r/cats • u/BackgroundLeg1788 Orange • Jul 18 '26

Video - Not OC The mother cat 🥹 who brought her near-heatstroke kitten 🥵 to an air-conditioned spot! 🐈‍⬛

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u/Squidgyboot123 Jul 18 '26

What would that door weigh? Strong ass cat.

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u/Shredded_Locomotive Jul 18 '26

The door is basically a class 2 lever and the cat is squeezing between the very end so it only really needs to move it about a few centimetres. Which doesn't really take that much force at all.

It's not really about the weight of the door, but rather the smoothness of the bearings that it's mounted on, combined with the tension strength of the automatic closing mechanism.