(snippage)

Yep, Persia *has* to come in there when I'm there.  And when sitting on the
"throne" she often reaches up and gives me a gentle bite on my knee!  If I'm
in the bathtub she gets on the edge of the tub, meowing at me for getting
myself all wet.  If I take a shower, she pokes her head around the curtain
and yells at me :)

Jill

 Speckles sleeps with me.  She's learned that the first thing I do on
awakening is head for the bathroom.  She gets down and *leads* the
way, down the short hall and to the right!  

 Folks call her my "shadow" -- wherever I am, she has to be.  So we
make several trips to the bathroom, as well as everywhere else, all
during the day.

 Jeanne

Rufous always goes to the bathroom with me. Well, he just sits there and
demands scritches.

Frank often has to escort me, and when I sit on the throne, he often
wants in my lap. :o/ He must also always inspect the flush and make sure
that the water does, in fact, run away.

When Daisy, of the superkitty hearing, hears me sit on the toilet, she
comes running from all corners of the house. Then, like Silver, she
must be petted or picked up so she can climb up & hang on my (always
the RIGHT) shoulder. But she's pretty big, so I put her back on the
floor before I stand up.

Oh well, now-- men are *really* fun to watch.  It's a little worrying,
actually. ;)

Absolutely.  The bathroom has always been a must for my cats.  Stinky
doesn't watch the flush, or peer concernedly at me brushing my teeth
anymore, but he has to get in there with me-- or anyone else, for that
matter.  Rule of the house: Nobody goes to the bathroom alone. ;)

Theresa
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 Always escort me to the can.  At least one of them, if not both.  I wonder
if they think of it as 'The hooman's sand box wif water' ??

lol!

My cats sometimes escort me for bathroom duties.  But what they really
do is based on the fact that I am such a creature of habit, as are
they!  I always take a visit to the throne just before I feed them.
They, being smart, have figured this out, and pretty much the entire
herd follows me up an accompanies me on my throne by using theirs,
awaiting the dinner that will fill them up once again ;-)

Ginger-lyn

Yup.  Oscar always wants to be nearby, even if she's not *right there*.  It's
disconcerting, but if that's the worst habit she has *shrug*

All of my kitties did the escort thing.  I guess they thought that I'll
fall in and they'll have to get help.

Re: Do your cats perform bathroom escort duties too?

They escort both of us.  Either Lady Jane Grey, Sumo, or Smokey is
sure to follow me in.  There's a small chest of drawers opposite the
throne and we keep a few cat toys in there.  Mostly what they want
though is attention, but sometimes they want a drink from the faucet.

Lynda gets Sumo, Smokey, or Squidget and maybe sometimes Lady Jane.
One time Smokey just wouldn't leave her alone when she wanted some
solitude.  Lynda heard a skritching noise on the door and yelled that
she'd like five minutes of privacy please.  The skritching stopped for
a moment and then started in again.  Stop and start!  Stop and start!
Lynda was getting more and more heated till she was swearing vengeance
on that damned pussycat as soon as she was done.  She finished washing
up and opened the door to find her DH kneeling on the floor skritching
the door at kitty level.

If I had it all to do over again, I wouldn't have been kneeling, I'd
have been in a sprinter's crouch. ;-)

Regards and Purrs,
O J

My kitty, Mindy (http://steve-and-pattie.com/mindy/index.html#top), is
always there when I am, and I take the opportunity to pick her up and
get some kitty-hugs, generally with purrs.  Mayby I should list this
among he interests and hobbies on her web page, but I'm not sure how to
explain it.

Yup, Jazz will go with me into the bathroom everytime I take a shower. He
will sit patiently on top of the clothes hamper, sometimes peeking around
the shower curtain to make sure I am still there.
When I'm done he will help dry me off :)
Jazz's mama

Karen AKA KajiKit wrote in rec.pets.cats.anecdotes

Shroder always escorted me. And after we moved, Libby began doing it
also. It was interesting watching the 2 of them wander in and check
me out.
Now the Shroder is gone, Libby does all by herself. She will jump
up and run into the bathroom ahead of whoever is going in there, and
then sit in front of the toilet waiting.

You mean there are cats who DON'T visit you in the bathroom?  Pine Cone
loves to climb in the shower with Amanda and get her to spike his fur.
I've climbed out of the shower and found four cats sitting in the
bathroom door staring at the crazy wet hoomin.  They also love to come
in and get pettins while meowmie is occupied.  Tanada used to love to
sit in Rob's underwear when he was parked on the john.  She's over it
now, but I suspect Rob misses it at times.

Pam S.

Oh thank heavens--I'm not weird!!

Yes, at least one of them usually accompanies me to the water closet, and in
the mornings before I feed them, all three usually come along. If they don't
come with me at first, they come keep me company while I'm on the throne
when they realize that's where I am. Nina loves to watch the toilet flush,
being convinced I have the world's snazziest litterbox. =o) I keep a close
watch on her though, as I'm sometimes worried that she'll dive in.

    Pan loves to come in to the bathroom when I'm taking a shower.  I think
the warm steamy air is his Kitty Sauna, and feels good to his old joints.
That, and I'm convinced that cat thinks he's my husband.  Before his broken
leg, he liked to sit on the bathroom window sill, and he and I would have
conversations back and forth as I dried off and got dressed. =o) Hopefully,
he'll resume that practice when he's free of his bandages. Cesca likes to
sit on the toilet tank, and poke her paw at the Plumber's friend.  All the
cats know I'm going to be sitting still for a few minutes and it's a good
opportunity to get some ear scritches doled out.

Melissa

Sounds awfully familiar - both mine figure anytime they find a hoomin
sitting they should be in for a good scritch, and that include hoomins
in the bath. Sammy sometimes takes the opportunity to climb up on said
hoomin's shoulder so that she can open up the above the toilet
cupboard and take a nap on the towels. When Sammy is prevented from
following me into the bathroom (I usually shut the door when I take a
shower) I often find several bottle caps which she has shoved under
the door when I step out of the shower.

Is it actually possible to go to the bathroom without the aid of a cat?

Brandy is the one most likely to perform can duty, with Stosh running a
close second. Stosh will just hang around while we use our funny-looking
litterbox, but Brandy has a peculiar attraction for the shower. She
frequently pokes her head through the curtains, or will sit on the edge of
the tub to engage us in a rousing game of butt-boxing. This involves her
smacking our fannies through the curtains, and we have to poke our fingers
around so she can try to shadowbox them, or wrassle them.

The girls all have a fixation on the tub and sink. Brandy especially likes
to play with water, while Roxie likes to take a cool drink. recently we
found that Odessa likes playing in the tub too, but she won't let us watch
her; it's as if it would be too dangerous to her princess dignity!

Blessed be,
Baha