WAFFLES: Do-do-do. No one in here but us chickens. Wait. Chickens?
WAFFLES: *inaudible chortling*
WAFFLES: I'm still looking for the chickens.
Almost one year ago, we shared Waffles fascination with the powder room. How he'll often shut himself inside the tiny 6'x6' room as many as a dozen times in just one evening.
The orange mischief maker is still going strong. So strong in fact, he's branched out to the guest bath and master bath.
We're pretty sure it's not only a bathroom attraction but a fascination with doors. His modus operandi is to play in the tiny space between the back of the open door and the wall, twirling, chortling and flipping like a fish. Then he'll stand up on his back legs with his front paws reaching up as high as they can go on the door, pushing until... click. He's locked himself in.
Now whenever Glogirly and Gloman leave the townhouse, they go through an open door protocol. Every door is checked and blocked open with a doorstop, laundry basket, stool or whatever piece of furniture is handy.
Did you see our Kitty Paw Doorstop Review?
For when you need to keep the door open in feline style. See more here.
Katie: "Get me out of here!"
Katie doesn't share Waffles' powder room obsession. Though she has, on occasion, found herself on the wrong side of the door during these shenanigans.
KATIE: That's an understatement.
Love your antics, Waffles. You always make me smile
ReplyDeleteMy human says she is glad none of us have this obsession.
ReplyDeleteWhat would you do all day without Waffles? Just think about that
ReplyDeleteIt's part of his ... er ... um ... charm? Yeah, charm. That's the ticket. His charm.
ReplyDeleteOh Waffles. What an adorable doofus. <3
'Charm' is one way to describe it. ;D Every cat has their own kind.
DeletePoor Katie! I thought only Bear did that behind the door thing! Bear will just sit back there behind the open door. He usually doesn't try to close it though. Even odder? Bear hates enclosed spaces ... like boxes ... hell breaks loose when he's closed into or out of a room. But he'll sit in the 1.5 ft x 1.5 ft pantry for hours without a peep. I accidentally closed him in there once and NOTHING. I wasn't until I came home from class a couple hours later that I was alarmed he didn't meet me at the door. I called his name and heard a faint meow. The kicker is that if he's interrupted in the pantry or behind the door, you get a very dirty look ... like you're imposing. Okay then!
ReplyDeleteWaffles is soon entertaining!!!! Maybe not so much fur Katie........
ReplyDeleteHe has his foibles.......
ReplyDeleteMOL! This is so funny. I haven't locked myself in anywhere, I'm not quite that adventurous.
ReplyDeleteBuckwheat
Waffles you are a character.
ReplyDeleteSue B
We need that doorstop! Ernie has been known to lock himself into bathrooms, etc. around here. The mom now puts a "bumper" (one of our kickeroo type toys) in the way to help as a doorstop...but this one is way cooler!
ReplyDeleteWaffles, Z-girl is so entertained by your obsession with the bathroom. None of us like to be locked in our bathroom, although we have been known to play peek a boo when one of us is sitting behind the open door and the other is standing in the hallway. You are just full of surprises though! Katie--we bet you like it when he's in there for a little while!
ReplyDeleteDaiquiri likes to occasionally shut the bedroom door in the middle of the night. Not sure if she is shutting the rest of us out or what her plan is all about though....
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can put Ichiro and Waffles in a bathroom and let them lock themselves in? Cause that would work for both of them... what is it with some cats?
ReplyDeleteThey are in there keep looking
ReplyDeleteLily & Edward
We've managed to get locked in closets a couple of times. Now Mom ALWAYS checks them. The door stop is adorable...we need to check it out!
ReplyDeleteThe Florida Furkids
ps - for some reason your blog doesn't come up in our reader anymore :(
Older house, the doors don't swing shut that easily. That keeps me from closing myself in any room. I do like to get into mum's clothes closet, but she is used to that, so leaves a sliding door open for me to get out.
ReplyDeleteyou would think he would have learned his lesson by now.. apparently not :)
ReplyDeleteThose door stops are adorable!
Who says he isn't doing it on purpose, shutting himself in?
DeleteSome lessons are never learned, MOL ! We love that doorstop ! Purrs
ReplyDeleteI say it's all that stupid doors fault.
ReplyDeletePoor Waffles!
Noodle and crew
Life with Waffles...never a dull moment ;)
ReplyDeleteThat is one very interesting obsession, Waffles. That doorstep is PAWsome!
ReplyDeleteWaffles is a fun guy :)
ReplyDeleteWell gee-wiz Glogirly..maybe he wouldn't lock himself in if you would stop keeping chickens in there...
ReplyDeleteMaxwell: I fail to see the problem. At least you know your doors are functional.
ReplyDeleteAllie: That's because you have to be rescued from similar situations ALL THE TIME.
Maxwell: Clearly it's all in the name of science.