Something i've been meaning to ask for ages now. I have two old cats, brother and sister now nearing their 17th birthdays. They are in relatively good health but their water consumption has probably doubled over the past few years which is quite normal it seems.
Problem is with Tom the male, he has this habit of putting a paw into the water whilst drinking ! he paddles with one of the paws occasionally changing paws mid-slurp. It's amusing to witness but I have no idea why he does this, can anyone help ?
His sister Jerry (identity crisis !) has a different 'foible' when drinking water. She drinks from the same bowl but tries to drag the bowl towards her for some reason. The bowl can end up about a yard further away from it's starting place during the day ! Any ideas on why she does this ?
Following what just happened, I searched for somewhere to post about it and decided this old, neglected thread was as suitable as any of the surprising number of cat threads on SF.
So I’m sat on the sofa peacefully scrolling when a dead vole lands on my chest. This end of the sofa is beneath a spiral staircase and the vole was a present from our cat TIgre, who was looking down
from the top step, presumably to see how his gift had been received.
Being a generous sort of chap and having already had supper, I tossed the vole onto the floor, whereupon Tigre shot down the stairs and put on a display of how he’d caught the vole, tossing it in the air, rolling over and catching it on the way down.
Maybe not Shakespeare nor Chekhov, but certainly better than watching Trump’s inauguration…
My first siamese male was a champion humper, worse after he got snipped. Nothing was safe, your legs, the furniture and even a pile of dirty washing left by the machine - the look on his face was pure satisfaction. The other cats used to hide when he got in the mood, think they thought they were next and that would have been a cat fight and a half.