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The scope of feline weirdness is unprecedented. I mean, we do know cats are so dramatic they deserve an Oscar, they love sleeping in the most bizarre places like flower pots and tissue boxes, and sometimes their .exe stops working.

But what if I tell you that new evidence shows our beloved furballs have been defying the laws of physics?

From bouncing off the walls at 3 am like an astronaut in space to practicing for an audition for the Spider Cat sequel, these are the sightings that cancel gravity, the speed of light, mechanics... you name it. Let’s see it to believe it down below and I promise, you won’t be looking at your chonk in the tronk the same way again.

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    ML
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That looks like mission impossible

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    Sethurama Iyer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here, you will find the majestic cat tree. It appears as if there's a bountiful harvest this year

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    To find out just how cats defy the laws of physics, Bored Panda reached out to cat behaviorist Celia Haddon, who has lectured on cat behavior at Ruskin Anglia University and Oxford Adult Education.

    Celia explained that their climbing powers come down to unique feline anatomy. “Cats' claws are curved so they can use them for climbing upwards. They are retractable, so cats walk without their claws touching the ground, but protract them to climb.”

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    Moreover, the claws help felines grip onto surfaces. “They can, therefore, climb straight up, if there is something they can get their claws into, like a tree trunk or a wall which is not too smooth.” Having said that, Celia added that “a completely smooth 90-degree angle surface would be too much of a challenge.”

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    Tovah Roche
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    🎶 Spider-Cat! Spider-Cat! Feral neighborhood Spider-Cat! 🎶

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    Perfumista Perfumista
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are under quarantine. You're not going anywhere!

    glowworm2
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love this new door handle. It's so fuzzy!

    Patty Leaton
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    dam caught me stealing the car

    Candice Ravel
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Even cats play the "floor is lava" game ;)

    Danny Heath
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Car companies are adding a new option this year: The CHandle - cat on the handle! Never need a light to find the handle of your vehicle, again!

    Demongrrrrl
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are NOT leaving without me!

    Kim Bush
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The expression on it's face... Who would dare try to open that door lol

    James F. Wilson Jr.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "OK I pushed down on the lever, now what ?' "

    thee1nonlykRiS
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Does anyone else see faces in the glass from the reflections, or is it just me?

    Emy Loves
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lol.....I wonder what that looks like from the inside of the truck!

    Abigail
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As you take a look at the right you can see a rare majestic mountain goat-cat

    Marcia Clark
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    From "Space Odyssey 2001" Open the pod bay door Hal. " Sorry Dave, I can't do that"

    Mia
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok, hooman now you try it!

    Janelle Collard
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I said - 'You can't leave yet.' "

    Irina Rachow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe it was all about leaving the butt print.

    Pranoti W
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Handle’s got a chonk on it and chonk’s got a handle on it too...

    Lorin J
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So you say we're going to camp now?

    Diana Kimberlin
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And you think you'd leave without me?

    Ellis Pascual
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This kitty may have claws, but you can bet they're not in use in this position.

    Merry Ormsby
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "Oops! I locked my keys in the car again!"

    Merry Ormsby
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He locked his keys in his car...

    Fieke Engelen
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This series is almost more fun reading the comments than the photos, but not quite

    Susan Miller
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ginger loved her new magnetic shoes so much!

    O Jackson
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now you open the door for me.🚪

    Joan Kusich
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The expression is pure contempt 😀

    Jill Luchene
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm coming with whether you want me to or not!

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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm coming with whether you want me to or not!

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    You say you want in? BWAHAHAHAHA!

    Mari Smet
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    All I need is that little bit -- just to hold onto -- a little ledge --- a little crevice

    Craymoss
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “You forgot to feed me Joe.”

    Kem Co Media
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here we see the domesticated female small climber lion.

    Maggie Mae
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If I'm not Going Neither are You!!

    Todd Hollfelder
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know cats are sneaky and you don't know what they'll do next but HOW did that one get there

    Kylo Wren (Wren St. Germain)
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    CUTEEE!!! What an amazing specimen of Felis Mountaingoatius, commonly known as the Ninja Kitty!

    Nola Dorothy
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I see it, but I don't believe it!

    Dianna
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is that a three-legged cat?

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    Sethurama Iyer
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "spider-cat, spider-cat, friendly neighborhood spider-cat"

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    Cats are also notorious jumpers who could reach the sky if they wanted to. The cat behaviorist said that “they can jump six times or more their own height from a standing start.”

    Exactly how high that’d be depends on every cat individually. It may partly have to do with “the relative length of their back legs and their weight, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Biology.”

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cats can stick to things like velcro.

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it just me, or is that smile on the cat's face somewhat unnerving?

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    If you’re still not convinced that felines have special superpowers, wait till you hear how flexible they are.

    Celia explained that: “They have free-floating tiny collar bones, or clavicles, which are not fixed to any of the other bones in their skeleton. (Humans' longer collar bones are attached to and brace together the breastbone and the shoulder blade.)”

    Plus, “They have 30 vertebrae, the bones that make up the spine, with a further 18-23 vertebrae in the tails. It is their specially cushioned disks between their vertebrae that allow their spine to be so flexible.”

    As a result of this incredible anatomy, cats can, in fact, rotate their bodies 180 degrees to the left or right. So, no, you were not hallucinating, nor was it a glitch in the matrix.

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    Mark
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it half perched on a door handle?

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    Olivier Caissy
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “What do you want? I’m busy here!”

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    Olivier Caissy
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “All right, who turned off gravity again?”

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    Night Owl
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Was a model for Salvador Dali's work

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    #16

    This Picture Of My Kitten In His Cat Tree Always Makes Me Laugh

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    ML
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By the look on the cat's face, immediate regret!

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just sitting on top of the world. Or in this case, on top of the glass roof of a car.

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This cat has an amazing sense of balance, even whilst asleep! I would have fallen between the crack ages ago.

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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm this close to losing my s**t... Don't tempt me..."

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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    “Why are you walking on the wall dear food provider?”

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did I get into this predicament...again?

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    ImaDerp
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How does that big chonk ballance on that?

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    Raine Soo
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This lockdown is driving me up the wall!

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    ♡PoisonousLotus!♡
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    'Yo kid! Yeah u! Get your head over here I need a prop!*to catch this bird!*'

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    PandaJon
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    May be time for that diet after all...

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    Colin Allcars
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He’s reminding us who’s boss around here.

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    Erdot
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That spot on the cat's back kinda looks like Italy.

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