I once had a cat named Libby. This cat was smart. I mean scary smart.
Once, when my folks and I were out for the day, Libby got locked in one of the bedrooms. The bedroom had no litter box. Okay, so that wasn’t so smart. But read on.
When we came home, I let Libby out of the bedroom. By the smell, I could tell he had taken a crap. With a sigh, I searched the room, fully expecting to find cat droppings on the floor.
What I found was that he had dropped a shoebox with some junk in it off the dresser, dumped the junk out, and taken a crap in it.
“Oh, so what?” I hear you say. “The cat probably knocked the shoebox off the dresser as cats tend to do, and the junk fell out, but the box landed right side up.
Then he took a crap in it. Big deal. That’s not smart.”
That’s what I would’ve said too. Except that after he took the crap, he stuffed the box neatly full of kleenex from across the room! He effectively built his own litter box. “Holy shit!” was my response. Literally!
There were other things that convinced me this cat was a frickin’ genius of a cat.
A real Thomas Edison of Catdom. Sadly, he’s gone now. And we had him neutered so no cat inherited his incredible genes. But man! Scary smart!
Just as sadly, I have no picture scanner on my machine. I’m sorry I’m breaking the post pictures in pet threads rule.
Anyone else have or had an animal that made you wonder if man would someday have a rival species for brainiest creature on the planet?