How is it

[james_davis_nicoll]

When I left I had four cats and a full bag of cat treats in an inaccessible place and now I have four cats and an empty bag of cat treats on the floor?

Comments

[rydra_wong]

This is a great mystery. I am sure the cats are equally puzzled as to how this occurred, and cannot in any way help you with your enquiries, being entirely uninvolved and innocent. They were elsewhere at the time. Definitely.

[onyxlynx]

Was the inaccessible place on a high shelf behind a locked door? Because usually nothing less stringent than that works.

And they're learning to teleport.

[oh6]

Skunks, I was interested to learn from a friend, cannot as a rule jump up onto counters, but are well able to open a fridge unless it is held shut in some way.

[michael j. walsh (from livejournal.com)]

Your cats know how to jaunt?

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

The StarKist My Destination

[michael j. walsh (from livejournal.com)]

You win! Not sure what, but you do win!

[sesmo.livejournal.com]

Your definition of "inaccessible" does not match the definition used by the felines in question.

[zxhrue.livejournal.com]

+1

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Highly probable.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

Or to put it another way:

"Inaccessible. You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Define inaccessible. I suspect your cats will be laughing at your definition.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

ALIENS!

They came in here and went straight for the cat treats.

[karinfromnosund.livejournal.com]

... but we valiantly pulled the bag out of their hands, and chased them off.

[harvey-rrit.livejournal.com]

It happened to you too?

See, it's an epidemic!

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Would you prefer some other number of cats?

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

Surely everyone has left with four cats and a full bag of cat treats in an inaccessible place, and come back to six cats and an empty bag of cat treats?

Spontaneous generation is what it is!

[nojay.livejournal.com]

I think the term is "transubstantiation". Most cat owners think of them as little tin gods anyway.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

Swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictators with delusions of godhood?

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Two, four, six, eight; time to transubstantiate!

I think they'd prefer the miracle of the cat treats and fishes, though.

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

*damn mice!*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

One night before he completely left his kittenhood, Sora managed to open the top drawer in a sideboard, where I kept the plastic container of catnip, get it out, open it, and spread catnip all over the living-room floor. I have no idea how he got into the drawer, and he never managed to repeat it, so I'm assuming he has no idea how he got into the drawer, either. But I bet it was a glorious night.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

Iniki (in the icon) dislocated her elbow trying to get the cat toys out of the desk drawer they were kept in, because in the previous apartment she'd figured out how to open loose drawers. I moved them to a heavier drawer that she couldn't get at, after that. Catnip I keep in a glass mason jar--so far neither of the current two cats have figured out how to open it.

[carbonel]

The first time I got some catnip for my first cat, Emily, it was a decent-sized bag -- maybe a cup in volume -- though not the best-quality stuff. I gave her a decent dose, and she enjoyed it. Which was fun to watch, because I hadn't seen a cat on catnip before. I closed up the bag, and stuck it on top of the refrigerator where she wouldn't be able to get it, since she was still just short of being a kitten, and it was a full-sized refrigerator with no easy access.

The next morning, I came into the kitchen, and my bare feet landed on...catnip. Catnip all over the place. I still have no idea how she got up to the refrigerator, but clearly she had, and then had had herself a veritable orgy.

After that, I only bought catnip in containers that sealed tightly -- and then put it in a cupboard with a door that also closed tightly.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

It's a variation on Douglas Adams's "throw yourself at the ground and miss" flying. The cat gets to the highest nearby location and leaps, back-downwards. Since the cat cannot land except on its feet, it necessarily hovers. The rest is a matter of detail, dexterity, patience and repetition.

[pperiwinkle.livejournal.com]

+1

[thecemeterylady.livejournal.com]

Obviously, your four cats worked together to get those treats, and to the victors went the spoils! lol

[dbdatvic.livejournal.com]

Space-Time For Springers Redux: The Engorgening

--Dave, could be worse. ...could be _coffee_.