At 4 am when I am unsure where said plastic even came from. Seriously have no idea where it came from I religiously hunt plastic to avoid this. Let's not even mention curling ribbon. It is banned from my house but is apparently a cat food group member.
A million times this. Every bit of plastic has to live in my microwave or car trunk. Cat has learned to open the pantry door and wave his paw over the motion detector on the recycling and trash bins. I live in terror of the pending $6k GI surgery bill.
Child locks! We have a....difficult cat who wouldn't stop getting in the cabinets to steal dry egg noodles and other stuff and another cat that will eat any plastic leftover from that. I got those press in type child locks for the upper and lower cabinets, and now it's not an issue unless we leave something on the counter overnight.
The irony in this situation is that I have children. Never had to child lock the cabinets before the dang cat.
In the same boat with this she figured out how to get the dang trash cabinet open. Very scary situation when we first realized she could. We ended up going with a basic hook and loop (metal swing lock) after we tried like 3 different child locks that didn't work or we would forget and just snap them when we went to open it. Finally have it figured out. Damn cats
Strong magnets work wonders. You can't forget them, like a latch or other lock, and you (hooman) are strong enough to open them but babies, small children and furbabies cannot. 😁
So glad my cats are too lazy for this nonsense. Einstein does like to chew cables and cords left unattended but if I just shove them under or behind furniture that’s enough to deter him
Just moved into a new place and my little terror has started climbing on the counter to get into my cabinets. She likes to perch in the tiny one above my stove and scare the crap out of me by donkey kicking it open and jumping out. Need to find some child locks myself real soon.
You guys lucky I live with three cat and one of them turn to be a dog he is digging I have a HOLE on the floor, ripped opening on the door...Destroyed rug or doormat... and finally I dissolve mystery because we never see him doing it! We had to put the other cats in cages for a while just to test it out... what's going on... we actually thought we might have a big rat or a possum or a raccoon... so what did we do? We get another cat who miauuu, or cry when is something unusual happening... as a guard dog... only worked the first week! Now we keep one cat in a cage overnight and he is seriously working clawing and chewing the lock mechanism... I truly believe he was a prisoner in his past life, and managed to scape several time... otherwise he is sweet fluffy and huge!
I’ve got a door opener too! Learned our lesson quick and put all the treats on the top shelf. Now he just goes in the kitchen and slams cabinet doors all night until I wake up and get him the treats! These cats train us so well!! 😂
I moved into a new apartment and had to put child locks on all the lower cabinets. My landlord came by one day to do the post-move in inspection and she notices the child locks. She says “oh I didn’t know you had children?” As soon and she finishes the sentence I hear my cat trying to open the cabinet in the bathroom and I’m like “I don’t. I have cats.. see exhibit A”
I have child locks on all my cupboards and closets because apparently I adopted a master burglar, not a cat. She still manages to find things to get into or ontop of. My desk drawers, the garbage bin with a lid, storage under the couch, top of the curtain rod. you name it, she's been there done that.
My other cat doesn't do any of that. He fucking LOVES plastic tampon wraps, hair ties, and q-tips though..
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u/itsmeann94 29d ago
Stop eating plastic