Yeah - cats do some freaky stuff. I’ve walked in on at least 2 of mine in the past and caught them using the toilet. Different cats owned at different time, both outdoor cats with no connection to one another…they just wigged out what it was for, and went for it.
Maybe I have a prejudice about cats and lever handles, though. Neither one would flush, lol.
Don’t complain. Some cats learn what the flush handle is for, and use it repeatedly, fascinated by the fact that water appears and then runs down the drain. I don’t know whether they expect a fish to come by some time, or if it’s just aesthetic. Very entertaining, but runs up the water bill…
One of mine knows that the handle should be pushed – he’s seen humans do it often enough – but hasn’t figured out why, and luckily doesn’t push it hard enough to actually trigger a flush cycle.
I didn’t mind the cats using the john - that was cool. If I ever caught one flushing though, the door would have to stay closed. It’s bad enough when kids cause the inevitable plumbing bills with their flush experiments. At least when it’s just kids or kittens unrolling the paper all over the house it’s a cheap and easy fix.
Actually, that makes me think of another possible problem with lever handles. For a long time, I had a bird, a cat, a ferret, and a dog that all hung out and played together and had the run of the house. The cat could’ve managed, but if the dog had let the ferret or the bird out, it could have gone very badly. Neither has any natural enemies, and both are fearless and can travel quickly.
If we could come up with this many potential problems this quickly, I wonder why Vancouver didn’t stop and think first?
They did. I have to agree with them that making it easier for people with limited grip strength to exit in an emergency is a good argument for switching over.
As noted, there are many places where lever handles are already the norm. People adapt.
(“Udjest noobs; abdain idendy.” – Machina Prime, sender ov relefence.)
I suspect you’re at least partly right. On one hand, a great number of the people using the shouty “THAT’S SOCIALISM” seem to be really mad about the fact that whatever they’re complaining about is something they don’t like. It’s easier to label it something “everyone hates” than it is to formulate a cogent argument against the thing.
And having very little energy for much else, my primary contribution to socialism is subtly talking about it to coworkers. More talking about the nuts and bolts of exploitation of the lower classes and the evils of capitalism rather than convincing them that the named term socialism is what we should all go for.
I’ve found fairly much by accident that after laying a groundwork, when you do drag out the term socialism, people are often quite positive about it.
I even ran into one guy who didn’t need a background. He asked me what my politics were. I’m fairly open about being a socialist even if I’m not directly trying to get people to join up. 
He was like “yeah, I actually like that Marx guy.”
ETA: Forgot to finish my thought there.
The article is not, but the conversation we are having that you quoted is referring to homes.
Well, my bad then. And let that be a lesson to me! One’s knobs must be always be kept in the proper sub-context.
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