"Set up a tent in my backyard and patched up all the holes and tears it had acquired over the years. My buyer comes no more than a half-hour later. In that short time, the tent had acquired three or four new tears. The tears have cat-claw arcs to them. Stealth kitties have slunk away and are nowhere to be seen."

Sounds like a job for Wiley. ;0)

Everytime I set up a tarp or to work on or air out our tent my cats finf it open season to try to destroy them. Don't get me started on laying my WM sleeping bag out, they love to burrow into it......errrrr. Pics to follow.....sigh

And Evan, it's not your wifes cat, but both if yours......50/50 ......;)

When I sleep in the yard to test a tent our cat Squiggles will visit me. She somehow figures out where my head is and pounces on it from outside.

Also, after breakfast each morning she will crawl under our bed's down comforter in a mole like fashon and nap under there for several hours. Makes me laugh when I see the lump under the comforter.

My cat burrows under our comforter too

A girlfriends cat tried to be a stowaway in my pack once when we were leaving from her place on a trip. About 15 pounds of feline and a barely audible "meow". When cleaning gear, they seem attracted to bug netting.