Daisy may be the smartest cat we have ever known. She has figured out how to break into our bedroom closet. The closet doors slide on a track. Daisy knows how to pry the door open with her paws, so we keep a stick in the track to stop the door from moving. Now she has learned how to paw at the stick until it pops out of the track. She is only interested in gaining access to the closet at 5am. The stick rattles and the doors rattle while she is working on this project. This has been going on for quite a while, the occasional rattling at the door at 5am, but for the past two mornings she has successfully removed the stick. Now we have to come up with a new system. A round metal rod, maybe? Getting into the closet is one of the goals of Daisy's life. She and Nick wait outside while I get dressed in the morning, calling and waiting for a chance to get in around my feet when I come out.
The closet rattling is not just a by-product of her desire to get into the closet. It's a pattern with Daisy when she wants attention. If I am working in my office, she is jumping on top of things or nudging picture frames with her head, knocking things off of the bookshelves, moving piles of folders on my desk, pulling highlighters out of the mug and throwing them onto the floor. When she first came to live with us, she broke several travel alarm clocks by knocking them off the bedside tables. Her fascination with the power of gravity is boundless.
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