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Secondhand Bottomless Bowl News
You ought to be aware of a letter that appeared recently in New Scientist magazine in reference to their report about the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize winners. The letter is from David Harper of Le Faouët, France. It caught my eye partly because my husband has that same name. Neither my husband nor I is related (as far as we know) to this David Harper, nor is our cat, Superstring, related to his cat. His letter says, in part:
Readers may be interested to learn of a similar experiment that I carried out on the family cat—Trixie—in about 1952. I hasten to add that I was then in my early teens, there was not then—so far as I am aware—any need to obtain a licence for animal experiments and the cat was free to leave at any moment of her own choosing. Which she did.
I had wondered why it was that a saucer of milk appeared to be just the right measure for a cat. Had saucers been designed with cats in mind? Or perhaps vice versa? In order to throw some light on this, one evening I waited until Trixie had finished her bedtime milk and then refilled the saucer. This she ignored, and indeed became very cross at being repeatedly taken back and encouraged to have a second helping.
Not content with results so far, I subseqently set up a rig in which a length of Bunsen tubing ended in the saucer, the other end being supported by a retort stand and terminated by a glass filter funnel. The saucer was filled with milk which Trixie then began to drink, more milk being gently added via the funnel as she lapped it up. The cat began to slow up when she had drunk the equivalent of two saucers of milk, but carried on valiantly until she was just past her third helping. She then left the house. Quickly.
With the benefit of hindsight it seems I should have published this experiment.
Therese Harper-Glatzen
Alpbach, Austria
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