Kitty OCD
cats November 14th, 2009Meet Shadow. She’s a sweetheart, but she’s got a problem.
She only wants to drink water directly from the faucet.
Since she developed this little habit, it’s become near impossible to function in the kitchen.
Whenever my husband or I walks into the kitchen, she follows.
Whenever we’re washing our hands or rinsing a dish, she’s there.
Whenever she hears the garage door open, she’s on the counter. Waiting.
At 5:00AM, like clockwork, she’s nudging us out of bed. When I get up, she runs downstairs to sit in the sink.
I oblige her. Again.
We figured it’d be easy to break her of the habit if we never turned the water on for her. Or so we thought.
All that does is make her smash her face, over and over, into the spigot and give us that wanting look. And so we give in. She once got an eye infection, we assume because of this smashing behavior. The tip of the faucet can’t be that clean.
I know they make pet water dishes that produce a steady stream of water, but we don’t think that’ll be good enough for her. When she does decide to drink from a bowl, she pushes it all over the floor and dumps half of it.
Must go. I feel eyes burning a hole through the back of my head. She’s in the sink again.
So let’s hear it. In what ways do your pets rule your household?
Stumble it!
November 14th, 2009 at 9:21 am
One cat insists on drinking only running water. She will sit in the sink and yell for me until we turn it on for a “sink drink”, we purchased a fountain for her but she wants nothing to do with it.
November 14th, 2009 at 9:29 am
Early in the morning our 17 lb cat will decide he wants to be petted and will come sit on my chest. It’s basically wake up or die at that point.
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November 14th, 2009 at 9:35 am
By the way, my husband happened to read your post about your cupcakes the other day and when he saw I was on your site just now he said, “Oh it’s the nipple cupcakes lady!”.
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November 14th, 2009 at 9:47 am
With Tooty, she would always jump up on the counters. But if there was something in the sink, she would try to eat whatever leftovers were in there.
She also attacked many household appliances such as the toaster (we had to keep the door shut) and although not an appliance, the garbage can. She used to knock it over and eat what was inside until we got a new one.
And if your eyes were off your food for more than a few seconds, that cat ate it all up.
November 14th, 2009 at 9:53 am
If you have a pet then they rule your house. We are pet free at the moment. I think this might be the only time in my life that’s happened!
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November 14th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Oh yes, they rule!
Two cats here are faucet drinkers, another is a tub drinker.
I gave up on them drinking from bowls years ago.
I have a fountain
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November 14th, 2009 at 10:14 am
My girl Charlie loves to watch the neighborhood kids get on and off the bus. In the morning she will whine until the blind is open and whine when each one gets on the bus. In the afternoon, she barks. I have no clue as to how this became her habit. If I ever forget to put the blinds up, when I’m out of the house, I come home to them on the floor.
November 14th, 2009 at 10:30 am
Hmmm. Let’s see.
1. We haven’t had a Christmas tree in three years.
2. He gets cookies at appointed times each night. Every single night, we have the “Did Seamus get his cookies yet?” Conversation, usually because he’s rubbing himself all over the pantry door like a Temptations crack whore. Whether he already had them or not.
3. The blinds have to be raised to a certain level because if he can’t see out, he will DESTROY them.
4. He gets a daily ‘family hug’.
5. We nap when he tells us to, by sitting and purring and blinking slowly.
6. Himself, who initially didn’t even want a cat, will occasionally say, “Isn’t Seamus the best cat in the whole world?”
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November 14th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Oh my goodness how much time and space do we have here? We had a cat like – only would drink from the faucet. Miss Frankie Fat-Butt will only drink from a cup freshly filled and put on the counter for her. We obviously arrange ourselves in bed to accommodate the cats; when they have occupied all the seats in the living room we sit at the table; when they occupy all the available seats at the table we sit in the living room. Of course when one of us has COL (cat-on-lap), the other has to get up and get whatever is needed/wanted. The list goes on and on – our lives revolve around them. I just had this conversation with Zeke yesterday – he agreed – it’s all about them!
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November 14th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Hickory the Wonder Dog used to nudge me as I was sitting comfortably on the couch so that I would get up to let him go outside. At which point he would jump up onto the couch where I was sitting and take my place. Now he’s too old to get up on the couch, so I win! (Finally.)
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November 14th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
As of yet Mabel isn’t too bad apart from making sure one of us is awake each morning between 5am and 6.30am.. which is not too bad on working days but weekends – she hasn’t got the hang of those yet! lol
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November 14th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Kathy i think my cat is a clone of yours, except the faucet he smashes his head into is the BATHTUB. He loves the bathtub tries to suck water from the faucet when it is off. i am going to get one of those fountain style water dishes just to see if it gets him out of the tub!!!
