I need to…
October 11, 2007 3:44 pm
Christine
i'm on a rant, just stuph
…cat-proof my cabinets.
All of the cabinets in this house, both in the kitchen and under the bathroom sink, don’t have any knobs or anything. They open and close sort of magnetically, I guess that’s the best way to describe it.
The problem is that the cats can open them, and get inside. They can’t open and drink bleach and other cleaning products, as young children might do, but they can make an awful mess!
Little Mitty loves to get into the cabinet under the bathroom sink. She knows that I keep my feminine products in there, and that the maxi pads I buy come in plastic wrappers, not in a box. And she LOVES to chew in plastic…I call her the “plastic eating fool”. Once she got in there during the night, and chewed up half of my maxi pads. That was quite a mess to have to clean up!
Squeaker was the same way when he was alive. Once he got into the kitchen cabinet under the sink, and got into the box of Swiffer pads, had fun pulling them out of the box and shredding them. In addition to the mess, there’s also the expense of replacing what those little monsters destroyed.
What I really need is a child-proofing system for the cabinets, but first I have to buy and install some proper cabinet hardware, so that I can use the child-proof locks.
Yes, I know what cats have been doing this, because sometimes I’ve caught them in the act!
October 14th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
My Maurice cat opens cabinets too, but he only uses his cabinet opening super powers on cabinet doors that have food behind them … then he eats the food! Every now and then he likes to climb in the fridge and try to reach some food in there too!
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October 18th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Boy do I live in your world. Miss Daisy, our minidoxie, is a little thief and we have had to keep an extremely neat lower portion of our abode. If it’s not nailed down, she steals it and runs into our bedroom and destroys whatever it is. She weighs about 13 pounds and David left his work boots next to his closet (these would be steel-toed angle high) and he found one of them at the foot of our bed with the tongue pretty much destroyed. She had to drag this thing out of the train room, down the hallway and half way through our bedroom. I wish I could have seen that. We have to keep every closet door and ever cabinet door closed!