My tom cat is a dick. A very intelligent and cute jet Black cat who is awesome but nonetheless a nob.
He recently learned a new trick of knocking drinking glasses over by batting his paw so he can drink the contents. Or rather 5% of the contents with the rest left to soak into the carpet.
He is an alpha male who asserts authority over my two girls but often loses fights with them. He squeaks like a girl rather than miaowing.
He can open doors. He does this by throwing himself at the door, front paws pump the door handle while back paws are balanced on the beveled edge of the square pattern on my door. I hope you can visualise this. It takes him several attempts of pinging the handle.
Unfortunately I have been rewarding this behaviour. When he does in the day or in the evening I ignore it to the extent he doesn't do it much at these times.
But he does it to my door every morning at 7.10. Which wakes me up, I open the door to get to the bathroom and hey ho I've rewarded his behaviour!
I can't 'not' go to loo. I think the only solution is to find an inventor and wire up my door handle to a loud buzzer or a few batteries. I've tried sellotape, lemons, water gun, hissing etc.
I don't mind so much but I'm thinking of when my baby gets here in April I don't want him making a racket or trying to get into the room.
My backup plan is a new shed situated in the garden that I have insulated and put a heating lamp in.
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I need to electrify my door handle!
catameringue · 20/11/2013 10:25
You got it.
PS - and remember that having got up to go to the loo, you can head back to bed for that extra 10 or whatever, ignoring him blithely.
You should be grateful! He's good training for the forthcoming arrival.
You get to sleep in until 07.10? 
We only get 07.30 on the weekends.
If you do perfect the electrified handle let me know 
Ours try and open doors (well only two of them are clever enough, the blind madam and one of the little ones) and the only way to stop them has been to keep them locked in their own rooms overnight. It sounds mean and ideally I'd rather they had free rein of the house but actually they're pretty spoilt - madam has a room with 2 spare beds which she can (and does) take her pick of, and the other 3 have a room with a futon, cushions and various shelves where they like to sleep. All have litter trays, water bowls etc. They roam the rest of the time (although many doors now have to have locks on the outside to prevent total destruction of plants, ornaments, anything food related) and are quite happy to be 'put to bed' at night then let out for breakfast in the morning. Do you have a room he'd happily sleep in without too much fuss? Like you, part of the concern is when our baby arrives - I'd be happier (at least to start with) if I knew where they were so I didn't worry that they had decided the most comfortable sleeping place was on baby's face etc.
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