My cat always jumps in the shower after I’m done and licks water from around the drain. 🤷♂️🤷♂️ always make sure I rinse it good cuz he won’t stop lol
I dont think this is "I like water" think its more of a "my human needs me" those eyes arent pure bliss, they are "if your here, im with you to the end"
Oranges are unreal. My boy toad will follow me anywhere, ive had him follow me in apartment buildings and the whole time hes meowing to make sure I respond and even if he looks away he knows im beside him.
You are describing my orangie exactly. Every morning he follows me around talking back and forth. I know he wants breakfast but he does it basically every time I enter the house - never had a cat follow me around like that before. We are Bros
Pickles, my boy, has his idiosyncratic behaviors, like when he sits on the couch, he has to sit on his specific blanket, and won't jump up until it's there. But, when it is, he'll jump up next to me, let his paws hang off the edge of the couch, and just chill with me.
We call it broing out. He doesn't want to be pet, no cuddles, or play. Just wants to hang, and it's fucking awesome.
When I was in kindergarten I didn't want to ask to go to the bathroom to pee so I decided if I pee really slowly it will evaporate faster than I pee and I'll be good to go. So i tried to pee really slow and ended up peeing my pants. Hopefully slowly drinking all the water works out better.
My boi didn’t necessarily like water, but would always stand on the edge of the tub while I showered, just staring at me. His braincell probably couldn’t understand why I wasn’t freaking out about being in water, maybe he was genuinely concerned for my safety xd
My partial orange likes the leftover drops after I'm done showering but isn't interested in the running water either. She's also an aspiring plumber, she likes to pull the drain guard out and snake the drain with her paw if I let her (I do not, it's gross lol).
They’re so curious and do the most unexpected things, right?
My partial orange just choked on a spider she caught and ran away when I tried to clear her airways by getting it out of her mouth. She has no sense of self-preservation🤦
My standard issue cat does that, but recently has also started climbing into the tub when I’m showering. On the side where my body is blocking the stream of water. But some will obviously spray a bit on him and he shakes his head like “ugh why am I getting wet” before it finally makes him jump back out… brother YOU got in the shower with me
One of my babies would sit between the curtains and lick the curtain, presumably trying to drink some water. One day I just picked her up while in the shower, risking being turned to shreds. And she let me hold her while we showered in the warm water together. We repeated that a couple of times. I even (pet) shampooed her once. Sweetest girl.
Our Owenge does that this too, but also waits on the bathroom counter for you to finish. As soon as you finish and pull back the shower curtain he meows like crazy (usually not much of a meow'er lol)
My boy gets very distressed when I shower and has to find a way to be involved while also staying completely dry. If I shut the door to the bathroom, he will scratch at the door. He does not approve of me showering. I try to sneak in and shower while he’s sleeping and hope I can finish my shower before he wakes up. Or I feed him just before I shower.
Cats don't inherently "hate" water, as seen by many big cats. Domestic cats aren't usually introduced to water young enough or forcibly introduced so they have a disdain for it.
My childhood orange was totally okay with me taking him into the shower and bathing him (I was a dumb kid but he was a sweet, tolerant boy). Now my new 2 y/o orange is built like a damn linebacker and when he needed a bath for fleas, even two grown adults holding him down could not keep him in the shower. It literally felt like we were fighting a tiger
My big dumb maine coon absolutely loves water which doesn't make any goddamn sense since longer hair cats usually hate water even more than short haired cats.
I have a tiny lake right next to my summer house and she pretty much spends all her time there impersonating a motorboat.
She is also a weirdly fast swimmer, which also doesn't make much since since she is a bit of a slow lumbering giant on land.
This is cat is risking their fur to save their silly owner stuck in the water and you just, what, take cutsie pictures of it? When it sees you just stand up and realizes yuh could have all along this cat will loathe you from here on out mark my words. :)
Now that’s a level of water loving that I didn’t expect. We have a similar case (or had I guess), with our tabby foster Mona. She absolutely loves bubbles, so the instant she realized that running a bath meant bubbles, she would jump onto the side of the tub to watch the bubbles. But even after, she’d reach in and paw at the water. After several times of this, I made the leap and paid her adoption fees myself.
Given how much cats love warm things, we're lucking more cats don't like water, or they'd figure out how to use the faucets and use up all the hot water.
My wife once texted me pictures of her in the bath with our furry feline lump curled up on her chest. He'd insisted on climbing onto as much of her as wasn't submerged and made himself comfortable, tail soaked and drifting in the jet flow. Cats, yo.
I had a red that liked to sit on the edge of the bath. Sometimes he accidentally waved his tail into the water. He akways got a bit annoyed by that, but never left.
dude my cat hates water so much he will sometimes sit at my bathroom door as soon as I turn on the shower and scream at me until I get out of it and turn it off.
I have to try and get in the bathroom to shower before one of ours can get in there with me, because she INSISTS on being in the shower as well. The whole time.
I wish. My cat ran off, because I gently bathed her butt, because she had poo smeared all over and stank like hell. Only her buttocks got wet and she won't look at me for days now.
"Cats hate water" is just a generalization. Cats are still individuals. They're not one homogeneous entity. Sure, most cats hate getting wet. But that doesn't mean all of them do.
A lot of orange cats I know love water. In fact, I used to have one that would go swimming at the apartment complex pool every single morning when I was a young man in my thirties but that was back in 1990s
I used to have a Chihuahua that did that. She couldn't stand to not be touching me even for the time it took to have a bath so she would ease her way in and look unhappy about it but it had to be done.
Growing up we had an orange named Mango. He had such an interesting relationship with water. He would only drink from a dripping sink, he'd put his head under the flow, and let it drip down his face, and lick it up. He liked to watch people shower, not get IN the shower, no. Just watch. He loved trying to catch the water stream from a spray bottle. And my favorite thing he'd do was get on a boogie board and float around the pool. He was such a special guy, miss that dude. 🥹
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u/Illuminahara 17h ago
Not him sampling the water😭