Pets can be amazing.  They are often much smarter than we expect.  My cat Yazmine, in my opinion, is extremely intelligent.  And the other day, she really outsmarted me.

Yaz loves to sit in my chair.  If I am there, I let her sit on my lap, but I can tell that she would love to curl up in the chair alone sometimes.  She also likes to curl up in a cupboard about six feet from the chair.  Although she can open the door to the cupboard, she prefers to bang it a couple of times so that I will open it for her.

This particular time she looked at my chair and I knew that she wanted to curl up in it. Then she walked over to the cupboard and tied to open it -- half-heartedly -- she knew that I would help.  So I got up, walked over and opened the door.  But -- no cat.  I turned around and she had raced to my chair and was all curled up in it.  She looked at me and I knew that she was thinking,  "I just outsmarted You!"

Yaz would like to hear from you. "How Smart Is Your Pet?"