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Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Tiggy's Mum on August 27, 2008, 23:00:31 PM
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I always knew Riley was long but I've never been able to measure him as if he's laying on his side or back in prime 'measurement position' and I go near him he'll roll over for me to rub his tummy :innocent:
Was holding him upside in my arms swinging him round and he was fully stretched so I held him up against a mirror and worked out the measurements... he's 110cm or 43 inches long :shocked: Is that a Purrs record?
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No I dont think so LOL...........the birmans are very long.....now are we talking head to tail length here or what? :rofl: :rofl:
I know Misa sits up at at nearly two foot...................wheres me tape measure.......and looking at Pedros relatives there tails are so long, goodness how long the little devils are ;D
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Not including tails - just the 'stretchy' length :evillaugh:
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Just found the measure.....thats enormous Helen :shify: :shify:
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OMG that's enormous ... Zephyr is 36 inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail (measuring along his back).
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I am sure you must have slightly got it wrong :rofl: :rofl:
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Just found the measure.....thats enormous Helen :shify: :shify:
I know :Crazy: I couldn't believe it when I measured the mirror! Had his back foot at the left hand edge and his front foot came 10cm short of the other end and the mirror is 120cm / 47" wide :Crazy: That's fully stretched but even so :Crazy:
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Are we talking stretched out paws and legs here (so including leg length) or back length? If the former then Jaffa could match that I reckon ;D but if you're talking back length I think you must have got that wrong!! Either that or Riley is a mutant and not a cat ;D
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He's not a mutant :evillaugh: It was fully stretched out so includes stretched out paws and legs. He was laying upside down in my arms and I was spinning round, he loves it and his front paws and back legs stretch out as we spin round, that's when I lent up against the mirror with him.
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Ahh well in that case That's still a good length Zephyr can do 40 ½ inches
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I'm not even going to think about attempting that with Jaffa :rofl: Jaffa doesn't do picked up ;D
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Nor does Misa and he is crambed into his filing tray at the moment ;D
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Memphis isn't willing to let me measure him ... it keeps ending up in roly polys :doh: All I could manage was 11inches for his tail :evillaugh: He wasn't allowing me to do anything else.
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Memphis isn't willing to let me measure him ... it keeps ending up in roly polys :doh: All I could manage was 11inches for his tail :evillaugh: He wasn't allowing me to do anything else.
I predict he will be... 110cm / 43" - he and Riley are twins after all :evillaugh:
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So let me get this right, we're measuring from tips of the front pawsies to the tips of the toes whilst stretched out? Will have to attempt this once I get home later, I know Fergus is pretty long though, he looks like a draught excluder sometimes :evillaugh:!!
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Mine keep moving when I try to measure them :tired:
If I measure one of Pinball's front legs and one of his back legs and add them onto his body length (back of neck to base of tail) will that give me the same as measuring him stretched out?? If so then he is around 38-39 inches long.
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So let me get this right, we're measuring from tips of the front pawsies to the tips of the toes whilst stretched out? Will have to attempt this once I get home later, I know Fergus is pretty long though, he looks like a draught excluder sometimes :evillaugh:!!
Yep that's it ;D Think Riley might have a serious contender to his world title in the form of Fer-gaseous the draught excluder :evillaugh:
Mine keep moving when I try to measure them :tired:
If I measure one of Pinball's front legs and one of his back legs and add them onto his body length (back of neck to base of tail) will that give me the same as measuring him stretched out?? If so then he is around 38-39 inches long.
I'm not sure your lot should be allowed to take part being NFC's ;) I think Boopy alone will be longer than Riley and he'd hate to be beaten by a girl :evillaugh:
If they won't co-operate with measurements then I reckon the following formula can be used 'armpit to tip of front paw' A + 'thigh to tip of back leg' B + 'the area where armpit begins on the back -----> the area where the thigh begins on the back' C = length of stretched out cat :Crazy:
Before you say I have faaaar to much time on my hands I'm sat in waiting for Sky to come :tired:
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z202/Lucas_Riley/P_edits/074640x480.jpg)
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Mine are all teeny! :evillaugh:
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I'm not sure your lot should be allowed to take part being NFC's ;) I think Boopy alone will be longer than Riley and he'd hate to be beaten by a girl :evillaugh:
**Snigger** :evillaugh: Pinball is crying that you don't think he should be allowed to take part. He says he's only a baby so you have to be nice to him :rofl:
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Max is very long, will have to try and measure him later lol
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I'm not sure your lot should be allowed to take part being NFC's ;) I think Boopy alone will be longer than Riley and he'd hate to be beaten by a girl :evillaugh:
**Snigger** :evillaugh: Pinball is crying that you don't think he should be allowed to take part. He says he's only a baby so you have to be nice to him :rofl:
The cats are all screeching discrimation now.
