If I don’t know where he is I can literally close my bedroom door and Badger will pretty reliably show up from outside or down in the basement or whatever and try to get through in some direction

The other day he was meowing at the basement door and I’m like “you know there’s a cat door in that, I’ve seen you go through it several times” and he was stretching up and pawing at the lever knob and I was like “fine” and opened it and while it was open he climbed through the cat door