life with cats, bag of hammers edition

[truepenny]

TRUEPENNY, having taken a hot bath (The high today was like twelve. Fahrenheit.), is putting her clothes on. The bathroom door--which opens into the room--is shut to keep the heat in, but not latched. TRUEPENNY and MIRRORTHAW have both learned not to latch the door while taking baths, as both CATZILLA and the SECOND NINJA take exception to being unable to get the door open, and that's hard on the woodwork.

Somebody scrabbles at the bathroom door.

TRUEPENNY pulls on her shirt.

The door does not open, and the scrabbling continues.

TRUEPENNY opens the door and discovers CATZILLA in the hallway, poised in front of the door over by the hinges.

CATZILLA: Dude! About time!

CATZILLA sashays into the bathroom.

TRUEPENNY cracks up.

CATZILLA: Dude, what? You made the magic work. What's so funny?

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Some cats are smart enough to figure out doors, as heresluck and I both know. This cat is not one of them.

Comments

[heresluck]

You and your fluff-brained fluffytailed boys, I swear. *g*

[strigine.livejournal.com]

My best friend's younger cat must make sure you're safe from the horrors of the Water Room, although she hasn't gone so far as damaging the door yet. One time I was over, and went to use the guest bathroom. Closed the door, did not realize it hadn't latched. About ten minutes later, *thump* *pop* *door swings open, tuxedo kitty stares at me* "KIRIN!"

Off topic and not really my business question

[aedifica]

Is someone involved named Kirin, it sounds like? I ask because it's my mom's name, and I've never met anyone else with the name.

Re: Off topic and not really my business question

[strigine.livejournal.com]

Ah, Kirin is the cat's name. :D

Re: Off topic and not really my business question

[aedifica]

Oh! :-)

[newroticgirl.livejournal.com]

Heehee! I have a shepherd mix who DID NOT get the brains that usually come with German Shepherds. He's like an idiot savant of the dog world. One thing he can do? Open the bathroom door. He HATES having that door closed. The last time I made the mistake of closing the door all the way (I was giving my other dog a bath), Moose opened up the door and stood there looking quite proud of himself as Lally broke from the tub and proceeded to race around the apartment dripping wet. :D

[bookzombie.livejournal.com]

We used to have a cat who couldn't get catflaps. Instead of going through the catflap by pushing through she used to insist on hooking the door with a claw and pulling it inwards.

Honestly, talk about making the job harder than it needs to be...

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 <3 <3 <3

Also, NOM DE PLUME!

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Bryton is a cat who can and will open quite tricky cupboard doors just in order to be able to wander around in the dark spaces. She's got rotten eyesight, but seems to have very clever paws and a classically feline (i.e., at least 50% unwelcome but highly recognizable) intelligence. She's also a cat with no inhibitions about space; she will bolt through any open door into anything beyond at any opportunity.

Given this, it continues to baffle me that she will stand indefinitely next to a room door that has been left ajar for her, rather than pulling it an inch and a half further open and exiting when she clearly desperately wants to. She doesn't meow. She doesn't come and find the inhabitant of the room and demand to know what this failure to anticipate her needs is all about. She just stands next to the door looking worried. When you approach, she gives a little anxious prp? noise and quivers to attention, waiting for the door to be opened an inch and a half wider so that she can flee the purgatory in question.

Drives me nuts.

[barriequark.livejournal.com]

My cat William, I am pretty certain he was Houdini's re-incarnation. Not only had he figured out doors, but he could open windows, turn on and off the faucet to get water, and escape from any house. There was no use trying to keep him inside, he'd pop a window and be off. I was constantly boggled by his smarts.

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

There are floor length curtains over the window with our cat flap in it - one cat has no problem negotiating them, coming straight under them or out at the middle gap. The other cat is still freaked out by them, gets lost behind them and has to travel to the very far end to try and get out. Meanwhile first cat is lined up, butt twitching, to pounce on him as he comes out, so curtain negotiating has become even more anxious (and he's not normally an anxious cat - she's the neurotic, he's phlegmatic).

The funny thing is we removed a wall at the catflap end of the curtain a couple of year ago, so if they turned left instead of right as they came through the flap it's half a foot to being in the open, but since it never used to be possible to get out that end, they still don't try.

[girlpunksamurai.livejournal.com]

Lol! Sounds like my cat

Only his trick is to stick his paws under the door, turn them over-and don't ask me how that's possible because I don't know-grab the bottom of the door and start pulling at it. First time I saw that I started laughing and couldn't stop for a solid three minutes

Also...12 degrees? O.O Sheesh...I thought I had it bad with it only getting up to 20 degrees today >.>