Helen... did you seriously think about that calculation? Why?!
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OK, maybe Pinball can play but definitely not Boopy or Bilbo :evillaugh:
Helen... did you seriously think about that calculation? Why?!
I refer you to my previous post... ;)
Before you say I have faaaar to much time on my hands I'm sat in waiting for Sky to come :tired:
I'm bored and fed up of waiting for Sky, they said 8-1 but then the engineer rang and said 11-2, didn't cotton on that he'd extended the times they're supposed to come by an hour :innocent: 25 minutes left and counting... :waiting:
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I'd be pulling my hair out... or measuring my cat!
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Dear Auntie Helen,
Thank you for saying I can take part ;D I sometimes get called Slinky Cat because I am so long already and Mummy is getting worried as I keep getting longer and taller and I've still got 4 1/2 years to grow yet. When I am fully grown Mummy thinks my front end could come and visit you, Lucus and Riley and my back end would still be here :evillaugh:
Lots of Love
Pinball Wizard age 6 months and 2 days
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Am going to have to try this with Hobbes as he is very long when he is stretched out. He's way bigger than Dylan and he's not two till October - yikes! Just have to wait for him to stretch out now :rofl:
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oh i'm so jealous!!!! i want to measure jasper!!!
have you compared the formula results to your initial results helen? we need to know that theres no bias going on here!!
jasper is very long. ha can take up as much room as he likes really!! when its dinner time he easily stretches to touch the top of the work surface.... but i dont know how high that is... i see him four weeks today!!!!
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Think they will be longer stretched out naturally on the floor but mine dont do that :rofl:
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Not all mirrors give a true reflection :evillaugh:
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have you compared the formula results to your initial results helen? we need to know that theres no bias going on here!!
Ever the scientist eh Hannah ;) A good point and well presented though, when he sits still I will do a control measurement :sneaky:
Not all mirrors give a true reflection :evillaugh:
It wasn't his reflection, I stood on the settee and pressed him up against the mirror.... oops, sounding like a seriously crazy cat lady now :evillaugh: I'm sure he's part ragdoll, when he lays upside down in my arms he is so relaxed. I often 'fly' him around the room so being pressed up against a mirror is nothing out of the ordinary for him :evillaugh:
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have you compared the formula results to your initial results helen? we need to know that theres no bias going on here!!
Ever the scientist eh Hannah ;) A good point and well presented though, when he sits still I will do a control measurement :sneaky:
Not all mirrors give a true reflection :evillaugh:
It wasn't his reflection, I stood on the settee and pressed him up against the mirror.... oops, sounding like a seriously crazy cat lady now :evillaugh: I'm sure he's part ragdoll, when he lays upside down in my arms he is so relaxed. I often 'fly' him around the room so being pressed up against a mirror is nothing out of the ordinary for him :evillaugh:
:rofl: :rofl: poor cat :Crazy:
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No honestly, he really likes it ;D I don't even hold on to him normally, I just tuck my arms into my body and hold my forearms out at 90 degree angles to my body and he just lays there while we whizz round. If he didn't like it he could jump down as like I said he's just laying on top of my arms... or maybe he's too dizzy to get down :evillaugh: :sneaky:
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I believe you Helen - Beavis like it when Mr Kirst spins him around upside down on the laminate flooring! He flops next to him , has a good spin , gets up , circles him and flops again for another go!
I think its the cat equivalent of the waltzers! :rofl:
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have you compared the formula results to your initial results helen? we need to know that theres no bias going on here!!
Tried to measure him laying down - it's a 30cm ruler and as you can see he isn't fully stretched....
