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This cat opening a door by himself is truly impressive

The skill! The grace!
 By 
Chloe Bryan
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Videos of cats opening doors are always good, but here is a particularly good one.

It was taken by Twitter user @steeleio_, who couldn't figure out why her roommate's cat was always able to break out of their bathroom. So she set up a camera on a shower shelf, shut the cat in the bathroom, and shook his food bag outside the door so he'd want to get out.

He escaped in less than five minutes. "Once he got out, we gave him a treat and watched the video," @steeleio_ explained via Twitter DM. "My roommate was in complete shock."

Here is the video. Watch and be amazed.

And, of course, there are many other cats performing similar feats in the replies.

The skill! The grace! We love it. Good job, internet -- and great job, cats.

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Chloe Bryan

Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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