Tumblr Thread: Cats And Their Inexplicable Yet Funny Hatred Of Closed Doors

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Mariel Ruvinsky • Writer and Editor
Jul 26, 2022 10:00 AM EDT

Cats can be so weird sometimes. They have the weirdest habits, they have the weirdest desires, they have the weirdest (yet funniest) reactions to certain things. And those things can be anything from bananas to babies to closed doors. But especially closed doors. Cats seem to have an actual hatred of closed doors. 

We have no idea why, but it seems to be a universal thing. Of course, some cats will have weirder reactions to closed doors than others - like the cat who does a tuck and roll every time she wants to open a door. But even the most 'normal' cat seems to do this thing where they yell at a door for fifteen hours until someone opens it for them then immediately leave when said door is finally opened. Can anyone really explain this behavior? Well, some tumblr users have certainly tried. 

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    Human body - e8luhs Follow cats will see a closed door and they will be like HELLO for the love of god HELLO and then you open it and then theyre like oh okay. bye.
    via e8luhs

    This. This. This is exactly what we are talking about! For the longest time, we thought that it was only our cats who were being the door-weirdos, but no, it seems to be an actual thing with many, many cats. Goodness, we wish we could understand what's going through their brains sometimes. 

  • 02
    Organism - petermorwood Follow And then, 10 seconds later: "skrit-skrit-skrit-skrit MEOW skrit-skrit MEAAAOW..." because to a cat Being On The Right Side Of A Door is some unattainable Zen ideal.
    via petermorwood

    It can truly be an endless exercise in futility. We'll finally open the door to our hooligans, they'll leave, we'll close it again, and not five minutes later, they will be at the door one more time, and the whole process will have to happen all over again - over and over and over again. 

  • 03
    Font - scrumptiousangst Follow Cats don't want IN. Cats don't want OUT. Cats want OPTIONS.
    via scrumptiousangst
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    Font - i-am-corbin-dallas Follow Thie morning i woke up to the sound of one of my cats meowing outside my door. It isnt too uncommon, except this time it was the cat who *never* meows outside my door. He was like begging for attention. I know their meows and this wasnt the "Feed me, Seymour" one. This was "Come pet me. NOW!" but still, my anxiety brain was like "why woild he be meowing unless he wants something?" So i get up and open the door and he runs away... down the hall, into another room,
    via i-am-corbin-dallas
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    Font - icecream-noodle Follow One of my cats will make a squeaky tantrum at the door and will purr up a storm and leg rub as soon as I come out, then she wants to be picked up and cuddled over my shoulder She even has a specific cute meep sound reserved for me for when she wants to cuddle This happens multiple times a day ^_^
    via icecream-noodle
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    Font - 2-the-moon-and-2-saturn Follow birdy-boi My brain broke thought you were talking about Cat Valentine alrite-m8 i misread as cate (blanchett) and wondered what strange movie this is from Imao alanjamesart my roommates haven't lived with a cat before and have normal ideas about "privacy" and "sleeping and/or peeing with the door closed" my cat will just scream at the door until they let her in, then wander off to fall asleep under the couch i strongly recommend looking through all the repli
    via 2-the-moon-and-2-saturn
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    Font - another-random-dom-3 Follow To me it always felt more like 'You will not close any door to me!' and then 'I forgive you this time, but don't let it happen again!
    via another-random-dom-3
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    Font - katruna Follow Or you it's closed and they must Go Through. So you let them through then you close it and they're indignantly pawing at the door and calling because they Must Come Back. At my house we call this: In Again Out Again Finnagin
    via katruna
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    Font - bookshoplaura Follow On a serious note, my cat used to do this, and it used to wind me up. Until I realised he wasn't meowing to get me to let him in. He wanted me to come outside with him. He wanted me to come outside and see the lawn with him. He'd purr and roll over for a stroke when we got there.
    via bookshoplaura
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    Rectangle - kaine1888 Follow As a person with two cats, I can agree. Cats will really sit on your bed, watch you leave, and then scream when you dont come back within two minutes
    via kaine1888
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    Font - gamerwitch1776 Follow I am not allowed to close doors in my house, not even for the bathroom. If I do, the native felines immediately protest and try to save me from imprisonment.
    via gamerwitch1776
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    Human body - banglesandanklets Follow This is a call out post for my cat who refuses to let me close my bathroom door
    via banglesandanklets
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    Rectangle - tesscont Follow they're curious creatures. It's not their fault you always fail to provide something actually interesting behind the closed door. OOO 95,296 notes
    via tesscont

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