Radar finally got the kitchen cupboard door open tonight. He has been trying for a few days, having worked out a decent method, but he has now perfected it. The reason he wants in there so bad is because it's where we store our plastic bags and he is addicted. I thought he wouldn't be able to get it open, because it has magnets holding it closed.
Well I heard a strange noise from the kitchen earlier, and went out to investigate - to find the door open, plastic bags all over the floor, and one in the process of being shredded. I checked to make sure all the bits went together and that he hadn't swallowed any (the usual 'destructicat jigsaw' that I have to solve when he manages to get hold of something) he hadn't thank goodness, although I had to chase him out of the kitchen to get him away from them!
So I remembered reading advice about using hair ties around the handles to keep the doors closed - and not 10 seconds after I had done this he was up at the cupboard, standing up on his hindlegs, chewing the blooming hair tie off the handles!
So- he can work out in a few seconds what was stopping him from opening the cupboard door, but can't work out that chewing plastic bags or hair ties could make him really sick
I am looking for child locks tomorrow. To keep my hyper-intelligent-yet-slightly-daft cat safe
Well I heard a strange noise from the kitchen earlier, and went out to investigate - to find the door open, plastic bags all over the floor, and one in the process of being shredded. I checked to make sure all the bits went together and that he hadn't swallowed any (the usual 'destructicat jigsaw' that I have to solve when he manages to get hold of something) he hadn't thank goodness, although I had to chase him out of the kitchen to get him away from them!
So I remembered reading advice about using hair ties around the handles to keep the doors closed - and not 10 seconds after I had done this he was up at the cupboard, standing up on his hindlegs, chewing the blooming hair tie off the handles!
So- he can work out in a few seconds what was stopping him from opening the cupboard door, but can't work out that chewing plastic bags or hair ties could make him really sick