ha ha ha I love this! My cats also prefer the water in the bowl in the bathroom instead of the nice filtered water from the cat bubbler I bought them in the kitchen!
THIS is so TRUE!! I have one cat that is constantly attempting to get into ANY glass I happen to have around. She’ll climb up on anything to do so! Love this strip! And the babies are awesome!
This is my life EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I’ve resorted to reusable water bottles and travel glasses with lids in order to protect my beverages. Boyd is especially fond of OJ, and of course they all NEEEEEEED to test my milk.
My cat goes back and forth on the drink from the Metal Snake. Right now shes drinking form that almost exclusively, but suddenly she’ll have nothing to do with it.:)
Ha ha brilliant! I’m always fighting Loki away from my glass! The best moment pre-dates digital photography – at a family get-together, my aunt’s cat had been drinking from her cup of tea but no one knew until the pictures were developed and the cat was seen in the act – her reaction was awesome “But I drank that! ” *horrified face*
This is so true in our house too. I have a perfectly good water fountain for them, but if given half a chance my Siberians will climb for the chance to drink from a glass of water, especially if they can play with the ice in the glass. Thank you Georgia!
That’s the way to do it! This strip was based on all the boys, but especially the wonderful old fat Siamese we had when I was growing up, Roscoe. Roscoe enjoyed drinking out of people glasses so much (and was so intelligent) that every morning my Mom set a glass out for him, beside hers. All the other cats drank out of the water dish, Roscoe had his special lowball glass where Mom kept her water, paperbacks, and calculator. I wish I could post pictures in comments, because we have an old photo of him drinking from “his glass.” He was a great kitty!
I will try to find a way to share one! (Or two… Or several). He was fabulous. He lived to be 17 years old! The early BCN strip about bacon is directly based on him, too.
My aunt’s cat is quite certain that water tastes best when spilled out of people cups. Of course sometimes the water, once spilled, doesn’t taste very good. When it is red wine, for instance — but you need to spill it anyhow, just to be sure.
I too have a water glass obsessive. It’s not really the cat drinking from it that is annoying so much as his compulsive need to “dig” at the top of the glass for like 5 minutes first, at serious risk of knocking the glass over. If it weren’t for that, I’d let him have his own glass!
One of our cats will only drink tap water after it’s been through our Brita pitcher (though to be fair our water tastes strongly of iron straight from the tap) — except she loves drinking the water left over after the ice left in my wife’s glass of milk melts (said ice made out of water straight from the tap). I mean, sure, cats and milk, but cats and milky iron-tasting tapwater?
This reminds me of sitting down to breakfast with a two-pint glass of water beside me – just the right size for a cat’s head. After two days of watching her lap ‘my’ water, I tried just putting a little bit in the bottom so she couldn’t reach it. The cat simply reached her paw into the glass, dipped it in the water, licked the water off – and rinsed & repeated until she’d had enough.
My guy much prefers the bathroom faucet to anything else, though he will test any glass that is handy, just to be sure it isn’t something he wants. He likes to splash and sniff in the other bathroom source, and has even got the lid up to do so, but doesn’t drink of its water (as far as I know…)
On the other hand, if it is in a bowl, it is HIS. I like soup, so have taken to cat-safe varieties so he can get his vig
For the last 6 months we’ve hosted a pair of Maines, and have 2 water dishes. One is out in the dining room, the other was next to their food. They *refused* to drink out of the one next to their food unless they absolutely had to (since they were in my room all night with the door closed, that would be it). So the other day, I moved that water about 4 feet away from their food. BAM, they’re drinking from it. WAT. Just… WAT.
Apparently this is fairly common among cats, actually; they prefer to drink further from their food.
My old cat, Tiger, loved ice cubes. And, oddly enough, Mountain Dew Voltage, which I often had to be very careful about leaving an open cup of. (Last thing you want in your house is an over-caffeinated senior kitty with bladder control issues.)
I put ice cubes in their water when it was really hot this Summer, and they looked at me like it was teh debbil itself. I’ve had cats all my life and these boys… they’re… definitely unique.
The current theory on why cats don’t like water next to their food is that in the wild their food is meat and leaving rotting meat next to your water is bad for you. So cats who don’t drink near their food live longer.
