>>Cats are pretty smart. Mine long ago figured out the difference between doing something wrong, and getting caught doing something wrong.
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>>Cats are very smart. If they had thumbs, they'd be dangerous!
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>Then they are called raccoons. lol

Yeah, Dave Barry once wrote a column about raccoons being the smartest creatures on earth. He said that if man really wanted to find a way to go to a distant planet, they should just convince the raccoons that there is food there, and then wait a while.

We get lots of them around here in Toronto. Once I put cat food out on a tin plate for them at the back of my back yard hoping it would keep them from coming out front. That evening I looked out and there was a raccoon reclining beside the plate, propped up on one 'elbow', and reaching in with the other paw for food. I wish I'd had a camera. It was like watching someone lying on a couch eating from a box of chocolates.