#434 AP cat science experiments-- helping them overcome CalciVirus//testing their intelligence//measuring inheritance of friendly cat versus unfriendly

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Counting today:: I have 34 cats under my care and auspices. The parents of most of these cats were abandoned. And years ago I decided to take care of them rather than they starve to death in winter.

Then I decided to experiment with the cats to see if I can help remove CalciVirus.

Then I expanded into studying cat intelligence and cat inheritance. So far, I have found that if a friendly female gives birth to kittens sired by a friendly tomcat, that the kittens are all friendly. While a unfriendly female with unfriendly tomcat gives a litter of all unfriendly kittens.

Winter is upon us here in South Dakota with temperatures -17Celsius, and I am especially worried about my female cat named Goose. She has a meow sound more like a goose bird than a cat. I name all my cats by a specific behavior they display (Tree climber, Flirt, Queenie, Calm, Body Brush, Aloof, etc).

So I was worried in the past 2 days of where Goose was???? She had not shown up for dinner in the past 2 days considering especially the snow on the ground and -17degrees Celsius. 

And then today-- she shows up. And then I take a walk to the post box and find SCIENCE magazine 27 November 2025 cover picture be that of "HERDING CATS: Ancient DNA suggests later arrival for domestic cats in Europe".

I have not read the article yet, but will use any information in the article that relates to my own experimentation on cats.

I hope all 34 of my cats make it through the winter, but there are 2+4+4+1 = 11 kittens among the 34 that likely not all will survive. Probably because of CalciVirus.

And the calciVirus ends up making the females sterile.

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#434 AP cat science experiments-- helping them overcome CalciVirus//testing their intelligence//measuring inheritance of friendly cat versus unfriendly

[Archimedes Plutonium]

On Monday, December 1, 2025 at 8:06:03 PM UTC-6 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:

Counting today:: I have 34 cats under my care and auspices. The parents of most of these cats were abandoned. And years ago I decided to take care of them rather than they starve to death in winter.

Sadly, one of the Tabby kittens died since I last reported. So I am taking care of 33 cats now.

 

Then I decided to experiment with the cats to see if I can help remove CalciVirus.

Major Research in solving CalciVirus on whether Possums carry bacteria that kills the cat CalciVirus???

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The best way to kill viruses such as Calci is to find a bacteria that eats the Calci virus.

I lost that Tabby kitten to calci virus.

Through the years I noticed that 3 out of 5 groups of cats faired much better than the 2 other groups against Calci.

You know a cat has Calci virus if they have discharges from around the eyes. They lose complete appetite to eat, when eating can save them. They deteriorate more as they do not eat and days later they die.

So what I noticed is that I feed these 5 groups of cats, somewhat separated in distance on white plastic lids of 5 gallon buckets.

I noticed that possums often join in, especially after the grownup cats have finished. And a possum will clean up the lid plate completely as if it had been washed clean. I always know if a possum had fed.

I like possums around because they eat ticks.

So, well, of the 5 groups, the possums eat off the 3 groups and not the 2 groups. The Calci virus death of kittens is predominantly in the 2 groups. Few deaths in the 3 groups.

So I came recently to this Hypothesis very much worth investigating further. But will eventually need a scientific laboratory to come to any science conclusion.

Hypothesis:: The possum has a low body temperature and why it seems to be very disease resistant. Perhaps the possum also harbors bacteria that eat viruses, much like the bacteria found on teeth. Possums have massive teeth. I am thinking that a special bacteria on possums gets transferred to my plastic lids and when the possum cleans the lid so very well, leaves behind bacteria for which the next time the cats feed from the lid, pick up some of those bacteria, that then goes to eat the Calci virus.

Some years back I tried aspirin in some of the cat food to see if I can rid them of Calci, that was a flop.

But this latest Hypothesis, just maybe true.

What I am going to do is take one of those possum cleaned lids over to a group of cats that has a kitten trying to survive and see if she can reach adulthood from feeding from the possum lid. If that is successful, may lend more supporting evidence that I am onto something with this hypothesis.

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Today we had another blizzard in South Dakota, which are never any fun.

