Cat Tricks

[sleigh]

We have a dripping faucet in the bathtub, which we never fix since both cats like to drink from it. But Ana, our female cat, has a curious habit whenever she takes a drink. She'll go up to the faucet, and she'll paw at the side of the tub directly underneath the faucet, as if she has to 'start' the drips flowing (mind you, the faucet's already dripping...). Then, after several swipes of the paw, she'll start to drink. It's a ritual, a habit, an instinct: there's no cause and effect here because when she comes up to it, the water's already dripping. But she does it every time...

Wonder where that came from?

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[born-to-me.livejournal.com]

When my beloved Seamus came to live with me there was a serious drip in the tub faucet. He (no more than 6 weeks at most) started to drink from it, and taught all my other cats, both those that were already there and the ones that came after. Today he and one of his cohorts refuse to drink anywhere but the bathtub in the master bath - I have to put a second water bowl there. He even sometimes drinks from the gerbil water bottle I put up there to see if he'd like that. He's an odd cat.