Aiya.

[wombat1138]

Our cats have figured out doorknobs.

They can't always manage to clamp their paws onto them the right way, but they know what doorknobs are for, and will rattle them until they either get the door open, or you get sick of the noise and open it for them.

I'm not letting them near my car keys.

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[qadgop.livejournal.com]

Ours do web searches. Usually on esoteric subjects like 45thjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjnnnn.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the mysterious phenomenon of cats websurfing with their butts. The Shadowcat particularly likes to leap onto the laptop keyboard, hitting the power button and then somehow opening sundry files/websites without any appearance of movement from the tidy, supposedly innocent catloaf.

This despite my repeated attempt to inform him that all that spam mail is not about literal hot eager cats waiting for him, and anyway he's neutered so what good would they do him anyway?

[qadgop.livejournal.com]

1. Oh, no, ours definitely use their paws (albeit all four).

2. You named your cat after Kitty Pryde? This shows good taste and proper education.

3. (Psst--sometimes they go into heat and hump fabric anyway. Ours don't, but I've seen it in others.)

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

Cats are smarter than people give them credit for. Ours had decided the linen closet is his bedroom. He goes in and sleeps on the blankets at night.

[qadgop.livejournal.com]

Ours have certainly done that. One of them also hides there sometimes when we have company.

[jennifer3dtd.livejournal.com]

Heehee... catses joyriding! Wonder if they'd stop at a fishmarket? (Hm, maybe you'd better hide your wallet as well as your carkeys?)

[fujifunmum.livejournal.com]

nod, nod. My cats used to open doors, too! They are so clever! But why do they only open the doors you don't want them to open? Is it a tingling "cat sense"? A third cat eye? A bid for our attention?
Probably all of the above.

[wombat1138.livejournal.com]

Cats are just perverse forces of nature. Long before they worked out the doorknob thing, they'd settled into a routine of napping inside the kitchen/bathroom cabinets. Luckily, the wombatcave's previous owners had childproofed a lot of the cabinets, which also keeps the catzen from opening them, but it's still disconcerting when I go to retrieve a large skillet from storage and find somekitty napping inside it.