TBT: Weird Stuff...
Skeeter used to drink from the toilet bowl.
As a kitten, LC sniffed the bathtub drain then turned around and peed into it. I thought that was utterly cute.
Ayla's breeder used to train the kittens to perch on the edge of the toilet and pee there. The training doesn't stick when there are litter boxes, and I had to have litter boxes for Skeeter and LC. But I did see her do that a few times before she lost the training.
And nothing like that happened again until recently when I got 3 surprises in the past week...
So I was surprised to see Taz drinking from the toilet. There is a waterbowl now that I had a flavor enhancer to, and there is a water fountain. So he suddenly drinks from the toilet!
And then I was in the bathroom and Lori hopped up on the rim and peed into the bowl! What? Why did she decide to do that? The litterboxes were all clean.
And then, I found a black whisker on the old platform tree. I thought all cat whiskers were white. It had to be from Binq. But Binq is not a lapcat. She generally stay around, but not "real close". So I never noticed her whiskers were black!
And the last surprise of the week. Binq seems to feel the bedroom is not her space. She jumps on the bed in the morning and seeks attention (which I of course give thoroughly). But she has never slept on the bed. It is routine to wake up at night and see Marley, Lori, and Taz sleeping on the bed in corners or up against me.
So imagine my surprise when I got up briefly and saw Binq sleeping in a corner of the bed! And she has done that 3 nights in a row. Not that she is quite ready to sleep in contact with me, but it is a good start. Just that much (after nearly a year) is a positive adjustment.
I'm sure there will come a day when I discover Binq sleeping next to me.