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You have a good point, Keith. I think this may explain some of the erratic behavior of these cats. One is bipolar, loves you one minute, mercilessly attacks you the next (this is the "bad" one). The other is noisy and nice all the time but is seen frequently using catnip-laced toys.

Hmmm...

I'll definitely keep an eye on this brewing problem. Maybe a squirt gun would be a good weapon against catnip-crazed felines.

Pete92FS wrote: And he didn't shoot the cat either.

LoL!

rule 3: Keep your finger off the trigger until you have acquired the target

rule 4: identify your target and what is beyond it

Those two rules saved the cat. And of the two cats in my house, this one is the "good one".


In reality I fully did not expect to find anyone in the house. Once I came in the door I could see that nothing of value appeared to be stolen, the house was in the same condition in which we left it, the back door was shut and the deadbolt locked (only lockable from the inside without a key). I could see all of this pretty well immediately; our house is an open floorplan and 50% of the house is visible immediately when you enter from any door, with a lot of high-value stuff visible. So going through the house was more of a verification that there was nothing to be worried about to assuage the fears of my wife and daughters before coming into the house. The kids asked me "did you check every room, including our closets??" before they would come in.

If I had walked in and seen the living room torn up and the back door standing open or my guitars not hanging on the walls or a blank spot where the TV used to be, then I would have turned back around, gotten back in the car, driven down the street and called 911.

I have a similar story to Ghostrider... mildly similar, maybe I posted it before.

We were coming home from an out of town trip: myself, my wife and my two teenage daughters. We pull into the garage and immediately I notice that the door to the house is open. I tell my wife to get the gun from the glove box and stay in the car with the doors locked. As I got out of the car she confirmed that I was indeed armed and I drew my gun that had been on my hip for the entire 7 hour drive from South Padre Island.

I went into the house and quietly looked throughout the whole place. Heard a noise from upstairs and when I got to the top of the stairs I saw movement and almost shot my cat.

Needless to say there was nobody there, nothing missing. Dunno what happened to cause the door to be open. However this did remind me that the gun in the car is not enough.

Anyway, it's amazing how much your adrenaline gets pumping in a case like this.

Thing is that if some BGs managed to get my garage door open with a garage door opener, then they'd be able to close it behind them and take their time getting into the house, be able to come and go without anyone watching. I kind of think electric garage door openers are at least a security quandary... but in my case it'd be far easier to just go in the back door by breaking out the big plate of glass.