the blogging blonde

for the record, almost every person that has came to our house is amazed by william and his huge whiskers. for an educational blog (for once), cats have whiskers for 3 reasons:

• navigation
• mood indication
• measuring an opening

for tonight, we'll focus on the third reason, measuring an opening. according to howstuffworks.com, a cat's whiskers are roughly as wide as their body. if they can't fit their whiskers thru an opening it's probably a good indication that their body won't fit either. this most likely explains why william has such long whiskers.... he has a huge body.

how huge? his whiskers are about 5" long, or roughly the length of my faithful eversharp that i stole from dallas
this means that william has 5" on each side of his face + distance of his head (approx 1.5 in), thus if there is anything less than 11.5" wide he probably can't get thru it

pathetic