My cats also dig in their water bowls when they are empty. My theory is that in the wild you can sometimes get water by digging in dry creek beds or springs. In my apartment the sound of scratching in the dry water bowl prompts me to refill it.
lol @ Puck’s face in the bottom of the glass.
Cats strongly prefer fresh water. That is why they will ignore the bowl and opt for the toilet or human’s glass because those are refreshed more often.
If you buy a kitty fountain, which keeps the water running and “fresh”, they will be more attracted to it.
“If you buy a kitty fountain, which keeps the water running and “fresh”, they will be more attracted to it.”
Hahahaha. No. Check out the other comments for more corroboration, but we have one of those fountains. One cat is fine with drinking out of it. The other? Will only drink out of it if he absolutely, positively, no-question-about-it MUST. Due to location, we usually re-fill the fountain from a pitcher. Charlie prefers to drink out of the pitcher (as it’s being poured) or (way, way, WAY better) from the People Glasses – even if the People Glass has been sitting out (and still) for several hours.
My kitties like glasses, of course, also water out of the metal snake fountain in the bathroom sink. My mother’s cats drank out of a glass on the floor in the bathroom which they tipped over whenever the water level got too low and she forgot to refill it. I don’t know how, but they never broke the glass.
Snowflake is our wonderfully smart Norwegian Forest Cat who is really a Border Collie Cat. She prefers to drink from the bathroom sink. Two paws in the bowl for balance. Yesterday she was in my lap and I smiled when I realized why the of one ear was wet: she just got a drink.
Most cats like to drink in a different place to where they eat, apparently. Just one of those things (I guess in the wild killing mice next to streams isn’t that common?). My cat has her glass at the top of the stairs! And it’s a pint glass because it has a very heavy base and is hard for her to top over. She uses the paw-and-lick method too, especially on cups of tea… those mugs for gardeners that come with a little ceramic coaster that sits on the top are good cat deterrents! Also lime cordial, she hates that, so I drink a lot more of it these days…
Some friends adopted a middle-aged cat who spent his days in the waiting room of the car-servicing garage behind their flat (they were out all day, the heating was on in the waiting room) and he was obsessed with trying to drink the customers’ tea (never coffee, just tea). Fortunately most people thought it was funny… he also had a definite taste for the whisky, and got quite upset if he wasn’t allowed a little nip, plus thought porridge was cat food – they suspect his previous owner, an elderly gentleman, had just shared whatever he was having with the cat.
I’m wondering if it’s not the material of the bowl/glass itself. We switched Amy to a glass water bowl (and glass food bowls) at our vet’s suggestion because glass is apparently healthier for them (and cleans better) than plastic. I don’t recall as Amy ever drank out of a glass but she loves the glass bowl.
I have to provide water in glasses placed in metal plant holders to prevent deliberate sabotage. I drink out of a plastic water bottle, I know my place.
PhysioCatte loves to drink from the dripping faucet. We have always speculated that this is because when he was an outside stray kitten, he drank from leaky outside hose faucets.
I just realized yesterday that Puck only has 3 legs! How did I never realize that?! Poor Pucky.
The weird thing is that he looks exactly like one of my cats, Luna. Right down to that little white spot on his chest. Also, Luna, like Puck, is the little sweetheart of all our cats.
I’ve got another cat named Gracie. She is a calico, very smart, very loyal. We call her The Brat Cat because she is too smart for her own good. Anyways, she always bugs us to turn on our bathtub faucets and let her drink from them. When she can’t get to the bathtub, she sticks her paws into the water bowl and slops water all over the floor. She also knocks over glasses of water occasionally.
I WISH my girls, Wendy and Yoli, would drink out of a glass anything! We cannot wean them off the “magic” water bowl in the bathroom. Thankfully, it is never used for anything other than their water bowl or that would just be . . . gross. Yoli will occasionally drink out of the small glass bowl of ice water that is placed on the bathroom counter each evening but she is really messy with it. I think it is a temperature thing – they really, really like cold water.
I love the look of concentration on Lupin’s face when he says, “could the cone shape be concentrating the deliciousness of the water?” Yes, that’s it exactly!
