What is this in and out dance that they do?

[EachandEveryone]

About ten minutes before you need to go to work? No cat flap and she has to be in before I go. Bloddy in out ten times then a little Chase do they know they are doing it?

Oh yes, they're sent to test. It amuses them I should imagine.

I had to get the sweeping brush out in the end which became even more of a game. She was hissing and doing that awful huffing and puffing to her out abs was back in after 30 seconds.

They definitely know! Usually when I let my boy out he spends at least half and hour inspecting the garden before even thinking about exploring and even then he usually doesn't leave and always comes racing back when I pretend to shut the door ( no cat flap either ). On the few occasions I have let him out before work he is immediately over the fence without looking back. I am then left pacing the garden calling for him and shaking his treats whilst counting down the minutes before I have to leave, until he comes back again. We then start the indoor/ outdoor dance which involves me tempting him back to the door, him sticking his front paws in then running away to hide in a bush before I can grab him. And repeat! The ONLY thing that seems to tempt him in is me waving a long garden cane that he is for some reason obsessed with- I feel a bit like a lion tamer walking across the garden with a big stick and his highness prancing behind and trying to catch it. God knows what the neighbours think if they see this 😹

Ive just let mine out. We will be doing thr dance in approximately one hour jusr when i need to go to bed for work tomorrow.

We used to just lock ours out when we had to go out. They learned the routine pretty fast! On sunny days they'd choose to be left out, otherwise they'd be in and asleep before we had to go out, or standing yelling at us to come up to bed at night.