Hi everyone, it’s Allegra! I want to tell you about a new game I play when Mom is asleep!
I love opening cabinet doors and hiding inside cabinets. I know when I first started doing it I nearly gave Mom a heart attack. I was still a kitten then, and hadn’t lived with Mom for very long. She was looking for me everywhere and couldn’t find me, and I could tell from the way she was calling my name that she was getting increasingly frantic. Since I don’t like it when Mom is upset, I finally came out. Now at least she knows where to look when she can’t find me.
Up until recently, I only played this game with the kitchen cabinets. But then, one night, or rather, one very early morning, I discovered that I can open the bathroom cabinet, too. And there were lots of fun things to investigate and drag out to play with. I love anything plastic, and there were some things inside plastic bags that were fun to chew on!
Unfortunately, Mom wasn’t amused when she saw what I’d done. She took the baggies and stashed them away in a drawer in the bedroom, and to date, I haven’t been able to figure out how to open drawers.
But I still kept getting into the cabinet, and finding new things to drag out. I guess finally Mom had had enough, because the next time I opened the cabinet, things looked really different. All the fun things were in big plastic bins that I couldn’t get into!
Bummer! I still go into the cabinet periodically to see if maybe the plastic bins disappeared and I can start dragging stuff out again, but so far, no such luck.
Kitties, do you like to go inside cabinets?
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Hello Allegra,
My cat Gus also likes to go into the bathroom cabinets. However, he is unable to come out on his own. When he tries to come out, he does not make any noises except for small sounds. I have to remember to put baby locks on the cabinet when I leave otherwise, he may be stuck in there for a few hours!
Gus and Chloe’s Mom, gloria
Doesn’t that just sounds like a cat: get yourself in trouble, but then you can’t get yourself out of trouble! 🙂
When I adopted my cat Caspian as a kitten I nearly had a heart attack today the first day he was home. It was the 4th of July of all days… I was living in a small apartment at the time and as I was leaving for 4th of July festivities I couldn’t find him. My roommate and I turned the apartment upside down! I left food out for him hoping that as long as I saw that some food was gone when I came back I’d feel a smidge better… nope a few hours later when I came back it was obvious the food had gone untouched. I began to panic! My new kitten surely was stuck somewhere and I couldn’t find him!!! Thankfully my roommate saw a flash of a kitten run across the hallway when I was about to give up. She went into the bathroom and saw there was an opening UNDER the cabinet that we didn’t know existed. We kept the bathroom door shut from that moment forward!
Oh my goodness, that must have been so scary!
Allegra, you are so mischievous but cute. My dog would take tissues out of the trash bin and shred them. I had to put it up high.
I had a courious cat . When I moved into a new apartment. He went missing for about 8 hours. I looked everywhere, inside and outside the house. I moved all the furniture. Finally I gave up for the night. In the middle of the night I woke up hearing a meowing coming from a dresser. I pulled the dresser out as I did before. No cat! I tipped the dresser over and looked in the space underneith. No cat! I looked in eack draw.No cat! Still hearing the cat meowing. I pull all the drawa out. And there he was. Relaxing in the space between the draws on the forth shelf up. Do not ever underestimate where a cat can fit into.
They sure find the oddest places to squeeze into.
I was told Pono used to do the same thing when he was young, so by the time I moved in, and then Lulu came along, there were these plastic things on the doors that our mom calls cat-proof locks. There is even one on the laundry room door. But every once in a while mom forgets to put the one on the laundry room door and I can get behind the washer and dryer and explore where something that mom calls dust bunnies live. They sure don’t look like bunnies to me and they stick to my fur.
……..Kiki
Allegra,
Milo and I do the same! Cabinets have such treasures in them!
Hamish, Milo (Nancy Faulkner)