A Cat's Do-It-Yourself Projects for Around the House

Does your cat like to 'fix' things? Mine certainly does. A couple winters ago, I got tired of winter weather blowing in through the air conditioner, so I put a cover over it. Since I live in a second floor apartment, it had to be an indoor cover. Well, my kitty, Callie-sue, likes to hear the flapper on top of the conditioner clacking as the air blows through it. She climbed the book shelf, stared at that cover for the longest time, as if figuring it out, and once she had it completely understood, she worked at getting rid of it. She finally managed to yank the cover entirely off the air conditioner and when the wind blew through it again it clacked, of course. I was surprised to hear it clacking again, so I went to investigate only to find her quite proudly standing on the book shelf, enjoying her handiwork. She looked at me as if to say... "see mom? I fixed it. Aren't you proud of me?" I knew that she'd never rest if I put the cover back on so I bit the bullet and let her have her favorite 'clack'.


Another time, she decided she didn't want a certain ornament on the Christmas tree, and every day I'd find it on the floor. I'd put it back and before long it would be on the floor again. This happened every single time until finally I just left it on the floor to see what she'd do. But instead of playing with it, as I thought she might, Callie-sue completely ignored it. She didn't want that ornament as a toy, she simply wanted it off the tree. Apparently it disagreed with her sense of aesthetics. So... clearly my kitty is not only a repair-woman but also an interior decorator at heart. 

How about you folks? Anyone got any stories about decorator cats, or fix-it cats?