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petermorwood:

Even though our first cat door had a noisy electromagnetic lock that ran off the mains via transformer (I tell you, dinosaurs still walked the earth back in the mid-80s) Kasha and Lilith mastered the concept not only of cat doors but collar-keyed locking cat doors with unsettling speed.

They also mastered what would happen to the tomcat three doors down (it was because of him we needed a locking cat door in the first place) when they got him to chase them…

It reached the stage where we could tell the process of the chasing by sound alone. From the distance: mrrrOOOAAWrrr. (beat) From the kitchen: Chik-clack. Chik-clack. (beat) CLUNK.

The tomcat never learned, and it reached the stage (seen at least four times by one, other or both of us) where they would zip inside then turn around and watch the impact happen. Finally he just gave up and ignored them, though his nose looked a bit…Persian…by then.

Cats do have a sense of humour. Just not a very nice one. And schadenfreude is one of their favourite concepts…

Pardon me, I’m just going to wail with laughter over here for a few minutes. 

All entirely true. We started to feel like we were living in a Warner Bros. cartoon. One of the late 50s ones…