On Wednesday, 20 March 2019 08:05:40 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:

I remember once when I was young we had a cat who seemed to always lay down
the same way, I measured it and suggested we used it as a unit of measure,
called the pussy, so the garden was 135 pussys long etc.

I'm sure I read once of a retired patent specialist who registered a whole
system of measurement based on the "Ginger" which was his cat's name - a
Ginger in length was the length of the cat from nose to tail tip, in weight
was the weight of the cat at a specific time on a specific day etc...

I'm frustrated now that I can't find it on a search engine.