And people claim cats hate water…yea right i have never had a cat that hated water all mine loved to splash it in and now this one wants to marry the faucet!
November 14th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
My cat drinks out of the toilet. I’m ashamed to admit this. I don’t know where she learned this trick, not from the dog who can’t reach the toilet unless he jumps onto the rim with his front paws and since he is deathly afraid of water he stays away from the toilet. The worst part about the cat drinking from the toilet, aside from the gross factor, is that she gets her front paws in the bowl to position herself and then leaves little kitty paw prints all over the seat.
Aside from the that she rules the house by making that meow noise until she gets whatever it is she wants. Thankfully the daughter likes to “play” with her and when she is around the cat hides.
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November 14th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
One of our cats licks the tub faucet and then gets up on the tub ledge and bites the shower curtain. She also awakens us almost every night by thumping around on our bed and then on my desk. Oh, and she has been known to walk across my laptop while I’m using it and turn it off with her paws.
Both our cats absolutely rule the house. There’s no escaping it.
Your Shadow is gorgeous, BTW. Ours are grey but both have the same little white locket that Shadow does -
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November 14th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
I have a tap cat too at home, but fortunately she’s not that obsessive about it. You should try a pet fountain – some cats simply need the feel of running water.
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November 14th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
LOL…same problems with my cat. If she can’t get water out of the faucet and has to resort to her water bowl, she will put one of her paws in it.
After my shower she has to get in and lick the water off of the back of my legs.
When she hears me brushing my hair, I have to get her brush and do hers.
She gets under the covers with me and sticks her cold feet on my stomach. Vicks Vaporub seems to be the only for that one.
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November 14th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Hey, Shadow! I like to sit in the sink, too! I do not usually drink from the faucet, but I will just sit in the sink for hours at a time.
We cannot have water in a bowl on the floor because Harley plays in the water and dumps it all over the place. He is a very Bad cat.
ps: I am going to do a post about waters on Monday!
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November 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I had a friend whose cat liked to drink out of the faucet in the bathtub. I have two dogs that MUST sleep plastered against my sides in bed. One on each side. If they were any bigger I’m sure they’d have found a way to push me out of bed by now.
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November 14th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
Awwww……Shadow is so sweet! And she totally owns that sink. I’m not letting my cats look at your website. They don’t need to get any new ideas for tormenting us.
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November 14th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Oh geesh, how don’t we cater to the cats around here?! Let’s see :
As big as Hobbes is, he has the puniest meow. So, when he “talks” we listen, and typically do what he asks, like let him outside, let him in, let him in the garage, let him in, etc. He also loves to sit his 47 lb frame on my chest every single morning for a little love. Okay, so I’m SLEEPING–no big deal. Ugh.
As for Grace, she doesn’t ask for much, so like you, I turn on and off the faucet for her. It drives me crazy.
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November 14th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
Whitey did a post on drinking from the faucet today! How funny. Then he licks the water off my dishes. Srsly.
http://dailygs.com
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November 14th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
My Big Kitty is 12 and he loves drinking water from the bathroom sink…my husband would never go for him or Girl Whirl sitting in the kitchen sink…me either…but the upstairs bathroom…no worries for BK up there…they’re funny our felines…:))
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November 14th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
My parents dog will only drink out of the toilet. Only if the seat is up. And only while being flushed. And she won’t eat anything large. You can leave an entire cheeseburger on the floor and she won’t eat it. Break a chunk off however….
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November 14th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I just read this to my sister and she told me her daughters cat does the same thing….they are so funny…they think they rule and now that I think about it maybe they do…
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.co
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November 14th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Our cats weren’t allowed on the tables or counters, but they were allowed on the bathroom sink. At least one cat drank from the bathroom faucet, for a long time it had a slow leak and he’d bat it. My husband worked second shift and the cat would sit and watch out the window for him to come home and get quite agitated if he was late. He got in the trash can once and I caught him. I slapped the lid on the nearly empty can and banged a bit on the side (made for racket than anything). Needless to say, when the lid came off he flew like a bolt of lightening and stayed hid for a while. A couple days latter I dropped a little chunk of cheddar cheese on the chair where he was laying and he jumped an ran like it was a deadly snake. It was then I realised that it was the moldy cheddar cheese that he had gotten in the trash can for. He ran from cheddar cheese for MANY years. This same cat played fetch with cellophane wrappers.
