One of our females has found a new perch to sit on, the corner of the bath, the corner nearest the toilet. She will go there not only when we are using the bathroom, but when we can't find her, we'll find her curled up on this corner. She had been doing this for a week or two, then suddenly we started finding cat poo's in our bath, and worked out it was her.
OK this could be because one of the others is guarding the litter tray, or it's just too dirty for her, but she can easily go outside to do her business.
Well this week, we have noticed, when we have finished on the toilet and flushed, she will intently look down the toilet at what we have done being flushed away and stare for a few minutes afterwards at the toilet bowl.
Is it that she has worked out that is where we do our poo's so thought she would join us and do her's in the bath?
We are just waiting for the time we go in the bathroom and find a cat poo in the toilet !!!!!! or hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night !!!!!!
She has just found another spot, sitting on one of the worksurfaces that we don't use (just used for storage) in the kitchen and watches us doing the cooking - so what is she going to learn to do next !!!!!
Pepper has always been the same way. Before she was declawed (front only) she would climb to the top of the shower curtain and do a cannon ball, tail first, into the toliet. Then, of course, I would find out and she'd have to have a bath because I didn't want her smelling like dried out potty water. Now sometimes we'll walk into the bathroom and she'll pop her head out of the toliet and just look at us like, "What? I'm suppose to be in here. Check the rule book, my human." LOL! It's weird. I've often wondered what was so facinating about the toliet, and why she seems to like floating in it, BUT then she freaks out when I have to give her a bath. Crazy.
Who knows why cats do some of the things they do, why they like to lay where we find it odd. When you mentioned that you wondered if she recognized the fact that the toilet was where the humans go poo and you where just waiting to hear the toilet flush in the middle of the night, I laughed. Cats do mimic their pet parents though. One of my cats WILL NOT (damn her) use a little box. Most of the time she'll go in the bed she sleeps in the most and then I have to pick the bed up and replace it with a clean one. I was busy doing a lot of cleaning and had picked up her bed BUT had forgot to bring her a clean one and I left the room to do something else. When I came back into the room later on, I found that she had jumped up on a shelf that was above her bed, knocked the roll of paper towel that was up there onto the table, unrolled it a bit, and pooped on it. I always keep a roll of paper towels in each of the rooms to pick up accidents. She probably saw me always using the roll to clean it up with and decided to help me out. Now that's smart!
i had to put the seat down to keep Louie from diving in and scooping....things...out of the bowl! i'll let him watch the flush but he's got to keep his paws out of there. hey kid, you pat me on the face with those things! LOL
wow sounds like u got a pretty smart cat i always wondered why my cat stayed alot of time in the bathroom i thought maybe because it's cool in there at times she will drink from the water in the tub if i run the water a little
My older girl, Cali, demands that I turn the bath tub faucet on (just a trickle so she can drink), this occurs morning and night.
My two year old, Daphne, puts her toys (only the mice) in the toilet if we leave the lid up. She trained my husband to put the lid down after use....... I should hire her out! lol
My two year old, Daphne, puts her toys (only the mice) in the toilet if we leave the lid up. She trained my husband to put the lid down after use....... I should hire her out! lol