# Just When You Thought All Cats Hated Water...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-all-cats-hated-water/454587 "2008-06-28T18:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-all-cats-hated-water/454587/1 "2008-06-28T18:48:52Z")

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[Pow](http://frinko.com/just-when-you-thought-cats-hated-water.html)!

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**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-all-cats-hated-water/454587/2 "2008-06-28T19:09:45Z")

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Very squee.

I really wanted them to pop the drain whilst kitty was still bathing, I bet she’d have gone nuts 🆒

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-all-cats-hated-water/454587/3 "2008-06-28T20:31:52Z")

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Squee, indeed.

Apparently, there’s a breed of cats, the [Turkish Van,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Van) who:

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> Originating in the Lake Van area of southeastern Turkey, these cats… are much loved and prized by the Turks for their exceptional character and unique colouring. Apart from their great capacity for affection and alert intelligence, \*\*their outstanding characteristic is their liking for water, not normally regarded as a feline attribute. They not only dabble in water and play with it, but have been known to enter ponds and even horse-troughs for a swim \*\*– they soon became famous as the ‘swimming cats.’

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**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\
**Post date:** [June 28, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-when-you-thought-all-cats-hated-water/454587/4 "2008-06-28T21:36:14Z")

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A lot of [Bengals](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_%28cat%29) love water, too. My daughter’s Bengal loved paddling around in the bathtub when there was a bit of water in it.