OK. So I must confess. My Abigail is hooked on Poland Spring. I made the mistake of pouring her a drink from my water bottle one day and now there’s no going back. She finds it particularly delicious when served in a Dixie Cup in the bathroom. Our other cat loves knocking the Dixie cup over. She thinks Abigail is a spoiled primadona. : )
My five cats like to drink from the bathtub faucet. They’ll drink directly from the faucet, or chase the water down the tub to the drain (my tub faucet is at the other end from the drain). I usually have two, or three in there at once, occasionally four; maybe I’ll have a Yahtzee some day!
Our two and a half cats (one technically belongs to my husband’s best friend and spends half of the year with us while he travels for business) won’t drink out of anything but “people glasses.” We have found, through much trial and error…and quite a few wet nightstands, that anything that has a think base and is refilled nightly meets the kitty standard. We currently have one on the sink and one in the bedroom, both at “people height” and near to good sitting spots!
Georgia, your strips have provided us with much laughter and joy in our first year of marriage! Thank you for sharing your boys with us!
Good wishes from NJ!
Joanna, Scott (the humans), Spike, Scarlet, and Foofaroo (the kitties)
My old cat Marty loved steeling drinks of milk out of cups. Step away from the cup for even 2 seconds and you’d come back to milk with lots of cat hair floating around in it. Yuck! My currant critters prefer water that has drained out of my plants and into the drainage trays. Must make it tasty?!?
My cats have their own mug on the coffee table – one of the heavy bottom, no tip travel mugs. Yes, we learned the hard way. Yes, they also still drink out of my glass. Sigh.
Our glasses are usually safe, unless there is a straw in them! Straws get taken and stashed under the couch, fridge, table, etc. Speaking of glasses, I just noticed on my coffee mug, the one that has all 3 of them at the news desk, that Elvis is left handed! I love it!
Yay!! You are the first person to notice! I try to make Elvis left handed as much as possible! (I’m left handed myself, so I wanted at least one of them to be in the comic).
My Boo is the only one of my three cats who tries to get my water, and she only does that when there’s ice in it. I have a video of her trying to grab ice cubes out of my cup. It’s hysterical.
My Merlin used to prefer the “people soup” in the bathtub. I’d be lazing in the water and he’d caaaaarefully step out to balance on my knee and start drinking the bath water…
…’til the day he decided to circumnavigate the tub rim. First he walked the outer rim…then the much narrower rim at the foot of the tub…then stepped onto the nearly-nonexistent rim against the wall. Two wobbly steps, then *splash!*. A brief frenzy of flailing paws later, there was nothing but a black streak leaving the tub at light speed, and still accelerating.
Since it was obviously all my fault, he curled up—soaking wet—on my pillow to lick himself dry; then shredded a 4-pack of toilet paper into the rug.
A strip is scribbled down for the future of Elvis’ utter fascination with the bathtub and bath water. He guards me every bath! He has never fallen in, thankfully. However, we had a high window in our old shower that Lupin was in the habit of jumping into from a bathroom shelf. He would run along the shelf and jump over the shower curtain rod, the tub, into the window… One day he missed while I was taking a bath. He landed smack splash in the tub, and the rod and curtain came down on both of us in the split second before he was out again, haha! (He immediately took off to dry himself by rolling around on the couch. I swear he’s part dog!)
My outdoor kitties have a half mile of stream, a large pond, a smaller pond, and all dozen of the water dishes strategically placed around the farm just for their convenience.
They prefer to come into the garden, climb a 50galon drum, perch on an impossible edge, reach a full foot down, and take sips out of the gardens homebrew liquid fertilizer vat….
In order to get to it they must step OVER the nice ceramic watering dish provided.
When our two had to spend the day at the vets, the vet assistant was puzzled that neither of them would drink from a water bowl. The vet who knows kitties well knew the reason… they have a cat fountain at home. Stagnant non running water? Not for these spoiled kitties! They drink from the stream.
Pit2nya is happy drinking water poured into coffee mugs, even when set on the floor next to food-and-water bowl holder.when not using the BIG bowl you-know-where!
“Cat-paw water” isn’t aesthetically pleasing to me. I have to hide my glass so Mr. Webster doesn’t stick his paw in it and knock it over in front of the computer. He is training me, and I am a slow learner.
