While humans have butt nerve , habiliment , and a sentience of reserve to prevent their buttholes from being on video display all the time , catsjust have tails ( which they love to stay directly up in the air ) . As a resultant , you probably see your cat ’s anuspretty often — and all that exposure might make you dwell on a sure distressing question : Is my cat ’s foulest orifice brushing straightaway against my pillow , my kitchen counter , and every individual other Earth’s surface my cat perches on ?

According to 6th - grader Kaeden Griffin , the answer is in all likelihood no . As PopSugarreports , Griffin launch an innovative experimentation to discover out just how much link a cat ’s butthole actually has with its surroundings . First , he and his mammy , Kerry , covered the buttholes of their two CAT — one average - haired and one short - haired — with ruddy , nontoxic lipstick . They then directed the well - cultivate favorite to seat on plane of newspaper placed over different surfaces and perform a series of actions , include sitting still , lying down , and jumping .

“ They were compensate with stacks of praise , pets , and their favorite treats , and the lipstick was remove with a baby wipe once we collect our data in just under 10 arcminute , ” Kerry Griffinwrotein a Facebook place .

A dish best not served at all.

The resultant of that data will in all likelihood provide some relief to easily grossed - outcat owner . The Griffins witness no trace of lipstick after their medium - hairy Arabian tea sat on the hard surfaces ( nightstand and tile floor ) or the voiced surfaces ( carpet , mattress , and pillow ) . The short - hairy cat did n’t leave any lip rouge on the arduous surfaces , either , but there was a “ slight smear ” on the white bed sail they had placed over the bed — definitely more of a trouble for multitude who do n’t rinse their sheets as often as theyshould .

Theexperimentwas for a homeschool scientific discipline fair project , which Kaeden ’s mom give him an “ A++++++ ” on . It ’s too little of a sample size to draw any overall conclusions about feline butthole surface contact , but we ’ll keep an centre out for any large - plate studies on the subject .

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