Cat Comes Up With Genius Way of Being Let Back Inside House: 'It Worked'

An adorable orange kitten found an ingenious way of letting his owner know he was ready to come indoors.

The orange cat featured in a video shared with Newsweek by security device company Ring appears to be one smart cookie. In the clip, the young cat can be seen making full use of his owner's video doorbell to get himself let back into the house. The super smart cat seems to know exactly when to "meow" to let his human know it is cold and he would like to be snuggled up back indoors.

The Ring customer who captured the footage, Zhanna, told the company: "My kitten likes to play outside sometimes and to get my attention to let him back inside."

Whether it is through past experience of having witnessed his owner doing it, the cat has worked out how to use the doorbell device to his advantage.

"He decided that his best option was to shove his face into my ring camera and meow and move around, which gave me the alert that he was waiting for me to let him back inside. I don't know how he came up with this plan, but it worked," the cat owner said.

The clip ends with the quick-thinking feline making his way indoors.

Cats might be easier to manage than dogs, but there's evidence to suggest they are more than a match for their canine rivals when it comes to intelligence.

In 2017, a study published in the journal Behavioral Processes concluded that cats were just as smart as dogs when it came to a series of memory tests. As part of the research, 49 domestic cats were tested to assess their ability to remember which bowl they had already eaten from and which they had not touched after an interval of 15 minutes.

Researchers found that the cats were capable of recalling the "what" and "where" of the situation regarding their food bowls, which indicates that they have episodic memory. This suggests that cats are capable of retaining memories for much longer than previously thought. The same study saw cats match dogs in a series of tests regarding their ability to respond to human gestures, emotions, and facial expressions.

This isn't the first time a cat has been caught on a security camera doing something unusual. Last year, one homeowner decided to set up an indoor camera to see what kind of mischief her two feline friends get up to the minute her back is turned—and it's pretty extreme with the two shown opening freezers, taking the oven apart, and climbing in a kitchen cupboard.

The video, captioned "why my cats always need surveillance," has been watched close to a million times.

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