I used to put lemon wedges in my glass and that worked! (Most cats don’t care for citrus…according to various sources. Of course my cat will eat kiwi and lick oranges, so maybe it was just the lemon he didn’t like?)
Now I’ve wised up and left tall plastic glasses around for them….they will still wait in line to use the pink one though, even with the other one (not three feet away) full of water and empty of other currently drinking cats.
I had a cat that would only drink from a running tap. Only problem was she learned to turn them on! I’d come home from work to find 2 or 3 faucets running! Had to replace every one with round knobs. Nusiance lived to be 19 years old and never ceased to amaze me.
Yeah, my roomate’s cats have done this a few times. It’s always fascinating to watch, and then I scratch them behind the ears as a thank-you for letting me see.
Our cat recently discovered the strange metal snake fountain in the kitchen. When we turn it on, she tried to bat the water. So funny. I love your comic. <3
Oh, so you’ve been to my house!
So true!!!
ha ha ha I love this! My cats also prefer the water in the bowl in the bathroom instead of the nice filtered water from the cat bubbler I bought them in the kitchen!
OMG Puck! I can’t stop laughing!
THIS is so TRUE!! I have one cat that is constantly attempting to get into ANY glass I happen to have around. She’ll climb up on anything to do so! Love this strip! And the babies are awesome!
This is my life EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. I’ve resorted to reusable water bottles and travel glasses with lids in order to protect my beverages. Boyd is especially fond of OJ, and of course they all NEEEEEEED to test my milk.
Good to know I’m not the only one doing that.
Very true! One of our kitties prefers it directly from the “metal snake fountain” in the kitchen.
One of my Aunt Lizzie’s cats prefers it that way! So dang cute!
My cat goes back and forth on the drink from the Metal Snake. Right now shes drinking form that almost exclusively, but suddenly she’ll have nothing to do with it.:)
Ha ha brilliant! I’m always fighting Loki away from my glass! The best moment pre-dates digital photography – at a family get-together, my aunt’s cat had been drinking from her cup of tea but no one knew until the pictures were developed and the cat was seen in the act – her reaction was awesome “But I drank that! ” *horrified face*
Hahaha!! That is excellent!
Even better — knock the glass *over* and drink from the table!
this is great!
“my theory precisely”
This is so true in our house too. I have a perfectly good water fountain for them, but if given half a chance my Siberians will climb for the chance to drink from a glass of water, especially if they can play with the ice in the glass. Thank you Georgia!
My cat has a pint glass instead of a bowl- there was no point in the bowl lying around unused!
That’s the way to do it! This strip was based on all the boys, but especially the wonderful old fat Siamese we had when I was growing up, Roscoe. Roscoe enjoyed drinking out of people glasses so much (and was so intelligent) that every morning my Mom set a glass out for him, beside hers. All the other cats drank out of the water dish, Roscoe had his special lowball glass where Mom kept her water, paperbacks, and calculator. I wish I could post pictures in comments, because we have an old photo of him drinking from “his glass.” He was a great kitty!
aaaaw, I’m sure we would all love to see a picture of Roscoe!
I will try to find a way to share one! (Or two… Or several). He was fabulous. He lived to be 17 years old! The early BCN strip about bacon is directly based on him, too.
one for the Instagram?
That’s a good idea! I will have to post some photos of him on a Throwback Thursday
Bowie only tips glasses over; he doesn’t actually drink from them.
Same for my Gracie!
My aunt’s cat is quite certain that water tastes best when spilled out of people cups. Of course sometimes the water, once spilled, doesn’t taste very good. When it is red wine, for instance — but you need to spill it anyhow, just to be sure.
I love Puck balancing on two legs.
So do I, and I know all kitties have super powers, but how?
I too have a water glass obsessive. It’s not really the cat drinking from it that is annoying so much as his compulsive need to “dig” at the top of the glass for like 5 minutes first, at serious risk of knocking the glass over. If it weren’t for that, I’d let him have his own glass!
One of our cats will only drink tap water after it’s been through our Brita pitcher (though to be fair our water tastes strongly of iron straight from the tap) — except she loves drinking the water left over after the ice left in my wife’s glass of milk melts (said ice made out of water straight from the tap). I mean, sure, cats and milk, but cats and milky iron-tasting tapwater?
