goddammit!

[winterbadger]

I'm at the stove cooking.

I turn around.

Phineas is at the water bowls (new ones, which I got to replace the ones he regularly tipped over, which I got to replace the fountain that continually got jammed up with cat hair and spit--not, I'm not kidding--so that it overflowed).

He is SCOOPING THE WATER out on the floor.

Not dipping his paw in to get it wet.

Not splashing the water so as to see it ripple.

SCOOPING, the way he does in the litter box, all the water out on the floor.


From now on, the bowls go in the bath tub.

I am getting sick of this.

Comments

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

NO WAY!

I think my cats and yours are psychically connected. Last time you posted about the delights of cat sick mine had done the same. This time I need to get a new drinking water arrangement, because they keep tipping it all over the floor, and I caught Maddie paddling in it and flicking it out!

I'm tempted by a fountain, but they are so expensive

[winterbadger]

The problem I found with my fountain was that there's a little screen over the water return to the reservoir. If I left that in place, it would accumulate cat spit (really) and hair and jam up, at which point the water would back up and flow all over the floor. I had to clean it every day. If I didn't and just removed the screen, the yuck would get into the little impeller (a rod held in place by a magnet) and jam it up. :-(

[ticktockmary.livejournal.com]

I laughed out loud at this! The tag is good too! Sorry though; maybe you could put his water bowl on a towel?

[redactrice.livejournal.com]

What a pain! Back when they were kittens, we thought Nico was the devilish one.

Maybe when you were out, Phin watched a documentary about fishing cats?

[winterbadger]

Maybe if he keeps it up he will sleep with the fishes!

(Actually, I did just move the water bowls to the bathtub, shades of the Deemers and their bathroom-sink-cat-water-glass...)