I’m just wondering if the absolutely, undeniably oddest thing that I just saw is, in fact, entirely normal.
We have a large rubber plant in our living room that was recently moved into our bathroom to make room for a larger ficus moving into the LR.
I come home and I see there is dirt all over the floor in the bathroom, a splash spot and nasty, messy, dirt-filled water splatter on the wall. And a cat who is half a wet noodle with dirt all over himself. {{shakes head}} Please, I implore you, do not put large plants in your bathroom if you have cats…It’s asking for trouble.
Also, always make sure to put the seat cover down.
Has anything like this ever happened to any of the teemings?
Does having a cat who manages to fall into the toilet occasionally count? It’s not a deliberate choice on his part - he’s just a spaz who every so often has a “moment” and slips into the bowl.*
*Note: This was lots funnier before he grew to his current behemoth size and still fit into the bowl. Currently, he’s rather too large to fit fully in the bowl without some fairly extreme contortions, but when he was younger (and smaller) he used to not only fall in the bowl, but knock the seat cover down after himself, effectively sealing himself in the toilet bowl. That would cause a truly epic spaz-out on top of the already-existing spaz out that landed his furry ass in the toilet to start with.
Yeah – I’ve told this one before. We always keep the lids down in our bathroom, since the cats use them to jump up onto thw window. One day Pepper Mill opened the lid. Beforee she could do anything, Lotta bounded into the room and jumped up onto the lid (or where the lid ought to be) on the way to the window sill. She fell through into the toilet, of course.
She climbed out, hissing and spitting and laring at Pepper. Mormally, Lotta is the quietest and politest of cats, but there was no way she could pretend that she Meant To Do This (as cats always do after a faux pas, and she thought Pepper had set her up.
My bunny rabbit jumped into the toilet once. I was on the phone to my mom at the time and I dropped the handset, I laughed so hard. Bunny was furious, of course, and flipped me the “bunny finger”* for hours afterwards.
Bunnies have a way of hopping away with an extra little backwards kick towards you when you piss them off.
That is what I think as well for this, Loki tried to jump on the normally lidded toilet so he could launch onto the plant on the bench next to it. He did manage to pull the plant down with him so I think he got a good grip before swooshing into the bowl!
I did not witness this, but the cat we were owned by when I was in college managed to plunk directly into the toilet bowl while a roommate was watching.
That was the day we discovered that cats can levitate.
Not yet, but I’m afraid he will. He has sinus issues and possible asthma, so we give him ‘steam baths’ (turning the hot water on in the shower and letting him sit in the bathroom in the steam) and his favorite spot is to sit on the toilet seat. He is also highly fascinated by us peeing…if I’m not paying close attention he’ll come up and try to bat at the stream. We’ve had to become very careful about keeping the lid down when not actively using the toilet.
Three of our cats climb into the toilet several times a day to drink the fresh, cold water. No amount of attempted retraining has convinced Stretch to drink elsewhere and the two kittens want to do whatever the Big Kitty does. They put their front feet in the bowl and hang in there headfirst while lapping.
No, I don’t think flushing it on them would help.
So, by accident, no. With great deliberateness, yes.
Cleo has never landed in the toilet, but she has taken a header right into the tub when it was half full of water a couple of times. Boy, she was mad, and even madder when hubby and I couldn’t stop laughing at her.
I have a round drum composter you spin to mix the contents. It’s this one.
It’s next to the back wall of the house, a little walkway, then a little pond in front of that.
The other day my little girl cat thought that composter was really interesting as I’d left the top open to let it air out. She jumped on the composter and it immediately started to turn. Little Girlie’s response was to jump away backwards - right into the pond.
I think she’s still mad at me for laughing so loud.
omg, i think i just hurt myself. do you have any idea how hard it is to smother hysterical laughter - and know you have to because the company’s ceo is 15 feet away from your cube in an open air conference room???!!
i started putting the lids down long ago because of kitty water sports. during their respective tenures, peggy, murphy, turk, and now maggie have proven to be enamoured of the porcelain princess. i can remember one memorable occasion when turk was a kitten. i was on the throne conducting business while the divemaster was at the sink washing his hands (no bathroom issues with each other :p), and turk was roaming around nearby.
the very minute i stood up and started to turn to flush, he was airborne and in the bowl before either of us could blink. fortunately, the business was of the liquid variety, so a split second later, the divemaster snatched up the perpetrator and plopped him directly in the shower stall and turned on the cold water.
full-bore cold water. you’ve never heard such a racket in your life.
then he got a nice long extensive warm-water bath, which he didn’t like any more than the cold one, but the upshot is that was his first last and only excursion. maggie has proven to be too smart to jump in, although that doesn’t apply to the bathtub! yes, cats do indeed levitate!
When I was growing up we had two man-made ponds on our property. The cat was walking on the dam on the edge of one of them one day and I was standing on the bank. Something made a loud noise all of a sudden, and she jumped.
But not straight up so when she came back down she was just *slightly *off to the side of where she’d started… on the water side.
The good news is that cats can swim. The bad news is that long-haired cats look like drowned rats when wet, and they *really *don’t like to be laughed at.
We used to have a couple of large fish tanks, and our cats loved sitting on top of them. Heat from the lights, fishy smells, and up high. What’s not to love.
One day, we had the hood off of one of the tanks, cleaning parts in the adjacent bathroom, when we hear: Sploosh
Mreow
scrabble scrabble scrabble
drip
drip
drip
The cat had tried to jump on top of the tank and fell it. He managed to get a clawhold, haul himself out, and took off across the condo. The dripping noise was water dripping off the ceiling.
Not only have more than one jumped into the toilet but a couple of them actually did it at the same time my boyfriend was in their peeing or right after I stood up. Nothing like chasing down a peed on cat in the middle of the night to bathe it.
When she was a tiny kitten, our Hope did that. I had just finished doing my thing (standing; I’m a guy), and in she ran. No real reason for her to run in; but maybe she found it fun–many times she would run in, launch herself at the closed toilet, and spring from it to the sink, all in one graceful and fluid motion. This time, the toilet wasn’t closed, and it had just been used. In she went–splash! She was too small to get out by herself, so I reached in and took her out. And of course, she went from there straight into a bath.
Since then, when she’s wanted to jump up to the sink, she avoids the toilet. That’s not really a surprise, I guess.
A few days ago one of my kittens jumped up to the edge of the toilet while I was using it and then jumped across the bowl to the other side, getting a brief shower as he did so. Fortunately, she just sat there while I finished, so I was able to just grab him and take him to the sink for a quick wash.
I don’t know if he’s learned anything from this yet. He didn’t greatly object to being washed, other than his usual objection to being held when it’s not his choice.
Having damp kitty paws on me from an affectionate just-been-drinking-out-of-the-toilet is one of the more disgusting things in this world, and is the reason that we keep the lids closed on our toilets. I think it’s pretty sick to let cats drink out of the toilet. Either they’re drinking coliform-bacteria-ridden water or they’re drinking water with harsh cleaning chemical residue, and either way, they are going to come to you with that on their paws/face and get it on YOU. Gross. Gut-wrenchingly gross. Make-me-puke level gross.
