What unspeakable horror am I looking at?
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I think it’s a black cat coming out from behind a shower curtain drinking water from the floor. It’s hard to tell because I’m pretty sure its ears are tucked back and it’s the blackest of vanta blacks.
Ah thank you that helped
We have one that will come running when she hears the freezer open because she knows I always drop at least one ice cube.
One of ours preferred guest bathroom toilet water to any other water in the house. Two clean fountains in separate rooms from her food weren't good enough, it had to be that one toilet.
An old neighbor's tortie wouldn't drink anything except shower water. Cat sitting for that one was hilarious, she drank from a pitcher set underneath the leaky bath tap and never managed to get a drink without getting herself wet and then getting extremely angry about it.
The cat we had when I grew up was amazing, back, thick but short fur, hated being picked up but liked to be petted and to be in the same room as the family, she had small tuffs of hair on hear ears, and almost exclusively drank water in the shower, she would go so far as to come and get one of us, and then lead us to the bathroom and have us turn on the water to give her something to drink.
This is while always having a bowl of water by her food, the water was changed twice daily, so allways fresh for her, but she definately prefered to drink water in the shower.
It's the waters proximity to her food that turned her off of it. Most cats don't like them being close to each other. The running theory I've heard is that, since eating and drinking are separate actions for cats, the proximity makes the standing water seems unsanitary.
Jokes aside cats do prefer running water over stagnant
I got one of the cat bowl water fountains and placed it a few feet from our cat's normal bowl to see which would run out of water first and from that point the normal bowl water level did not move so water fountain it is
We have a fountain but the water left on the floor of the shower immediately after I get out is * chef’s kiss *.
They love the "you soup".
We also have a fountain, but damn if the rain in a watering can isn't delicious.
shower water is just sparkling rain: human flavor
Mine too. Filtered fountain water = EWW Dirty shower floor water = Perrier Water
I don't get it either. We have two,one wants sink drinks when somebody goes to the bathroom and occasionally shower drinks,the other gets shower drinks whenever she can. Its like wut?
It's a source of freshly ran water, guaranteed to be safe!
Think of it this way. Let's say you saw a random glass of water. You don't know how long it's been there or where it came from. Then you see someone pour a glass of water from a nice clean source.
Which glass do you want?
They like running water, but that doesn't explain the disdain for fountains.
I read that it could also be the owners scent, i.e. they drank this water and didn't die, so it must me safe.
I can't speak on any specific disdain for fountains, since my cats have always used theirs. I figure the preference for sink or shower water is related to scarcity. The water fountains are always available, but they can only get the special water on rarer occasions.
Never thought of it as fresh rain water. But yeah the stale water thing makes perfect sense. Guess thats why one likes sink drinks,thought maybe she was bougie,lol
Yep, we have one of those. As soon as I'm home from work she's maowin' at the bathroom door for shower time.
A cat of mine only ever wanted to drink from the bathtub faucet, so I had to leave it dripping just a little bit all the time so he wouldn't get pissed. Also my dog loves to come visit me when I'm taking a bath so she can lick my face and arms to dry me off.
I thought all cats don’t like drinking water close to their food bowl? Its some instinct that food near water could indicate tainted water. Try moving their water bowl to another area
Varies by cat. I've had a couple that didn't want water near their food and a couple that didn't give two shits where their water bowl was as long as it was clean.
Oh interesting. Yeah I've got one cat who will just turn around after eating kibbles and just stay drinking, whereas the other one will run to the bathroom and meow for us to turn on the tap a little
Cats are extremely sensitive to smells and make lots of decisions based on how things smell.
The funny thing is, they're wildly inconsistent about what smells are fit to have near food, what smells are inedible and what smells are offensive enough to try and fix.
Also, pheromones.
Shower water served directly off an unwilling shin is peak pet cuisine.
That is some weird tiles, at first it looked like a carpet with grates.