Wild Kingdom

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it, but here at the Iowa Blog Cabin we have a couple cats - Dubya and Daisy.  Dubya is a temperamental old lady who I found on the side of a gravel road when she was a tiny kitten.  She lumbers around the house, often in a bad mood, just waiting for something to get mad about.  Daisy, on the other hand, is a genius.  In fact, she's smarter than a lot of the people I know. 

Case in point:  On the landing going down into our basement, we have their food bowls along with a Rubbermaid bucket full of their food.  The lid on this bucket has two latches with a thick plastic lid on it.  When Daisy gets hungry, she can walk over to it, unlatch the lid, take it off, jump in and eat her dinner.  For the longest time, we'd come home and see the lid on the floor and wonder, "what the heck?"  I would blame Anne for leaving the lid off the cat food while she'd blame me.  It went on like that for a month or so...

Until one day we heard it...and looked down the stairs, and there she was, taking the lid off, jumping in, and chowing down.  Well, I've finally caught it on video (please ignore the annoying American Idol in the background)...Here it is: