When your cat is walking around the house with their tail up, you can’t help but notice their… um… you know pointing right at you. Ever wonder JUST how many parts of your house your cat is touching with its butt?
Luckily here’s a sixth grader in Tennessee named Kaeden Griffin with the answer. Kaeden decided the forum of schools science fair would be the prefect venue to reveal his findings. His project is called “Does your cat’s butthole really touch all the surfaces in your home?”
He ran his experiment by putting a non-toxic lipstick on his cats’… area… and then keeping track of where that lipstick showed up around the house. And the results are:
- Cats with long and medium hair didn’t make any contact with hard or soft surfaces.
- Cats with short hair didn’t make contact with hard surfaces . . . but there were smears of lipstick on soft surfaces like the bed.Of course his mom proudly shared this feline based breakthrough online:
“Side note: Both cats have been trained since kittenhood with a variety of commands,” Griffin noted. “They were compensated with lots of praise, pets, and their favorite treats, and the lipstick was removed with a baby wipe once we collected our data in just under 10 minutes.”
Kaeden’s experiment has since gone viral and his mom later shared this update:
UPDATE: Thank you all so much for the love!!! ♥️ I screenshotted many comments and shared them with Kaeden this morning. We are both so very touched! And y’all’s comments are lit!
They gave me so many great laughs last night reading through them! And yes, Kaeden most definitely got an A++++++, we homeschool so I made sure he got his A+!
Funny thing is I have a Ph.D. in animal behavior, with a concentration in feline behavior that I’ve never used
, I feel like for the first time in 15 years I actually put my degree to use, even though I was only supervising his science project! But that we actually did contribute useful information to the cat world! I am so tickled! Thank y’all so very much!!! ♥️♥️♥️
So the good news is: Your cat ISN’T dragging their butt all over your house. But if you have a short-haired cat, well, maybe not everything is safe.
