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Opposable thumbs...not all that important.
May. 8th, 2005 11:48 amWe keep our cat's food in a floor-level cabinet, right next to her bowls. She knows that her food is inside, and will try to get in by latching both paws on top of a door and leaning backwards. Once it opens, she tries to duck inside.
Unfortunately for her, the doors are spring-loaded, and for about five years of trying, she couldn't quite get the concept that she had to find some way to keep the door from immediately closing.
Sometimes, at night, we would hear a series of small thuds thanks to the potentially infinite cycle: Oob opens door -> Oob lets go -> Oob tries to get in -> door closes -> *thud* -> Oob opens door -> etc.
Oob has, at last, broken this cycle.
She has developed a new technique whereby she hooks one paw onto the top of the door, leans backwards just enough to open it, and sticks her other paw in, propping it open so she can insert the rest of her body.
Unfortunately for her, she developed this technique while we were watching.
We're getting a kid-proof lock this afternoon.
Unfortunately for her, the doors are spring-loaded, and for about five years of trying, she couldn't quite get the concept that she had to find some way to keep the door from immediately closing.
Sometimes, at night, we would hear a series of small thuds thanks to the potentially infinite cycle: Oob opens door -> Oob lets go -> Oob tries to get in -> door closes -> *thud* -> Oob opens door -> etc.
Oob has, at last, broken this cycle.
She has developed a new technique whereby she hooks one paw onto the top of the door, leans backwards just enough to open it, and sticks her other paw in, propping it open so she can insert the rest of her body.
Unfortunately for her, she developed this technique while we were watching.
We're getting a kid-proof lock this afternoon.
