How to accurately weigh a cat...OT ish

[nightjar]

The easiest way is to buy more accurate scales. The human + cat method is how I weigh mine, but my scales read to 0.1kg.

Colin Bignell

[Graham]

Easy that one. First measure the volume of the cat using the Archimedes "Eureka!" method.

This will almost certainly drown your cat.

Now weigh it on the kitchen scales.

Hope that helps.

[Andy Hall]

In that case I can recommend the Seca 873

This can be obtained from

for £149

[Andy Hall]

Doesn't work

- Too inaccurate near the bottom end of the scale

- Cats do not go into/onto places organised for them by their staff

[Owain]

nightjar The easiest way is to buy more accurate scales. The human + cat method is

Using a smaller human (eg a child) to hold the cat should give greater accuracy, as the cat will be a greater proportion of the total weight.

Owain

[Alan]

In message , Owain wrote

With electronic bathroom scales, and maybe the analogue variety, the accuracy may be based on a percentage of the full scale value. The fact that the scales may have a resolution of , say, 0.5kg is irrelevant. The accuracy of any measurement may be of the order of +/- 2Kg

What you may be able to do is see that one cat is heavier than another but with bathroom scales you may not be able to determine the actual weight the cat.

[nightjar]

Mine are medical scales, rather than bathroom scales and the manufacturer claims an accuracy an order better than the resolution. I gained them when we recalled a number of medical devices and a hospital sent us the scales by mistake, but, as with a lot of the parcels we used to get from hospitals, absolutely nothing to identify the sender.

Colin Bignell

[The Medway Handyman]

Its actually much easier to weigh a whale than a cat.

You just take it to a whale weigh station..........

I'll get me coat.

[Andy Hall]

I can understand why CTRL have decided to build a high speed line through the Medway towns.....

[The Medway Handyman]

Can't wait matey peeps. 17 mins to central London from Ebbsfleet (just up the A2) - my house value is going to rocket!

[Andy Hall]

Very good.

I'm wondering whether it will be worth getting in a taxi to go from Waterloo to St Pancreas. This is a degree of titting around vs. getting off of one train, going down an escalator and onto another as opposed to going to heathrow. I don't see much to be gained by shaving 10 minutes from the journey to Paris.

[Owain]

And for small jobs where you can carry your toolkit, you can be the Medway And Central London By Train Handyman, charge London prices, and not have to pay congestion charge.

I suspect there may be profit opportunities for investors in multi-storey car parks in Ebbsfleet.

Owain

[Terry W.]

"Vortex" wrote in news:X5KdnQoOnpnuU_zbnZ2dnUVZ [e-mail]:

Step 1. Kill the first cat. Step 2. Kill the second cat. Step 3. Weigh both cats, separately, on any scale.

Terry W.

[Peter Twydell]

In message , Andy Hall writes

Look at it from a positive point of view: it will take 10 minutes less to get out of Paris and back to London.

[ARWadsworth]

You are not wrong there. The next door neighbour has built a twatting great chipboard flowerbed to stop my cats going into his garden under my fence. They now go over the fence and use the flowerbed as a toilet.

Adam

[Andy Hall]

But I like Paris....

[Andy Hall]

Excellent.

Serves him right for not having appropriate feline empathy.

If he understood that you are the primary staff for the cats and that he is the secondary to that, he could easily devise a solution whereby he wouldn't be troubled.

[Robert Laws]

Make catapult.

Stretch catapult to full length and catapult cat vertically into the air, measuring maximum height, Hc

Stretch to full length and catuplut 1 kg weight vertically into the air, measuring maximum height, Hw

Weight of cat = Hw/Hc kg

Robert

[Clint Sharp]

In message , Peter Twydell writes

And the flipside... It's ten minutes less for the French to get out of Paris and into Blighty. For every silver lining there's a cloud.

[judith]

Take to the Vet who has purpose built scales to do just such a thing