I don't have kids, but I find myself wondering if catproofing isn't actually harder than babyproofing. Let's not fool ourselves here. There's nothing in catproofing that's about the cat.

Babyproofing is first and foremost about the health and safety of the baby. Of secondary importance is protecting your stuff from damage. Catproofing on the other hand, has little to do with protecting the cat from itself. It's almost all about the stuff. Certainly some of it is about keeping the cat safe (both of the cats, for example, seem to think that the liquid dishwasher soap looks delicious, and want to taste it every time I dispense it into the dishwasher. I have to be very careful to close the door quickly before they get their faces up into it!), but mostly it's about preventing destruction.

Nearly every day, I discover a failure in my ability to anticipate the creativity of my cats, and a failure to consider what they might find interesting. This morning I set out my usual set of vitamins and supplements and went about fixing breakfast, only to find Franklin sniffing at them. I thought he'd even managed to get one in his mouth, but fortunately he'd only licked at the multi-vitamin before I pushed his head away from them. Of all of them, the only one I probably wouldn't have worried much about is the fish oil ... the rest likely would have warranted at least a call to the vet to see how much concern I needed.

Not long after, I found him pushing something around on the floor. Further investigation revealed that he had pried loose the hand-hold from one of my living room windows that slides open. Actually, he's pried loose both of them; I just have yet to crawl under the couches to find the other one yet.

Without Franklin to discover this for me, I wasn't even aware that these could be pried loose, let alone that one would want to.

What have your cats discovered for you?