Leo....

[jadecat]

The adorable Brat-Boy has learned a new trick, heaven help us.

Like most kitchens ours has a counter with drawers underneath it, and then on one side, cabinets under the drawers. Due to one Leopolde Allen Fogg, all the cupboards have child safety latches on them. As do the cupboards in the bathroom. These make a lovely banging noise when he tests to make sure they're still locked (every couple of days).

Anyway, in the last drawer on the right side is where his treats and the little birdie live. The birdie is something I found when I was decluttering. It's got kind of downy feathers on it, and used to look like a parrot. Now it's in a couple pieces, the parrot head being one of them, and then a strip of leathery material that I think was half of the body. But he still loves it. However, after he plays for a little while, we put it away. I just don't want him actually EATING the feather/plastic bits.

Over the course of the weekend I see him standing on his back legs, examining the drawer. I knew this wouldn't be good. He managed to get his front paws on the drawer pull. It was getting worse. Then he was dangling from the drawer pull. Very bad. At some point his back legs tried to get purchase on the cupboard door below. What this really succeeded in doing was pulling open the drawer... Leo got the birdie out, VERY proud of himself and commenced playing.

Later, I put the birdie away. The next day, there he was again, dangling from the drawer and slowly managing to pull it open. Standing on the floor he stretched up and put his paw in the drawer and without being able to see- snagged the birdie!!

Pretty soon hubby and I will be irrelevant to his needs...

Comments

[medievalneedle.livejournal.com]

Nah - you still mostly need thumbs for doorknobs. Besides, who will clean the litterbox?

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm sure, given time, he could figure something out. ;) He's a little too smart, and a little too strong for his own good.

And if he can get outside- the whole world could be his litterbox!

[medievalneedle.livejournal.com]

OOOH - outside is evil!

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

Well, my Sasha girl would definitely agree with that! The carpeting/floor is WEIRD and the ceiling is way the hell too far away. It's WRONG in her world. She'll just stay in her cubby with her blankie, her pillow and her polar bear.

Leo is not so sure and thinks outside needs further exploration before a decision is made. Were he a person, he would be the kind that was warned by waitstaff that the plate was hot- and then would have to touch it to see...

[medievalneedle.livejournal.com]

Yeah - Mallory got out once. He stood in the carport and went "oh shit I'm outside" and then went in. Kismet went outside and was like "hey, why don't we get to go in this room more often?" Kismet is like Leo - but she has a very short memory. Like 8 seconds or less. She put her nose up to sniff a candle once and singed her whiskers. So she tried it on the other side too.

[frawg-angel.livejournal.com]

My boy has that beat. I think his attention span is more like seconds. I tell him "Tanis, no." and he'll stop pawing at something or chewing on something... look away... and look back a second later and go "OOoo... lookie at that!" and begin doing again just what I told him not to do. We do this in circles...

However, with candles... he's intrigued. He's singed his whiskers, eyebrows, paw.... see, the paw is because when Momma told him no and he didn't listen, he went and sniffed the candle anyway and it singed his whiskers and his nose a little, and he thought "It attacked me!!!!" and so he had to try and smack it with his paw for being bad.

*sighs* I used to light candles a lot... now, I'm worried the boy will burn me out of house because the candle "attacked" him. My girl? She just looks at him and says "How are you still living? You are SOOOOOO stupid!!!!"

[medievalneedle.livejournal.com]

That is bad. When we got the bird we mostly stopped burning any candles because sometimes the scented ones release stuff bad for birdy lungs.

Kismet totally ignores the bird. Even when he bites her tail, her ears, she just ignores him. No bird. Does not exist. Excuse me I'm leaving now.

[zen-kitty.livejournal.com]

LOL

Yet another reminder of why we must NEVER get Pixel together with Leo. I would hate to see what the world looked like when they were done with it.

*grins*

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

*grins* Probably quite messy... things spread hither, tither, and yon as they searched for things to play with. ;)

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

LOL You're well on your way to being redundant in the World of Leo *grin*

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

We'll just have to make sure that he continues to like us... So he'll keep us around. *laughs* He does like to tell his daddy all about his day, and what he's done, and so on.

[1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com]

*laugh* As long as he likes you, you're in like Flynn ;)

[jaimem30.livejournal.com]

Kitties are so smart. Reminds me of when our kitten learned to climb on the counter when we were gone, open the cupboard, and somehow pull her treats off the highest shelf. We came home to a ripped open bag in the middle of the living room.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

Too funny! You should probably start hiding your car keys before he finds them and learns to drive.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

He's definitely smart!

[oneirocritical.livejournal.com]

I think people ofte underestimate cats and their intelligence.

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

I have to agree. *grins* A friend told my hubby today that he thinks it's a shame we had Leo neutered, we've apparently done an injustice to humanity or something... *giggles*

[cathawk.livejournal.com]

ROTFL I forgot what great antics Leo engaged in!

[jadecat.livejournal.com]

*laughs* He's continuing with the drawer theme. I came home night before last from walking the dog to see that he had gotten the bag of catnip out and he and Sasha were in stoned kitty heaven!

Yesterday? It was the bag of treats... Just an hour after he had dinner! We've now taken everything out of there that he might want. Of course, a smart person would have done that after the catnip incident...