li'l stinker
After a lifetime of owning cats (like anyone really OWNS a cat!), I've come to realize that they're much like people. Some of them are incredibly sharp.....others, not so much.
Ozzie is one going to be one of the brighter ones, for sure!
We have a cat door in our front storm door, that can be adjusted so that Leo and Stella can come back inside if they're out, but once they come back in, nobody can push back out.
This keeps the cats that are not allowed out in, and let's me keep track of Leo and Stellas whereabouts.
The only problem I have ever had with this arrangement through the years is when I end up with a cat that is smart enough to figure out how to flip the cat door flap backwards from the inside and snake their way out. I've only had a handful that have been able to do this.
Alex, May and Stella...and I don't worry about her, because she doesn't wander far........and now, guess who??
I'm working at my laptop on the diningroom table the other morning and happened to look up just in time to see Ozzie trotting across the front porch with Leo! OMG!!!!!
Thank heavens he's not spazzy, and I was able to walk outside and just scoop him up. I figured maybe it was some fluke and somehow somebody opened a door and he slipped out .
The next morning, same scene.......I look up and there's Ozzie playing in a snow drift off the front porch!
Thank heavens he came running right to me when I called him, and dashed right back into the house.
Now the cat door is completely locked!
Stella doesn't care......she says she's not even interested in going outside until it warms up, but Leo is having a fit. He's used to me letting him out and he comes back in a hundred times each morning it seems, until he settles down for his late morning nap.
He obviously is annoyed at the inconvenience of not being able to come back in precisely when he wants.
I tried to explain to him that in the old days this is how it worked. People let their cat's outside and when they wanted to come in they had to sit at the door and meow until somebody opened the door! He does not seem to want to grasp this new concept!
li'l stinker
After a lifetime of owning cats (like anyone really OWNS a cat!), I've come to realize that they're much like people. Some of them are incredibly sharp.....others, not so much.
Ozzie is one going to be one of the brighter ones, for sure!
We have a cat door in our front storm door, that can be adjusted so that Leo and Stella can come back inside if they're out, but once they come back in, nobody can push back out.
This keeps the cats that are not allowed out in, and let's me keep track of Leo and Stellas whereabouts.
The only problem I have ever had with this arrangement through the years is when I end up with a cat that is smart enough to figure out how to flip the cat door flap backwards from the inside and snake their way out. I've only had a handful that have been able to do this.
Alex, May and Stella...and I don't worry about her, because she doesn't wander far........and now, guess who??
I'm working at my laptop on the diningroom table the other morning and happened to look up just in time to see Ozzie trotting across the front porch with Leo! OMG!!!!!
Thank heavens he's not spazzy, and I was able to walk outside and just scoop him up. I figured maybe it was some fluke and somehow somebody opened a door and he slipped out .
The next morning, same scene.......I look up and there's Ozzie playing in a snow drift off the front porch!
Thank heavens he came running right to me when I called him, and dashed right back into the house.
Now the cat door is completely locked!
Stella doesn't care......she says she's not even interested in going outside until it warms up, but Leo is having a fit. He's used to me letting him out and he comes back in a hundred times each morning it seems, until he settles down for his late morning nap.
He obviously is annoyed at the inconvenience of not being able to come back in precisely when he wants.
I tried to explain to him that in the old days this is how it worked. People let their cat's outside and when they wanted to come in they had to sit at the door and meow until somebody opened the door! He does not seem to want to grasp this new concept!