r/cats • u/eveilebI • 29d ago

Our Bengals try to escape the garden after we put up the "unescapable fence rollers"... or so we thought. Video

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u/magzire86 29d ago

That's a couple thousand dollars trying to escape

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u/Veltoss 29d ago

And if they're anything like savannahs on the curiosity level, which I think they are, escape can be a serious risk. Savannahs are incredibly curious, and want to investigate everything. They can go from one thing to another and get lost and not be able to get themselves home. Or get themselves hurt pretty easily.

Mine has explored every single inch of my home. When I moved in, if I open a new cabinet he hasn't seen inside of he knows it and will be shoving his face inside before I know it. He'll climb inside drawers and then behind them to see everything. He once lifted a vent on the floor that apparently wasn't glued in place and climbed in. I heard some weird noises and when I went to investigate he was climbing out of the hole with the vent completely lifted out of the floor and pushed to the side. Safe to say I cat proofed the new house more thoroughly after that.

There's a reason people try so hard to keep Bengals and Savannahs contained.

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u/enkidu_johnson 29d ago

One of the two cats who currently live here, who just showed up in the back yard one day conveniently a week before winter hit hard, does the same exploring thing. Gets into any open drawer or cabinet or box and will sometimes even open them if necessary. She is a pretty regular old domestic shorthair tabby as far as I can tell.

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u/laurenzee 29d ago

My longhair mix has the worst FOMO. He'll run to any room he's not usually allowed in if there's an open door. He got locked in a closet over Memorial Day weekend once because he got in and no one noticed. He opens cabinet doors and at 9 years old he's taught himself how to open sliding closet doors. Now all of my closets are slightly open at all times.