if my cat doesn’t stop perching on the toilet bowl rim every damn time I have to pee. He’s gonna fall in one of these days, I know it. And when he gets wet (as we found out during the Great Bathtub Dishwashing Extravaganza) it’s not pretty.
Why does he DO that?
Matt, I cannot begin to explain why a cat does what it does. If I don’t completely close the bathroom door, my cat will enter while I’m sitting (or standing) there and proceed to rub against my legs. Ever try kicking a cat away from you while you’re trying to take care of business?
I love the title of this thread. 
As for the cat? Well my experience with cats is that they exist to make us continually shake our collective heads in confusion. I think they get some twisted pleasure from it. Every time my cat does something really odd, I can just imagine him thinking to himself as he saunters away, “Heh, they’ll be thinking about THAT one for a while. Time to puke under the dining room table. My work here is done.”
Your cat MUST be part of whatever you are doing. If you are reading, it must be on your book. If you are talking on the phone, it must rub its body all over the receiver until it manages to hang the phone up. If you are urinating…
Mine used to follow me into the shower and perch on the window ledge. Because if I was in the shower, she must be in the shower. She would try not to get wet, but always fail. Now I live with roommates and I have to close doors when I change/shower, etc., and I can’t count the number of times I open a door and hear “Thud. Meow!” because she was pressed against the door.
Dumb stupid needy cat. 
My cat has continued his quest to be a dog by picking up the drinking-out-of-the-toilet habit. When I go in to use the commode, he comes in a stares at me, as if to say, “HEY! I drink out of that!”
He, too, likes to rub against my legs while I’m sitting there. If I shut the door, he sits right outside and paws at it in attempt to get inside with me.
Weird pussy.
Cats are really needy. At least mine are. Everytime I come out of the shower they’re standing there meowing. If I’m doing dishes, it’s up on the counter. If I’m at my computer typing, it’s on the keyboard, or on my lap, or on the monitor. Cats. sheesh!
But theyr’e so gosh darn cute!
This subject of this thread is definitely not what I was looking forward to when I read the title, but interesting nonetheless.
My parents have a completely asinine cat that gloms onto me whenever I visit because I’m allergic. He sleeps with me, watches me shower and pee, sits on whatever I’m reading, curls up in the sink whenever I’m trying to brush my teeth, and generally makes an adorable nuisance of himself.
Excuse me while I regress about 20 years and giggle childishly at the thought that Ruffian has a weird pussy.
Ok, now that that’s over with, Patches (my cat) also likes to watch when either myself or the GF are in the shower. He doesn’t like to get in with us, cuz he doesn’t want to get wet, but he looks at us in amazement when we get out of the shower. It’s like he’s thinking, “Oh my God, how did you manage that? The water was all over you! Are you ok? Should I call a doctor? My god, it’s still dripping off you! Lick yourself clean, man, lick yourself clean!”
Heck, whenever I am in the bathroom, I have an audience of FIVE cats. They love to drink from the toilet, sink and tub. When I shower, my cat Angel will sit on the ledge, face upturned into the spray, eyes squinted shut, and bite at the water as it falls. When bathing, my cat Annie will dangle her tail in the water. Happy will play with the bubbles. Once, Angel pushed Annie into the tub with me, which was not fun. Angel has fallen in a time or two as well.
I love my babies.
This is why I don’t like cats. Dogs are of the opinion that, “Heck, I played in the water a few weeks ago, I’m fine.”
That, and cats smell.
sorry for the hijack.
I was under the same impression when I was deciding to get a dog or cat for my apartment, a decision that was taken out of my hands when I came home from work one day to find Honesty (my GF) had taken in Patches. (He had been abused and needed a home, the sad story got to me and I let her keep it.) It smelled at first until we got the odor control scoopable cat litter, and now there haven’t been any smelly cat problems.
I still like dogs better. I can’t really roll on the floor and wrestle and play tug of war with the cat. If I throw a ball, the cat just looks at me as if to say, “Hey asshole, you had the ball, you threw it, you can get it your damn self.” But on the whole, I’m happy we got the cat. It’s better for the apartment than a dog would be, and it is just so damn cute playing in cardboard boxes.
My cat also likes to watch me while I am in the bathroom. Once or twice he has even tried to jump on my lap while I am going to the bathroom. Very disconcerting to say the least. So what I do to get him back is I watch him while he goes to the bathroom. His litter box has a top over it, which helps with the smell problemsthe top also has a replacable filter, and he is always looking forward with this stoic look while going to the bathroom. So I call him and talk to him when I happen to walk by. He gets even more stoic. It’s kinda childish I admit, but fun.
Matt, try to encourage your cat to sit on the toilet while you pee. Trust me, cats are very contrary critters and will do exactly the opposite of whatever you want. If your cat thinks you want it there, that will take all the fun out of being there.
On the subject of cats drinking out of the toilet: I have a raised handicap seat on my toilet. It’s pretty amazing how far my big cat is willing to stretch for a drink, and pretty hilarious to see nothing but a big fluffy cat butt sticking out of the bowl.
Ugh, I’ve become the person who shares cute cat stories in MPSIMS.
Someone kill me.
I have an alternate explanation for why your cat watches you go to the bathroom: it is learning.
When I was still in high school, everybody in the house started complaining that someone was peeing and not flushing. After several weeks of this everybody was blaming everybody else.
Then one day my mom walks past the bathroom and sees our cat sitting on the edge of the toilet seat peeing into the bowl. This was a 10-year-old cat that had suddenly learned this new trick. I can just imagine the cat spending 9 years watching me pee, wondering “what the hell is he doing?” and then suddenly the light goes off.
This is the same cat that would later put several tiny punctures in my water bed because of a sneezing fit (when a cat sneezes, the claws come out).
when winkin the wonderful was a wee little kitten she would jump up on your lap as soon as you sat down; no matter what you were sitting on. then she got the bright idea of jumping onto what ever you wanted to sit on, a sort of beat you to the punch… yep, you guess it, once and only once did she try to beat me to the toilet. she had to wait quite a bit until i stopped laughing to get a towel to dry her. it was about 3 am. i think she finally dried at around 5.
Enid is a deeply paranoid kitty, so she stays well away from any source of (horrors!) water. She prefers to try to sit in my lap when I’m knitting. Then I have to stop and play with her in the hope of distracting her and maybe getting her tired enough to go to sleep. That never works, naturally. I expect to finish my sweater by, oh, winter 2003.
Of course, if I’m doing nothing but sitting and reading and have a nice lap all cat-ready, Enid will ignore me all day.
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LMAO…that is Noel to a Tee!
She used to dry and jump on the toilet seat while my dad was peeing…in the middle of the night, he’d have to sit DOWN to pee, because she wanted to be cuddled…for some odd reason, if you take her into the bathroom, she gets VERY affectionate, and will roll on the floor and purr.
Cats don’t smell! Dogs do, though!
But, if the cat does stink, just change the litter box.
Excuse me, Guinastasia,
but my dog doesn’t smell.
I bath him often, okey?
Aww shit, I have to stop reading this during class, people are looking at me funny.