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ecchaniz0r
2009-06-18 06:33 pm UTC (link)

Blargh. This. I babysit the parents' cat, but - dangit, dogs are AWESOME, and people who neglect or abuse pets - ANY pets - fail at life and should consume excrement doom doom doom the end.

(Obligatory kitty story: parents' cat, Harley Davidson, has apparent worked out how a doorknob works if her reeeeaching for 'em and attempting grabbity is any indication. Alas - no opposable thumbs! Then again, she may just be going omgshiny. But it's hard to say; my aunt Laurel's cats both know how to open the doors in her house, and those have lever-knobs easier for futzy little paws to hook around.)

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tree
2009-06-18 06:47 pm UTC (link)

Oh god, opening doors. My Basset has figured out that his stretchy ass (long dog is long!) and the size and might of his paws can negotiate lever knobs, but since he's crazy about opening stuff in general he's also figured out how to get in the fridge and open plastic bottles and various other food packaging.

Of course, he's super intelligent when it comes to finding noms for himself, but if I ask him to come over or bring something, or a billion other things I know he knows, and he knows that I know he knows, he'll happily put on the stupid Basset face and not do it.

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beccastareyes
2009-06-18 07:44 pm UTC (link)

Both our cats can grasp the concept of how humans open doors. Geno can open those glass doors with the little levers, and Peppy figured out how to undo the (light) sliding bolt on the laundry room. Both of these seem to involve 'stand on something and jump at door with paws on mechanism until it moves'. I don't know if both cats can open both kinds of doors -- Geno doesn't care what's in the laundry room and Peppy doesn't care what's outside.

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	also_not_a_pipe 2009-06-18 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	The cat we had when I was young locked herself in a motel bathroom by trying to apply lever-doorknob knowledge. We were in the middle of moving across the country, from a house that had doorknobs she knew how to open. The move that makes a door with a lever knob open does not work the same way on round knob with a push button lock, it turns out. (Reply to this)(Parent)

brennalarose
2009-06-18 09:45 pm UTC (link)

John, the bigger of our two kitties, figured out that he could headbutt the door open. The smaller one, Raven, has decided she's such a lady, the rest of the world needs to open the door FOR her. And if you don't, she'll rip up the carpet underneath it.

Raven also knows when she's about to get it for being naughty, even if we were in the other room and don't know she's done anything. She sit there and wait until she knows we're coming for her and then start running. Eventually, she either gets tired and gives up or figures we aren't letting up, because she flops down and makes sure that the scruff of her neck is pointing the other way. And she was the one my husband thought was stupid.

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amaresu
2009-06-19 04:36 am UTC (link)

The smaller one, Raven, has decided she's such a lady, the rest of the world needs to open the door FOR her. And if you don't, she'll rip up the carpet underneath it.

I had a cat, Tiger, who would just pull at the bottom of the door if it was closed. This had the effect of ripping off layers of the wood. Had to replace the door eventually because she'd pretty much torn it apart on the bottom corner.

My current cat, Snickers, doesn't open door for himself. Even if the door is just ajar and he'd be perfectly capable of opening it himself by headbutting it or pawing it he'll sit outside and yowl until I open it enough for him to walk through.

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vzg
2009-06-28 08:57 pm UTC (link)

My newest cat would meow whenever he'd done something wrong for a little while after we got him. We might hear CRASH! meow at any moment. Now he knows to be quiet, so it may be minutes before I turn around in the kitchen and see him sitting on the table chewing on flowers. And then no amount of yelling can make him move — you've got to run at him like you intend to body slam him.

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	sepiamagpie 2009-06-18 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	My cat's figured out locks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ecchaniz0r 2009-06-19 03:12 am UTC (link)
	I completely believe this, because I have seen other cats do it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quackaquacka 2009-06-19 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	Our cat, Otto, just hurls himself at the door. He'll miaow for a bit then it goes silent and then - THUD. THUD. THUD. and he keeps going until he bursts through. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tofuknight 2009-06-19 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	I had a cat named Gizmo who did this. It usually worked, the head-butting, because we tend to leave the doors ajar. It did not work so well when the door was latched closed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jyuu 2009-06-20 05:20 am UTC (link)
	I am so glad to know my cat is not the only one who does this. It is, however, extremely obnoxious at times. (Reply to this)(Parent)

mary_mac
2009-06-20 03:16 pm UTC (link)

The cat in the icon hasn't a hope in hell of ever opening the doors, but he earned himself the title of 'Fat Bastard Cat' by figuring out how to open the directional locking slides on his catflap, which are bloody hard to open when you have opposable thumbs, in the thirty seconds between clawing his way out of my father's grasp and my father getting to him again.

The cat is now impossible to lock into the house and has also discovered how to do this trick from the outside, so we can't lock him out either.

Next door's cat what stalks him has not figured out the trick and thus tends to end up crashing into the catflap, because did I mention that he will lock them again? Seriously, I have no idea.

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