"MaryL" <stancole1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "studio" <tlack@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On May 5, 5:03 pm, "MaryL" <stanco...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
>>> Wrong! It took a couple of years, but he
>>> eventually bonded and you could not have asked for a more loving
>>> companion
>>> than he became (and completely indoors).
>>
>> Wow Mary, you're more stubborn than a cat!
>>
>>> He lived to be almost 20 years of age.
>>
>> He definitely wouldn't have lived to that ripe old age in the wild.
>> He must have been...what's the word.......happy.
>>
>>
>
> Yes, he really was happy. And smart! I was a graduate student at that
> time and lived in an apartment (actually, the second floor of a very old
> frame house). The kitchen had a stack of four drawers for utensils,
etc.
> I would come home, night after night, and discover that he had opened
> *every drawer.* He would open the bottom drawer, climb into it, then
open
> the next drawer, etc. He knew how to open every door and drawer and
even
> knew what a door knob was for -- I watched him stand on his back legs
and
> put his front paws on both sides of the door knob and try to turn it
> (something he couldn't do, though, since he could not actually "grab"
it).
> I had friends who would laugh and laugh because he had a remarkable way
of
> showing them that they simply "were not welcome." The door to the hall
> closet was fairly loose and had a big gap underneath. When friends
would
> come over, he would go to that door, reach under it and pull it open,
then
> go inside, reach under the door again and pull it shut! And he would
sit
> inside the closet until they left. He truly was a remarkable cat.
>
> MaryL
>
That is remarkable....I've had several cats who could figure out how to
open
doors, but never one that would close them behind themselves.....That's
kind
of like teaching a horse to swim on its back........
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