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The falling cat problem has elicited interest from scientists including George Gabriel Stokes, James Clerk Maxwell, and Étienne-Jules Marey.In a letter to his wife, Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell wrote, "There is a tradition in Trinity that when I was here I discovered a method of throwing a cat so as not to light on its feet, and that I used to throw cats out of windows.
The cat righting reflex is a cat's innate ability to orient itself as it falls in order to land on its feet. The righting reflex begins to appear at 3–4 weeks of age, and is perfected at 6–9 weeks. [ 1 ]
After pushing the cat away, Foghorn returns to the scene in question and uses the pump, discovering its true purpose. As he tries to blow the worm out himself, the cat return and snatches it from him before he takes a bite at it. Back at the pond, the cat forces the worm at gunpoint to act as bait for the fishes. As he is about to go fishing ...
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And it’s clear that the cat mom in question has put a lot of thought into the area, like bolting the decor to the wall so the cat can’t knock it over. (We all know cats love knocking things over.)
The paradox arises when one considers what would happen if one attached a piece of buttered toast (butter side up) to the back of a cat, then dropped the cat from a large height. The buttered cat paradox, submitted by artist John Frazee of Kingston, New York , won a 1993 Omni magazine competition about paradoxes.
Other cat owners chimed in to share their own similar stories. El wrote, "my tripod tries to dig in his litter with his phantom limb," while K said, "I also have a tripod cat.