Callie the Wonder Cat is big, longhaired, and may be a mutant.
I let her outside sometime this morning and forgot all about her. Around noon, I heard the doorknob rattle and assumed it was my wife returning home for lunch. When she didn’t come in, I figured she had her hands full with bags or something and needed help, so I got up to open the front door. No wife, but there was Callie, standing on her hind legs and stretched out full-length, long enough to reach the doorknob. It had to have been her.
Okay, we have a cat who knows to rattle (if not turn) a doorknob. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before, but it wouldn’t surprise me if someone else has.
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Our 13-year-old cat doesn’t rattle doors per se but she opens them whether they open in toward her or out & away from her. Her paws don’t quite reach the lever handles when she stands on her hind legs with outstretched arms, so she has to jump in that ‘standing position’ at least a couple of times though it usually takes several tries for her paws to get high enough to catch the top of the handle forcefully enough to unlatch the door.
Our Siamese-Birman cross (we think) knows all about handles. When we lock him in at night he does the rounds, checking all the windows. Most of these have 2 locks and if you watch his eyes, you see him checking both. He’s most interested in the top latch … as he can move that. He never quite gives up. With doors he always stretches up to try to reach the knob or handle but he can’t reach. He has learned, however, that the latch on the door to my husband’s office often isn’t quite secured, so he runs at it full pelt and slams into it with his paws. Often enough he manages to open it.
Our Tonkinese female, on the other hand, has learned that her voice is more powerful than brute force. If she yells loud enough someone ALWAYS lets her in or out.
my cat Luna (from what i’ve been told she’s a “Bombay”, all black with one white spot on her chest and HUGE green eyes) takes the same approach as Carmel’s Tonkinese – she doesn’t waste time with all that unnecessary physical cleverness, she just orders me around. quite the little princess dominatrix!
I had a cat who did that, too. Shadow was a very tall cat and could reach the doorknobs, but couldn’t quite turn them (no opposable thumbs, you know). If we’d had door lever handles instead of knobs, there would have been no stopping her.