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[james_davis_nicoll]

On my way home I temporarily befriended a cat, whose adoration for me ended abruptly when it ran to the front door of its home, looked at the doorknob, looked at me, and I then refrained from opening the door for it, on the grounds I don't know the owners.

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[(Anonymous)]

I did that once in the stairwell my sisters former apartment. The owner (wet, in a bathrobe) was a little tired of the cat shanghaiing strangers to open the front door and then to ring the bell when they had cat stairs running to their second floor balcony.

[bolindbergh]

Unless you know how to build cat stairs that aren't also rat stairs, it's a bad idea.

[bunsen_h]

It could involve a section with a gap too large for a rat to jump but manageable by a cat, with any walls too slippery for a rat to climb. And no way to get to the upper part by climbing around the gap, dropping from above (e.g. a tree), etc. It would probably also defeat raccoons, who aren't noted for leaping, and probably skunks. Squirrels have about the same limitations as rats, I think.

[(Anonymous)]

This is a cleverness arms race that I think should not happen.

[bolindbergh]

Squirrels have about the same limitations as rats, I think.

Please do a web video search for "squirrel obstacle course".