And I lost another kitten that was almost mature from Calci virus. I now have 32 cats under care. This kitten did not have the benefit of possum licked food tray.

I have the suspicion that possums carry with them bacteria that can eat the Calci virus for the kittens that survive have contact with possum licked food trays.

This is research far beyond what I can handle. I would need a institutional team of researchers who can isolate possum bacteria and other viruses and see if the possum has a Calci virus killer.

I once heard from a neighbor that the cats in Iowa were plagued with Calci virus, every cat having the virus. So if true, that possums harbor a Calci virus antidote, well, relief for the cat species.

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Cat Intelligence

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Decade back ago I observed a calico female walking home and being pestered by a bird who would swoop down from behind the cat and make a noise. So this cat waiting for the next swoop and would jump high in the air and with claws ready try to catch the bird. Both the bird showed intelligence and the cat showed intelligence of foresight, figuring out the immediate future. Those events were a decade ago. Today in April 2026, I am able to report an even more incredible intelligence of cats.

A cat with a daily timetable. My tomcat named "Tree-climber" has shown me this incredible intelligence of Foresight. He knows where I live and visit 2 other houses in a daily routine. Feeding cats along the way. He has figured out where I will be in my daily routine walk-abouts. My daily 6 tasks I perform at different hours of the day. He has figured that all out. And now, he waits at each of those sites at that specific hour of the day. In other words, he has figured out my daily schedule and intercepts me at points of that schedule. Remarkable. And I wonder at what age of a human child do they figure out their parents daily schedule. Is it fair to say that at age 8 or 9 is it possible for a human child to figure out their parents schedule??? So that my cat, Tree-climber has the intelligence of a 9 year old human.

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Maybe my tomcat-- Tree Climber is not that special in intelligence for cats usually walk their territory everyday after they get up from sleep. Tree Climber has just added me to his daily routine surveillance of his territory.

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More Cat Intelligence

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I used to have a all gray tomcat I named Tenor. He would sing loudly after eating supper. I guess he was singing for females.

I now have a tabby female, the largest female I ever had in a cat. She is a dominant queen. I named her Symphony because after supper, she would sing very loud. I thought she was singing for her kittens who all died, but maybe she was singing for a male. I kept her and others in a warehouse over the winter months where I had a heater.

Her singing became louder and louder after supper. So loud that if other people lived in the same building would start complaining to me of the loud cat. I renamed her Opera, but then settled on Soprano she is so loud.

And today felt like Spring, like T-shirt weather outside so I decided to let Soprano and Plato free from their domiciled warehouse and get out and eat some grass for vitamins and explore the outside after the long winter. I knew I would likely have trouble getting Soprano back inside, after her new found freedom. Plato did not want to go outside. I named her Play Toy because she loves for me to take two car wash brushes and brush her fur every night I give them supper. Play Toy started to sound like Plato and the name stuck.

So, immediately out rushes Soprano and within the hour she collected 4 Tomcats all vying for her attention. Tree Climber not one of them. And these 4 males desperate for Soprano's affections. So I had a big problem of getting Soprano back into her home. So I went by the warehouse 2 hours after I normally feed them thinking that she would want to get inside for supper and sleep.

Here is where Soprano showed me her huge intelligence.

She knew exactly where the door was to her home even though she was in back of the building with 4 tomcats surrounding her.

So I managed to get Soprano to the side of the building then coaxing her to the front of the building with one Tomcat super energetic. Soprano managed to get to the front door and as quickly as I opened the door she sprang from the side and in she was. The tomcat searched and searched for where she had gone. But Soprano was inside getting a drink and eating her supper.

I would rate that intelligence of knowing where she wanted to be and escaping these 4 tomcats on par with a human of age 8 or 9 years old.

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Today is  the first day I would say is Summer, even though it is early Spring. I had to remove my blanket while sleeping. And it is 25 C outside, T-shirt weather, even shorts weather. Yet only 12April. We could likely hit 37 Celsius by April before Summer June this year.

