BellaOnline Forums Home and Garden Cats What does she want from me? BLOOD!

I agree, give it a slap and tell it to behave.

Air conditioners are very dehydrating.

It's likely it was hurting her from a dehydration standpoint.

Hope you work it out.

I personally just think cats can't stand a closed door.

When I take a bath and have the bathroom door closed tight, mine will mew and mew to be let in. So I get out, drip all over the floor, let her in. A few minutes later, she's mewing to get back out.

I keep the bathroom door closed so she's not in and out and in and out; esp. in the winter when I have the space heater running in the bathroom (our house is from the 40s and the only heat vents are in the kitchen, living room, and downstairs bedroom) and i don't want her opening the door and letting the heat out. Lately I've just taken to pushing the door to so it's closed but not latched, and keeping this big dowel rod we bought once for a bathroom project and never used, by the tub, and it's long enough to shove the door shut from the tub when she comes in. Of course, she'll shove the door open and come in, but as soon as I move to close it behind her, she freaks out and runs back out.

It's not so much that they don't like a closed door - they just always think all the action is on whatever side of the door that they aren't on! I haven't closed and locked the bathroom door in 10 years...and ours does not latch, so if you want it locked you have to use the slide bolt. Our house was built in the early 50's and also has no central heat in the bathroom, but I've gotten used to coming out of the shower and getting hit with the cooler air streaming in the door - with one of the cats sitting there grinning at me! This is just one more of the things that make cats so much fun to have around. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />