such as rooms, houses, fridges, the thing you swore you put it in to take it to the vet, etc. If you threw the cat out last night, and this morning it's peacefully asleep under your bed, it's a Schrodinger cat.

(Terry Pratchett: The Unadulterated Cat)

Pollycat

sangie595 wrote: »

Sorry - it'd be Captain Kirk. Doctor Who doesn't teleport.

:think: :doh:

teddysmum

Not a cat, but someone I knew once lost a litter of small puppies.


She had left them in the kitchen, while their mum was allowed out for a break from them, but on her return they had vanished.


She found them, piled one on another, in the small space between a kitchen unit and the fridge; all warm and cosy.

Lazarus_Blackstar

The amount of times I've stood at the door shouting one of my cats in, worrying and wondering where she is as I let her out hours ago........

Only to go upstairs and find her snuggled up on our bed totally forgetting I'd let her in ages ago!!! :o