Must go thru some special ‘process’ in the freezing which takes out all the ‘bad’ mojo in the water. Uh huh…right!
It is So true that the shape concentrates the deliciousness! Great job of investigative reporting, guys!
This reminds me of sitting down to breakfast with a two-pint glass of water beside me – just the right size for a cat’s head. After two days of watching her lap ‘my’ water, I tried just putting a little bit in the bottom so she couldn’t reach it. The cat simply reached her paw into the glass, dipped it in the water, licked the water off – and rinsed & repeated until she’d had enough.
Our boys take this to the next level. When the water in the glass gets too love, they stick they’re paws in and lick them. Silly boys!
My guy much prefers the bathroom faucet to anything else, though he will test any glass that is handy, just to be sure it isn’t something he wants. He likes to splash and sniff in the other bathroom source, and has even got the lid up to do so, but doesn’t drink of its water (as far as I know…)
On the other hand, if it is in a bowl, it is HIS. I like soup, so have taken to cat-safe varieties so he can get his vig
For the last 6 months we’ve hosted a pair of Maines, and have 2 water dishes. One is out in the dining room, the other was next to their food. They *refused* to drink out of the one next to their food unless they absolutely had to (since they were in my room all night with the door closed, that would be it). So the other day, I moved that water about 4 feet away from their food. BAM, they’re drinking from it. WAT. Just… WAT.
Apparently this is fairly common among cats, actually; they prefer to drink further from their food.
My old cat, Tiger, loved ice cubes. And, oddly enough, Mountain Dew Voltage, which I often had to be very careful about leaving an open cup of. (Last thing you want in your house is an over-caffeinated senior kitty with bladder control issues.)
I put ice cubes in their water when it was really hot this Summer, and they looked at me like it was teh debbil itself.
I’ve had cats all my life and these boys… they’re… definitely unique.
The current theory on why cats don’t like water next to their food is that in the wild their food is meat and leaving rotting meat next to your water is bad for you. So cats who don’t drink near their food live longer.
My cats also dig in their water bowls when they are empty. My theory is that in the wild you can sometimes get water by digging in dry creek beds or springs. In my apartment the sound of scratching in the dry water bowl prompts me to refill it.
lol @ Puck’s face in the bottom of the glass.
Cats strongly prefer fresh water. That is why they will ignore the bowl and opt for the toilet or human’s glass because those are refreshed more often.
If you buy a kitty fountain, which keeps the water running and “fresh”, they will be more attracted to it.
“If you buy a kitty fountain, which keeps the water running and “fresh”, they will be more attracted to it.”
Hahahaha. No. Check out the other comments for more corroboration, but we have one of those fountains. One cat is fine with drinking out of it. The other? Will only drink out of it if he absolutely, positively, no-question-about-it MUST. Due to location, we usually re-fill the fountain from a pitcher. Charlie prefers to drink out of the pitcher (as it’s being poured) or (way, way, WAY better) from the People Glasses – even if the People Glass has been sitting out (and still) for several hours.
Also, it is wildly impressive how Puck can balance on 2 legs on the same side (panel 3)
My kitties like glasses, of course, also water out of the metal snake fountain in the bathroom sink. My mother’s cats drank out of a glass on the floor in the bathroom which they tipped over whenever the water level got too low and she forgot to refill it. I don’t know how, but they never broke the glass.
Snowflake is our wonderfully smart Norwegian Forest Cat who is really a Border Collie Cat. She prefers to drink from the bathroom sink. Two paws in the bowl for balance. Yesterday she was in my lap and I smiled when I realized why the of one ear was wet: she just got a drink.
The Man is in love with Norwegian Forest Cats! He dreams of us getting one someday in the future.
Our cat, Harley Quinn, doesn’t so much care about our drinks. She wants out food. Especially cheese. But here is the rub. She doesn’t like cheese.
When we eat cheese she begs and begs for it. We finally let her sniff to eat some. She makes stinky face and wont eat it.
Then she begs for more!
So cheese snacks result in a conversation of meow and “you dont like cheese!”