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z202/Lucas_Riley/120640x480.jpg)
...he was having none of it :evillaugh:
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z202/Lucas_Riley/121crop.jpg)
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Hmmm, this is trickier than it first sounds :evillaugh:. Fergus is refusing to stretch out fully, keeps pulling his legs in when I try to measure them and is only interested in playing with the tape measure! I managed: back legs 28.5cm + tummy 36cm + front legs 19.5cm = 84 cm. But I'm not sure this is correct as he wasn't fully stretched out :evillaugh: Will try and pounce on him again later when he is least expecting it!
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I was trying to measure Franta last night and the bloomin phone rang again!
I think I had got to about 84cms but wasnt full length and of course he moved....tape measures are so interesting of course :rofl: :rofl:
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Its not worth my life trying to measure Lexy. Last night she was in a mood. Hormonal problaby :evillaugh:
But all I can say is that if looks could kill. I've been trying to clip her dew claws for ages and she just won't let me near her so any foreign object is suspect!! Even a measuring tape.
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loving the images of you all chasing after furries with tape measures :evillaugh:
ah the things we do!!!
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I'm going to try this later but I don't hold out much hope :rofl:
Milo has always seemed quite long though
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Oh this thread made me laugh..good one!
Nobo is really long. Only 10 months old and he's 115cm long.
;D
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Oh this thread made me laugh..good one!
Nobo is really long. Only 10 months old and he's 115cm long.
;D
We have a new leader :wow:
Can anyone contest Nobo's championship? :evillaugh:
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need a pic of nobo ;D
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I got the tape measure out and was met with a scathing look! I just about managed to get a 'C' measurement from Helen's extremely useful drawing ;D which was about 21 inches but I'm not going to even try to get the leg measurements.
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Are you scared you will get kicked in the face again :rofl: :rofl:
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need a pic of nobo ;D
Ok, I'll try and snap him when he's doing his lying straight out pose. :evillaugh: I've seen longer cats than Nobo before...
;D
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Well Milo in this picture measured 51cm and that doesn't include his tail.
Needless to say it was entertaining in our house with my family saturday when Milo stretched out and I shouted to Hubby grab the tape measure we need to measure then length of Milo for the purrs website. :rofl: :rofl: This then prompted lots of chat over what Purrs is and how I'm a mad cat woman.
Jess was laid out like this saturday morning I managed to grab my phone to take a pic but not the tape measure!
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What have I started eh?
Where were Milo's legs, it's an injustice measuring him without his legs :evillaugh: That pic of Jess looks like a contender, you could measure the strips of laminate and see how many strips of laminate he's equal too... or would that make you a seriously crazy cat lady :evillaugh:
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it always starts a debate if you mention purrs to those who don't know about it!!
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Well to be fair Milo has he head resting on his front legs and his back legs tucked under him.
Doh I didn't think about leasuring the laminate Jess was laying on, :rofl: but will be looking tonight :rofl:
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Just look at the picture you posted and count the laminates and then measure them :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Hubby now wants me sectioned under the mad cat woman act :rofl: :rofl:
Gill when I get home tonight I'll be measuring away, its a tad frustrating being at work and wanting to measure you're cat :rofl: :rofl:
I reckon Jess is about 3 sections long though :rofl:
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I've just had my other half holding a rather bewildered Nova while I tried measuring with the tape measure :rofl:
A hunched up Nova is 34 inches, I dont know what a full length one is as he turned into a hedgehog and curled up trying to eat the metal tape measure at the same time :evillaugh:
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Oh my a hedgehog :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Well I measured the laminate Jess was laying on and it came out at 118cm (don't know what that is in inches thoug :P)
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Well I measured the laminate Jess was laying on and it came out at 118cm (don't know what that is in inches thoug :P)
We have a new leader :wow:
Lukey is getting quite jealous of all this 'long' talk so he has devised his own competition.... 'How flat are your cats?'. Found him squished up under the parasol base :evillaugh:
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z202/Lucas_Riley/013640x480.jpg)
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Lukey you silly boy :Luv:
Well best I can do for Memphis is 28" long ... he's teeny compared to everyone else :evillaugh: