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While busy nights have prevented me from doing proper Science, it has taught me the X22 has a favorite chair, and not just because of catnip brand alternatives. He now, with rare exceptions, loafs himself up there as soon as he arrives at night. He rubs up against the other chairs, but he doesn't get on them as much as this one.
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Unicode X22 really really likes Trash Panda Reefer Madness Phase 2: The Quest for Peace's Chair 3. It seems it is just the right level of dampness to give the cat herb's the soggy scent that the kitties like, but not too wet that it would give him the soggy kitty face that he probably doesn't like.
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I am going to find a way to use "Rebuild of Trash Panda Reefer Madness 2.10: You Can (Not) Advance" for something else. Naming wise, I think it could fit for something after Phase 2
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Quite disappointed. While it was still a cold day, it basically stayed above 0c the entire day. The chairs were a soggy mess most of the day, and only briefly a froze during the night. Resorted to just handing out party favors. I don't know about Dorian, but I know Euler loved it. X22 loved it as well, but was slightly distracted by me petting Euler less than a cats length away from him.
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Booooo!!! It never stayed cold enough for the snow to last long enough for testing, so the kitties got RAINED and snowed on for nothing. Plus, it is still cold and the chairs are not usable yet. However, the Euler and X22 will accept offerings placed near them or on the face(Euler).
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If my mind isn't borked from sleep exhaustion, the snow doesn't immediately melt because it still 1c on my porch, and, mostly importantly, I actually remember, I will be be doing an interim phase called: Rebuild of Trash Panda Reefer Madness 2.10: You Can (Not) Advance. Not sure yet what it will be as I have to be awake in 3hrs 20 minutes, but it will be snow, chair, and cat herb related. Possibly anti-climatic.
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My most handsome of Dorian's continues to be very helpful! I wasn't 100% certain anyone had also gotten completely into the Chair 2 for an extended period as well. About a half hour after he got in Chair 3, and after I had gone to bed, Dorian rolled around and rested for another 5 minutes in Chair 2.
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Thank you to my Dorian for confirming that Chair 3 will indeed be usable for Trash Panda Reefer Madness Phase 2: The Quest for Peace. Dorian, the Dr. Professor, Unicode, and Murphy all expressed interest in the chair, but I hadn't seen any non-Euler's get anywhere close to being in it, let alone rolling in it.
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Why, my The Inspector? Why must you always position yourself in the mystery spot so that the porch awnings post blocks you from view?
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2026-03-25 Mysteries Upon Mysteries: He sniffed around a very small area, doing that little sneeze kitties do when the huff too much catnip. Checked out the area and I haven't found anything yet. It is still dark out, though. On first look over with a flashlight, there are no obvious extra plants. It is just grass, none of the extra various little plants growing throughout the lawn. No cat has been within 3 meters of the area for the last 2 days. Raccoons, maybe
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2026-03-25 Mysteries Upon Mysteries: this morning, I decided to shift around the sticks to try and narrow down the mysterious Most Intriguing Spot. In a act of most helpfulness, X22 walked over there right after eating, so I was able to rush out and observe. While there is a possibility that he was interested in the stick, I believe I have found the exact spot of interest.
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Murphin's face as well, as he sometimes participates.
While the final set of cat herbs is still being determined, the following will for sure be included:
1. Catnip
2. Silvervine Fruit, Ground
3. Silvervine Fruit, Powder
4. Silvervine Leaves
5. Tatarian Honeysuckle
6. Tatarian Honeysuckle, Lemon Balm, Valerian Root, Catnip, Silvervine Fruit, and Silvervine leaves blend.
7. Valerian Root, if a new supply can be acquired soon.
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The main testing will focus on Dorian Gray, Inspector Clouseau, Dr. Professor Euler, and Unicode X22. If Carl(Gauss) comes around enough, their testing will focus on a combination of phase 1 and 2, as there is currently no data on what Gauss likes. Ori Chalcos visits are still few and far between, but I will include Ori reports if they happen(hopefully). This final part applies to any of the non-Spooky Kitties that sometimes come by as well.
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Replacement of herbs throughout the day will be allowed to ensure that each cat gets a turn. This is mostly for Silvervine Fruit, Powder, which goes quickly when Dorian is around, and Catnip, which Euler tends to easily pickup when he rolls around in it.
As the testing surface does not depend on the weather, phase 2 will run for an extended period, likely until phase 3. Phase 3 does not currently have a start date, but likely not start until at least May.
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Each chair will received a different herb from the others, rotating each day. By the end of phase 2, each herb should have been tested against the others at least twice, hopefully more.
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Trash Panda Reefer Madness 2: The Quest for Peace's testing will go as follows: each day at midnight(or as close as possible), water will be poured on the seat of each chair to wash off the previous days herb. Then, a pinch of cat herb will be placed on each chair. The pinch measurement is not exact, but will strive so that each chair has the same amount of coverage. 3/
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While winter appears to be over, which means the apparently best surface for cat herb distribution(ice) is not longer available. Thankfully, the materials tests from the end of Phase 1 led to the discovery of camp chairs as an adequate substitute(and a good Napasaurus Rex spot). To facilitate comparison tests, I have acquired 2 more camp chairs made from from the same material.
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Spooky Kitties Sciences is happy to announce the second phase of Trash Panda Reefer Madness: Trash Panda Reefer Madness: The Quest for Peace! While Phase 1 provided excellent data how much much most of the kitties like all the herbs, the changing weather made determining preferences difficult. Dorian clearly loves Silvervine Fruit, Powder more than anything else, but that is about it.
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I do hope X22 wasn't overly confuzzled by things today. Got rid of some of unused boxes down here last night, which gave me room to start setting up Trash Panda Reefer Madness 2: The Quest for Peace. I am undecided on whether or not the feeding station will be moved off camera to the west more, but it might take a while. X22 will allow me to stand 80cm's away from him(I measured), which doesn't give me much wiggle room to move right now.
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2026-03-23 The Strange Lives of Kitties: Sadly, that is where my data ends for the moment. I have two more earlier days of video, but no evidence of any cat walking within 3 meters of the spot. There is no way of knowing if there is nighttime cat activity, but it is unlikely. The only cat I have seen coming from the north at night is X22, and nothing indicates he goes anywhere near the area at night, as he hugs the fences.
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2026-03-23 The Strange Lives of Kitties: Euler then spent 2 minutes sniffing and rolling around before returning to his planned meal time. About an hour later, Murphy spent 2 minutes doing the same thing. Unlike Euler, I cannot determine how far away Murphy was when he first noticed. There is an odd 10 second gap leading up to it where Murphy is at the shelf sniffing the foot, and suddenly he is walking in the direction of the spot.
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2026-03-23 The Strange Lives of Kitties: While the "new" data continues to provide no answers, the old data has revealed that Euler also visited the spot, and is so far the first known kitty to do so at 18:02 on 2026-03-15. Going over the video, Euler was walking towards the feeding station from the west side of the house. He paused when he got to the drainage ditch, and started walk sniffing towards the spot.
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2026-03-23 The Strange Lives of Kitties: It was a very slow day in Pink Pantherville. Continuing Inspector Clouseau's streak of being very confusing, absolutely no new information was reveal about the mystery spot. He visited the spot, but only once, and he didn't roll around in it. Still, he returned, which means whatever intrigued him is likely still there. Not intriguing enough for anyone else to visit, but still.
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It apparently takes Inspector Clouseau 10 minutes to walk around the house. I also discovered that Dorian sometimes loafs himself right outside my door. Not for very long, but it is for more than 0 minutes.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: Whatever X22 was doing, I don't believe he is the reason everyone is interested. I have only found 1 additional The Inspector visit to the spot the day before. The camera recording the area only keeps the most recent 100GB, so I only have a limited time frame to check. So far, I have found no other traffic during the day. While secret kitty traffic at night is a possibility, it is unlikely.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: while that was Inspector Clouseau's only visit for the day, both Dorian and a surprise Gauss also sniffed around the spot for a few minutes each. Closer inspection of the video from 21st reveals that X22 also visited the spot, but the sun wasn't up enough to see anything more than a moving shadow.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: Inspector Clouseau did not roll around in the area from what I could tell, but he did stop in the spot for around a minute. It is too far away from any of my cameras to tell exactly what he was doing, but movement suggests sniffing around.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: Unfortunately, this leaves me at square one. The makeup of the plant matter is similar to the surrounding area. Any of the various creates that pass through here could have easily urinated in just that area, but the amount of animal traffic would make it difficult to narrow suspects.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: additionally, something I missed due to primarily going outside in poor lighting: there are violet flower patches all over my yard! It just so happens that there aren't any in the areas illuminated at night.
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2026-03-23 Hum The X-Men Animated Series Theme To Yourself: After initial observations during the day of the area Inspector Clouseau rolled around on, my initial hypothesis that it was violet flowers appears less likely. When I re-watched the video, and traced his steps better, the spot in question had no flowers.
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Yes, the important pieces of the next phase of Spooky Kitties Sciences were acquired as I had hoped. My plan to be ready by tomorrow might have been a bit of a stretch. However, I do believe I can setup something to reveal what I am planning tonight. Will work on moving things through out the week.
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Announcement for my loyal readers of Spooky Kitties Sciences: I just finished a planning meeting for the next stage of testing! Timing is still up in the air on when I can actually start, but what I have planned will be tons of fun!
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2026-03-13 Time Capsule Pool Party Disappointment: testing so far has been inconclusive on the Catnip Pool Party. I put catnip in the water bowl, and there was no noticeable increase in the water bowl traffic. I still have everything but catnip to test, so I still might get some answers. For today, though, I am just going to leave the catnip as is, see what happens.
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2026-03-13 Time Capsule Pool Party: when I looked at him through the door window, he had the look he gets after he has gotten a good huff of something he likes. I realized then that all of them, except my The Inspector, had also been spending extended periods of time drinking out of it. I thought that most of what I had put in there had been washed away the last time I dumped it, but, it doesn't look like it.
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2026-03-13 Time Capsule Pool Party: at this point, the Catnip Whirlpools(which used to be the Catnip Ice Rinks), are filled with water from the snow melt since i last dumped them, and I didn't think about them much. Dorian's most recent visit, however, got me thinking, as I had missed that he had arrived because he had been sitting at the Pool that is sitting right outside my door for 5 minutes, periodically taking a sip.
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2026-03-13 Time Capsule Party: as I hope some might recall, during the last snow snow, I placed a few Catnip Time Capsules around. A good chunk sadly blew away. Some, like the the window sill, continue to produce surprise Euler ears at the edge of the secondary cameras FOV. Lastly, some were unintentional, like the Catnip Whirlpool. That last one was supposed to be a proper Pool test, but it never properly froze.
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2026-03-10 Tartar in Honeysuckle Sauce: the continuing wonder that is the Catnip Massage Chair has brought so much joy to the Spooky Kitties Ferals. While my time is short, I am continuing to go through my supply to test everything on it again. Today will be Tatarian Honeysuckle. Yesterday's was Ground Silvervine Fruit. Don't yet know the full extent of its success, I do know that Euler liked it enough to roll off the chair onto the grass twice.
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2026-02-09 to 2026-02-09 Where I forgot the today was is not yesterday when writing: with the weather warming, I feared that I would not be able to find a replacement for kitties low of the rolling around in cat herb covered snow. None of the dried Catnip Whirlpools or Ice Rinks really took off(apart from the Dr. Professor). To think, the thing that would allow Euler to "fall" feet first off of something was sitting right there the whole time.
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2026-03-07 Where I attempt to summon a Napasaurus Rex: and finally, we have a Euler on the chair! I think I might have unintentionally found the summer replacement for the Catnip Whirlpool/Ice Rink. The Catnip Massage Chair it will be deemed, I so declare! Once the Dr. Professor is finish with breakfast, I will be moving it over and performing whatever tests for the day on it.
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2026-03-07 Where I attempt to summon a Napasaurus Rex: the Powedered Silvervine Fruit success was limited during the day, but still got a few head boops. There is still a little left, so there might be a little rolls left in it.
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2026-03-07 Where I attempt to summon a Napasaurus Rex: I did put catnip on the chair after he had arrived, and I suspect that had a lot to do with him realizing something was up there. Sadly, only my secondary camera points that direction, so no good pictures of X22 belly.
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2026-03-07 Where I attempt to summon a Napasaurus Rex: after a day, only Dorian discovered the Ground Silvervine Fruit on the chair, but it took until the afternoon. X22 definitely noticed something was off(beyond the appearance of the chair), but didn't jump up.
Of course, 2 seconds after I wrote this, he did in fact jump up on to the chair, minutes after jumping up onto the window for the first time!
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2026-03-07 Where I attempt to summon a Napasaurus Rex: no opinions yet on the added chair. Euler ignored it, and Murphy briefly puffed up before going out. However, as expected, the Silvervine Fruit Powder I put on the ground has been used to great success! Murphin got distracted completely from what he went out to do, and it ensured Euler wasn't annoyed that he didn't set off the motion alerts for some reason.
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2026-02-05 to 2026-02-06 Flash Spooky Kitties Sciences Where I Convince The Kitties to Flash Their Bellies: so far, X22 has preferred the first one he smeleld on his way in. He came from the west during his first visit, so he gave a single good face rub against the Silvervine. This visit, he came from the east, heading straight for the combo pack, sniffing it for about 20 seconds.
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2026-02-05 to 2026-02-06 Flash Spooky Kitties Sciences Where I Convince The Kitties to Flash Their Bellies: well, it snowed another cmish, which covered the original experiment(which only X22 got to sample). Luckily, moments after I put out more, X22 decided to come out again! Snow nights are always slow nights, so I am glad to see he was able to get out here.
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2026-02-05 to 2026-02-06 Flash Spooky Kitties Sciences Where I Convince The Kitties to Flash Their Bellies: while the non-health side effects of becoming disabled have distracted formal testing, the teeny tiny bit of snow leftover from today under the window has given me a chance to do a quick test. In the smorgasbord location, I have placed Silvervine Leaves and the Combo Pack on Opposite ends, hoping there is enough time before it melts.
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2026-03-03 MEOOWWWRR: Murphy discovering that he can finally meow loud enough to wake me up again has reminded me that the rain has delayed any updates. Most it the whirlpools and Ice Rinks are flooded at the moment, so very little rolling activity. A very disappointed Dorian occasionally stares at the smorgasbord grass, wishing it wasn’t a soggy mess. Hopefully by the weekend, my handsome boy. For now, your occasional hits of Silvervine Fruit, Powder will do
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Spooky Kitties Sciences has been a bit slow the past couple days. Been taking care of a Murphin who was recovering from a stomach bug this week. Doing a lot better now, but I have been distracted and haven't looked at the videos for the past few days. Plan to do a longer write-up either tonight or tomorrow, and then plan my tests for the week.
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Of course, the day I do a test that requires me to adjust the primary camera is the same day the crows finally decide to show up in force. Backup camera will have to suffice for any results for today.
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Extra glad I was able to stock up on wet food now. Snowed about 10cm's here, so extra wet food for the next little while.
On the plus side, I know the heated bowls definitely work! Plus, I will be able to test with the Original Catnip Whirlpool and Ice Rink.
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