Sigh...

[rolanni]

Hexapuma has figured out where the cat food is kept and how to open the relevant door.

...which is now duct-taped shut.

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[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Now, does anyone want to predict how long it will be before Hex figures out how to use a knife to cut through the tape? Or will he use a laser drill :-)

Has anyone measured Hex's basal sentience level? How does it compare with, say, Little Fuzzy? Fuzzy fuzzy zarathustra, that is?

Watch out for damnthings!

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

guess you'll have to do some child-proofing.

[reedrover]

We ended up having to put a regular gate latch on the pantry door so that Blaze couldn't open that door. He had figured out how to open the door, and he and Annie proved how bored they were when they ate through the plastic container to get to the cat food.

[saruby.livejournal.com]

Child safety locks. They're not terribly expensive and will definately come in handy for this. Kind of a pain for the grown-ups, but not as much as picking up scattered kibble.

[elektra.livejournal.com]

Sorry. He never struck me as that bright . . .

*facepaw*

[lagilman]

Pandora, as a kitten, learned how to open drawers that had been properly closed. And which drawer held the treasured cashmere sweaters that, apparently, make the Only Proper Bed for A Duchess.

That may have been about the time I started keeping the kibble in a thick plastic container with a snap lid.

When I heard about a litter of polydactls born with the sixth claw bent almost like a thumb, my first thought was "drown them. For humanity's sake."

[katmoonshaker.livejournal.com]

I have Siamese mixes. They did the same thing. I put a child safety lock on the door. They laughed at me. I found a small garbage can with locks on either side. They got po'd at me but finally admitted defeat. So now they just yell at me when they're hungry. Thomas does "Timmy's in the well!!". Where upon you ask Thomas what he wants (or alternatively, "Okay Thomas. Is Timmy is the well again? Where's Timmy?? Common, show me where Timmy is."). And you just stand there until he either goes to the cat food bowls or to the door. His brother Zaphoid gets his anxious face and yells "OMG! MOM! There NO FOOD! No one has feed us in DAYS! WEEKS! MONTHS! YEARS! HELP!!!". The late Christofer used to go "noooooooow". He's the one that also learned "meeeeeeeeooooooooout" and "meeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiin".

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Had a pair of Maine Coons that could get absolutely anything open. Sometimes they had to act in concert but not always. Rubbermaid tubs for cat food (that I had trouble getting open), the refrigerator, closets, etc. They never learned how to use a key so I had to actually lock doors. It was an old house and everything locked with a skeleton key. Think closet, morning darkness, "where is that damned key" for fun.

duct tape...

[(Anonymous)]

is like The Force.

It has a dark side and a light side, and it binds the universe together.

KB

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Aw, you fixed the typo. I was going to ask if that was one of the cat feet that the fog comes in on…

[dina-james.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has a cat who can open the pantry!

The moment I found the cat food back open with scattered kibble and little kitten teeth-marks on the chewed plastic I went out and bought a couple child safety straps (the kind that buckle - I tried to find an accurate pic, but I couldn't find one. Leave it to me to pick one that's going out of production!), AFTER duct-taping the cabinet shut.

Not quite the one I have (http://shop.parents.com/product/view-all-safety/2427/adjustable-locking-strap.html) but close enough!

I put one on the pantry door, and one on the cupboard beneath the sink that has all the chemicals and smelly things under. Four cats (I know, but I can explain) and I've never had this problem with any of them. Now we have the Little Black Cat, and she's now responsible for making life really really interesting.

"Interesting" in the "how is it possible for a cat to *do* that?!" kind of way.

To quote a strip from Get Fuzzy (http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/)...you never have to ask "who" in this house...only "when".

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you want to teach your cat how to operate duct tape? I mean, that stuff controls the universe. Kitty + string theory = yikes.

[growlycub.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad that none of our Maine Coons are polydactyl. Rowdy is tall enough and has mastered the two-pawed door knob wrestle, but he hasn't quite managed to flip it far enough over to one side yet, although not for lack of trying.

I wake up at night fairly frequently when is attempting to let himself and the other evilies in. :)

I'm just glad we don't have any doors with handles, because even the little girls in this house are smart and big enough to be able to open those if they were around.

We went from magnets (not strong enough) to interlocking metal gizmos on all the kitchen and bathroom cabinets.

Nothing as heart-stopping as having a 4 month old Maine Coon kitten going underneath and inside the whirlpool tub cabinets! I about had a heart attack fearing she was going to be stuck in there and we would have to rip out the tub to rescue her.

Her sister recently got VERY annoyed at me when she visited the master bathroom (after 2 and a half years, mind) and found out that those lovely cabinet doors do no longer open.

Cats, who needs TV when they can have cats? :)

And in that vein, I'm happy to announce that it looks like there will be two litters of Maine Coonlets born in December in this house (after 3 years of kittenlessness). I must be insane. The amount of destruction kittens can perpetrate without even trying is unimaginable unless one has lived through it, he he. Wish us nice litters of 4 each, instead of 8 each as might well happen! :)

[(Anonymous)]

I have to say that I rather think calling a kitten Hexapuma is issuing a challenge - that will inevitably be taken up


Richard