I Just Entered my House through the Kitty Door

Long story short: my keys were left in a place an hour's drive away.

My husband is in Switzerland so no luck there.

I go to my neighbor's and figure I can borrow their child. I could put the child through the kitty door and she could open the front door.

Wrong. The neighbors were sneezing and bleary-eyed and looked SICK. Looking through the door, they coughed, "We all have the flu!" Aaaaargh. I ran away!!

Now I figure I'm going to have to crawl through the kitty door myself. Not gonna' be easy since I am hardly the size of a kitty. Not to mention it is in an extremely obscure place.

Fortunately I had been cleaning the window this morning and had taken off the safety guard that prevents burglars from coming in. That and the weather (50 degrees) were the only breaks I got. I had to crawl through a mass of evergreens (owwwwwwwwww) and pachysandra, remove some other break-in preventatives (NOT EASY!), get a ladder, climb up on the ladder and squeeze in at an extremely awkward angle through this narrow window. There were times when I really did not think I was going to make it. The window is very narrow--barely 12" wide.

Needless to say, my two cats were sitting on the bed watching all this with great interest.

It sure was nice to tumble into my warm house, though!

I think I need a stiff drink and some comfort food.


Cher

Have two stiff drinks. You've earned them. :toast:

OK, I'll use ANY excuse.
;-)

through a kitty or a doggy door. Unless the kitty door was for a tiger and the doggy door was for a shepard or collie.

I can't believe that is our owner.

next cat:

GAWD! I can't believe our owner was smart enough to vote for Kerry.

both cats: Hey, owner-person, throw us some of that catnip you been smokin'!

Glad you got in!:hi:

No one should be able to fit through a kitty door! ;-)

I am shocked, I tell you: just shocked.

what ya gonna do? :shrug: :P

I am going to install another door and want one big enough for my pit bull - she weighs around 60 pounds. You must be one tiny person!

what an adventure....Glad you made it safe and sound

Any guesses as to what said cats were thinking?

Yeah. After I got in I was sitting on my couch, calling my friend (where the keys were) and swearing a blue streak. The cats were seated on the other couch, staring at me. It seemed that they were very excited that I came through their door!

Soon Bitsey, my little black cat, stood on my chest and looked me right in the face. One of her ears was cocked to the right and she got her little face right into mine, like "Are YOU ALL RIIIIIGHT?"

That was enough to make me laugh and knock off the torrent of four-letter words.

Also I am not tiny! As part of the security precautions, I had to dismantle the kitty door from its frame so that left me a full 12-inch square to crawl through. IT WAS NOT EASY! In fact it was horrible!


Cher

summer. I kept waiting for the neighbors to call the cops. I think I actually scared one of my cats. Beaker is frightened of anything out of the ordinary; hats, grocery bags, new people-actually any people, new cat dishes, plastic bags, so when he saw me crawling through the window (and not gracefully, kind of like a seal trying to climb out of the ice-my window sill is 5ft off the ground and I'm not a tiny woman either. I was bruised for weeks) it really freaked him out.

12" of course that is the side by side..you cannot possibly have 12" hips? CAN YOU?

Here's a pic of where I crawled in. It's the window on the lower left. See where the cream-colored section is? That's the kitty door.

"Seal breaking through the ice." LOL! Yeah, that's what it was like!

No 12-inch hips. You squeeeeeeeeeeze, kinda' like a pastry tool that you make those Christmas cookies with.
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Cher

Perhaps this explains the mystery of the orangutan, which in the wild shows only glimpses of the engineering abilities that seem to flower in captivity. Fu Manchu used a wire to pick a lock; another orangutan named Jonathan fashioned a probe out of a piece of cardboard which he used to unfasten a security pin that held the doors on his cage closed.

according to Animal Planet story -- Fu Manchu kept the pick hidden between his lip and gums. he would pick the lock on his cage, release the other orangutans and return to play "innocent" in his cage while the keepers ran around trying to round up the others. He was made an honorary member of a Philadelphia Locksmith association

Seriously, I almost think the robber deserves it if they are going to go through all of what you did.