Yes, believe you me, our Sun has gone Red Giant Phase because the stars all shine by Faraday law, not the mistaken idea that stars shine from fusion. Every atom in the Sun is doing the Faraday law of muons thrusting through proton torus creating electrical energy that is sunshine. Every day the Sun gets hotter and hotter. And unless we move Earth out to Mars and also colonize Europa, all of life on Earth will be incinerated to death and oblivion.

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Alright, today a new experiment on my cats. My throat is not as good as what it was when young, and having difficulty in calling my cats with "Hereeeeeeeee......kittyyyyyy kitttttyyyyyy....hereeeeee.....

Instead, I will use what I used to call the horses and donkey..... making a suction type noise out of the right side of my mouth. It is the easieast and loudest noise I can make. It involves the tongue. Hard to describe the sound. All I can say, to the reader, try making a sound from your mouth that involves the tongue touching your mouth roof and as you open your mouth the sound emanates out. It is very loud.

Sounds like a Click, click sound.

I trained my horses and donkey when they heard this sound, meant that apples or clover were to come.

Now I am going to see if my cats will come to this sound.

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Now I probably made a mistake here, in that I believe the squirrel makes this same type of sound call, when the squirrel is agitated by a predator below.

A click, click, click sound, much the same as I do with the right side of my mouth holding the tongue on the roof of my mouth and opening my mouth releases this vastly large sound of "click".

Now I do not know if any biology researcher can demonstrate without hurting a squirrel if that is how the squirrel makes its sound.

And I would be surprised if the English language is absent of a word that is meant to describe this click sound I make.

Moisture seems to be part of the click sound in my mouth.

The cats are not yet in tune to my click sound. They still go by "hereeeee,,,,,, kitty kitty,,,,,,kitty.

Now if squirrels make the same sound as I do by mouth moisture suction. Then I wonder if birds make their chirp sound from this suction method also.

Be an interesting biology research project.

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Joe Hutto's "My Life as a Turkey" on Nature PBS-- fascinating and enthralling

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I was eating supper when this came on, but put it away to watch this story. I had seen it years back. I thought I posted a comment on this story, but seem to not be able to find it.

I am researching cats, myself, and the intelligence of turkeys is what I am looking for and trying to measure in my cats.

My only contact with turkeys was when I lived in Canada for a few months on a farm and they had a large pen for domesticated turkeys. I tried to see who the turkey was that made a call and then quickly, all the others made the call. Joe Hutto may know what that vocalization means. When one sounds off, all the others sound off in unison.

I would not have predicted Turkey boy's fight with Joe at the end there. Probably the male stakes out a region for his domain and Turkey boy saw Joe then as a rival.

But I could easily see that "Sweet Pea" was not going to survive. Which is the sad fact of all ground nesting birds, in my opinion. They are doomed to extinction in a world where so many animals would eat their eggs. Unless humans protect ground nesting birds, they, sadly are doomed to extinction. The time taken to hatch chicks and time to get them able to run is too long of a time in a world where so many predators. I think every ground nesting bird is endangered and on some list of endangered species.

I am researching in cats whether a "friendly cat" gives birth to friendly new cats when fathered by a friendly male cat. Sweet Pea the turkey would be ideal to test this hypothesis out. Instead of Joe letting Sweet Pea nest in the wild, if he had built Sweet Pea a shelter like the farmer in Canada, and put Sweet Pea in that shelter, feeding her sometimes; sometimes letting her walk around. And mating Sweet Pea with a known male Turkey of his original 17, a friendly male. Then, perhaps we could find out if Sweet Pea gives birth to new turkeys, with that lovely personality that Sweet Pea had.

It is hard to tell if humans pass on personality traits in genetics. Much more clear in animals.

So far, the cats borne from a Unfriendly male have all been unfriendly.

One of my female cats gave birth to 5 kittens and 2 of the females were as friendly as the mother, one of which was super friendly, for all she wanted to do was be around me, I named her "Lover", 2 of the males were as friendly as the mother, but 1 was unfriendly and shy. I need more data to make anything of this.

Joe Hutto's "My Life as a Turkey" on Nature PBS-- fascinating and enthralling

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