Has anyone head my "cat and doors" theory?

[punkwalrus]

Anyone who has had a cat knows how frustrating it comes when you have have a door that is open some times and shut the rest of the time. Cats literally cannot figure this out. And when you see the cat meowing pitifully at the door, when you open the door, they either leave or just hang in the doorway, going neither in nor out

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[stevonwolf]

That could very well be. I don't remember my cat ever pausing in the door, however. He usually had his mind made up. And he never had to meow: he was a big cat, and he simply just stood at the door, knowing that whomever passed by would see him.

He did refuse, on occasion, to come in at night, but I think he did that just to annoy me. He would stand on the other side of the street and watch me call his name. Maybe he just liked to hear his name yelled out in an exasperated tone of voice... who knows!

Zanther is evolved!

[ironkite]

Zanther when he wants into a room, he'd take a shot at opening the door several different ways before meowing

I have a pest.

[mumdearest]

I have one cat that will sit on a box I have next to the door and jiggle the knob until I get tired of hearing it and let him in. It gets irritating to hear this after 5 minutes or so. I open the door and he looks up at me as if to say 'Hi Mom' so innocently. Oh, I could more the box but he will jump at the door knob and that is worse.