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November 14th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Haha that photo is classic! I love hearing about cats that drink out of the faucet – mine runs away as soon as we turn the water on – probably because she assumes that means it’s bath time!
November 14th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Sounds just like Livvie. She didn’t exactly sit in the sink, but stood on the drainer and waited for us to turn on the tap. When she got too old to jump up she howled until we lifted her up. We tried the running water thingy and she wouldn’t go near it! Thankfully she got old enough that she kind of forgot she only drank from the sink tap and she suddenly started to drink from a bowl on the floor.
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November 14th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Spunky Doodle used to like drinking from the faucet but now likes to drink from the dog’s big water bowl and the dog likes to drink from the cat’s little one (unless she’s just doing that to get back at the cat for drinking from hers).
Here’s a link to the post I did with the video of Spunky at the faucet: http://zemeks.blogspot.com/2009/02/drinking-at-sink-by-spunky-doodle.html
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November 14th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Oh, yeah…Shadow knows that she has you EXACTLY where she wants you.
Because of my dogs, I can never sleep in past 6:00 am–when they get hungry, I get a paw in the eye. I drive home from work each day at lunchtime to let Patches out, because he drinks a lot and can’t hold his wee all day. They sleep in my bed, take up all the space on the sofa, and barf all over the rug. (Don’t even get me started on the vet bills.) I’m a total sucker for them, and I wouldn’t give them up for anything.
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November 14th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Our indoor-outdoor cat Peggy used to wake me up early in the morning to let her out because I was closest to the door. She’d sit there and think at me: “I want to go out, I want to go out” until I woke up enough to let her out. However, unless it was bad weather she was out until the first person got up for the day.
If she couldn’t get us to feed her, she’d feed herself. We kept the bag of food in the kitchen with the top folded down, and she’d stick her paw in and drop some food on the floor and eat it. She’d do it several times in a row until she was satisfied. Once, I saw her grab several handfuls before she ate, but usually it was a few pieces at a time.
Peggy also liked to bat twisties across the floor, or twigs with dried chinaberries on them. Kept her amused for hours.
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November 14th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Snowchief the Cat knows when it is time for us to get up and he objects to us staying in bed past a certain time. He also knows when we’re supposed to go to bed, and he sits at the top of the stairs and makes an awful sound if we arent up there in time. He keeps us on a schedule.
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November 14th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
i refuse to admit that the cat runs the show here, but she has started sitting on the furniture, like in the living room. and on the bed when she doesn’t need to be there. uh hello.
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November 14th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Our cat Jackpot, AKA Snackpot, sits in a chair at the dinner table with us as if he’s waiting for a plate. We don’t feed him what we eat, but he will cry like a starved child if we’re eating anything pork.
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November 14th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
My cat Oreo will scratch on my dresser mirror if he wants out of the room. He’s even done this when the door is open…
The sound of nails on glass is awful!
November 14th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
OMG…I’m laughing so hard at this because I’m such a cat lover, and know what you mean.
“I can sit here all day. I own you and you know it.”
I once had a cat who would only drink water out of the toilet. And god forbid we left the toilet seat down!
Shadow is ADORABLE!
Meow, kitty!
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November 14th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I have one cat that sits and stares at me until I give him a cat treat at bed time. Then if I get up in the night, before I can go back to bed, there he is again waiting.
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November 14th, 2009 at 11:41 pm
This is so funny! We have three cats. Cajsa, who looks alot like your cat, thinks she owns me because she was first. She loves to drink from the bathroom faucet. But it’s not so much of a problem because she also drinks out of her water-bowl.
She sat next to me while I was writing this comment, but gave up and left me because I did not pet her.
Best wishes
Anna
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November 15th, 2009 at 12:41 am
I don’t have a cat, but man, I feel your pain. It could be worse. You could be giving in to her constant whining about having the car.
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November 15th, 2009 at 12:55 am
OMG, I have that same cat, expect if mine did that she would be launched across the kitchen.
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November 15th, 2009 at 1:28 am
One of our cats sits by the shower in one of our bathrooms, crying until someone cracks open the door and briefly runs the water. He then gets in and proceeds to lap the water up off the shower floor. I have never seen him drink from a bowl. Outside he laps the water off tables, cars, anywhere it has collected after rain. Cats can be weird.
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November 15th, 2009 at 3:27 am
Theresa lets Newton sleep under the covers. I hate, yet tolerate, the practice.
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November 15th, 2009 at 7:18 am
My cat always did that too, you could hear her galloping through the house when she realised that you were entering the bathroom. And the little kitty faucet would never work, cats wont ever do what we want them to do, nor use the things we want them to use. They’re wonderful little furry things.
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November 15th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Firs off I LOVE that picture, what a pretty cat. I had a cat once that was on a very strict feeding schedule (his idea not mine) If I was not up at promptly 5 a.m. he would get up on the bed and repeatedly bop me in the head until I got up and fed him
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November 15th, 2009 at 7:58 am
VetTech — That’s what I’m afraid of. Another wasted purchase on a cat who’s way too picky.
Carole — Ouch! A ten pound cat is heavy enough when it’s on your chest. About your second comment, I’d love to be forever known as the Nipple Cupcakes Lady. Thank your husband.
Regan — I remember hearing about your problems with the trash can. Geesh. That’s only supposed to be a problem with dogs, isn’t it?
Buggys — Enjoy it!
Cats Goats Quotes — I don’t understand the fascination with tub drinking. Ew. I mean, it’s not like we don’t put fresh water in a cute little dish. What’s wrong with that?
daughterbonnie — Aw, Charlie misses her humans. That’s sweet. Annoying, but sweet.
Shieldmaiden1196 — “Temptations crack whore.” Hilarious. BTW, we don’t know what Temptations are. Never bought them. And won’t now because we don’t want our cats addicted if they’re that good. I love the idea of a family hug, and having met Seamus, I’m aware of the “slow blink.” It’s mesmerizing and it WORKS, I’m sure.
Grace — Oh, you are absolutely ruled by your cats. Shadow sometimes does what your Frankie Fat-Butt does. She just started stealing water from cups I’ve just poured. This is not good. Not good at all!
CatLadyLarew — There is no worse feeling that moving a pet off a comfortable spot on the couch. We won’t do it either. Luckily, at least one of our cats can’t get up there anymore. One of the other two always lays on the top of the couch in her crater. The other guy is the troublemaker, because he burrows under blankets on the couch. We always have to check for him first, or SPLAT!
Lady Banana — Pets know difference between a workday and a weekend day. Sadly, we go through this too and I’m usually the one who loses the battle. Husband gets to keep sleeping.
Melissa k — I always worry when Shadow does the smashing thing, esp. because she’s already gotten an infection. It’s pitiful to watch her keep going at a faucet that isn’t running. Good luck if you buy one of those fountain thingies. I really don’t think Shadow will take to it.
Jen — Our ucky used to go into the toilet, so that put an end to leaving the seat up. So gross!!! We have to constantly use a disinfectant cleaner on the counter top because Shadow’s up there all the time. I really wish I could break her of this. Paws on the seat would send me over the edge.
Lidian — Shadow loves to lick plastic. Is that why yours loves to bite the shower curtain? Weird cats! Shadow says thank you for the compliment. She does have another white patch, but it’s on her big fat belly and we hardly ever see it. I love her locket too.
Anne at CatsGoShopping — Thought about the fountain, but she’s really not a fan of drinking off the floor. Well, not out of the bowl at least. She will dump the water and then lap it up that way. Weirdo.
Tango — My Lucky does the “paw in water” thing. He also drops food in the water to watch it fall to the bottom. Annoying to no end. Your cat licks your legs?! How strange. Glad you found a remedy for the blanket thing, but what a stinky solution.
Daisy the Curly Cat — See. That’s why you’re such a good kitteh. I can just imagine Harley making a BIG MESS. Can’t wait for your waters post tomorrow. Splash time!
Surfie — I’d worry about suffocation! One of our cats sleeps under the blankets, which is a very dangerous place to be. He’s only 12 lbs, so he must be very careful to move whenever a human rolls over, or it’s curtains for him.
Pop and Ice — Shadow thanks you! Yeah, I’m sure your cats have enough tricks up their paws.
Lin — Aw, Hobbes has somethin’ to say! Our Lucky didn’t used to speak up when he was a baby. He’d open his tiny mouth and nothing would come out. But now he’s a real talker and yes, we do whatever he asks, like you. Was “47lbs” a typo? Please tell me you don’t have that big a cat!
Barb WillThink4Wine — Loved Whitey making sure all your dishes were “clean.” It’s like “Thanks, but no.”
amy lilley — Does your Big Kitty only drink splashed water on the sink? Or must you constantly turn the faucet on? That’s the biggest pain of all this. We always have to remember to turn off the water. One time, hubs turned it on in the morning (just a little), and let it run all day because he forgot to turn it off. Ugh.
Kelley — That seems to be a common behavior with dogs. So gross. Maybe they just need a really big bowl? I would eat a giant cheeseburger off the floor. Kidding. Sorta.
