Thread: Behaving frantically and trying to escape the house

Hi Deshni, awww, that's not nice! How old is Roark? is he perhaps at the age of puberty? Is he neutered?
I really wouldn't take it personally, but there seems to be an underlying reason indeed... cats generally like the night time to get on with their naughty deeds, so may be that's what it is? him being a cranky hormonal teenager? I never had a boy, so I don't have a personal experience with this. Also all my cats have always been indoors cats...
Could it be that once he has discovered that furiously scratching, pawing and biting the door somehow opens it... well if that's what he's gotta do then that's what he's gotta do... ? And when it doesn't work then he's trying harder?
Neevie, discovered that meowing loudly and pitifully at a door like she's got her paw stuck in something gets us to it in a hurry to open it for her - it worked a few times only, but still she continues trying coz hey you never know, it did work, once....