A coupe of days ago, DH notied that Shelby had not been in for breakfast.
The cat flap curfew ends automatically at a certain time, and the cats usually go out as soon as the cat flap permits. They spend some time outside, and then come in for breakfast. Shelby's food was untouched.
She didn't appear when he called so he used the Loc8tor to find her. She was the wrong side of the gate. Getting back in is harder than getting out, and se was sitting waiting to be rescued.
It was just a matter of time before the cats worked out that there ar ways to go beyond the garden. We've been lucky it's taken them this long,
We discussed options.In the end, we decided to unblock the cat flap which exits on to our drive. Previously it was locked, and we had a wooden block covering it up on the inside.
We set it to "in only". Next time one of them ends up outside, we'll teach them that they can get back inside through that cat flap. (We don't want to do it now, as we don't want to encourage them to go out the front, and that's what we'd be doing by taking thme out there and teaching them).
Of course now the flap is unblocked, all 3 cats are fascinated by it and it's now bcome one of their viewing stations. Izzy used to go in and out through it anyway, but that's long forgotten, and she's as fascinated by it as the kittens.
Hopefully the interest will wane.
