Getting to the surf on time

[lizblackdog]

Shona fell in the toilet again.

I have "keeping the bathroom door shut" down, thanks to years of living with a soap-eating dog, but I haven't successfully ingrained the habit of keeping the toilet lid shut yet. Besides, the bathroom door was shut. I just didn't realise she was hiding in there till I heard the outraged wet cat yowls.

clearly she was attempting to head for the open sea in true pirate fashion.

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[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I should tell you about the time when Cait was a kitten and she ripped open a bag of BBQ charcoal....

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

OMGmessy!

Reminds me of the time one of bloolark's cats got up the chimney - there's a picture somewhere of a dark grey cat that's usually pale blond. They don't enjoy baths much, do they?

[wirenth.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! oopsie!

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I'm used to having a pack of animals watch me pee, but having to count them all out again afterwards is a fairly new part of the routine - especially with Shona who LOVES the bathroom and doesn't want to leave.

right now three of them are doing mad zoomies all over the dog couch :)

[jhovall.livejournal.com]

I see you have discovered cats' quantum teleportation device. They don't hide in a room, they just beam themselves through the door (when you're not looking, of course)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

oh yes!

it's usually Elda who pulls the Schrodinger stunts (like getting shut in a cupboard that I never opened) but I'm not too surprised Shona can do it too.

[pgh-anarchist.livejournal.com]

I usually hear a splash, followed by a cat doing "wet feet" dance. One of my fosters decided to investigate a bucket. Didn't bother to look in it first - jumped right in. I think he actually thought it was something to jump ON, and then fell in. Took him a few seconds to figure out what was going on before he jumped out, and tried to look dignified "yeah, I meant to do that".

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's the funniest thing EVER when they've never seen water before and assume it'll be solid! My hand-reared grey squirrel did that in the garden pond once, and so did Spike the first time I took him to the river. Happy memories :)

[scifi451.livejournal.com]

Just have to say I LOVE this icon!! also you had a squirrel as a pet?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Not deliberately, but my husband and I once found a three-week old orphan squirrel and reared her and kept her for a year before she released herself back into the wild. That was a truly mad pet even by my standards - a lot of fun but really quite dangerous. She was very aggressive with everyone except my husband - I ended up rather frightened of her, myself.

about two years after she went, we found another one. he was my squirrel. he had a much better temperament and liked cuddling. we'd moved house by then, though, and we didn't have a garden any more, and even a tame squirrel doesn't really work as an indoor pet, so he went to a wildlife sanctuary. broke my heart to part with him but we really weren't in a place where we could keep him once he was past being a baby.

[shy-dramaqueen.livejournal.com]

"Kitten Discovers..." would be an excellent picture book. :D Kitten Discovers Water. Kitten Discovers Mirrors. And my most memorable one: Kitten Discovers Wind. We were letting our little gray fuzzball outside for the first time - on a fairly windy day. But you couldn't feel the wind by the door. Kitten puts one paw out, touches gravel, is Shocked Beyond Words. Touches gravel with other foot is Shocked Beyond Words again. Touches gravel with BOTH feet! Walks suspiciously three steps away from the door.

OMGWIND!

Kitten: *freezes* OMG! Something is pushing at me but I CAN'T SEE IT! OMG! Scary! Must... fight... *walks one more pace and is pushed over by the wind. Promptly runs back inside. Proceeds to wash paws with an "I meant to do that"-expression*

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Ohhh yes!

Right now the kittens have just discovered a big shiny crisp packet with a knot tied in it (I do that when I finish packs of crisps; one of my uselessly random acts of neatness). Elda is racing up and down the hallway carrying it in her mouth like a dog with a very big stick, with three other kittens, Cassie and Spike in hot pursuit. Of all the times for me to have no camera batteries :(

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

*laughs ass off*

That's CUTE!

[captain-ice.livejournal.com]

LOL

I can picture her sitting on the edge, looking at her reflection in the water, then falling in and discovering it's wet. LOL

Thanks Liz, I needed that this morning.

[jj79.livejournal.com]

And you didn't get a picture of it? For shame...FOR SHAME!! :)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

Can't take pictures. Battery recharger died and all my batteries are flat. Most upsetting.

[scifi451.livejournal.com]

Get working on that situation I miss my cat and dog and pics! lol

Also how did she get out of the toilet?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

I think she flew out - I opened the door and found a wet cat and water splashed everywhere round the toilet.

yeah, at the moment it's a choice between buying a new recharger and buying food and litter, so I'm going with the food and litter for now. it's pissing me off no end.

[scifi451.livejournal.com]

Understandable on battery, well hope you get it when you can.

[scifi451.livejournal.com]

What kind of charger? how expensive?

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

it's very similar to this one (http://www.amazon.co.uk/UniRoss-X-Press-Charger-Rechargeable-Batteries/dp/B000FQ5G9Y/ref=pd_sbs_ce_4/202-8804419-7298217?ie=UTF8) - the dead one's a different brand but the same sort of thing. It's not much, I just can't spare a tenner right now.

[ghost07.livejournal.com]

When I first got Cuddles, as a tiny kitten with her eyes only half open, she followed me into the bathroom, watched me climb into the tub, then decided to climb in with me...

OH! The shock of being so wet! when I tried to dry her off, she shook so much, I was worried she'd taken a chill, so I took her under the covers wrapped in my flannel nightgown and finished drying her off that way.

After that, there was no keeping her out of the tub. She decided she liked water, I guess, and, even when I was reduced to taking only showers, I had to watch my feet, because there would, inevetably, be a cat in the shower with me...she did that for the rest of her life, too...she loved getting a bath, just preferred to dry herself off.

If Shona is jumping in the toilet now, maybe you should take advantage of it and start teaching her to use that instead of the litterbox...lol...it'll sure save on cat litter...:D

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

aww Cuddles!

I'd be tempted to do that - Lord knows it'd be useful with the amount of litter we get through - but the dogs' bad habits and the layout of the flat make leaving the bathroom door open a bad idea. Squish gets in and eats soap and sponges and stuff and the door opens outward into the hallway, I'd be forever walking into it.

[crusherdisciple.livejournal.com]

Owen just hops up there and drinks/ cleans his paws out of out toilet.

I have no idea how many times (if any) he fell into the bowl before he got his routine set.

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

Vesta used to drink out of the toilet, too. I don't know if she ever fell in, though.

She also used to jump up onto the ledge over the kitchen cabinets and pry the one that doesn't close fully open. I don't think she ever managed to get in there, though - it would have required her to hook her claws into the ledge and swing down through 180 degrees.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

My grandma had a cat once whom my cousin named Cuddles.

It was a big, burly tom with an ear chewed off, but damn, was he ever cuddly. *misses*

Then there was Silver, who inhaled a mouse, but that's another story.

[kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com]

Just remember to flush. (Before the kitten falls in, not while she's there [/Captain Obvious Mode])