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Native_texan
Member
08-24-2004
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 3:02 pm
This past week would have been a great time to install a video camera to capture what my little feline angels do while I'm gone. Or at least one of them, because I know who the culprit who is - Sarabelle, my dainty little brown tabby. She seems to love (or maybe its hate) paper towels. One night last week, I had been watching TV in my bedroom. Just before I went to bed, I made a run-through to make sure all the doors were locked. When I turned on the kitchen light, the Paper Towel Queen was sitting in the middle of floor looking up at me with that "Hi, Mom" look surrounded by paper towels. The next day I came home from work to find the rest of the roll strewn in pieces up and down my hallway. On Friday, I bought a new roll. Thinking about this, I put it in the pantry. No problem, but it's not easy to access from the counter where I would need them so Monday I put them in the cabinet above the sink. Well, yesterday I come home and the whole Bounty Big Roll is all over my living room. I go into the kitchen and, sure enough, that cabinet door and that one alone is open. I have decided I will put the next roll in the safe.
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Mizinvanccouver
Member
02-22-2003
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 3:53 pm
LOL Native...thanks for sharing! I had a cat who used to shred the toillet paper roll when he was and kitten till he turned 2. He out grew it eventually.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 4:42 pm
Oh, Native and Mizin, I LOL with both of you. Our Bonza never outgrew his fixation with toilet paper... we replaced all our holders with the wall-recessed w/ flap chrome cover variety! I've had this photo framed and in several bathrooms for years:

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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 8:01 pm
Here is an update, sorry it has been awhile, but last night was my first night of good sleep and I am just now getting everything back to normal. First off, I woke up very early Tuesday morning to the sound of Blackie moving around under the bed. He got very upset when he came home went under and I couldn't get him out without him going nuts so I left him alone. Then a couple of hours later I hear him scratching in the litter box ( this is not a good sign since I did not hear him leave his under the bed position) and naturally he has somehow gotten the collar off and yes he has taken out the catheter!!! So I quick get a shower and then call his regular vet ( I had left a message on Monday night). I wanted to be ready for whenever they would take me and I wasn't sure when I would be able to catch him since he wasn't coming near me. So called the vet they said bring him as soon as I can catch him and that they might have to anesthetize him to reinsert the catheter. I trapped him on the balcony got him in the box and went to the vet. This was Tuesday morning, they are keeping him until Thursday, were able to reinsert the cath with just a sedative and I talked to them this morning and he is doing great. Eating all the "good" food they give him. So tomorrow morning they will remove the catheter and if he pees' for them by noon he can come home. I really miss him but there has been a silver lining. I have now been able to see just how much food his sister is eating (not enough) even though she gets it all. I keep thinking she is probably upset by all this as well and has been staying close to me crying more than usual. I just keep telling her that he will be back tomorrow and to take advantage of being the head kitty!!! Thanks for all your support, this was pretty upsetting. Karuuna I do have the fountain water bowl and he likes it alot. Native Texan that is hysterical, LMAO, I love that kitties can figure out what they need to know to break out the paper towels.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 9:07 pm
Can I put this here one more time? I had two cats. Both wanted to get the bedroom door open so they could sleep with us. Cat #1 was a Siamese, very smart cat. He knew that the door knob opened the door, so since he was a rather tall cat, he would try to turn the door knob using both his paws. Since the door knob was smooth metal, he could not turn it enough to open it. Cat #2 was a throw-down first generation domesticated cat, came to the house as a wee kitten, climbed the screen and stayed there until we let her in. She would put her paw under the closed door and twang the spring door stop. Twang, Twang, TWang, TWAng, TWANg, TWANG, until we went absolutely mad. Which one was the smarter cat?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Wednesday, June 01, 2005 - 9:29 pm
Juju, I think they are both smart, just different. Like book smarts, siamese and street smarts, domesticated cat, LOL. I think it is cool that they both tried to figure out the problem in their on ways. But I am assuming that Cat #2 got in first because it made you crazy. What was the result?
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:23 am
rofl juju let's see I had a cat who used to scratch (think finger nails on chalkboard) the screen door to be let in the house (mind you she figured this out immediately - the dog however was like 8 before she learned to 'knock' on the door to be let in). Casper can get in any cabinet in the house. He can get through any unlatched door in the house. Wendy has figured out how to open cabinet doors - I caught her doing it at the kitchen sink the other night when I did dishes. and juju - I vote for twang twang cat being the smartest.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:50 am
A cat riddle, how wonderful, JuJu! If Cat #2 is the one that got you to open that door... totally the winner! I cannot believe there are this many cats in the world that can open cabinets. I hope ours don't read this thread! But our tiny girl cat, Precious, does love to rub her whiskers/cheeks on the spring door stop on the pantry door. At least once a day we have multiple twangs ringing out - it freaks out the guests but we are used to it. Dipo - sending good thoughts for Blackie's homecoming. 
