Cats/Running

kwerk said:
If you were in a very large featureless field that stretched for 1 km in each direction, and you and a very skittish cat where at the centre of it, do you think you would be able to chase down the cat and catch it? They can run very fast at short distances but I wonder how it things would work out in such an environment with longer distances? if you like you can substitute the cat for a hare or other small and fast animal that you wouldn't expect to catch by hand.
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I always carry about my person an emergency ball of wool for just such an event, no need to run and risk perspiration when you can outsmart the creature using it's natural desire to play with thrown balls of wool. If there are no cats, you can even use the wool to knit a sturdy hat with which one could attract pegions or even crochet the wool into a net which when combined with my emergency Thermal Camera could be used to catch demnons and ghosts. Always be prepared people.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
How big is the cat, is it likely to want to eat me should I catch it?

How long is the grass and what colour?

What way is the wind blowing?

Is it day or night? Cloudy or clear?
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Day light, clear conditions. You will be wearing some type of work gloves and running shoes.

It is completely flat and featureless and let's just say it's made of astro turf. There is no where for the animal to hide or escape, it is basically test bed for RUNNING ability. If it gets past the 1 km threshold the experiment has failed.

Personally I think i could easily catch a cat, rabbit or squirrel, but not sure about a hare.
 
aln said:
You think theres not a single capable runner on the forum? I think he more probable issue is a 1km field is too small. If it was a 1km room, I'd take bets on the forum, but I wouldn't wanna kill a cat to prove my point. :P
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Still don't think it would work. For a human to run long distances he has to run slowly, this gives the cat plenty of rest breaks and cats can retrieve energy very quickly.

Haile Gebrselassie, for example runs a marathon at 12 mph, a cat can run at 30mph so it would take an endurance runner almost three times as long to catch up with any cat run. Thus I predict a cat would run 50 metres, stop and wait the 12 seconds or so for the runner to catch up in which time it could regain almost all it's energy then set off again and repeat.

The cat wouldn't just run continuously, it would stop every time it had a decent gap thus cancelling out any long range running a human has.
 
over 1km it would reach the edge before you. 20km and if you have decent stamina the cat will get worn out first but then it will just claw your eyes out so you cant see it.
 
does the cat know your after it ? and does it know why ?

it is 100 times harder to catch a cat that has seen the tell tale signs of an up and coming de flea treatment than it is to catch a cat that knows you've just cooked and de boned a chicken . pure science
 
estebanrey said:
Still don't think it would work. For a human to run long distances he has to run slowly, this gives the cat plenty of rest breaks and cats can retrieve energy very quickly.

Haile Gebrselassie, for example runs a marathon at 12 mph, a cat can run at 30mph so it would take an endurance runner almost three times as long to catch up with any cat run. Thus I predict a cat would run 50 metres, stop and wait the 12 seconds or so for the runner to catch up in which time it could regain almost all it's energy then set off again and repeat.

The cat wouldn't just run continuously, it would stop every time it had a decent gap thus cancelling out any long range running a human has.
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12 seconds isn't enough time for the animal to fully recover. If you pick up a cat thats actually run at speed, it's heart will be bouncing for many minutes. The method is tried and tested on antelope, so I figure it'd work on a cat.

Course with the new kwerk rules, I'm pretty sure it's largely impossible.
 
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No chance unless it's a kitten.

even an adult fat cat has a lot of speed when it needs to be fast.

one of my cats is a right fat **** but if the sunlight reflects of my watch or phone onto a surrounding surface that fat **** runs like hell after it lol
 
Dimple said:
I've done marathons
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I've run long distance myself.

Cats are too quick on their feet. It isn't about straight line speed.

You need to be quick enough, nimble enough, have enough stamina and have enough dexterity whilst moving.

Just not possible.
 
I doubt anyone has ever seen a cat run 1km. If I were trying to catch it, then no, definitely not, it's agility and speed would be way to much. A 1km race, I reckon a cat would lose. I feel they're to small to keep up 10-15mph for that long. If the cat kept going in circles and never left the 1km field, it might tire. If you were super smart, you might be able to keep hurding it back to the centre but that would require a lot of running around it.
 
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Gilly said:
I've run long distance myself.

Cats are too quick on their feet. It isn't about straight line speed.

You need to be quick enough, nimble enough, have enough stamina and have enough dexterity whilst moving.

Just not possible.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p009lwhq

Dexterity and speed never came into it. The kudu he's hunting can hit 60mph.
 
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