close the tin with a plastic lid. Here in town, I put the tin in the
fridge,
but out on the island, I keep the tins on a shelf above the other bed
(the
one I don't sleep in). The temperature usually drops so much at night
that
the food keeps quite well there.

bed in the middle of the night, grab the tin by the plastic lid with
his
teeth, and if he gets it at just the right angle, he can shake the tin
so
that it drops to the floor while the plastic lid stays in his mouth.
Voila!
My cat can open food tins. The drawback (for Frank) is that I usually
awake
from the thud as the tin hits the floor, see what he is about, and take
the
food away from him. He eats it by sticking in a paw, taking some food,
and
licking it off the paw.

--

Oh Marina, I started laughing when I read this post.  I like scrolling
through old posts...it's like a stroll through the garden of this
newsgroup!  Anyway, I came across your post about Frank jumping up to
open the tin of cat food, and digging in with his paws.  I don't know
if you
read my recent post telling almost the exact same story about Caitlin
(RB)!  Let me see
if I can link this thing:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.cats/browse_thread/thread/22856d6718b93091/f5
cde9a325c05047?lnk=st&q=fridge&rnum=1&hl=en#f5cde9a325c05047

Okay, here is the weirdest thing one of my cats ever did, perhaps apart

from the curious birding incidents which I just related in another
post.....as soon as she was grown enough to jump up to the kitchen
counter, she would use it as a launch pad to the top of the fridge and
from there she would knock down the half-filled can of cat food which
had been placed there after breakfast, waiting to be served at dinner
time.  Well I would come home from school and find the can sitting
upright in the middle of the living room carpet, stony bony empty and
this was a five inch tall can which, as anyone knows whose kitty was
silly enough to try, will not fit a cat's head.  So how was she getting

the food out?  And the plastic lid off, which was a good sealed fit?

After knocking it off the fridge, she would roll it from the bare
kitchen floor (I finally spied on her and saw it done) with her paws
into the living room where she could use the leverage of the can
against the carpet to slowly push it upright.  Then she would peel off
the plastic lid with her paws, and start digging in USING HER PAWS LIKE

A SCOOP (just like a raccoon).  She would eat right out of her paws,
without dropping the food, till it was empty.  I have no idea if she
would share with the other cat, who otherwise must have watched this
performance with some dismay since she was an ordinary cat's cat who
would never stoop to using her paws for anything other than swatting
me.

No one ever believed me, unless I showed them, and yes, she would
consistently do it even when I had a whole room full of people there
just to see her do it!!

---tension

8^)

Frank & Caitlin  must have been kindred spirits, haha!