Of course the cat stays...I wasn't implying otherwise. I have a dog that I could strangle some days ... he continuously gets into our garbage cans and shreds tissues or paper towels ... and we have to make sure that the cabinet doors that hide the kitchen garbage are latched! He also learned to open the laundry room door to the garage and then let's himself out through the exterior garage doggie door. If we don't keep it locked, he winds up air conditioning the garage! Argh!!!
I have one of those. An AKC registered Yorkie that grew up to be a damned mini-schnauzer mix (one of my least favorite breeds.) Her name is Imelda, Melly for short, because she collects all of our shoes and stows them under the bed behind the built in drawers in the pedestal. She dragged her bed in there and places the shoes in her bed. The drawers have to be pulled and the resulting hole crawled into to retrieve the shoes as the bed can't be moved. If I'm running late, the shoes I need are guaranteed to be under the bed. If I make the mistake of kicking my house shoes off while sitting at the computer or crawling into bed to read, they're gone in the blink of an eye. Every time I hear an agonized scream by a family member, I know Melly has struck again. I hear those wretched screams often. LOL
I did try blocking the hole by filling it with styrofoam blocks. Big mistake. I came home one day to find the styrofoam shredded to bits in the living room. It looked like a styrofoam bomb had gone off. Bed and shoes were back in the hole. Eventually, I will get around to filling it with wood blocks. Of note, she puts her bed in there because I disposed of her previous hiding places that were much easier to reach.
I had to install spring-hinges on all the bathroom doors to keep her from getting into the bathroom to unwind the toilet paper and shredding it all over the place. All trash cans have a mild shock-thingie around them to keep her out of them.
I often have the urge to strangle that dog. ;) Her saving grace is that she merely collects shoes as she seems to love them. She has yet to chew any.
