Puppy-cat was a long haired lavendar Siamese raised by a dog after his mother died. Puppy-cat followed me around like a dog, including sitting on the tub while I took a bath.
Of course, one day he fell in. With his fur wet, Puppy-cat was about the size of a rat.
No harm done, except to Puppy-cat’s dignity.
I once moved into a new apartment from one that only had a shower stall. My cat had never seen a bathtub before. The first time I took a bath, the cat came zooming into the bathroom and directly into the tub. I swear he shifted into reverse millimeters above the water surface, just like in a cartoon, and didn’t even get wet. Funniest thing I ever saw.
You do overreact on an Olympic level, don’t you? If you give a cat a bowl of tap water, they’re getting the same chemicals we get when **we ** drink tap water - chlorine, etc. I happen to keep that toilet VERY clean, and flush it at least three times between scrubbing it and allowing them to drink what is basically tap water out of it. Would you like to tear a strip off me for wasting water, now? Thank your stars my cat’s paws will never touch your delicate self. And try not to think about everywhere your cats put their chocolate starfishes when you’re not around, or the fact that they lick their feces and urine-touched asses then lick the fur that you so lovingly rub your face on or else your puking may escalate to your reacting level.
Before I had dogs and cats I used to have a rat I’d let run around. Daisy was really sweet and would come up on our laps for attention, or escape her cage and climb into bed with us. In any case, I was very lucky that I heard her jump into the toilet one day, because she couldn’t get out on her own.
My current cat doesn’t jump into the toilet, but she likes to come up on the edge of the tub when I bathe, and has fallen in several times. She usually uses me as a launch point to get out and scratches various nude parts of me quite badly. I tend to try and discourage her from visiting me in the tub because of this.
I’ve had a couple of cats that insisted on jumping into the washer. I’d fish them out, continue to load up laundry, fish out the cat again, load more laundry…finally, I had enough. I set the water temp to cold, and started the washer. Now, washers don’t agitate when they start, they just spray cold water into the tub. And yes, cats can levitate.
When I was in college I had a roommate with a cat that loved water. If you were doing the dishes he’d jump right in the sink and wade around. If you were in the shower he’d jump in, and squint his eyes directly into the shower stream, and of course we had to keep the lid closed on the kitty wading pool, er… toilet.
Chocolate starfishes? I’ve never heard that one before. I love it.
All these people telling stories about their cats learning after one toilet trauma incident make me sad, my kitties must be really dumb because it’s happened a few times for each cat.
Apologies for offending your sensibilities with my personal issues. I have Tourette’s Syndrome, which is very similar to OCD. One of the things that I deal with is that when I encounter something gross, or think about something gross, my brain begins to vividly imagine that thing in my mouth. Vividly as in I can’t control it. Vividly as in it has kept me from eating for days at a time because of the nausea. I actually vomited once from something I saw on an SNL sketch. Is this something I enjoy? Fuck no. Is this something I have any control over whatsoever? Unfortunately, no.
Toilets are one of the things I can’t really spend much time thinking about because I begin to gag. The idea of a cat touching the inside of my toilet and then me makes my gorge rise, literally. I don’t know why the litterbox doesn’t have the same affect, but it doesn’t. As I said: OCD. There are things that are triggers and things that aren’t.
It’s a neurological disorder. I live with it as best I can. For me, that means keeping the toilet lid down. Is that ok with you? :rolleyes:
So she says. I think she was just too embarrassed to admit she slipped, when caught drinking out of the toilet. 
On another note the damn thing just puked in three rooms. She just went from liking her to hate her right now. :mad:
It’s the less stupid half of a title to a Limp Bizkit cd released in 2000.
I’ve seen a cat not levitate, but fly. My dog bound into the room our new cat was in, and within 1/2 a second he went from floor to the top of a 7’ tall hutch. It was impressive.
Maggie did this once, as a kitten.
The worst part was trying to give her a bath afterwords. She was NOT very happy.
This post is made of win. Thanks - I needed that.