Cat Tricks

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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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Sammy hops in the tub, between the shower curtain and liner, and drinks to his heart's content every morning. I know he knows how to drink from a bowl but he prefers the running shower. Could it be the water temperature? He then hops up on my bed and begins licking his sopping wet tail which was inevitably sticking out from beneath the liner, floating in the swirling water.

Ella will place both her front paws in the water bowl and stir it up good...then she licks her paws.

Both are knuckleheads. But they are my knuckleheads.

Anne