Thanks IGotFrogs and Colin- I really would love it if this thread can stay open, its lasted this long
though I am sorry, you probably cringe when theres a cat thread....
Gorgeous cats, I love the individual personalities that come out in the photos
Bit of a random question- but might yield some funny stories- have you're cats ever caused problems because they're so intelligent??
Here's what Kit does;
A few weeks ago I went into the kitchen to find one of the kitchen cupboards open- I just assumed I musn't have shut it properly, and the cats just opened it wider to climb inside. Kit is a cat who LOVES to eat plastic bags and the like if he gets the opportunity (I have removed all opportunities.) He actually gets extremely excited when I come home because of the plastic bags I'm carrying, and he'll madly try to grab and eat them (he doesn't just chew- he chews and swallows...)
Anyway, the clean plastic bags I use to pack my lunches are kept in the cupboard he got into, though I think he went into that cupboard because its the one where I keep all four cat food bowls. The first time he got in, the other three trouble makers started 'helping' and knocked all four food bowls all over the floor- I'm sure they enjoyed their feast
Anyway, I tidied up, closed the cupboard and left it at that thinking all was fine again. Except, the next day the door was open again! So, I started thinking this is a bit too suss, it has to be one of the cats.. So I placed one of the metal cat food tins in front of the cupboard to stop the culprit- the tin weighed about 6kg, and my heaviest cat is 5.4kg. This seemed to work for about a week and a half, until now.
I had seen Kit trying to get into the cupboard once before and seen how he did it, but then he also learnt to try and move the food tin, to get to the door! smart bugger! So after it happened again today, with Kit quite happily sitting inside the cupboard when I got up this morning, I had to 'renovate' the inside of the cupboards- stripped them all out, cleaned all debris etc, and moved all plastic bags to a location where he can DEFINITELY not access them! So now if he manages to get back in, it will actually be safe. Though granted I'd still rather he didn't go in! I've also moved the food so hopefully he'll have less incentive to go in...
The problem is though, that Kit isn't normally very food driven anyway, so I suspect he's doing it just for the fun of it, and to play in the cupboard, cheeky boy!