Cats and Doors

[dilettantedude]

What is it with cats and closed doors? My cat Wiggin cannot stand for a door to be closed. Even closet doors. He'll sit in front of it and yell until I open it, he looks in, then walks off. He doesn't need to use it, just wants to know he can if he wants to, I guess.

Maybe Robert Heinlein understood cats better than I do. He wrote a great time travel paradox novel called The Door Into Summer.

The star was a cat named Pete, and he and his owner Dan lived in a big farmhouse with lots of doors to the outside. In the winter Pete would have to go to every single door, every day, and yell to be let out. Dan would open the door, Pete would look out, see the snow and cold, then walk away.

Pete would then go to another door and repeat the whole thing until he'd looked out every door, every day. Dan decided that Pete was convinced that behind one of those doors lay Summer.

I think Wiggin is convinced that behind one of those doors is an Opportunity, and if they aren't all open all the time, he'll miss it.

Not a bad idea for people, come to think of it.

[James]

My cat Wiggin cannot stand for a door to be closed. Even closet doors. He'll sit in front of it and yell until I open it, he looks in, then walks off. He doesn't need to use it, just wants to know he can if he wants to, I guess.

Cats have got to be from another planet. It's the only thing that makes sense.

[omgwtf]

Cats have got to be from another planet. It's the only thing that makes sense.

Hell yeah, they are!

THE PLANET CUTE.

[DnB]

Our cat Lucy will cry at the upstairs bathroom door.
Linus cries very, very loud at the back door to go out and sit on the screen porch. They don't seem to notice the other doors.

[Hi Top]

Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. I've got a cat, Iggy, that weighs about 20lbs that doesn't do anything fast, unless you open a door that is normally closed. When this happens, suddenly this behemoth of a cat is able to break the sound barrier to get through that open door. It's really annoying. I think cats that live inside are just so bored that any chance they get to be somewhere they normally are not allowed is all they have to live for. Well, that and coughing up fur balls and puke for us to step in in the middle of the night. I think they live for that, too.

[Pan]

I trained my cat Zeus to ring a bell hung on the doorhandle whenever he wanted to go outside via the back door.

It worked great for a few weeks until he ripped the bell off.

Now he just scratches everything he can until we let him out. Doors, papers, the dog, etc.

Need to get another bell.

[Tess]

I didn't train him, but my dear departed Mickey would ring the doorbell when he was outside and wanted back in. I couldn't figure it out for a while, because I would look out the window by the door and not see anybody. When I started opening the door, it of course reinforced the doorbell ringing.