I’m sat here watching our cats at play. I’m amazed at the way they simply play, anything can become a cat toy! Ours have a habit of doing fuzzy escape artist tricks as well.
It’s amazing, they simply sit quietly and watch the world go by, but come to some very clever conclusions. Mia, for instance has now worked out door handles. They’ve also worked out that if they get the timing and hang around the front door first thing in the morning, and when we get home at night they can avoid the effort of having to use the cat flap!
Sit quietly, pay attention, don’t let things get too complicated. I think there’s a definite lesson to be learned from them!
Little Dragon says:
Yes, cats are clever things. My mother had one once (long since gone on to the great cat bed in the sky) that could open just about anything. We spent 12 years with a 2 gallon water bottle in front of the fridge door as this was the only thing that kept him out! Cats are also as good as humans for behaving in an ‘irrational’ way - the one mentioned above always used to blame my father for visits to the vets, even if my father wasn’t involved in the process.
20 April 2006, 1:03 pm