you thought the boys were calming down and becoming model citizens, didn’t you?  today they have shown yet again why they have earned a bad cat behavior series on the blog.  i came home from work today and didn’t see either of them, so i knew either i had caught them mid nap or they had been bad.  i went with my gut and decided to open the bathroom door (we’ve been keeping it shut because these two couldn’t stay out of the trash can and linen cabinet).  this is what i found:

and ben has made a bigger dent in his woodchuck project. the routine goes like this: ben opens the door. the cats venture in. stuart closes the door with them in the bathroom. ben gets upset and claws the crap out of the door. lovely human apartment inhabitants have to deal with door ripped to shreds. his accomplishment so far:

and the damage to the jamb

AWEsome, right? right. yeah. thanks cats.