Dorothy Stahlecker — Oh, most definitely. Thankfully, Shadow is busy chattering at birds right now. So I’m not popping up to turn on the water. Gee, thanks Shadow.
Moonshadow — Wow, how do you keep them off counters? As for the cheddar cheese, I guess the lesson here is for me to find something like that that repulses Shadow and put it out everywhere on my sink!
Katie — Oh, how I wish Shadow would be scairt of water! No such luck. I just now got up to get coffee and she jumped up on the sink right away. “Mommy! Please turn the water on!”
Babs Beetle — I hope we never go as far as to lift Shadow up on the counter when she can’t jump up there on her own. But when she gives us that pity look, who knows what’ll happen. I would rather one day she decides that the water on the floor is GOOD ENOUGH!
Karen — I love Spunky at your sink! She’s so thoughtful about it. Whereas, Shadow’s actively licking the whole time. Spunky is spunky if she’s daring to drink out of the dog’s dish. Go Spunky! She’s the one who likes to be spun on a chair, right?
absepa — We have high vet bills, too, mostly because of our elderly cat needing more care now. We would do anything for them. And. they. know. it.
Ladybuggz — Aw, I love that she can feed herself! I think we’d all love a “self help” cat!
A Valdese Blogger — Aw, so sweet. “Come on, people! There’s sleeping to be had!”
Natural — And that’s how it starts….
TheWordWire — I love reading all these cool cat names. Jackpot Snackpot! Hey, I cry like a starved child when there’s pork nearby.
Newbuffalomom — And they know you hate that sound and that’s why they do it! I’m convinced, despite their golf ball-sized brains, cats are way smarter than us.
Ron!!!! (you will forever have exclamation points after your name) — One of my three cats loves the toilet (he licks his butt, so this makes sense, doesn’t it?), so now we have to keep the lids down. Giant pain! Shadow says thank you for all the compliments.
grannyann — Oh, the cat stare. That is deadly and effective. You are ruled. Welcome to the club.
Anna’s Adornments — You’re lucky. It seems like Cajsa (what a pretty name) knows when to not push her luck. Cajsa, just come back when Momma’s done!
Margaret (Nanny Goats) — Touche!
Carla — I wonder if the launching would help? Of course, Shadow weighs 20lbs., so any kind of launching would probably result in me needing a chiropractor.
Will — What amazes me is that we respond to our cats’ insane requests for attention. LIke they couldn’t live without the water! You’re a good cat dad.
Knucklehead — But Newton loves it! You must bow to the the Newton!
Wynn — I think my head would explode if I ever got a dog. What? You’ll behave and listen to commands? We’ll always have cats, but that means we’ll never truly rule our own house.
ann — Shadow will nudge under my arm and almost lift it up, so she gets fed. And Lucky will scream and yell for an hour if you can stand it. Sometimes I like to get up, as though I’m about to feed them, and go to the bathroom instead then immediately return to bed. Psyche!
November 15th, 2009 at 8:03 am
My dog Sam sits on the porch and looks in the window where I’m working at the computer until I either let him in or give him a pig ear. He’s a big baby that we rescued from the pound.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Oh my gosh…that is the funniest thing ever. Mine has only gone so far as to throw his big body over the side of the toilet.
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November 15th, 2009 at 8:46 am
Wow this is a great post. The comments are hesterical. My cats definitely rule and own me. All I do all day is feed them or let them in for 30 seconds and then let them out. They love to keep me busy. Luckily none of them drink out of the faucet but we are lucky that most of them stay outside most of the time. There are 20 of them here and they all want to eat at a different time of day so I just walk around with a container full of cat food.
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November 15th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Fred the Farm cat used to do this until he got eaten by the mountain lion. Now Sherpa the Farm Kitten does the same thing. The male person thought he would be funny as they have a water control stick on the faucet in the bathroom that Sherpa liked to play with so the male person turned the water on and when Sherpa hit the stick Sherpa got all wet. heh heh
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November 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Oh, Sha-DO! Silly girl.
I was going to suggest a water fountain until I read that you didn’t think it would satisfy the strange needs of Shadow. But it really might be worth a try. Imagine how much more free time you’d have if you weren’t running to the faucet every two minutes.
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November 15th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I have 4 fur babies at the moment. When I moved into my current place, the kitchen and bathroom sinks both dripped and my 2 cats that defy me by getting on the counter were obsessed with the drippy faucets. After the faucets were fixed, we had the battle of wills. It is amazing the depth of glare a cat can give! but I won! I bought a Drinkwell and they all love it, I am filling it up almost every day.
