Smart cat or what?

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OK, so Maku'e has a very nice cat-bed, but his favourite place to sit in the kitchen is a box we had a Chinese take-way delivered in ages ago. He claimed it before we had a chance to bin it and he's modified it by chewing off the sharp edges at the sides so he can rest his head on it.



I have a fabric/neoprene laptop cover that I use when I'm travelling, and when working at home it would just be in my [home] office. He's used it as a sort of scratching post at times, but because it's soft he's not done too much damage to it I've not bothered stopping him, and of late he's ignored it. So here's where it would have been yesterday morning.



Yesterday my wife caught him dragging it into the kitchen, and putting it in the box! It that just one step down from chimps using tools, or just a lucky coincidence he's putting a 'toy' in a box to sit on? Unfortunately no pictures of the placement of mat in the box, but this is the result.



Clever puss.



...and relax.




...although I actually prefer your bed in the mornings, where I've worked out it warmer under the duvet.

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bexVN said:

He looks like he has Burmese in him which is a bright cat breed and can be trained.

My friend taught her moggy (but definitely with Persian background) to sit.

100% Burmese. He is a clever little sod but we haven't 'trained' him to do anything. His predecessor was also a brown Burmese and he would 'fetch'. We didn't teach him, he would just drop toys at our feet and wait for us to throw them, then he'd bring them back. But he had to bring you the toy first - you couldn't just pick it up and throw it unless he brought it to you first - so you couldn't show it as a party-piece if he wasn't in the mood. Or perhaps in reality he wanted us to do something else with the toy and we kept throwing it away, and he's thinking 'I'll drop it at their feet again one more time, but if the don't do whatever-it-is they should do then I'm giving up'.