Redditors Tell Ridiculously Entertaining Stories About The Times Wild Animals Entered Their Homes Through Cat/Dog Doors

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kalila courban
Apr 26, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

If you're a pet owner, you're probably familiar with the convenience of having a pet door. It allows your fluffy friend to come and go as they please, giving them the freedom to roam outside whenever they feel like it. However, what happens when you're not the only one who knows about the door's convenience? Redditors have shared some truly wild stories about the times they had unexpected visitors through their pet doors, and we've compiled them here in one convenient location for all our Animal Comedy enthusiasts to enjoy!

Despite the initial shock and chaos that ensued, most of these stories had amicable endings! The intruders were eventually escorted back outside, and the pet doors were either removed or modified to prevent future incidents. Reading these stories may make you think twice about installing a pet door in your own home, but they're sure to provide some entertaining and unforgettable anecdotes to share with friends and family.

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    Rectangle - r/AskReddit Posted by u/99_Restaurant 2 months ago People whose homes have dog/cat doors, have wild animals ever entered your pet doors and what happened when that occurred?
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    Font - Brave Little Echo 2 mo. ago I lived in an apartment that backed up to an open field for a while and had a real raccoon issue. Once they figured out that the cat door was occasionally open after I left it open one night when was out late, they would show up in a gang of 5-7 every night and bang in the slider and try it get in. Th apartment was a studio with a slightly lofted bedroom and one evening was sitting on the couch working and saw what thought was my cat wander down into the living
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    Font - Amantes09 2 mo. ago Not quite a pet door situation but we lived close to the national park in Nairobi. On several occasions monkeys would come into the house through the windows. They'd raid the pantry and make a mess of it. Once my husband was home alone. He heard a noise downstairs and as he went to investigate met a monkey coming back upstairs. They both froze, then he backed up back into the bedroom and the monkey made its way back out through our child's bedroom window. It was quite
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    Human body - Touch MySwollen Face 2 mo. ago Came down one morning to find a peacock in the utility room that had got in to eat all the cat food. It stayed on our property for about three years and we called it Wazzock.
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    Font - yellowteapots. 2 mo. ago A squirrel came in through my parents cat flap (they don't have a cat but didn't replace the door when they bought the house). I remember walking into the kitchen and having a staring match with this squirrel until he decided he'd had enough and left the way he'd come in. Not very exciting but still.
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    Font - hummingbirdpie Kind of similar, I guess... 2 mo. ago edited 2 mo. ago I once walked into the kitchen and noticed that our horse had gotten inside. He had opened a cupboard in the mud room and was happily munching away on some chaff we had stored there. The pull down handle to the back door was covered in horse slobber, as was the cubboard door handle. Cheeky bugger. Also, one of our cats has brought in the odd snake. They are very much alive when she deposits them inside the house. Luckil
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    Human body - oceanduciel 2 mo. ago I'm just imagining this huge silhouette that's big enough to make your heart stop and then restart when you realize, “Oh, it's just the horse. WAIT THE HORSE-"
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    Font - CrazyCalamari86 2 mo. ago I live in the countryside in the UK, and I've got a load of marshes behind my house, so we get all sorts, bugs, birds, small mammals (foxes, hedgehogs, etc) and amphibians. One day, my cat was meowing at me, and she led me behind the sofa, and she had brought in a whole adult rabbit that was frozen solid. I was shocked because she had to have brought it over several walls 7 feet high, and through the cat flap, and the rabbit was more than half the size of her. Th
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    Font - YourMominator 2 mo. ago They have certainly tried, but we have a pet door that only unlocks when the RFID chip on our cat's tag is very close. We also programmed it to not let the cat out after 8pm. Having said that, one of my cats brought in a respectably sized black bird of some kind, very much alive. It ended up at a window above the kitchen counter, with the cat sitting right next to it. I had to get a chair to get onto the counter, then shove a broom handle under the bird so it would
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    Font - mekese2000 A fox pissed 1.2k 2 mo. ago on my couch. Reply Share
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    Font - __M-E-O-W__ 2 mo. ago We don't have cat doors but in the summer we have our doors open many days because of all the work we are doing, constantky going inside and out. One day we found raccoon prints on the hardwood floor, the little guy just walked inside in the middle of our busy work and no one noticed. He walked in, took a nice stroll around the main floor, and walked back out. My stepmother also once walked downstairs and saw a raccoon sitting on its butt like a human just chilling o
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    Font - Eponarose 2 mo. ago A family in England had a little boy who used to tell his mother that he had a fox friend that would come sleep with him at night. They didn't believe him, but the boy was insistent! Finally they put up cameras. Sure enough a little fox would come in the cat door, eat the cat food, then trot upstairs to the boys room and curl up on the end of the bed for a nap. It would stay a few hours, then trot back outside. They nailed the cat door shut! They posted the video of th
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    Human body - Ok Whatever_Buddy 2 mo. ago My friend lives in the country and has a massive dog door. She's gotten raccoons and fox inside the house before. Luckily the multiple dogs and cats she has generally run them out pretty quickly.
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    Font - paradroid27 2 mo. ago edited 2 mo. ago Australian here. about 10 years ago I saw a snakes tail dissappearing into a cupboard. A call to the local wildlife rescue, who then transferred the call to the Fire Brigade, a Hazmat (Hazardous Materials) unit turned up and extricated the snake from it's hideyhole. It turned out to be an Eastern Brown snake, the 2nd most venomous snake in the world according to google. There was a lot of construction nearby turning farmland into industrial complexes
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    Font - dosaki 2 mo. ago I don't have any pets currently but grew up with cats. My wife and I lived in a small house with a garden in front. It's in a nice small community within the town centre but away from the main road. In the summer we keep the door open. This one day, my wife and I are playing a board game that had just been delivered when I see something black from the corner of my eye, just behind my wife. I think "Oh, it's just my cat" and carry on playing. My wife noticed I got briefly
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    Rectangle - Ghee Guys 2 mo. ago I grew up in a house on a lake with a cat door. One time I was in my room gaming and I heard this loud bang quack wait a few seconds bang quack wait a few seconds. Kept repeating. I walked out and one of our cats had caught a fully grown mallard duck and was trying to bring it through the cat door sideways.
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