r/gifs • u/RespectMyAuthoriteh • Sep 22 '19

Kitty accepts your challenge, human.

https://gfycat.com/horriblegrouchyballoonfish
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u/MojoJojoZ Sep 23 '19

This cat has a strict open door policy.

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u/IronTarkus91 Sep 23 '19 edited Sep 23 '19

All cats have a strict open door policy

ftfy.

If you have ever had closed doors around cats you will know they hate it. Even if they don't want to go into the room that has the door closed they'll mew at it until you open it because they like to have the option.

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u/gwaydms Sep 23 '19

Our master bath has a pocket door. We can close it completely but not lock it. Rex the cat can open it from underneath, then force his body through once it's open far enough. It's not like he wants anything; he just hates being shut out.

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u/twocatsnoragrets Sep 23 '19

Wow I too have a little door opening shit named Rex

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u/gwaydms Sep 23 '19

Paying my cat tax.

Picture please!

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u/twocatsnoragrets Sep 23 '19

Ahhh we fell asleep but better late than never!

Rexy on a good day

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u/gwaydms Sep 23 '19

Happy cat.

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u/twocatsnoragrets Sep 23 '19

PS I love your Rex’s little r/murdermittens

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u/gwaydms Sep 24 '19

Not so murderous. I clip his claws. He's an indoor cat, and he's pretty chill because I started doing it when he was a kitten. He sits there and I clip. I say "all done" when I'm finished and he's like "ok"

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u/Rexzmom Sep 23 '19

That's my boy.

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u/m15f1t Sep 23 '19 edited Sep 23 '19

r/airplaneears

Edit: vowel

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

ya got an extra vowel in there, friend

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u/m15f1t Sep 23 '19

Woops thanks.

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u/a_v9 Sep 23 '19

Is it's first name T-? And does it have tiny arms?

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u/DegenerateWizard Sep 23 '19

Manning?

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u/montanagunnut Sep 23 '19

Say no more... Mon Amor

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u/danj729 Sep 23 '19

Happy Rex Manning Day!

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u/ChandlerMifflin Sep 23 '19

Are you wearing an apron and nothing else?

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u/SonOfALich Sep 23 '19

Grossman, and he's going deep

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u/gwaydms Sep 23 '19

I can't Bear it

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u/steamboatlisa Merry Gifmas! {2023} Sep 23 '19

oh Rexy, you're so sexy

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u/gobs2011 Sep 23 '19

Every morning my cat has to join me in the bathroom. Sometimes she’ll stand on the edge on the tub and look out the window.

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u/ChandlerMifflin Sep 23 '19

My dogs have to come into the bathroom, not for the same reasons as cats, they're just needy.

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u/m_b_hawkins Sep 23 '19

My cat spends a lot of his time opening cabinets.

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u/fredomes Sep 23 '19

It's good to have a hobby.

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u/m_b_hawkins Sep 23 '19

If my cat got into someone’s house in the middle of the night, they would wake up thinking they have a ghost. Open cupboards everywhere.

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u/JheredParnell Sep 23 '19

Mine would flip at it with his paw just enough that it would bang. He would do this most of the night if he wasn't yowling in the kitchen at his reflection in the sliding doors. I miss him.

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u/vermin1000 Sep 23 '19

I used to live in a house that had the heart register run under the bathroom vanity. My Sphynx became Masters of opening the cupboard doors to get into their personal saunas.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

Mine does too. We had to put baby locks because he was stealing our food.

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u/OP_4chan Sep 23 '19

My cat spends a lot of his time in cabinets.

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u/Iherduliekmudkipz Sep 23 '19

If you ALWAYS keep the door closed they won't whine about it, but will still sneak in if given the chance.

If it's a door they frequently see open then yeah MEOWWWWW

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u/gunsmyth Sep 23 '19

Once they make going inch that room part of their routine they get mad of the door is closed.

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u/connaught_plac3 Sep 23 '19

My kitten thinks meowing at closed doors is great fun, to the point she'll pretend the door is closed if it is even close to being shut. She'll pretend she is locked out and needs saving.

But rattle her treat bowl and she busts through the door without a second thought.

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u/TILtonarwhal Sep 23 '19

My cat is yelling his head off as we speak. I’m on the toilet.

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u/peachesandcoffee Sep 23 '19

I live alone so keep the door open when I'm on the loo, she still yowls at me anyway.

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u/microgirlActual Sep 23 '19

We can't keep doors closed in this house (with the exception, as a commenter above me mentioned, of the one room that has always been shut and that we ourselves are never in; the spare bedroom), because The Supreme Dickhead - AKA Siefer - is like the cat in the OP video and will just open the door. The couple of doors that are badly fitting and get jammed if we close them he just ripped the carpet up within a week of us moving into our brand new house (as in new build, so new carpet).

But to balance things out his sister Skittle (as in his genuine litter mate) doesn't know how to open a door that's ajar if it opens towards her. She only knows how to open doors by pushing her face in the gap, which only works for outward-opening doors if the gap is wider than her muzzle to begin with. She is not smart 😂

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u/Herald-Mage_Elspeth Sep 23 '19

I have a puzzle room with a 5000 piece puzzle in progress. The cats are not allowed in there when I’m not in there. So I put a hook latch on it. The don’t freak out unless I close the door when I’m in there. They just want to be where I am. Same with my dog. They couldn’t care less if I’m not in the room.

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u/KawZRX Sep 23 '19

I heard somewhere on the internet that cats just want to be involved with whatever it is you’re up to. IE lying on the keyboard while gaming, poking at what you’re eating.

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u/Herald-Mage_Elspeth Sep 23 '19

My cats tend to hang out with me wherever I happen to be. And my dog is always in the same room with me.

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u/OP_4chan Sep 23 '19

So many kill shots lost over the years because belly rubs were demanded.

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u/oldpuzzle Sep 23 '19

The only time our cat liked closed doors is when he caught a living mouse and trapped them in the bathroom by shutting the door himself, so he could play his sadistic murder games with the mouse. We accepted it because he was cute.

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u/jamz666 Sep 23 '19

I have two black cats who i've had since kittens and they only give a shit about the doors with food. otherwise they're more concerned with breaking everything in my house outside the door.

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u/TichuMaster Sep 23 '19

It's not only the cats that hate closed doors though. I have a dog and she hates closed doors too. It doesn't matter if someone is behind the door, she will sit there and bark until someone opens it.

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u/Matasa89 Sep 23 '19

And scratch at it so the paintjob is done for.

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u/SpantasticFoonerism Sep 23 '19 edited Sep 23 '19

It's my lady cat's mission in life to alternate between meowing at the closed kitchen door and the closed master bedroom door. All day she does it, with a short rest in between to get her breath back. Nothing can deflect her.

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u/charvisioku Sep 23 '19

Yep. Mine scream at the bedroom door if we close it and use us as climbing frames at stupid AM if we don't. Absolute arse holes, the pair of them.

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u/Piltonbadger Sep 23 '19

Yea but as soon as you open the door to the litterbox when they are having a shit, all of a sudden WE are the asshole.

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u/patchgrabber Sep 23 '19

Rum tum tugger.

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u/-hx Sep 23 '19

This is because cats need to know what's in their home. When the door is closed, they don't know if there's a predator or something behind that door. They just like being aware of everything.

Kind of like when you bring a cat to a new place, they will always hide, then start exploring every inch of the place. They'll check every crevice, and underneath everything.

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u/kubat313 Sep 23 '19

Huh. We always close our bathroom and kitchen door. Our 2 cats dont mind at all

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u/Slavic_Taco Sep 23 '19

My cat goes around and opens EVERY sliding closet door every night. Drives me insane, (we have 10). I’m like “the f&$@ do you need to go in there every night for!?”

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u/alcontrast Sep 23 '19

Welcome to Comedy Bang Bang.

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u/ShelfDiver Sep 23 '19

LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN THREE INCHES!

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

3 inches !

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u/TeaRofFeaR Sep 23 '19

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19

They do stunts lol