Why is it.............

[wayne0214]

every time I go into a room and shut the door behind me, and only stay in there for as little as a half-minute, when I open the door, there is a pride of cats ready to run itside the room even though I am leaving? This is a major problem because unless I shut the doors to the outside, they will charge in and then get outside. The only way I can keep them from going inside the room is to squirt water when I come out or carry like a shield a lid to a tub that seems to confuse them because they apparently can't see around it.

........wayne

[catland]

maybe they're having a kitty conversation that goes something like this....


Hey look, Wayne closed the door.

He must be hiding something really special from us

Hey Wayne - what ever you are hiding, you have to share with us

Hey everyone - get over here now! Wayne is getting us a present. Look pretty - here he comes now.

[ttroell]

i don't have advice for you, but mine do the same thing. If I go in a room and close the door, they are on the other side scratching to get in. too funny!! of course, when i open the door to leave, they run in and investigate and find nothing special and walk right back out, but they continue to do this.

[wayne0214]

ttroel, welcome to Pet Talk, I hope you stay around and converse with us. There are so many interesting topics and things to learn from each other. Tell us about your furkid(s).

Catland, the same thought has crossed my mind also. It could be that they are curious to see what they (thought) they have missed. But why so many? Sometimes there are 5 of them all waiting for me to open the door, so they can rush in and look around.:D The main problem with them doing this is getting them back out again. For some reason they stay in the room, and at times I have to go in there and flush them out, either with a spray bottle, or attempt to get their attention by calling them out. The worst one for this behavior is Cookie. What I worry about is shutting the door and there is one left in the room, without food, litterbox, or heat. It would not be the first time after going to bed hearing a cat crying, and then having to get back up and find where it is coming from -only to find that one got left inside, because they didn't come out when I called, or I didn't see them go inside before shutting the door. It is getting to the point that I have to make a head count (10) to make sure that they are all accounted for before going to bed!

(later) I am trying out entering a room and leaving the door open. It helps to correct their curious behavior.


.......wayne:)

[Barbara]

I have no idea WHY they are like that, but here's the haiku, Lailamara put on the haiku thread:


Wanna go outside.
Oh, no! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!

It's general cattish behavior.

[catland]

Would it be possible to try to have a cat toy ready - like a little ball or mouse or something with a bell, then when you open the door to all of them, you throw the toy behind them so that they head in that direction?

oh Wayne , cats are so very curious ... They wanna see , hear , smell , feel all they see !! My little Inka is a real good example of this behaviour !! Silly kitty Inka !!:D

[wayne0214]

catland, excellent idea, I'll have to try that.:)


...........wayne

[Vio&Juni]

Originally posted by Barbara
I have no idea WHY they are like that, but here's the haiku, Lailamara put on the haiku thread:


Wanna go outside.
Oh, no! Help! I got outside!
Let me back inside!

It's general cattish behavior.
Don't we love them for being curious?!

[nsweezie]

My cat Clyde cannot bear a shut door. He will howl and bang up against the door until someone opens it.
This is ok during the day, but a touch annoying at 3 am.
The funny thing is, once he sees what is going on, he has no desire to actually come into the room.

[NoahsMommy]

Originally posted by nsweezie
My cat Clyde cannot bear a shut door. He will howl and bang up against the door until someone opens it.
This is ok during the day, but a touch annoying at 3 am.
The funny thing is, once he sees what is going on, he has no desire to actually come into the room.
SAME here!! And because we live in an apartment and don't want to replace too much carpet and doors...we don't close the inside doors. Our cats don't want to go outside, so we don't have to worry about that door, thank goodness! ;)

[lynnestankard]

Our three are just the same - when I'm in a room they HAVE to get in!
When their in the garden, they jump up to the window and scratch the glass in a very determined 'LET ME IN' way!!
I've simply given up closing doors! Let the sweethearts run the place!! :D :D

Lynne

[wayne0214]

Thanks all, for answering my questions. I suppose all that was being sought was if others furkids do the same, which apparently they do. It is something that we have to live with having a house full of furkids. Last night the same thing happened. After going to bed, I kept hearing a faint meowing. Orignially, I thought it was coming from the outside, but I got back up and opened another bedroom door and out came Fawn. I do not know how many hours he was in there. Possibly three !:)


......wayne

[Fuzzy317]

For us, I have noticed that happening only for the basement door. Our cats rarely try and go outside, and I think the basement is just a new place to explore. :rolleyes:

In our living area, the dogs can go into any room except one, the Cats' Room (where cat food, water, litter are).

[sandragonfly]

Haha! I would love when they do that! Zephyra, my cat who refuse to let me go! I don't usually shut my room door because love being with pets. But not bathroom! And when I did my business, she is right there by the door and gave me those kind of frown-faces until I pick her up. I guess five of your cats WANT YOU! MISSEOW YOU! Hey, I just realized, have never see the pictures...names...kinds of your cats...tell me please!

......gina ;)

[sandragonfly]

oh and did the catland's idea worked?

[wayne0214]

Gina, No, catland's idea was not thorough enough. So, now I just let them inside so they can snoop all they want. If I rattle thier feed tray this usually brings them out anyway. The main reason why I have not presented pictures of my furkids on the net is that I do not know how to do it, also I had 3 of them euthanized last November because when I took them into the vets', it was found that they were carriers of FeLV. So, now I am going to wait before attempting to present pictures of them again. There is a picture of me holding Fawn in the Pet Talk archives somewhere.

(later); I found the picture, it is dated 10/26/02, if you care to view it.

............wayne

[Vio&Juni]

Oh My God, Waine! How can you say you don' know how to post pictures of your sweet kitties!
So, you deprave us seeing your kitties just because you don't know how to do it?!
Kidding :)
It's very simple.
1. If you have them scanned as jpg or tif or other type of file, you hit the Browse button under your message and it attaches the file. It has to be less than 60 000 bytes.
2. You can post your pictures on a website that allows posting here (one of them is www.ImageStation.com, a lot of Pet Talk members have accounts there. I have too.). This way, the picture will be posted in the message body. There is a thread (Phread's, I think), where it's explained how to post the images. You can pm me, if you need to find out how exactly it works.

[RICHARD]

before you go into the room announce, quite loudly-

i am going into the room,
i will be doing ------------,
i will open the door in -- minutes

it worked for me....now the cat sits outside the door until i open
it, he then proceeds to run thru the house, like a maniac, knocking stuff over.....

the animal learned the lesson well..



i don't close the door anymore;)