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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / October 2004No door can stop him!
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Well, TK's been an indoor cat for 6 months now and in that time he's "cracked" the secret of opening the cabinet doors by putting a paw around the knob and pulling. Then he moved on to the sliding closet doors and learned to get a paw under the door and rock it 'till it slides open. Yesterday I watched him sitting at his dish picking up one "crunchie" at a time with one paw and putting it in his mouth. I wondered what he though he was doing and now I think he was trying to improve his coordination. Today I caught him on the kitchen counter, both paws on the doorknob (the door to outside), rocking the doorknob back and forth in a twisting motion. Uh - Oh. It's time to start locking the dead bolt. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > rocking the doorknob back and forth in a twisting motion. Uh - Oh. > It's time to start locking the dead bolt. Heh.heh. That's a smart cookie you got there. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> >Heh.heh. That's a smart cookie you got there. Really. Espy figured out that he has to stand on the stove and put his paws on the doorknob (door from the kitchen to the backyard) but he has not figured out that he has to turn it. >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > paws on the doorknob (door from the kitchen to the backyard) but he > has not figured out that he has to turn it. Evolution??? > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > rocking the doorknob back and forth in a twisting motion. Uh - Oh. > It's time to start locking the dead bolt. Whenever I have to lock Otto in my bedroom, he jumps on the dresser and rattles the door knob. I don't think he'll ever get out, because you have to give the knob a good hard turn to get it to open. He is excellent at opening drawers. He can get into the nightstands by the bed, the drawer in my desk and the dresser drawers. There are two small drawers in the dresser that are covered by a little door. He opens the door, pulls out the drawers and removes the contents (underwear). Many times I've walked in and found a nice pile of underwear on the floor. -- Liz > Whenever I have to lock Otto in my bedroom, he jumps on the dresser and > rattles the door knob. I don't think he'll ever get out, because you have [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > -- Cheeky systematically opens all the lower kitchen cabinet doors every morning as I get her food ready. It's like a ritual. She opens half of them and I say "do you really have to do that every morning?" then she looks at me and opens the other half. :) >From: Nomen Nescio >I caught him on the kitchen counter, both paws on the doorknob (the door to >outside), >rocking the doorknob back and forth in a twisting motion. LOL! My Mickey does that to the bedroom door when it's shut. He can also open the sliding kitchen doors too. Clever kitties! :) Lauren ________ See my cats: http://community.webshots.com/album/56955940rWhxAe Raw Diet Info: http://www.holisticat.com/drjletter.html http://www.geocities.com/rawfeeders/ForCatsOnly.html Declawing Info: http://www.wholecatjournal.com/articles/claws.htm Back in college I actually met a couple who successfully trained their cat to open doors that have normal door knobs. The cat did it by leaping up from the floor to the knob, getting both front paws around either side of the knob, and simultaneously twisting the knob. The cat then falls back down to the floor, hopefully finding that there was enough outward pull to cause the latch to disengage before letting go of the knob -- took just over 1 second for the whole thing. This trick often required multiple attempts, and the door of course had to fit loosely. > >From: Nomen Nescio > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > LOL! My Mickey does that to the bedroom door when it's shut. He can also open > the sliding kitchen doors too. Clever kitties! :) |
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