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Oct. 21st, 2010 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crantzHere is a tale.
So I heard scratching at the door earlier. It was my dog wanting to be let in! So off I go to the door to let her in. As I come closer, she turns and bolts and won't come when I call her. Okay. So I close the door and go back to my computer.
A while later, I hear scratching again. I open the door and there's my dog and my cat. No bolting this time and they both come in. I shut the door and lean down to pet the cat.
At this point, all my pets are in the house how I like it.
I go back to the computer.
Then I hear scratching at another door, the back door. Now, you must understand that our house is very big. We live in the country. It takes a long time to get from the front door to the back door.
Curious what's going on, I go and open the back door.
There's my cat again. She comes in, mews at me, and walks on.
This is my cat:
I haven't the slightest idea how she ended up outside and in that area. I checked all the doors. Only the back and front doors are the ones that aren't a series of two heavy doors you have to get through before you actually get into the house proper.
I took a picture of the front doors. Do you see any way a cat could have gotten out that?
So I heard scratching at the door earlier. It was my dog wanting to be let in! So off I go to the door to let her in. As I come closer, she turns and bolts and won't come when I call her. Okay. So I close the door and go back to my computer.
A while later, I hear scratching again. I open the door and there's my dog and my cat. No bolting this time and they both come in. I shut the door and lean down to pet the cat.
At this point, all my pets are in the house how I like it.
I go back to the computer.
Then I hear scratching at another door, the back door. Now, you must understand that our house is very big. We live in the country. It takes a long time to get from the front door to the back door.
Curious what's going on, I go and open the back door.
There's my cat again. She comes in, mews at me, and walks on.
This is my cat:
I haven't the slightest idea how she ended up outside and in that area. I checked all the doors. Only the back and front doors are the ones that aren't a series of two heavy doors you have to get through before you actually get into the house proper.
I took a picture of the front doors. Do you see any way a cat could have gotten out that?
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Date: 2010-10-22 03:19 am (UTC)This is generally an intermediate-to-advanced cat skill, though it is not unusual for kittens to achieve it early on. This skill allows cats to appear in closed spaces they could not possibly have reached, or to leave enclosed spaces which have no possible exit points.
...I lived in a house that had a room at the end of a well-lit hallway. Said room could not be reached any other way. I would regularly say good night to a cat in the front room, walk down the hallway, and find the cat waiting for me in the back room, without ever having been passed in the hall. Eventually I just gave up on wondering.
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Date: 2010-10-22 03:23 am (UTC)Cats are weird.