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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / June 2006Luna and Fez outside!!!!
We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were locked. When we arrived, Tom said, the back door is open! I said, what? The patio door was open, so we rushed outside. Fez was on the patio and he came back immediately. I told Tom to go get a head count and I rushed outside calling kitties. Maya was in the enclosure looking out and I heard Luna crying. I started calling her and she came running from way back in the garden toward me. I grabbed her and brought her inside. By then Tom had counted heads and we were complete. Phew! Tom swears the patio door was locked (the bolt was sticking out) when he saw the door open. How on earth did the door open if the bolt was locked? How long was the door open? Who else went outside? My heart is beating really, really fast, but I'm very thankful everybody is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!!  SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com > Tom swears the patio door was locked (the bolt was sticking out) when he > saw the door open. How on earth did the door open if the bolt was > locked? How long was the door open? Who else went outside? > ...Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! That's better than the alternative, I guess. Glad everyone's OK and accounted for! Joyce Victor Martinez <me@nospam.com> wrote in news:4empasF1bbldoU1 @individual.net: > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! I think I'd be more afraid that someone else learned how to open them from the inside. Perhaps you scared somebody off. Chak SignatureYou can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. --Jeannette Rankin <snip> > My heart is beating really, really fast, but I'm very thankful > everybody is accounted for. I'm glad they're all accounted for. I sure know that feeling! A couple of years ago I started a thread about Shamrock called "Shamrock's big adventure" in which he had gotten out and I didn't know it until I noticed he wasn't underfoot. Workers were in the house and they didn't pull the storm door shut tight and he simply pushed it open and got out. One of them yelled upstairs asking if I had a black and white cat and that he wanted in. YIKES. I still remember how scared he made me that day. SignatureCheryl > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! It is time for a deadbolt up high. MLB > My heart is beating really, really fast, but I'm very thankful everybody > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! Uh-oh, I think you're in trouble now. So glad nothing more serious happened. Purring for your nerves, and hoping it was a one-off. SignatureMarina, Miranda and Caliban. In loving memory of Frank and Nikki. Stories and pics at http://koti.welho.com/mkurten/ Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki Glad everyone's ok, Victor. I think what must have happened is that the door wasn't closed properly before the bolt was locked, so the door was actually locked "open". Dennis did that to my parents front door the last time we were home visiting. We were sneaking in very late at night and were trying to be quiet and not wake them up. The next morning my dad got up early and the front door was wide open, bolt sticking out. It was not a good morning in the household :-( Poor Dennis got subjected to a lecture and a demonstration on how to lock the front door properly. Aaargh, it was a mistake, ok?!? Sheesh! SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around > 6pm and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > everybody is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot > of interest. I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! > Dennis did that to my parents front door the > last time we were home visiting. We were sneaking in very late at night [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > subjected to a lecture and a demonstration on how to lock the front door > properly. Aaargh, it was a mistake, ok?!? Sheesh! Oh, brother! Did Dennis fall out of the "Circle of Trust"? :) (You have to have seen a movie called "Meet the Parents" to get that one.) Joyce >> Dennis did that to my parents front door the >> last time we were home visiting. We were sneaking in very late at [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Joyce Heh. Yeah, he's kind of out of it now. At least he's not allowed to lock the front door unsupervised anymore ;-) The whole incident was just *so* my dad. I can't explain it any other way. Oh well. It's not like we spend a whole lot of time staying at their house. SignatureBritta Purring is an automatic safety valve device for dealing with happiness overflow. Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! So glad to hear that everybody is accounted for. Hoping there are no similar shocks in the future. SignatureSam, closely supervised by Mistletoe > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov > Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com Thank goodness the clowder is well and safe with everyone accounted for! I'm guessing the "locked open" theory posted by Britta is the correct one, and I hope so. Much cheaper than changing all the locks on your house. Melissa > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were locked. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! Wow, what a scare that must have been! Are you guys sure it wasn't a break-in? Purrs on the way to calm your nerves! SignatureHugs, CatNipped See all my masters at: http://www.PossiblePlaces.com/CatNipped/ > Wow, what a scare that must have been! Are you guys sure it wasn't a > break-in? Purrs on the way to calm your nerves! My wallet was still sitting on the breakfast bar, so I'm pretty certain it wasn't a break-in. Furthermore, checking the alarm log online, I saw the door was opened right about the time we left. It was open for two hours!?!?!?!?! From now on we're going to be paranoid about closing doors, trust me. :) SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> Wow, what a scare that must have been! Are you guys sure it wasn't a >> break-in? Purrs on the way to calm your nerves! [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >hours!?!?!?!?! > From now on we're going to be paranoid about closing doors, trust me. :) Perhaps it hadn't latched securely, and the wind blew it open? I once got back to my car after a couple of hours in a shopping mall, and found that I had left the keys stuck in the trunk lock. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria YIKES!!!!!!!!!! I'm so glad your head count is complete. That must have been terrifying! Susan M Otis and Chester > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were locked. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! > We went for a walk down to Town Lake this afternoon. We left around 6pm > and came back at 8pm. As we always do, we verified all doors were [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > is accounted for. Luna is looking out the window with a lot of interest. > I'm afraid she's figured out how to open locked doors!!!! I'm so relieved all ended well! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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