\re: #700 Archimedes

haha … my cat is crazy as well. He can open virtually every cupboard and drawer in the house, and there are lots! Very clever for a cat! He loves people, and he’s always looking for attention, the problem is his way of getting attention is to do the thing that maximally bugs you, such as opening cupboard and getting inside and throwing stuff out. So, I yell at him when he does this, and apparently he likes being yelled at (the attention). This is a problem, because I’m reinforcing bad habits. I mean, what am I supposed to do, yell at him when he does the right thing?

Back in college, one of my housemates got a cat, who vanished within a couple of days. After a panicked hunt, we tracked faint meows to one of the captain’s beds the apartment was furnished with. He’d mananged to get behind the drawers, in the base of the bed.

He didn’t want to come out, either, he had a safe little den in there. He just wanted room service for it.