Person Wants To Find Out How Narrow A Gap Can Cats Squeeze Through, Conducts This Hilarious Experiment
Science is in our veins and we, as human beings, can’t help but come up with wacky experiments to test the limits of the world that surrounds us. And what experiments are better than fun ones done with adorable cats?
The owner of the adorable cat duo Maru and Hana recently tested the limits of how narrow a gap cats can get through. The hypothesis was simple in essence: if the head fits, the body should also fit through. Naturally, we’re great supporters of cat science experiments that involve showing off how cute and awesome they are.
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The adorable science experiment is all about seeing how narrow a gap cats can squeeze through
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Maru and Hana are incredibly popular cats! On Instagram alone, the fluffy pair have more than 273,000 followers. A massive 467,800 people watched the cat experiment video on YouTube, which just goes to show how incredibly popular the idea of cat science really is.
Maru and Hana dutifully participated in the study for the sake of feline-kind
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Some gaps were easy to pass…
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…while others were a bit difficult for the cattos
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Maru and Hana have captured many an internet user’s heart
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It seems like 5 centimeters is too narrow a space for cats to get through. Though, perhaps a slimmer feline than Maru and Hana could manage it? Either way, this experiment brought a smile to our faces, and we’ll be telling all of our friends about it for days to come.
Vetstreet explains the reason why cats are able to squeeze through incredibly narrow spaces: they don’t have a rigid collarbone, which would otherwise stop them from getting into nooks and crannies.
Cats use their whiskers, which are often as wide as their bodies, to check whether they’ll fit somewhere. However, a feline’s whiskers don’t grow longer even if it turns into a mega chonker, that’s why sometimes it gets stuck. Cats basically sometimes don’t realize that they’re a bit too big boned (i.e. they’ve been snacking on too many fish crackers) to fit somewhere.
Dear Pandas, what do you think of this feline experiment? Do you think your cat could squeeze through a smaller gap? Do you believe cats have actual magical powers that allow them to warp the space-time continuum and teleport across narrow openings? Please share your thoughts with us in the comments below because we can’t wait to hear from you!
Hanu and Maru’s participation in the experiment was well-received
You should watch the videos where Maru tries to fit in boxes of different shapes and sizes, those Are hilarious!!!
After a while they said, "Screw you and your stupid experiment. We're jumping." Beautiful cats!
I like the one just biting it. Like just make a little room here for myself
LOL, he really is like a cat scientist. You should see the video where he tackles an indoor swing.
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Maru is the best cat. He's like the gold-standard for pudgy floof cat cuteness. And he has this adorb combination of silliness and determination. 10/10 would totaly squee.
These cats are troopers! My cat would have not tried and meowed pathetically at me to let her through. I rarely watch videos all the way to the end but this was totally worth it.
She squeezed into and out of a tiny door. Cats are awesome! I miss mine. 1104141831...e2d8d3.jpg 
We had a cat with a huge a$$. No kidding his upper half looked slim with a teeny tiny head and a giant butt. We had to buy a medium size dog door just to fit his humongous caboose. He would never have made it past the 12 cm gap. 😆
in half the photos the cats both look like they are plotting your murder
I did a similar experiment accidentally. I had fat cat (18lbs) and I found and adopted a starving skinny cat (6lbs full size). The skinny cat wasn't very hungry, but the fat cat was. There was no hole size that was too small for the fat cat to force her way through, but big enough for the skinny cat to bother going through to eat.
I had a tiny little elf cat years ago (about 7 pounds full grown) and I'm pretty sure she could have fit through a gap as small as 6 cm. She got out the bedroom window once when I'd opened it to shoo away a strange cat that was outside driving her mad.
And this is why I have so much trouble feeding my cats. Shasta is tiny and will self-regulate with her food, but Frost Claw is gigantic and will eat as long as there's something more to eat. My vet said just make a hole for Shasta's food that Frost Claw can't fit into. The problem there is that he's terribly determined. I keep making the hole smaller and I feel bad watching Shasta struggle to get in, but then one day I'll get home from work and discover he got in again. There's always eventually a day that Frost Claw is hungry and determined enough to prove to me that the hole isn't small enough. *sigh*
If one of my cats tried going through the 23cm door his head would fit but his body wouldn't, we have a dog flap !!
Cats have the ability to fit through small spaces because of their bones -- no collar bone and a small chest cavity help make cats masters of escape.
You can tell the owner has never done any experiments involving food restrictions. Those are some cute but chunky cats.
Oh they've been doing food and box tricks for like 12 years. Maru has always been quite portly since day one. Incidentally, if you google something like "Japanese pet owners + calm and behaved cats" there's psychologically papers on it because of how reticent cats are ... mind boggling
Load More Replies... You should watch the videos where Maru tries to fit in boxes of different shapes and sizes, those Are hilarious!!!
After a while they said, "Screw you and your stupid experiment. We're jumping." Beautiful cats!
I like the one just biting it. Like just make a little room here for myself
LOL, he really is like a cat scientist. You should see the video where he tackles an indoor swing.
Load More Replies... Maru is the best cat. He's like the gold-standard for pudgy floof cat cuteness. And he has this adorb combination of silliness and determination. 10/10 would totaly squee.
These cats are troopers! My cat would have not tried and meowed pathetically at me to let her through. I rarely watch videos all the way to the end but this was totally worth it.
She squeezed into and out of a tiny door. Cats are awesome! I miss mine. 1104141831...e2d8d3.jpg
We had a cat with a huge a$$. No kidding his upper half looked slim with a teeny tiny head and a giant butt. We had to buy a medium size dog door just to fit his humongous caboose. He would never have made it past the 12 cm gap. 😆
in half the photos the cats both look like they are plotting your murder
I did a similar experiment accidentally. I had fat cat (18lbs) and I found and adopted a starving skinny cat (6lbs full size). The skinny cat wasn't very hungry, but the fat cat was. There was no hole size that was too small for the fat cat to force her way through, but big enough for the skinny cat to bother going through to eat.
I had a tiny little elf cat years ago (about 7 pounds full grown) and I'm pretty sure she could have fit through a gap as small as 6 cm. She got out the bedroom window once when I'd opened it to shoo away a strange cat that was outside driving her mad.
And this is why I have so much trouble feeding my cats. Shasta is tiny and will self-regulate with her food, but Frost Claw is gigantic and will eat as long as there's something more to eat. My vet said just make a hole for Shasta's food that Frost Claw can't fit into. The problem there is that he's terribly determined. I keep making the hole smaller and I feel bad watching Shasta struggle to get in, but then one day I'll get home from work and discover he got in again. There's always eventually a day that Frost Claw is hungry and determined enough to prove to me that the hole isn't small enough. *sigh*
If one of my cats tried going through the 23cm door his head would fit but his body wouldn't, we have a dog flap !!
Cats have the ability to fit through small spaces because of their bones -- no collar bone and a small chest cavity help make cats masters of escape.
You can tell the owner has never done any experiments involving food restrictions. Those are some cute but chunky cats.
Oh they've been doing food and box tricks for like 12 years. Maru has always been quite portly since day one. Incidentally, if you google something like "Japanese pet owners + calm and behaved cats" there's psychologically papers on it because of how reticent cats are ... mind boggling
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