When we left home today, I left my frontdoor key on the inside of the frontdoor. We have 2 sets of keys, so I expected no trouble opening the door. Wrong..

The doorlock seems to be of the type where if you have a key on the inside, the one on the outside cant be put in far enough, and it won't open. Problem... We have a balcony door as the only other door to enter our appartement, but a quick investigation at the neighbours balcony told us that that door has no lock on the outside.

After trying to open the door with an old creditcard, which was kinda hopeless as it is a very modern solid door, we decided to call the lockmaker but to also try our last hope of getting in without needing the lockmaker....our Pussycat.

Lotje, as we called her, has a hobby of opening doors. She can open almost any door that isn't locked, and she did open the frontdoor on several occasions.

We sat at the other side of the door, whistling, calling her, trying to draw her attention, and yes, after ten minutes or so she finally got interested enough to open the door to see what all the fuss was about. We finally got in...

We called the lockmaker who returned home without any complaint, and he didn't sound surprised at all that a cat opened the door for us.

lotje on an earlier occasion, opening the door at my parents' house