My own bad cat story: My cat Spock (yes, his name was Mr. Spock, stop laughing!) pulled a stunt that to this day amazes me.
I had purchased a lemon reamer (one of those hand-held lemon juicer things) that came in a blister pack. You know, the kind where there is a plastic bubble or blister holding your item against a cardboard backing. Anyway, my cat decided he wanted at the lemon reamer. I came home from work to find him gnawing on the thing.
The thing was, I hadn’t taken it out of the package yet. I’d left the package on the dining room table, where it no longer was. It puzzled the heck out of me, until I did a quick search of the room and discovered the “scene of the crime.”
As near as I can figure, here’s what happened: my cat knocked the package off the table and onto the floor. From there, he must have held the package steady with one paw, and used one of the claws on his other like an x-acto knife, cutting the blister all along its outside edge until he could open the package up and get the juicer. The cut was so perfect, you’d have sworn it had been done with a scalpel. Not an errant scratch anywhere, just one smooth, seamless cut around the plastic. It was downright eerie!
Wow impressive. good thing they don’t aspire to murdering their owners! ;)