Story 1:

Bean, our siamese we had when I was a girl, sometimes decided she didn't want to go outside to do her business. One day I caught her about to soil some clean laundry. When she saw she had been caught, she went to her bed, curled around two or three times, then laid down and looked up at me with lovey eyes. The only thing is, she did it all in fast motion, like a speeded up VCR, even the turning around ritual! I could only laugh at her and guess that she was thinking if she hurried up and got irresistably cute, I would forget she was just about to be bad!

Story 2:

Even in the days when I regularly let my cats outside unattended, I still did not like them going out late at night. Sometimes my remedy for a bad or rambunctious cat was to toss them outside. Toot, my only orange cat I ever had, quickly made the connection between being bad and going outside. So, anytime he wanted out but I refused to let him because of the late hour, he would start tearing through the house, running up on the counters, jumping on the plants, etc. until I threw him outside! He was smarter than me because it took me longer to figure out I was being tricked than it did for him to figure out the trick!