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[susandennis]

I live in a loft. I have only two doors interiorly. One that closes in the tiny half bath and one that closes in the full bath. They are rare closed and the rest of the 1,300 square feet is open.

Oh and there's a slider out to the terrace but it has a cat door.

Biggie is not used to and is not happy about being confined. In the winter, when I shower, I turn on the overhead heat lamp and close the door so it will be nice and toasty when I get out. Biggie cannot handle this. He's desperate to be in there to make sure he doesn't miss anything but he cannot stand to be confined. It makes his little kitty brain explode.

This morning, he opted out. When I got out of the shower, I heard his collar bells on the other side of the door and then I saw it. One paw under the door, stretched as far as he could reach, madly feeling around for something he could use to open that damn door.

My cat makes me LOL.

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[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

We live in an older house, and for the past decade (roughly) we've had at any given time at least one cat who has figured out how to "hook" a door by sliding a paw under it, pads facing upward, and then yanking swiftly and repeatedly on the bottom edge of the door, making it rattle against the rest of the frame/trim. (They haven't opened it, yet, but three out of four have learned to 'rattle.'

Wait until you're in the shower and he does that.
It's coming.

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

There was a time when I had several cats indoors. They would often reach under and wiggle those little paddy feet if I accidentally closed them out. These days, it's little toddler girl fingers wiggling under the door.....accompanied by "Mama!?!? Come too!? Abby come too!?!?" Hahaha

[susandennis]

hahahha ok, now i'm glad Biggie can't talk!

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

Had any of your previous cats had a personality like Biggie's? He should have his own TV show.

[susandennis]

Not one. I did have one tiny black cat once that was the sweetest thing on the face of the earth but she was just sweet. Not the character like Biggie. I have never ever met an animal like him. I'm impressed I can even keep up with him.

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

LOL! Isey likes to supervise my shower to make sure I don't drown, but sometimes after she has fought the bathmat and won she gets bored. Luckily I can reach the door handle from the shower. Although that is of course followed by five minutes of her hesitating on the threshold while the wind whistles in.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

hee!

[richaarde.livejournal.com]

So how long before you end up with a cat door installed in your bathroom door? haha

[susandennis]

Ok now that made me LOL even L'er!

[kit10notk9.livejournal.com]

You ever heard the Herman's Hermits song 'This Door Swings Both Ways'?
It has the sound effect of a door repeatedly slamming throughout the entire two minutes fifteen seconds it plays. That would be the sound of Biggie using the cat-door installed in the loft's bathroom door. susandennis will be able to sing the lyrics all the way through at least three times (pos. 4!) while accompanying Biggie popping back & forth as she showers.


Cats are evolving, and many of them are becoming smarter over the decades. (or at least hilariously neurotic)

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

That's adorable! Mavis, our extended-stay canine houseguest, is more interested than any of my dogs have been in being in the bathroom whenever I am. She likes being with her people! She also wants to lie on top of me at bedtime.

[christalin80.livejournal.com]

Your delightful cat makes a lot of us lol!

[dtomdtom.livejournal.com]

I'm talking to my cat. The first time I meowed back, he looked at me like I was crazy. And now we meow to each other, we don't understand anything, but we like it.
Marsik, tell me something! And he says meow. And so several times.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

My cats are the same, if I close the bathroom door it is a terrible insult

[seekerval.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the chuckles! Back when we had cats instead of dogs, we adopted a trio of black litter mate kittens. Two of them lived to ripe old age and gave us many happy memories of cuddles and of hi-jinks.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

Zen's cat was constantly desperate to get into his walk-in closet. He would jump at the handle (round, so unless he was insanely lucky, there was no way he would have been able to get it open) and he would jump for an hour straight if we didn't chase him away.