Apparently I opened the wrong door.

[Paranoidandroidmarvin]

Apparently I opened the wrong door for him to come through. Sat there for ages. I’m in a bungalow. So I was hanging out an open window that he always climbs through as well. Oh to be a cat

😂How dare you!

Brilliant 😂

There's only one thing for it, isn't there?

Nobody asked the cat if he wanted to move, and he is clearly far more attached to his house than he was to his humans. So I reckon your new neighbours will just have to get used to being cat slaves.

Mine also gives me The Look when I won't turn the rain off.

I too am a cat slave, when it rains a little puddle sometimes collects outside my patio doors to the back, and our cat meows until I put a little makeshift ‘bridge’ (which is an old workout step) leading from the door over the puddle, as she point blank refuses to walk in it, even if it’s only an inch or so deep 😀

She even gets me to put her cat videos on by sitting and staring at the TV and meowing again until she gets to watch her ‘programmes’. I definitely know who the boss is in our house!

@Jeanieology i mean. A cat bridge. That’s amazing.
I didn’t open the other door. He left and went and sat in the garden and stared at me for 15 mins. He was not happy.

You sound like the worst cat staff ever. Can’t you mind read? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

There was a very black cat a couple of houses down who used to walk the same round the block every morning and every night. Year after year. Going to check on the same houses, cars and bins. All the other cats around (including mine) seemed a bit afraid of him.

The owners recently moved, and I nearly spat out my tea when I one morning saw a tiny little spotty brown, white and black cat with his head held high doing exactly the same round as the black cat had done. It kept it up for a couple of weeks. 😂

*I spent most of Sunday trying to work out where a strange mewing sound was coming from. Searched everywhere with no luck.

When I spoke to our nice new neighbours later on they sighed and pointed to their shed. The previous owner’s have only moved to the next village, but their cat (who’s been terrorising the street and all other cats for many years) has refused to move and has made his way back several times.

It turns out he’s now staging a sit-in on the shed roof, yowling in protest at anyone who passes by.

There is no reasoning with a cat.*

This is hilarious, as is most of the thread. Thank you, cat lovers!!!

My cat has a habit of looking at what she wants and then looking at me over and over until I clock on. Most often seen at the food bowl when she's decided the dry food isn't fresh enough or she wants some wet food. She also does it at the cat flap if I'm in the kitchen. She's perfectly capable of getting in and out but prefers to wait if staff are around to open it for her. The bit that makes me laugh is the way she does it in silence no matter how long it takes (she can and does meow for other things).

I had another cat who found a second family during the first lockdown, an elderly couple who live across the road. She started letting herself in through the open kitchen door at 6.30am. After several weeks of visits she was distraught to find the door closed one morning (it was cold) so she wailed until the woman opened the door. The poor woman didn't realise she'd just confirmed her status as early morning door slave. She visited everyday for over a year to watch the news with them and then came home for breakfast at 8am. I was quite touched by how upset they were when she had to be put to sleep.

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How dare you!!

I love cats!!

Ditto.
I’m instructed to open the door, then I get escorted to the next door, which results in me being stared at to explain why I haven’t turned the water off either out back or out the front

LOL- we had a little lord cat who got cross with us if the back door and dining room window were open at the same time -- he would go in one and out the other on a loop, which interfered with his plans, and were were yowled at and given dirty looks until one of them was closed- at which point he's go out and get on with his plans -

his brother used to stand up against next door's front windows and watch them - they asked us if he reported back to us what he'd seen

Babdoc my cat also has a cat flap in perfect working order but regularly roams around the house meowing loudly to have a door opened for him. He particularly favours coming in through the garden double doors which I think he considers suitable for a grand ceremonial entrance reflecting his importance

One of ours does this in reverse, will go out of the window or back door around to the front and sit and cry to be let in. In the last house if the patio door was open we still had to mime opening it before the cat would go through it.

@chiffchaffchiff Your story about your cat and the elderly couple is lovely. The probably really looked forward to seeing her every morning and she liked the little routine of her visits to them.

So very sweet. Bless her and her memory.

@chiffchaffchiff my cat used to go next door and sit with them when they would have their breakfast. And then he would come home. Every morning without fail. They were so sad when we moved.

😂My cat won't stoop to using a cat flap when there's a slave to open the door for him. He also dislikes rain and will meaow at me so that I know to make it stop. If I fail to do this will bite someone in the house usually the smallest slave.

Mine cba to go to the cat flap so jumped in through the window, sent everything flying and landed on DDs head who was sat with back to said window 🤣

Our boy will be fast asleep peacefully curled up in his bed, and then one of us happens to close the lounge door for some reason (it's usually open). He will get up, go to the door, yowl until it's opened, and then return to his bed.

He didn't even want to go through it

We had a bench in the back garden that somehow Asbo persuaded dh ought to be under the window for easy access, despite having a flap at ground level. Dh made a strike for free will by moving its back to its original place. It didn’t last long, the cat was loudly and vociferously NOT happy.

Mine is old now. And we think not long left due to some twitching and losing weight. He has taken to just following me around crying at me.
I spend a lot of time just holding him these days. I miss that furry demanding boy so much.

I feel your pain Op. These new doors cost thousands, will it use the cat flap, nope.

Is that a little raised platform under the door with the flap?

Naturally 😊