Banging the catflap!!!!

[Dee03]

My 18mth old jack Russell is driving me nuts tonight....he keeps going out in the kitchen and poking his head through the catflap so all I keep hearing is the bloody thing banging!!!! I assume he wants to go outside so I go and open the backdoor....to which he just turns round and 'skips' back into the lounge...I must of gone out there about 6 times........does anyone else's dogs play these games or haven I just got a wind up merchant as a pet??

[Joolyjoolyjoo]

I feel your pain (but have no good advice, unfortunately!)

We eventually had to board up to our catflap (much to our cat's outrage) because the doofus dogs kept sticking their head out of it. Local children would then come and point and laugh, causing the dogs to bark and the neighbours to go nuts

When witchy dog had her first (and only!) season, I shouted at the dogs for banging the cat flap, until DH pointed out that both dogs were sleeping in the hall. On further investigation found a potential suitor (JRT) with his head and one shoulder almost all the way through!!

[Elibean]

Dingo (deceased) used to do this - sometimes it was to ask to go out, increasingly so as he got older and lazier wiser, but when young he used to do it to just stick his head out and sniff the air, listen to the sounds, and enjoy it.

When he did start using it just to ask to go out, it was very useful - I can still hear the ghostly squeak of the cat flap when he wanted to come in again, too, and we'd see a head sticking in through it!

[RandomMess]

Haven't got a dog but our female cat plays knock down ginger, mews at the door to come in and then runs away when we open it

She opens the cat flap inwards to escape when it's set on "in only" in the evenings (brother is too stupid) the bang bang bang drives us all crazy.

[Dee03]

He can get out the catflap (which he used to do regularly until I sorted the garden out so he couldn't escape anymore) so now he just keeps banging it with his head......
It's just sooooo annoying when he turns and walks away once I've opened the door!
I have 4 cats so if I boarded up the catflap they would then drive my nuts whining at the windows all the time

[RandomMess]

bl**dy pets can't live without them, but they do drive you slightly insane!

[Dee03]

He does shove his head out of it and sniff the air etc, I don't mind that but it's when he keeps banging it.....as if he wants to go out....it's cold in the kitchen and I'm all warm and snuggly in the lounge

[musicposy]

We have a dog flap.

The cat won't use it - that would be beneath him.

Our older dog is too thick old and set in his ways to use it - he will stand by it plaintively waiting to be let out.

But Poppy, our young dog, will stand for ages with her head stuck out, feeling the wind in her fur. We think she imagines herself as a movie star in one of those old fashioned films where the train rushes off. We always say "Movie star, Poppy!" in a firm voice by way of rebuke to make her get her head back in.

We're short on heating this year so I could do without this habit, I can tell you.

[LeBOF]

I thought this was a euphemism...

[musicposy]

LeBOF

[Dee03]

Lebof- haha I didn't even think of that when I wrote it.....very unlike me

[Lizcat]

This is mobile mop's signal for I need to go out.

[bumpybecky]

our dog used to stick her head through the cat flap when she was outside and we'd forgotten to let her in the bark sounded much louder when it echoed round the kitchen!