Good question.
Does your cat’s butthole really touch all the surfaces in your home?
I’m impressed. It’s an original idea, executed simply, and that’s what I like to see in a science fair question. It’s simple but a little bit icky: he put lipstick on a cat’s butthole and had it sit down on various substrates and asked if it left a mark. I hate to call it “elegant,” but yeah, that’s elegant.
I know you all want to know the answer:
His results and general findings: Long and medium haired cat’s buttholes made NO contact with soft or hard surfaces at all. Short haired cats made NO contact on hard surfaces. But we did see evidence of a slight smear on the soft bedding surface. Conclusion, if you have a short haired cat and they may be lying on a pile of laundry, an unmade bed, or other soft uneven surface, then their butthole MAY touch those surfaces!
Our evil cat is a shorthair, wouldn’t you know it.
Huh. How did the cat rate this method?
Here’s your lipstick back mom, thanks!
I have cats. They lick their buttholes frequently. It’s how they wipe. I have to wonder how much of that lipstick ended up in the cat’s stomach? Common chemicals found in lipsticks include parabens, petroleum-based products, synthetic dyes, and heavy metals like lead. Which leads me to think this so-called experiment isn’t so good for the cat.
Seems to me there’s an obvious ceiling limitation on what surfaces a cat’s butthole will be touching..
A trial was only 10 minutes long, and they used baby wipes to clean off the cat’s butt afterwards.
@ 2 John Watts : OTOH, lipstick is applied to, well, lips so, if its that bad I don’t think it would be allowed for people.
@ dangerousbeans : For the cat’s sake I hopet they used a mouse-flavoured lipstick.Wait on second thoughts for people’s sake, I hope there’s NOT a mouse -flavoured lipstick!
We had “farm cats” back home, I think they are mostly medium haired. The problem is, the hair gets everywhere so you soon have a thin layer of Cat all over the homr.
Could be expanded into an Ignobel project, surely!
What if your cat IS a butthole? Asking, you know, for a friend.
/furtively glances at glaring kitty
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Now do one on dog buttholes. Willing to bet that a dog’s butthole touches damn near everything.
Indeed, that is pretty cool. Well planned and well executed.
Not entirely original; the idea dates back to at least 2007.
I guess this project was a clever variant of ‘lipstick on a pig’
Recent scientific studies have conclusively proven that president butthole contaminates everything he sits on.
And, that E.T.T.D. (Everything Trump Touches Dies)
If my cats wash their whole selves with their tongue, but keep on going after reaching their asses, aren’t their whole bodies touching everything?
The real question is how long and thick the gauntlets need to be if you’re planning on picking up a number of cats and playing with their bumholes.
@Rich Woods
A pair of solid welding gloves works well. or a blanket and you make them into an angry burrito