Sunday, October 22, 2017
Cat Doors
We have three back doors; the entry door, the kitchen back door, and the woodshed door. Only the woodshed door opens out, into , yep, the woodshed.
We have a relatively strict rule about Cats After Dark, since we live in the middle of the woods, and there are a lot of things that eat other things, including cats. When I get up in the morning in the fall and spring, it's pretty dark out there at 5 and 6 am. This morning I was up at 6, made my coffee, explained 18 times to a very impatient Charlie that no we do NOT let you out until I can see the sky lighting up.
I"ve never seen him this frantic, lol. He tried the cellar door, jiggle jiggle, he tried the other two out- side door handles, jiggle jiggle, and then the woodshed door. JIGGLE JIGGLE clank clank and I looked over to see him hanging off the latch with one paw and wiggling the lifter with the other. And then the door made a squeak, and out he went.
We've never bothered with a hook on it, because it's really an inside door and the shed is locked when we leave.
However, apparently a 13 lb determined cat can muscle it open just fine. There may be a hook and eye in his future, if he does it again.
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I swear sometimes my cats are saying something about opposable thumbs when they meow at me.
ReplyDeleteAnd it ain't pretty, either. Jealousy is so ugly, lol.
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