It’s cold here in winter and I keep the bedroom door closed with a small electric heater going to keep the room warm in the morning, and of course that’s when my cat invariably decided she had to go outside, from the interior of my home, and started clawing at the bedroom door.
This began some years ago, not long after I got her, so I installed a self-closing cat sized door at the base of the bedroom door. Over time that door became squeaky and the clever little beast began using it as a noisemaker to wake me up earlier by far than I wanted to wake up, to let her out, by batting it with her paw, Click Squeak Squeak Squeak, Click Squeak Squeak Squeak.
This morning I ended her weaponizing of what was intended as a convenience for me by pushing the flap open and yanking it off the door. No more clicking and squeaking. Silence. It confounded her, she looked at it from both ends, stuck her head through the hole, backed out, and did not look happy about it.
Now I suppose she’ll go back to jumping on the bed and walking on me again to wake me up. The things I put up with for a little companionship, but I have to say, she’s far less trouble than any of my wives were, or my kids for that matter and I’ll throw in some of my friends as well.
Did you know that cats express affection by half-closing their eyes when they look at you? Fact.