Most cats like to drink in a different place to where they eat, apparently. Just one of those things (I guess in the wild killing mice next to streams isn’t that common?). My cat has her glass at the top of the stairs! And it’s a pint glass because it has a very heavy base and is hard for her to top over. She uses the paw-and-lick method too, especially on cups of tea… those mugs for gardeners that come with a little ceramic coaster that sits on the top are good cat deterrents! Also lime cordial, she hates that, so I drink a lot more of it these days…
Some friends adopted a middle-aged cat who spent his days in the waiting room of the car-servicing garage behind their flat (they were out all day, the heating was on in the waiting room) and he was obsessed with trying to drink the customers’ tea (never coffee, just tea). Fortunately most people thought it was funny… he also had a definite taste for the whisky, and got quite upset if he wasn’t allowed a little nip, plus thought porridge was cat food – they suspect his previous owner, an elderly gentleman, had just shared whatever he was having with the cat.
I’m wondering if it’s not the material of the bowl/glass itself. We switched Amy to a glass water bowl (and glass food bowls) at our vet’s suggestion because glass is apparently healthier for them (and cleans better) than plastic. I don’t recall as Amy ever drank out of a glass but she loves the glass bowl.
Lupin seems to have it licked
Oops I mean Elivs
Our cat prefers the dog’s water over his own. & the dog prefers the toilet. But at least our glasses are safe.
You can’t win…you just can’t.
I have to provide water in glasses placed in metal plant holders to prevent deliberate sabotage. I drink out of a plastic water bottle, I know my place.
PhysioCatte loves to drink from the dripping faucet. We have always speculated that this is because when he was an outside stray kitten, he drank from leaky outside hose faucets.
This may be my favorite BCN to date. Unbelievably right on!
tee hee, our cats specifically like to drink out of our ‘Man’s mason jar glasses
I just realized yesterday that Puck only has 3 legs! How did I never realize that?! Poor Pucky.
The weird thing is that he looks exactly like one of my cats, Luna. Right down to that little white spot on his chest. Also, Luna, like Puck, is the little sweetheart of all our cats.
I’ve got another cat named Gracie. She is a calico, very smart, very loyal. We call her The Brat Cat because she is too smart for her own good. Anyways, she always bugs us to turn on our bathtub faucets and let her drink from them. When she can’t get to the bathtub, she sticks her paws into the water bowl and slops water all over the floor. She also knocks over glasses of water occasionally.
I WISH my girls, Wendy and Yoli, would drink out of a glass anything! We cannot wean them off the “magic” water bowl in the bathroom. Thankfully, it is never used for anything other than their water bowl or that would just be . . . gross. Yoli will occasionally drink out of the small glass bowl of ice water that is placed on the bathroom counter each evening but she is really messy with it. I think it is a temperature thing – they really, really like cold water.
I love the look of concentration on Lupin’s face when he says, “could the cone shape be concentrating the deliciousness of the water?” Yes, that’s it exactly!
OK. So I must confess. My Abigail is hooked on Poland Spring. I made the mistake of pouring her a drink from my water bottle one day and now there’s no going back. She finds it particularly delicious when served in a Dixie Cup in the bathroom. Our other cat loves knocking the Dixie cup over. She thinks Abigail is a spoiled primadona. : )
My five cats like to drink from the bathtub faucet. They’ll drink directly from the faucet, or chase the water down the tub to the drain (my tub faucet is at the other end from the drain). I usually have two, or three in there at once, occasionally four; maybe I’ll have a Yahtzee some day!
Our two and a half cats (one technically belongs to my husband’s best friend and spends half of the year with us while he travels for business) won’t drink out of anything but “people glasses.” We have found, through much trial and error…and quite a few wet nightstands, that anything that has a think base and is refilled nightly meets the kitty standard. We currently have one on the sink and one in the bedroom, both at “people height” and near to good sitting spots!
Georgia, your strips have provided us with much laughter and joy in our first year of marriage! Thank you for sharing your boys with us!
Good wishes from NJ!
Joanna, Scott (the humans), Spike, Scarlet, and Foofaroo (the kitties)
Many thanks, I’m glad you both enjoy them! And congratulations on your first year of marriage!!!
My old cat Marty loved steeling drinks of milk out of cups. Step away from the cup for even 2 seconds and you’d come back to milk with lots of cat hair floating around in it. Yuck! My currant critters prefer water that has drained out of my plants and into the drainage trays. Must make it tasty?!?
