Cats...

[telophase]

...can't live with 'em, can't boot 'em across the room when anybody's looking.

Anyone who has a cat knows that when you have a perfectly clean bowl of water sitting right by the sink (where she's trained you to put it), which is refilled with clean, cool water once a day or more, that the water which is INFINITELY preferable is the three-day-old half-glass of water sitting by the bed with a dead fly floating in it.

Or at least had a dead fly in it. I believe the cat has supplemented her diet with an extra bit of protein. She'll be so bummed to discover I've gotten rid of the half-glass of water she's been jamming her head way down into and drinking from for three days.

Comments

[eyesofshinigami.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Your cat sounds like mine! I can put out two separate bowls of fresh, clean water (one for the grumpy old lady cat and one for the rambunctious kittens)...and they will always drink out of the toilet, or out of the dirty glass in the sink.

You just can't win.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's always the water they find, rather than the water that's theirs, innit? XD

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

But all the water is theirs, duh. :D

[blades-of-ice.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, my cats are picky with their water. They prefer to watch me turn on the faucet and let fresh water into the sink rather than drink that day-old bowl they have in the kitchen.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Mine won't drink from anything I put out for her that's not right by the sink and refilled. But she WILL drink from anything that's not meant for her. XD

[vestaka.livejournal.com]

My cats are particularly fond of the glass of water that I'm *trying to drink right now*. I've had the little beasty shove his face against mine in an attempt to beat me to the glass. And yes, he has a bowl of fresh, clear water RIGHT THERE.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If I'm on the exercise bike, I have to put my hand over the top of my water glass when the cat's on the windowsill next to it. XD

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

This sounds familiar. My cats used to prefer my bedside glass of water, or any that had been standing around for a while. I thought it was because, where I live, anyway, water fresh from the tap is full of chlorine.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I think mine just likes any she's not supposed to have. :D

[sparkylibrarian.livejournal.com]

My oldest cat used to like drinking out of faucets; we bought a drinkwell fountain to imitate the flowing water, and that's been wildly successful. The middle cat (iconed!) likes to lick the tub faucet. Not right after it's been turned on necessarily either. The baby cat (free kitten!) checks out everyone's drink, and will pester you to the ends of the earth if you're drinking a smoothie or juice.

Cats!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

This one doesn't really like faucets - she does like her bowl next to the sink and trained me to put it there. Mom's cat likes to lick water off the shower curtain after someone takes a shower.

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Most of my cats are content to drink from the kitty fountain. Grok is the oddball who will stick her whole head into a cup for water. Even funnier, she sticks her paw into smaller glasses, and licks milk off it. Ususally she is polite and waits until I'm done.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I know someone whose cat hits the water bowl to make it move before drinking from it. :D

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Constant bowl swatting is why I got the kitty fountain. It is interesting enough to them that I don't have to clean up daily puddles.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Our cats always seem to prefer funky or soapy water - either in the kitchen sink or the bathtub. O_o Even more annoying is they won't eat out of their food bowl (which has a tank full of food) unless the food is shaken out into the bowl and fills it to the top. (>_<)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Mine likes it when I shake her food bowl. I think the half-chewed bits fall to the bottom. XD

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Quite. Ours either have a distaste for the leftover crumbs or they just don't like having their whiskers brush the inside of the bowl to get to the layer of food on the bottom. The latter is an odd idea as they don't have any problem with sticking their heads all the way into shoes and other tight places. =-P

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

My cat has decided that the only water worth drinking is the water pooling in the bottom of the shower, after I get out. Or my bathwater, if I happen to be sitting in one. It makes me worry that he's planning on stewing me one of these days, when food gets scarce.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The last two times I took a bath, mine came over, put her front paws on the edge and peered in with a worried expression, then curled up on the bathmat.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Our kitten almost climbed into the tub with me. I don't know if he was after a drink of soap or he wanted to take a bath too. Either way, he was super determined to climb into the tub and picking him up and dipping just his front paws in the water failed to discourage him. O_O

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

You might have one of those rare cats who actually likes swimming.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

We might indeed. *nods*

[affreca.livejournal.com]

Human broth seems to be a delicacy amongst cats.

[melster.livejournal.com]

My cat used to drink out of glasses and occasionally squish his head in, but then realized that knocking over the glass before drinking from it got a nice accessible puddle of water.
Now, he's stopped testing to see if there's water in there, and just knocks over any glass he sees.

Argh, cats.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm glad mine hasn't figured that out yet!

[seawolf10.livejournal.com]

My family has an old Persian who refuses to drink out of her water bowl even when you refill it and put it [b]right next to her bed.[/b] She prefers the toilet.

Worse, if she's in there while I've got my pants around my ankles, that means my body's blocking her off from her "bowl", and she'll start pawing me, trying to get me to move.

That gets old in a hurry.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heee! My mom's cat drinks out of the toilet a lot, but isn't that territorial. XD

[ninja-tech.livejournal.com]

Ah - there will be no such treats for my kitty. I have the sippy cup of doom now. This way, he cannot dump water on me while I sleep... ^_^*

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Mine will only drink from the tap, the pesky little bastard. I curse every former roommate I had when he was a kitten who indulged him in this, making it impossible to break the habit in him as an adult cat. I should probably just be glad they didn't teach him to smoke...

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

Morris always preferred toilet water. We have many photos of him head-down in it while perched on the rim.