So I just got a call from my mom, she’s at home today. And she’d gone upstairs to put some towels away in the bathroom when she noticed Oscar and Emmy just sitting there, frozen. Emmy is scared of everything and will run the second anyone comes up the stairs, no matter who it is, so this was a little odd for her to stand still. So my mother went into the bathroom, neither cat moved. She put the towels away, neither cat moved. She walked out of the bathroom, still, neither cat moved. So a couple of minutes later, my dad goes upstairs. Same thing. Neither cat moves, they just have this “Oh, crap, we’re caught” look on their faces. And my dad sees exactly WHY they have this caught look on their face.
Turns out they’d made the toilet into their own personal swimming pool. There was water ALL OVER the bathroom - they even managed to get some out in the hallway. I’m not sure what they were doing in there, but they managed to soak the bathroom pretty well. I’d expect this behavior from Oscar - he’s like a two-year-old of the cat world, but Emmy is usually well-behaved and never does anything like this. I’m so proud:).
It’s never been an issue before! Seriously - I have never seen either cat playing in the toilet before. And I’ve had cats my entire life and never put the lid down before except when they were kittens.
How is it unclean, though? I’m really curious now. And believe me, we’ll start putting the lids down now unless we want to be cleaning up water all the time.
Okay, I’m an idiot…I thought about it. We never considered it because it’s the upstairs bathroom and we’re the only ones who use it. But I get what you mean now.
And a friend of mine just reminded me that it’s possible for cats to drown in the toilet, so the lid will be going down from now on - I would be devastated if anything happened to these two under the guise of play.
And it wasn’t so much the playing in the toilet part as it was the looks on their faces and the guilt when my mom found them. They’re just too funny when they pull this stuff. if you don’t know, EVERY cat is the world’s cutest, mine are just especially so:p .
The lid is always down at my house (my mom once dropped her favourite lipstick and it bounced off the sink into the toidy). And with Fatcat, the flushing wonder – lid must be down!
For anyone who doesn’t remember my Yuletide post: On Christmas Eve I forgot to shut the toidy lid. Fatcat flushed catnip toy… clogged toilet… big, BIG flood!
My cats drink out of the toilet. But now that I think about it, my parents used to keep the lids down so the cat wouldn’t drown. I’ll have to bring this up to Mr. Kalhoun tonight. When we bring the NEW KITTEN home! Ohmygod I am so excited!
Anyhoo, my cat, known around the house as the Troublemaker, learned how to sort through cans in the cabinet until she finds the one that contains Pounce. Then she wings it down on the ground so the top comes off. Then she pigs out. She actually went through a few different cans, throwing them out of the way, until she found the one she was looking for. Her sister, Goodie Two-Shoes, would never do such a thing.
Sorry, baby…ScottiKitty (Kobii) is actually officially the cutest kitty in the world. [sub]she is almost certainly more of a pain in the neck than yours, though…[/sub]
A buddy of mine had two cats, Azzie and Ellie, short for Azimuth and Elevation-he worked for a spacecraft vendor.
At my kitty peak, there was a litter consisting of Mike, Ike, and Lookalike, all adorable domestic shorthairs whose coloring made it difficult to determine who had torn up what.
IMHO, there is nothing more cute than a kitten going boinkboinkboink all over the room prior to running out like the devil is chasing.
Well, this isn’t a wet picture kitty, but this is when they were caught in the act of something else:D. Oscar’s on the top, Emmy’s on the bottom.
And scout1222, the roomie and I were both writers - hence the names:D. The funny thing was, roomie actually won two Emmys, so we had two Emmys in the house in addition to the real Emmy. No Oscars, unfortunately - of course, since he thinks he is the only Oscar in the world, that was quite fitting. And believe me, I tried my best for a Tony - but two cats was enough at the time. One of these days, I’ll get my Tony:).
My youngest, Zippy, has a toilet fetish. The boy loves toilets… he’s a very strange cat. If you jiggle the toilet handle he comes running so he can peer over the edge and watch the water go down the hole. When he was just a baby, he used to jump up next to the sink to watch me shave.
It’s also not uncommon for us to go into the bathroom and see little kitty pawprints on the toilet seat.
(kidding, all cats are cute and are the world’s cutest)
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