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Perhaps there are millions of cats wondering around the area with 'empty' food tins on thier head and one randomly found itself at the centre.
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Invoking Occam’s razor, it's simply the wonders of modern genetically modified cat food found in tins of Whiskers: aided by a freak lightning strike, the contents of the tin had miraculously transformed into a living kitten who was attempting to leave it's artificial womb like a new born chicken from an egg.
Exhausted and traumatised from its breech delivery, bursting through rear end first, the cat instinctively wondered into the rescue centre for help to aid its final travel through the tinned birth canal.
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So the cat was trying to avoid Hector's mind control mechanism?Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post<conspiracy theory>
The alien creatures that adopt cat hosts always try to get back to the mother ship which is buried under the ground near Fife. A group of illuminati operate a deep-cover animal sanctuary just above the ships bridge.
The aliens are prevented from returning to the mother ship by orbital mind control lasers operated by government agencies. This scrambles the brain and prevents it from engaging the nervous cortex, but
some strong-willed aliens have been known to overcome the mind control by wrapping their heads in tin foil, biscuit tins or other metal objects.
<conspiracy theory>

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<conspiracy theory>
The alien creatures that adopt cat hosts always try to get back to the mother ship which is buried under the ground near Fife. A group of illuminati operate a deep-cover animal sanctuary just above the ships bridge.
The aliens are prevented from returning to the mother ship by orbital mind control lasers operated by government agencies. This scrambles the brain and prevents it from engaging the nervous cortex, but
some strong-willed aliens have been known to overcome the mind control by wrapping their heads in tin foil, biscuit tins or other metal objects.
<conspiracy theory>
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Very improbable, the cat was female.Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post<inprobable mode>
The cat meowed with his head in the tin, which acted as a backward facing sonar. With his outstanding geographical memory built up through years of wandering around the neighbourhood, the cat was able to deduce his location from the echos in the tin coming from behind him. He then walked into the SPCA hoping he might find the least stupid people in the area, all the while wondering ‘why do some idiots think I can’t find the way with a tin on my head?’. Cats consider humans to be completely stupid and incapable. Sometimes I think they’re right.
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<inprobable mode>
The cat meowed with his head in the tin, which acted as a backward facing sonar. With his outstanding geographical memory built up through years of wandering around the neighbourhood, the cat was able to deduce his location from the echos in the tin coming from behind him. He then walked into the SPCA hoping he might find the least stupid people in the area, all the while wondering ‘why do some idiots think I can’t find the way with a tin on my head?’. Cats consider humans to be completely stupid and incapable. Sometimes I think they’re right.
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Actually, I think I know that Fife animal rescue centre. Isn't it the one next door to that big magnet factory?
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Maybe it didn't go anywhere, that was where it got the can on its head in the first place?Originally posted by DimPrawn View Posthttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/...st/8517727.stm
A cat that wandered into a Fife rescue centre with a can stuck on its head has left staff wondering how it reached them without being knocked down.
The female cat walked into the Scottish SPCA's Wildlife Rescue Centre in Middlebank on Sunday with her head wedged in an empty pet food tin.
How did it know where to go?
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The tin wasn't "empty". It had a cat's head in it. I expect better reporting from the BBC.
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I could fix that with the aid of a hobnail boot and a stopwatch.Originally posted by Spacecadet View PostIt was Schrodingers cat, it went everywhere.
The Fife rescue centre just happened to see it, thus determining its position (although they still don't know its velocity)
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It was Schrodingers cat, it went everywhere.
The Fife rescue centre just happened to see it, thus determining its position (although they still don't know its velocity)
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