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:58 am
my cat ariel, doesn't open cabinets, she does open doors though. because if she wants something she does the "lassie, is timmy down the well" thingie. and climbs up on me, kisses my face, my hands, my arms, telling me she wants something, and making me follow her, till i get it!
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 11:05 am
Yep, cat #2 always succeeded in getting the door open.
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 11:19 am
My mom had a kitty growing up that could open doors. The doors in her house had knobs that were fairly easy to turn. The cat wasn't tall enough to reach, so instead he would jump and thwack over and over again until the door knob would turn enough and the door would pop open. That was a smart cat. My kitties can't open doors - thank goodness. But they do get up in the open windows at night and jump at bugs on the screens. I'm worried that one night they are going to take a two story fall after they push the screen out. So, until I turn the lights out I can't open the windows very far - not sure what I'll do in mid-summer heat - it's already getting stuffy. (Once the lights are out, the moths and other buggies stop hanging on the screen.)
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 11:44 am
Gina, when I lived in Santa Ana, I had that fear about the screen, so I put a small step ladder (folded flat) that kept Critter away from the open screen. Not real attractive, perhaps a baby gate would work and still allow the air to flow in. In my present bedroom, I have the fan in front of the open part of the screen. It is not at all uncommon for cats to make that two story fall.. and that isn't a good height.. too fast for them to do a twist and land on their feet, not to mention you may not have wanted them outside anyway! I know they make some sort of device for people in high rise buildings.. that keep kids and pets from falling out of windows.. such a device was not in place when Eric Clapton's son fell to his death years ago.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 2:37 pm
OMG Bonz.. that is too funny!! My Lexie (the siamese) sometimes shredded anywhere up to 3-4 rolls of toilet paper a day when she was a kitten. I was buying 4 packages of toilet paper a week!!!! This went on for probably until she was almost 1 1/2 years old. She didn't just shred what was on the toilet paper dispenser. She would climb on the shelf in the linen cabinet where I kept the toilet paper and she would take the rolls and shred them until she had a 2-foot pile of toilet paper on the floor below the shelf in the linen closet. That is what I frequently went home to. The linen closet is the only place I could keep the toilet paper because I had to buy so much - but the door's lock didn't work - it was a no-win situation. Now the most perfect Lexie only shreds paper iffin she's really really really mad at me and the only way to express her disappointment in me is to shred some toilet paper.
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Kep421
Member
08-11-2001
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 2:49 pm
My Katie is a TP shredder too...she does it occasionally when she gets frustrated. I'm used to getting up in the morning and being greeted with an "exploded" roll right in the center of the bathroom floor. Its kinda funny to me...it looks like she bombed it or something...
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 3:52 pm
To the parents of all the "shredders" out there, I present to you, our answer. I'm telling you - if we can put one (well, four) in - anyone can! All you need is a $10 drywall saw from Home Depot and one of these:
P.S. But those mounds & mountains of TP shreds are hilarious!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 4:53 pm
My Carmie is a very old lazy kitty and very set in his ways. Well, we were adopted by a darling little orange kitty (same color as Carmie) named,(he's a hurricane stray) Andy. He's adorable and curious. We've never had an inquisitive kitty. Anyway, he has brought out a different side to Carmel. Carmel is playful and friendly. AND he and his brother get along great. I've put a picture of the boys in my profile.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 5:28 pm
Twiggyish, congrats! They are gorgeous... and they look like they were from the same litter!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 7:48 pm
Adorable, both of them, Twiggy!
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Gina8642
Member
06-01-2001
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 7:52 pm
About the toilet paper shredding - my mom taught me to hang the roll "backwards". That is, with the flap coming down close to the wall. All my kitties have ever done is spin the roll around and around - but it doesn't unroll... I suppose some kitties can get around that.... (especially ones who hunt down the extra tp in the closets - yikes!)
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Lucy
Member
10-08-2002
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:40 pm
Only had one kitty that played with the toilet paper roll. Ms. Lucy is much more interested in bugs than TP...This is how we started the day...
and ended the day...

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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:43 pm
Oh Lucy, those are adorable pictures of MsLucy!!
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Lucy
Member
10-08-2002
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:45 pm
Thanks Eggie, She's one crazy girl.
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Bonzacat
Member
07-08-2003
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 9:59 pm
Lucy - I totally love your photos - just tooo darn cute!
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Lucy
Member
10-08-2002
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:05 pm
Thanks Bonzacat..Love your answer to the TP problem. Some of the TVCH cats will probably figure that out, too.LOL!!
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Seamonkey
Member
09-07-2000
| Thursday, June 02, 2005 - 10:35 pm
Lucykitty is SO cute, as is her mom!!
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