Originally published at: That closed door is giving your cat FOMO - Boing Boing
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If you go in the bathroom and let the cat in, then close the door, the cat will immediately want out. That’s the other thing cats don’t like about closed doors, they want to know where the exit is.
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Or maybe it’s just separation anxiety. (Assuming your cat actually likes you.)
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Via Gail Sherman…
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Or that they’re just jerks.
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My cat insists on joining me in the bathroom and “guards” me while I use the facilities, politely turning her back on me but watching the door (with occasional forays out into the hall) for potential trouble.
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Some combination of my four (two adults, 2 4-month olds) will join me and then demand I turn the water in the sink
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The thing is that we can’t let our cat in our room at night since she snores and somehow takes up half the bed even though she’s…well, a cat. The alternative is that she’s an excellent alarm clock at 6am when she decides she’s had enough and wants to see us. I’ll keep the door closed.
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This is good advice. We have one bedroom door that is consistently closed. The cats like to go visit when it’s open but don’t care about the door being closed. However, close the main/owner bedroom door, which is usually open, and there are paws underneath in under 3 minutes. Even if everyone was dead asleep. Woe betide the human who attempts to close the door to the toilet room in the master bath. They hate that one and will yowl. The other bathroom is fine though.
Part of it might be that they all consider the main bedroom more theirs than the rest of the house. It is definitely all theirs, but they resent denied access to the main bedroom
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What a lovely heterochromatic cat 
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We mostly don’t bother closing the doors of our bathrooms specifically for that reason. It’s just easier on everyone involved and none of the humans particularly care either way. We do make an exception if we have visitors or if we’re giving one specific cat a break from being pestered by the others.
We usually close the door when showering to keep the temperature consistent, but the cats seem to know what that water sound means and do not want to come in while that’s running. As soon as I open the door afterwards, of course, at least one races to be the first cat to get their scent on me!
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Our cats line up when my wife is in the bathroom.
When I’m in the bathroom they’re nowhere to be found.
When my wife is eating they want to sit on her lap, not when I’m eating.
When she’s on the computer they’re all over the keyboard, not with me.
In other words they know who they can get away with things with.
They ain’t so dumb.
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Our family room door is mostly closed, because it has a lot of stuff (i.e., LEGOs) in that doesn’t react well to up close interaction from the cats. However, it’s almost the room where the whole family sits with laps presented for extended periods. You can bet that every time that door opens, there is a cat sprinting for the room.
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I’m currently waging a nighttime battle with my cat, who has been scratching at the door at 3 am.
He seems to go through phases with this sort of thing and will (I guess) eventually get bored of it (the jerk), but it’s currently doing a number on my quality of life.
The doublesided tape all over the door doesn’t help much, and the supersoaker by the door works to keep him from coming back that night, but also tends to involve chasing him up the stairs.
I’m seriously considering building something motion-activated.
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Whereas a dog will rest its head on your leg and go, “How you doing, buddy? You poppin’ or just peein’? You can still give pets either way, right?”
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I knew a Great Dane who liked to sit on people’s laps as if they were a chair, front paws on the ground. It was dangerous to leave the bathroom door unlocked because you could get trapped under the dog unless you were strong enough to shove him off.
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Sometimes, I think my dog thinks he’s a cat. This behavior is one example.
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That or try to curl up in your lowered breeches like they’re a hammock. I once had a cat who favoured that approach.
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