November 15th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Right now, there is a lizard in my house (uninvited and not a pet!) and that lizard is ruling my every movement.
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November 15th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Toby is our cat. Toby drinks from the toilet. Toby sleeps next to me on the bed with his head on my pillow. Toby wakes us up at 6:00 am every day, he does not take weekends off even though we would like to. Toby sits at the dinner table and watches us eat and converse, we do slip him little tidbits of dinner. Toby thinks he is a human.
November 15th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
My cat wants to go outside. All.the.time. She’s supposed to be an indoor cat. She slips outside and about 10 minutes later, now that it is getting colder, she goes to the front door and waits for us to open it. Again. Like we always do. Because she has us trained.
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November 15th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Angel Kitty refuses to move from her position holding down the covers on the bathroom door side of my bed so if I have to get up to pee I have to walk around the bed, and I usually trip over something. She also purrs with her nose on my nose when I’m sleeping and she wants to be petted, normally around 3AM. And she likes her water bowl to be full to the top so she can stick her paws in it and dump it. She also prefers to be called Queen Angelique Muffin, and referrs to the rest of us as “peasants.”
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November 16th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Our dumb dog eats toilet paper – we have to hide the roll of tp, so as a result the kids are always yelling “mom, come wipe my butt!” (not really, just though it sounded funny)
Sheila
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November 16th, 2009 at 7:02 am
Ha, yes. Cats, huh? LOL!
So now we only have greyhounds, but no animal does ‘the eyes’ like a greyhound. They are past masters at it. If your greyhound wants something, they will bore a hole right through your skull and out the other side. And woe betide anyone who ignores that, because they’re likely to fall over a 33kg body slumped right across whichever doorway you happen to want to pass through. And they can move as is they’ve been teleported – you think you’ll go round the other way? Forget it. In that ten seconds it takes to cross the room to another door, they’ve relocated.
November 16th, 2009 at 9:26 am
My cat, BB, will read to me when it’s time to get up (at least it’s not as early as 5am … you poor folks). Whatever book is laying on my nightstand, paperback or hardcover, she will try to flip the pages of it like she’s digging in her litter box. Arghhhhhh.
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November 16th, 2009 at 9:54 am
My cat pushes the water bowl all over the kitchen floor too. If we leave the faucet dripping she will drink from it but she’s content to drink from the bowl otherwise, but not without making a huge mess.
She’s the most socially needy cat I’ve ever had. And if she feels neglected (it’s been more than 2 mins since her last ear scritchin’) she has taken to laying on her back in the middle of the floor with all of her paws sticking straight up. Why she does this? Probably because we accidentally taught her that this will get our attention. Can’t help it, it’s funny.
She also greets me at the door as soon as I get home from work. And when she hears my daughter coming in from school, she runs like a maniac to sit right at the door until she gets in.
If I give her a can of food, instead of dry, she only licks the gravy off the meat and then yowls that she’s starving while there’s a bowl full of perfectly good meat just sitting there.
As soon as I pull a can of tuna from the cabinet, she’s all over me. We let her clean the can. If we don’t, she’ll tip the trash can over to get to it. It’s just easier to indulge her.
I have to pull up the blinds to let her look out the window during the day or she will destroy them.
What else? Oh yea, I can’t have friends over because she hisses at them the entire time they are there. Even the ones she should know by now. She’s such a mama’s girl.
Whew. That was a long comment. I should’ve just said that she controls me. Because she does.
November 16th, 2009 at 11:53 am
How funny..did she start out doing that. they said it’s hard to teach on old dog new tricks, It must be hard to teach the cat,lol.
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November 16th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
So I suppose you’ve got enough entries to submit something of serious quality to that Cats In Sinks blog, eh?
November 16th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Oh my that’s funny. If you want her to stop you could try that bitter apple spray they sell in pet stores. My dog likes to pee on my daughters drapes so that’s fun.
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November 16th, 2009 at 12:50 pm
How about a dog, who after licking the water bowl dry, slams it into every imaginable thing she can find to bang it on? Or who sits on the floor at the end of the ned and whimpers until you let her up on it, so she can sleep on your feet, but when you wake up, she is on your chest?
Some people try to sneak off alone in their house to get away from their kids. My wife and i do it to get away from the dogs.
But still they find us.
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Kathy:
Ah, yes, we have cat too. Her name is Trixie and she is seventeen years old. An old cat lady.
We got Trixie for our dearest and youngest little daughter. But now our daughter has moved away to her adulthood and, of course, Trixie remains home with us.
