Conference misery::feline_v1

    Yes, I've had that happen too.  They won't even give me that
    "I meant to do that" look.  
    
    When I get up in the morning I,of course, head straight for the
    toilet and have to remove Bob, then Sundance, then Tiffany, then
    Mao from the top of it so I can use it!  Some mornings I think I'm
    never going to be able to go to the bathroom!
    
    I think I have too many cats.
    

    I have two kitties that love water and the toilet is one of
    their favorite spots.  When my little Poco was small she use
    to try and drink out of it...and one time she lost her balance
    and in she went head first.  She gave me that same look as if
    to say "gee why did you push me in...or gee I meant to do that".
    I'm sure if she could talk...only four letter words would be
    coming out of her mouth!!!
    
    Thanks for sharing the story...it brought back funny memories!!
    
    Sandy
     

	Re. Nancy - I must remove 10 or 11 cats from the bathroom closet
	every morning (it's where I keep the bag of dry food).  As soon
	as I pull one out, another goes in, so I've often had the same
	thought you had.  I remember a t-shirt I saw at a cat show once,
	though - "You can never have too many cats" :^}

	Sandy + only 6, really . . .

Crys --->  My cat has an affection for water.  If she finds some, she'll jump in
	and go for a swim (this includes bathtubs, toilets, sinks, and the dog's 
	water dish).  The toilet is her favorite.  I have to keep the lids
	down and occasionally put some heavy object on them to keep Tasha out.
	If I can't find Tasha anywhere in the house, I just flush a toilet and
	she comes running.  Silly cat!

	However, if I got to try and give her a bath, she suddenly sprouts about
	24 legs and I can't even begin to get her in the water.

								-Lisa

    What is it with toilets !?? My siamese "Tasha" just waits for me in the
    morning to go to the toilet, and then jumps on my lap!!! I guess she
    just loves the attention of patting her, and is assured I will have to
    pay attention to her while she is on my lap!!   After all, I don't 
    disturb her when she's in her box !!!
    
    -Nan

    Aren't they a riot!  Anything with water!
    
    Mittens used to come running into the bathroom and dive for his
    "pedestal" (the toilet) to watch mom get ready for work.  But I'll
    never forget the time I let him run around the bathroom one night
    when I took a bubble bath.  Of course he had to get up on the sides
    of the tub.  Of course he had to walk the perimeter of the tub.
    Of course, he fell in.  I was afraid to grab him as his claws might
    be going full speed to get out (which on tile would have been 
    useless)  Instead, he just stood there looking at me, bubbles all
    around his face and in his ears like "well, aren't you gonna help
    me out?"  You can't help but laugh at them!
    
    C.
    

    The condo I used to live in had the upstairs bathroom directly
    at the top of the stairs.  My tabby Boogie used to *love* to 
    start in the basement, zoom up the stairs, around the corner
    up the second set of stairs, zing across the bathroom floor,
    grab the shower curtain and swing into the tub.  Well, we were
    going through a shower curtain a week with this act since she
    would grab it with her claws.  We tried the squirt bottle to
    no avail.  Then my ex-husband thought of an idea - fill the
    tub.  So we did, and we waited......
    
    Zoom from the basement, around the corner, race up the second
    set of stairs, slide across the bathroom floor, dig into
    the shower curtain, swing and.......
    
    SPLASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    oooohhhh what a face!  She would talk to us for days!!!  We
    nearly died we laughed so hard!  
    
    She never did it again!
    
    Mary-Michael

    re: .7 - I LOVE IT!!!  Guess you had the last laugh.
    
    Mao has a ritual when we shower.  We have shower doors rather 
    than a curtain and she'll jump up onto the sink and then onto
    the top of the shower doors.  When I'm done showering.  I have
    to step out, dry my back and then bend over so she can jump
    onto my back and then over my head onto the toilet.  I am then
    supposed to devote 110% of my attention to her for the next
    few minutes.  
    
    Well, in the morning if she feels she hasn't had her fair share
    of attention she'll do the same thing.  Up onto the sink then
    the shower doors then she yells at me to bend over so she
    can jump onto my back and then to the toilet where she gets
    her lovins for the morning.  :^)

    
    Nancy DC,
    
    I thought it was just me!  My Zuzu does the same darn thing as Mao.
    I don't have the doors to the shower, but I do have a ledge.....my
    ritual is the reverse of yours...Zuzu jumps from the toilet to thge
    sink to my back to the ledge above the shower....  If I am not
    being attentive, she will jump before I am ready, and more than
    once Stephen has commented on "who put those scratch marks on your
    back?"  Soon I should be permanently scarred for life....
    
    Oh well, all in a day's mothering, I guess.
    
    Nan

 RE: .7  ---> Thanks for a great laugh.  You're poor kitty must have been
	so surprized at finding water in the tub.  :-)

    RE: .8, .9
    
    The Boogins (as we call her) has the *most* expressive face
    I have ever seen on a cat.  She can give you a look, that if
    it was in a comic book would have every punctuation mark in
    the book above it.  And when she walked out of that bathroom,
    with as much dignity as she could possibly muster for a soaking
    wet cat, she must have been swearing a blue streak!
    
    Mary-Michael