Today we have now an all-audio and all-video trifecta.
First, right here’s an eight-minute video about why cats run away from home. If you let your cat go outdoor, watch this, and, extra vital, get your cat chippsed AND a collar with a cellphone quantity on it. I can’t let you know the variety of individuals I’ve recognized who’ve misplaced an indoor cat that by chance went outdoor; and there was no collar with an ID tag and no chips. In my view, all cats needs to be chipped.
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In this Purrli® program (click on on screenshot), you may alter six parameters of a cat’s purr to seek out out what sort of purr you want greatest. (“Meow-y” implies that there’s an occasional meow, which I like. Below the screenshot I’ve on condition that I take into account my favourite purr for a cat mendacity on my chest or lap.
My favourite settings. There are round two meows per minute, however I’d silence them if I had been working on the identical time:
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One of the nice web video sequences is to introduce the sweet Mentos right into a bottle of Diet Coke. It creates an enormous fountain of the tender drink causes given right here. An excerpt:
All the websites suggest a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke (not common Coke) and a restricted variety of Mentos.
The carbonated drinks’ fizz comes from carbon dioxide added to the bottles at excessive strain. 2-liter Diet Coke incorporates round 12-15 grams of dissolved carbon dioxide. The fuel tries to flee and type bubbles round any irregular floor, referred to as a nucleation website. Mentos even have nucleation websites as a result of they don’t seem to be as clean as they seem. When added to Coke, the dissolved fuel pushes the liquid out of the container at a super-fast velocity within the type of bubbles. The candies merely catalyze the discharge of fuel from the Coke bottle. Therefore, the chemical response between Coke and Mentos, in actuality, is a bodily response.
No matter how messy or sticky the experiment is, there are solely two components required to make this geyser. One bottle of 2-liter fizzy drink, ideally Diet Coke, and Mentos are wanted in an enough amount to provide a spectacular response. For a 2-liter bottle of Coke, at the very least 5 Mentos are ok. Moreover, all Mentos have to be added to the drink concurrently, giving every of them equal time to create an impact. As Mentos candies are dropped into the Coke bottle, there may be an explosion seconds later, and a “Mentos Coke Fountain” goes excessive up within the sky.
. . . The highest recorded explosion has been of Mentos and Diet Coke when the fountain touched as much as 10 meters. Most individuals consider that the extra Mentos are added to Coke, the larger and better the eruption can be. However, the variety of Mentos that can make a distinction is restricted. Through varied investigations, it has been deduced that seven Mentos are the max.
Well, strive it (I wouldn’t waste two liters of Diet Coke when you may watch it on YouTube). But are you able to watch cats reacting to it? Here’s a 3-minute video of cats watching this chemical response set as much as observe a domino-falling sequence. I’m wondering what number of occasions they needed to set this as much as get it proper, for it requires the cats to assist.
There’s a associated video, sans Mentos and Cokc, under. Actually, I like the second higher as a result of there’s a deal with on the finish.
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Lagniappe: A brief video of a cat encountering an enormous tarantula (no person will get harm):
h/t: Barry
