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[cactuswatcher]

My cat seems to have an internal clock for what time dinner comes. Unfortunately, it's a 23-and-a-half hour clock. ;o)

He's not subtle. He jumps up and grabs my leg if I stroll past the refrigerator without stopping to get out the kitty food. He only gets one big spoon of wet food a day. He's got plenty of dry food to tide him over. But when it's getting close to dinner time he knows what he wants.

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[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Cat clocks cannot be corrected. Also, cat triggers cannot be reset.

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you don't mess with a cat who knows when he's HUNGRY.
;P

[atpo-onm.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it's a 23-and-a-half hour clock.

Perhaps it is. Oddly, some research done years ago where people and later on, a number of other animals revealed that, astonishingly enough, if all external time cues are removed from most human or animal environments, said beings do not typically operate on a 24 hour cycle-- it's very consistent, but turns out to be like 23.8 hours, or 24.3 hours, or somesuch. It's usually consistent within a species.

A totally unexpected result that the researchers could not explain, only observe.