Kittens, man

So, I'm trying to keep Wdnesday inside, because she isn't fixed and she hasn't had all her shots - it's a three month process getting her all vaccinated and whatnot and I forgot to ask at teh first visit if she could go outside meanwhile so I am playing it safe. Also, giving the older cats all of outdoors to get away from her.

So the older cats go in and out through a cat door I put in the window of the blue room, which I prop open, because while they can push through it when they need to, they will also come right up to and stop and look confused if it's closed, and I don't want them doing that if something is chasing them. I worry. So, I've been closing the door to that room so Wednesday won't get out. The door to that room doesn't have a doorknob  (none of the doors had doorknobs when we moved in and that one is the last to get one, I just haven't gotten to it and it hasn't been important) but it sort of stays closed if it's wedged into the frame. Unless a kitten pushes on it hard enough to open it, of course, which she figured out how to do this morning.

So, I thought, I'll just close the cat door. It confuses the older cats, surely it will take her a little while to figure out how to get through it if it's closed. At least long enough for me to grab her if I hear her get into that room.

Nope. No hesitation at all.

Fortunately, she can't get down from the cat tree that accesses the window on the outside, yet, so I can still retrieve her fairly easily. I've got the door wedged shut with a coat hanger and a belt for now, but I guess I should get that doorknob installed. I may have to lock her in the bathroom to do it.

Poor Walter really wants to help, but his instincts are for herding sheep, not kittens.