The only door he cannot open is the door that I have locked

[desperance]

Mac is quite wrenchingly cute, when he's trying to inveigle me into letting him out into the yard.

He sits by the back door and stares up at it. And stares at me, and at it: he is a great believer in the Power of Positive Thinking.

When that avails him nothing, he adds voice.

"Come on, Chaz, you can do this. We did this before, remember? You open the door, and we go out. C'mon, lad, it's really not that hard. I do understand, you're slow, you have trouble dealing with these difficult concepts, but look, I'll help. I'll do the going-out bit. All you need to do is open the door..."

He really does try very hard, poor lamb. And yet? The door remains closed, despite all his faith and works together.

Comments

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

How hard-hearted of you. The poor boy. :)

(On the other hand, I have been Trained, quite thoroughly, by the Cat into the opening of door on request. Because otherwise the level of annoyance rapidly escalates to the point where it's either open the door, or strangle the cat. :P)

[cherylmmorgan.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, that reminds me of my favorite Fat Freddy's Cat cartoon. The cat stands by the door saying "me out, me out". Freddy, of course, doesn't understand, and tries feeding him. And the cat sighs and says (to the audience) "even when you talk their own language they don't understand you."

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a brute. A heedless, insensitive brute. They tell me this, repeatedly.

If I could trust them to stay in the yard, we'd be fine. But. I can't. And once they're over the wall, they're down onto the main road, with fast cars looking to make flat cats. I have picked up too many of other people's cats off that road; I have Neurotic Parent syndrome, and my boys are staying in and staying safe. Much to their frustration and distress.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh, Fat Freddy. The siren song of my early adulthood...

[hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com]

Yeah. We've about a hundred metres before the cat can hit high traffic, and he's mostly too lazy (and too scared of the other cats around) to get that far.

Flat cats = :(

[pjthompson]

I am also the neurotic parent of a cat who wants out. Same situation. If she'd stay in the back yard, she'd be fine, but the street out front is way too busy. I have personal experience with losing cats on that street--not going there again. So sometimes Min is allowed "supervised visits" to the back yard after much cajoling.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

In Australia they sell cat cages. Kind of like fruit cages but for cats. You can fence in your entire back yard. No idea whether anything like that exists here or how much it would cost. Sigh.

[samarcand.livejournal.com]

At any time now a collection of the complete Freak Brothers (which I assume will include the Fat Freddy's Cat stuff is being released. I'll lend you my copy when I get it if you have any desire for nostalgia...