Trixie always sits with her back to us. We don’t know why. We try to bribe her with various things: anti-hairball food, senior formula, milk, but we only get her backside. She acts like she is oblivious to our presence. In fact, she is the absolute personification of a cat-saying I once read: Matter, antimatter and it doesn’t matter.
But, hey, we’re so happy that your cat loves you so much.
Happy trails.
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November 16th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Well, in our house it’s pretty equal. While the cat is trained to not climb on any food surface (counter and table) we are trained to pet her whenever she demands it, and make space for her on the couch when she wants to sleep there between us. The dog (Irish Wolfhound) has learned many commands, but we have learned more. He will stare at a morsel of food, until we give it to him. He will come to us the stare in our face until we pet him, scratch him, brush him, or let him out. If he wants to play, we have to play now. If he doesn’t want to play, he stands there ans looks at us all dignified.
They both have a time schedule of when we are supposed to go to bed and get up, and will enforce it by meowing, barking, walking across the face or cold nosing the back of the neck.
Yes, they tag team us shamelessly.
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November 16th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
My cat May loves to sleep in my bed, to the point where throughout the night I end up jammed up against the wall or sleeping on the far edge of my bed with no blankets.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
My adult cat Smokey refuses to drink out of his water bowl, fresh water or not he doesn’t care. He stays on the side of my shower until I am done and then hops in to drink that water and the kitten loves to only drink from our sink too. I don’t understand why they are so picky! LOL
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November 16th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Data Entry Services — Shadow was a rescue too! Yea for us! If Sam is a fan of pig ear, I am a fan of his. Tell him I said so.
Sherri — What is it with cats and toilets? I thought they were supposed to want to be clean!
Marg Elmendorf — With 20 cats, I really can’t imagine you doing much else than serving their needs. You must have been a cat in a previous life and been treated really well!
Pricilla — You’d better be kidding about the mountain lion thing! Poor Sherpa. I bet it taught him a good lesson.
JD at I Do Things — I don’t know what I’d do with all that time. I’m serious. At least ten times a day, and that’s just me. Dave does it just as much. She needs an intervention.
Andrea — I’m checking out this Drinkwell thing. If you can win, I can win too.
Sherry — What? What?
jackie d — Toby is a human and Toby rules. Toby is also a very smart kitteh.
Lisa — I’m glad you understand why you go to work every day. It’s to pay for a very large home for your cat.
Kim — Damn. Angel Kitty has you wrapped around her little paw. Our Lucky has water dish issues like your cat. Annoying as hell, but it makes us laugh.
sheila sultani — We haven’t hung a roll of TP on the holder for at least ten years. We should just have them removed.
Jay — At least our cats are small(ish). I don’t know how long I’d last with a dog in the house that is as big as a person. You go girl!
Jenny Paust — What an interesting tic your cat has. Of course, they know what works and it gets you up, right? My Lucky thoroughly enjoys digging a hole to China in his litter box. Serves two purposes: It makes a huge mess I have to clean up, and it gets my butt out of bed.
April — Sounds like it! Um, and does your cat also think it’s a dog, because that’s very doggy behavior. We had a cat once (Calvin, RIP) who was sure he was a dog in a cat’s body. We indulged him just the same.
AuntieE — Yes, when we brought her home for the first time, she allowed herself a day to be confused and then quickly figured out the water dish was no suitable to her tastes. Up on the counter she went and has been there ever since.
Jenn Thorson — I was thinking of that! Yes, I have a dozen pictures of her in the sink. I’m doing it!
Jill at modernmommyblog — Oooo, never heard of that! WE thought of putting pots and pans up there so scare her when she jumped up, but then my kitchen would be more cluttered than it already is. Sorry about your curtains.
Chris Casey — She sounds loud and heavy. But you love her more than anything I bet. Welcome to the club.
Swubird — I love how anti-social Trixie is. We have an elder cat, too. We have to make appointments to see her. She pretty much decides when and if we are worthy enough.
Susan Montgomery — Isn’t it amazing what we’ll put up with for the love of our pets? I’ve so enjoyed reading all these comments. We are all loving pet parents. Crazy, but loving!
Deb — And if you bought May a bed of her own, how much you wanna bet she’d still chase you out of yours?
Brandy — The shower thing perplexes me. Shadow will sometimes go into my husband’s shower after he’s done, but not my shower. Is she trying to tell me something? Am I not clean enough. Geesh!
November 16th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
Mt cat Pauly looks just like Shadow.The white spot on his neck is heart shaped. He drinks out of the fish bowl(vase). When I feed the fish he jumps up and tries to lick all the flakes off the surface of the water. The fish quickly tries to gulp the flakes from below. To give the fish a less frantic breakfast I put food in the cat’s bowl first, behind the basement door. Shut the door then feed the fish. Wait 15 minutes or so. Open the door and the cat races for the fish bowl. He has also been known to sit in the bathtub after a shower and lick the faucet or shower curtain.
