• SkaveRat
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    655 months ago

    Oh they very much can.

    When I was a kid, ours opened the doors by jumping at the door handles. Grabbing them and pulling them down.

    They even taught their kittens

    We had to install all handles so they pointed upwards, just so the cats couldn’t grab them

    But even that only lasted a couple months until they learned to latch onto them anyway and wiggle around until their weight pulled the handle to the side and opened the door

    Clever fluffy bastards

    • Lovable Sidekick
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      5 months ago

      Handles? Luxury! We have a cat that can grip and twist a doorknob with both paws. She needs a nearby windowsill to sit on, so there’s only one door where she can do it.

    • Funkytom467
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      5 months ago

      You could lock your doors, but then again next thing you know you find your cat watching locksmith lawyer and clawing its way in.

      • Rob Bos
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        5 months ago

        “Overlap between the dumbest humans and the smartest cats”

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t know if my cat understood what the button did or if it was just because he knew he could get my attention, but my cat knew how to turn off my computer.

      • SkaveRat
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        105 months ago

        They are simply not a thing where I live (also quite annoying to use compared to a handle)

    • jackeryjoo
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      55 months ago

      Totally. We had to switch to round nobs on the doors for this very thing.