My cats have their own mug on the coffee table – one of the heavy bottom, no tip travel mugs. Yes, we learned the hard way. Yes, they also still drink out of my glass. Sigh.
Our glasses are usually safe, unless there is a straw in them! Straws get taken and stashed under the couch, fridge, table, etc. Speaking of glasses, I just noticed on my coffee mug, the one that has all 3 of them at the news desk, that Elvis is left handed! I love it!
Yay!! You are the first person to notice! I try to make Elvis left handed as much as possible! (I’m left handed myself, so I wanted at least one of them to be in the comic).
My Boo is the only one of my three cats who tries to get my water, and she only does that when there’s ice in it. I have a video of her trying to grab ice cubes out of my cup. It’s hysterical.
My Merlin used to prefer the “people soup” in the bathtub. I’d be lazing in the water and he’d caaaaarefully step out to balance on my knee and start drinking the bath water…
…’til the day he decided to circumnavigate the tub rim. First he walked the outer rim…then the much narrower rim at the foot of the tub…then stepped onto the nearly-nonexistent rim against the wall. Two wobbly steps, then *splash!*. A brief frenzy of flailing paws later, there was nothing but a black streak leaving the tub at light speed, and still accelerating.
Since it was obviously all my fault, he curled up—soaking wet—on my pillow to lick himself dry; then shredded a 4-pack of toilet paper into the rug.
A strip is scribbled down for the future of Elvis’ utter fascination with the bathtub and bath water. He guards me every bath! He has never fallen in, thankfully. However, we had a high window in our old shower that Lupin was in the habit of jumping into from a bathroom shelf. He would run along the shelf and jump over the shower curtain rod, the tub, into the window… One day he missed while I was taking a bath. He landed smack splash in the tub, and the rod and curtain came down on both of us in the split second before he was out again, haha! (He immediately took off to dry himself by rolling around on the couch. I swear he’s part dog!)
Many years ago I had two cats (brothers) who would drink from my beer glass when I wasn’t looking!
My outdoor kitties have a half mile of stream, a large pond, a smaller pond, and all dozen of the water dishes strategically placed around the farm just for their convenience.
They prefer to come into the garden, climb a 50galon drum, perch on an impossible edge, reach a full foot down, and take sips out of the gardens homebrew liquid fertilizer vat….
In order to get to it they must step OVER the nice ceramic watering dish provided.
Hahaha!! Oh no! The image of them stepping over the watering dish is too funny!
When our two had to spend the day at the vets, the vet assistant was puzzled that neither of them would drink from a water bowl. The vet who knows kitties well knew the reason… they have a cat fountain at home. Stagnant non running water? Not for these spoiled kitties! They drink from the stream.
Pit2nya is happy drinking water poured into coffee mugs, even when set on the floor next to food-and-water bowl holder.when not using the BIG bowl you-know-where!
“Cat-paw water” isn’t aesthetically pleasing to me. I have to hide my glass so Mr. Webster doesn’t stick his paw in it and knock it over in front of the computer. He is training me, and I am a slow learner.
I love how Puck’s eyes are distorted by the glass in the penultimate frame!
I used to put lemon wedges in my glass and that worked! (Most cats don’t care for citrus…according to various sources. Of course my cat will eat kiwi and lick oranges, so maybe it was just the lemon he didn’t like?)
Now I’ve wised up and left tall plastic glasses around for them….they will still wait in line to use the pink one though, even with the other one (not three feet away) full of water and empty of other currently drinking cats.
I had a cat that would only drink from a running tap. Only problem was she learned to turn them on! I’d come home from work to find 2 or 3 faucets running! Had to replace every one with round knobs. Nusiance lived to be 19 years old and never ceased to amaze me.
Yeah, my roomate’s cats have done this a few times. It’s always fascinating to watch, and then I scratch them behind the ears as a thank-you for letting me see.
This is what my cat is like EVERY SINGLE DAY
Our cat recently discovered the strange metal snake fountain in the kitchen. When we turn it on, she tried to bat the water. So funny. I love your comic. <3
We ended up getting our cats a drinking fountain because our one cat refused to drink from his bowl after we ran the sink for him a couple times.
He’s a couple years gone now, but the fountain is still there.