November 17th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Yes! I have 4 cats and 2 of them insist on drinking from the bath tub faucet. I know what you’re going through, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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November 18th, 2009 at 4:04 am
Ahhhahahahahah, that is so funny! My boy-cat is incredibly insistent about when he goes outside or comes inside, and he smashes the front door fly-screen with – I assume – his paws to let us know, and he gets his paws under the bedroom door to pull it back and forth in it’s loose door setting which makes it bang very loud and obnoxiously to wake us up and let him out.
My girl-cat has taken to demanding wet-food constantly. Every time I go into the kitchen she’s there, demanding food, even if there’s stuff in there!
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November 18th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Great post!
I have a 30lb dog and a 20lb cat and I’m sure you can guess who rules the show, right? right. Oreo the kitty.
He MUST have at least half a bowl of food. If the crunchies get below half a bowl, he’s on my case until I fill it.
I MUST get in the bath with me, or if I have a shower, he must get in the shower after I’m done and lick the tub (EW!) and the faucet. Gives whole new meaning to “I’d drink her bathwater!”
After the dog has gone out for the second time in the morning, it is treat time. I don’t get any peace to do anything until the treats have been doled.
I love the ways that they rule my life. They are the best friends ever and I’d do anything for them.
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November 18th, 2009 at 8:57 am
I have had cats before and they are the strangest things. They bring you present, cleann themselves and go to the toilet. Who is looking after who here!!!!!
November 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am
One of ours would only drink from the faucet. But we did get her to switch to a pet fountain with a charcoal filter. We set it up by her faucet. Took a bit before she decided to use it.
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November 21st, 2009 at 10:59 am
No cats here (terribly allergic) but a sweet doggie. He somehow got in the habit of demanding a treat if you leave the house. Even if it’s just to get the mail, or check something on the front stoop, he’ll whine & follow till rewarded…for…what? And if there’s two of you, this dog can COUNT. He’ll hound you individually. Scary…
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November 21st, 2009 at 1:46 pm
If you want to mess with Shadow (you probably don’t, but I love stuff like this), here is an easy way. It may even convince her not to be in the sink.
I notice that you have a sprayer on your kitchen sink. You could point it to where Shadow usually sites and use a rubber band to hold the trigger down. Now when you turn the water on, she will get sprayed.
It would be better hygiene for you if she drank out of the bathtub or really anywhere besides the kitchen sink. Cute cat, though. Good thing you know who is boss!
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November 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 pm
I bought one of those waterers that you’re talking about for my dog after a friend with a cat told me it stopped the cat from drinking out of the toilet. Sure enough, it stopped my dog from doing the same. Unfortunately, last Thanksgiving I forgot to unplug it before going out of town and burnt up the motor.
You could get one of those really tall ones for big dogs, and maybe that would be more like the water coming out of the sink than one of the lower ones because the water would drip out higher.
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November 24th, 2009 at 10:28 am
god i miss my cat……Always would sleep under the covers with me , liked to drink out of the bathroom sink.. And would go nutz when people would come over. My best friend came over once and my cat was vigorously rubbing her head against his knee. (must have smelled something she liked) And my friend isn’t that much of a cat person so he tried to gently push her away… She swung around and grabbed his hand in her jaws.. Didn’t draw blood or anything but it shocked the hell out of me and him.. She never did anything like that before or sense.. Like i said.. i miss my little furball
November 24th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Our cat will drink out of his own water bottle mostly and only when one of us holds it for him – we “water” him 4 or 5 times a day. He wins this battle because he nearly died from kidney failure and gets dehydrated so easily.
He used to drink from the tap in the tub and from a fountain, but has decided he prefers the personalized service, but every once in awhile I catch him drinking from his bowl when he thinks no one is looking.
Makes boarding him expensive, as they charge extra for the special watering routine!
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November 26th, 2009 at 4:38 am
I completely know what you’re talking about!
My cat also drinks from sinks, and he miaos until I open the stream, but somehow we manage well with this habit.
We manage less in those cases when he wants attention and I’m busy. He starts to nag, and he has endless strategies to get what he wants. The worse strategy (that unfortunately works) is when he walks on the counter where the wine glasses are, carefully manages between them, looks at me to see that I’m paying attention, and then pushes one of the glasses to fall on the floor and break… I can swear that he has a small vicious smile on his face!!