That's cute. Siamese really are persistent in demanding attention, especially the Snowshoe I have who will lie in the hallway meowing until someone comes out of a room to give him his due attention. But he is also wicked smart. The other like the one in the Slate story is a purrer. He loves to jump on the bed in the middle of the night and purr so loud I'm afraid it will wake up the neighbors! He loves people so much and just purrs constantly from any physical of vocal interaction with him.
Fortunately mine aren't quite as smart as knowing how to open drawers yet, though any unsecured door they'll bull right through.
Are your cats the thinner show types or the appleheads with the rounder bodies and heads? Mine are the latter.
Tam hasn't mastered doorknobs...thank goodness. But if a drawer can be pulled out, he'll open it. He wakes me up at night sometimes, loudly pulling 'em open and rifling through them. What he expects to find...I have no idea. And it's a good thing I don't have anything fancy, furniture wise...he sometimes uses his claws to grab the edge of a particularly stubborn drawer. Brat. It means I have to hide his fetch balls in odd places...I used to hide them in drawers at night, but he'll pull them out and drop one on my chest and demand a game at odd hours if he can find one.
I like both dogs and cats.....but will take cat over dog as they are more low maintence for the most part. Downside for me though on cats is that I am a paraplegic. The last cat I had I got as a kitten. I would never notice her climbing up to my lap until she reached it. And she was ALWAYS climbing into my lap. Needless to say my legs resembled two well worn scrating posts until she was big enough to make the floor to lap leap. LOL