So Zoey has now traveled around our cleverly-constructed cat barricades; he’s gone over them too. Both of those have been thwarted by our two-tables-and-twenty-pounds-of-weight barricade. So what’s the buddy’s latest tactic? Burrowing.

He first tried digging right through the first table itself. Not many cats can say that they’ve scratched the stuffing out of a table before. Bear in mind that we actually use this card table for (of all things) playing cards. Now, bear in mind that we have friends who like to play cards with us who are deathly allergic to cats. We’re able to clean up pretty well with our super-powered vacuum, but now we have to sit our feline intolerant friends, who are already kind of scared of the cats, at a table which has been disfigured by one of them. Way to ease their fears, buddy.

Anyway, Zoey figured out some time ago that scratching through the table won’t work. So he has a new tactic.

That’s right, folks: he’s actually trying to dig underneath the tables. I tried to get a close-up of the main damage, but it’s a little blurry:

In case you can’t tell, that’s bare wood showing in the corner there.

When we’re actually in the bedroom, we pull the table inside with us and push it up against the door to weight it so he can’t get in. That’s when the real damage happens, since he then has direct access to that corner. The night before last, I caught him doing it at 12:30. I promptly threw half of a glass of water in his face, and he went crying down to the living room. 2:15, the same thing happened. Then 3:25. When it happened at 5:30, he was actually expecting the water and ran away as soon as I opened the door. Same thing at 6:45.

It only happened twice last night, and I’ve now resorted to chasing him down with a bottle of water and soaking him after I open the door and he runs away. I’m just hoping that tonight I can actually sleep through the night. Of course, with Halloween coming up, that whole living dead thing might actually work out.

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