Miss Kitty

by Patty
(Pa.)

She is just simply BEAUTIFUL and very intelligent
her biggest accomplishment: she jumps up to the
handle of the French door leading outside and opens
the door - walks PROUDLY inside - with tail held high
and just goes on about her business - I told her,
now you have to learn to close the door. We love
her very much..

Leena’s answer:

I can so imagine how beautiful she can be… And isn’t it just amazing how clever cats can be? At the moment we have two Abys and one Somali (Rolli who writes the diary on this site). Before them we had two Abys and a “moggie”, all of whom lived to be quite old. And the Aby boy, Casanova, knew exactly how to open doors. He nonchalantly walked to any closed door and almost without stopping measured the distance to the door handle, made a light hop so he got his front paws over it and then just let his body weight pull the handle down. And in he walked, just like Miss Kitty – with tail held high, proudly.

We really had to warn our guests when they went to the bathroom that they’d better lock the door behind them. Because Abys are known to be very curious – just like Korats LOL. A closed door was a challenge – surely there was something extremely important behind there if someone was trying to keep the cats out!

The other cats did not open doors, but that was probably because they never needed to. Casanova took care of this for them.

Closing the door… Now that would be the perfect skill for a cat! That way, if you have an outdoor cat and no cat door, you would not have to run to the door all the time when the cat decides it wants out… no, in… no, out… You know the drill…