What unspeakable horror am I looking at?
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I think it’s a black cat coming out from behind a shower curtain drinking water from the floor. It’s hard to tell because I’m pretty sure its ears are tucked back and it’s the blackest of vanta blacks.
The cat we had when I grew up was amazing, back, thick but short fur, hated being picked up but liked to be petted and to be in the same room as the family, she had small tuffs of hair on hear ears, and almost exclusively drank water in the shower, she would go so far as to come and get one of us, and then lead us to the bathroom and have us turn on the water to give her something to drink.
This is while always having a bowl of water by her food, the water was changed twice daily, so allways fresh for her, but she definately prefered to drink water in the shower.
It's the waters proximity to her food that turned her off of it. Most cats don't like them being close to each other. The running theory I've heard is that, since eating and drinking are separate actions for cats, the proximity makes the standing water seems unsanitary.
One of ours preferred guest bathroom toilet water to any other water in the house. Two clean fountains in separate rooms from her food weren't good enough, it had to be that one toilet.
An old neighbor's tortie wouldn't drink anything except shower water. Cat sitting for that one was hilarious, she drank from a pitcher set underneath the leaky bath tap and never managed to get a drink without getting herself wet and then getting extremely angry about it.
Jokes aside cats do prefer running water over stagnant
I got one of the cat bowl water fountains and placed it a few feet from our cat's normal bowl to see which would run out of water first and from that point the normal bowl water level did not move so water fountain it is
We have a fountain but the water left on the floor of the shower immediately after I get out is * chef’s kiss *.
They love the "you soup".
We also have a fountain, but damn if the rain in a watering can isn't delicious.
We have one that will come running when she hears the freezer open because she knows I always drop at least one ice cube.
shower water is just sparkling rain: human flavor
Mine too. Filtered fountain water = EWW Dirty shower floor water = Perrier Water
Yep, we have one of those. As soon as I'm home from work she's maowin' at the bathroom door for shower time.
A cat of mine only ever wanted to drink from the bathtub faucet, so I had to leave it dripping just a little bit all the time so he wouldn't get pissed. Also my dog loves to come visit me when I'm taking a bath so she can lick my face and arms to dry me off.
Shower water served directly off an unwilling shin is peak pet cuisine.
I thought all cats don’t like drinking water close to their food bowl? Its some instinct that food near water could indicate tainted water. Try moving their water bowl to another area
Varies by cat. I've had a couple that didn't want water near their food and a couple that didn't give two shits where their water bowl was as long as it was clean.
That is some weird tiles, at first it looked like a carpet with grates.