Our cat recently figured out how to open doors. Due to my allergies, we don’t allow our cat in our bedroom at night by closing the door, keeping it the only allergy-free sanctuary in the house. This upsets her greatly, as she always needs to be by people. In the past she just meowed and pawed at the door at all hours of the night, which we’ve learned to ignore. Recently, she figured out how to open the door by jumping up on the knob and messing with it. In the past couple of months, she has managed to open the door almost a dozen times and enter the room, where she happily jumped up on our bed to snuggle with us.

The doorknob to our bedroom doesn’t lock (who the hell puts a closet knob on a bedroom door anyway?!), and admittedly it doesn’t take much to turn it open. We have yet to replace it. It is a round knob, but that doesn’t seem to matter. Wanda managed to take a video of Josie trying to open the door to the bathroom one day. She jumps up and tries to hang onto the knob until she is able to turn it just enough. It’s very amusing and annoying at the same time. Time to stop at Home Depot for a new, lockable knob I guess…