“Probably some of the smartest cats there are are Tuxedos”
I wish I had kept the little tuxedo from my first rescue litter. He was so smart. I came home one day and he was prancing around the kitchen, somehow he got through the baby gate and I still don’t know how. When I was let all of them terrorize the house, he would figure out some new fun thing to do like climb all the boxes to get to the top of the curio cabinet. Then he would wait up there until one by one, all his litter mates figured it out. Then he would take off and go find something else to teach them.
It would peer over the edge of the washer to find out where the water was coming from. He was curious about everything.
I had put a piece of duct tape on the inside of the cat door to position it properly to lock it and at breakfast time Elliewhat was tugging at the tape with his teeth to get the door open.
My little Tuxedo loves water. I hear him splashing water out of the bowl in the shop when I am working and have movies of him walking in a large puddle half way up his legs and pawing at things he sees on the bottom. This afternoon we just built flower beds and I had plenty of supervision.