--- title: WATCH: Cat Figures Out How to Open Door description: They Know. canonical: https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/ author: Bijan Stephen article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-17T16:08:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:30.369Z og:title: WATCH: Cat Figures Out How to Open Door og:description: They Know. og:url: https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Cat Figures Out How to Open Door twitter:description: They Know. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Terrifying Genius Cat Figures Out How to Open Doors by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Aug 17, 2014 4:08 PM UTC by [Bijan Stephen](https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/) ## Bijan Stephen Aug 17, 2014 4:08 PM UTC Meet Mulder. Mulder is cute. Mulder also has a secret power: He can open doors. He can even do it when there’s a tub of water in the way. Now if he can only figure out how to flush the toilet, he’d be the perfect house cat. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/"},"headline":"Terrifying Genius Cat Figures Out How to Open Doors","datePublished":"2014-08-17T16:08:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:30.369Z","description":"He'd make a good cat burglar","url":"https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","cats"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Bijan Stephen","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/bijan-stephen/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3126243/cat-open-doors-mulder/","name":"Terrifying Genius Cat Figures Out How to Open Doors"}}]}] ```