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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / June 2005Cats in the Bathroom
2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar experience? > 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal > behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar > experience? No idea, but they will come out of a dead sleep just to accompany you. I think it's because you HAVE to pay them attention. It's awfully common. We have always had the impression they believe us to be using the facilities of our litterbox. Sometimes they join us in theirs, which leads to our conclusion. >> 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the >> bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > No idea, but they will come out of a dead sleep just to accompany you. I > think it's because you HAVE to pay them attention. It's awfully common. > We have always had the impression they believe us to be > using the facilities of our litterbox. Sometimes they join us in theirs, > which leads to our conclusion. Not only the cat, but my kids do this too. If anyone can explain that phenomenon, please do! My daughter, when all pets and kids are accompanying me in the john, will exclaim "Oh good, a family reunion." She's a laugh riot, that one. Marjorie > >> 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > >> bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > No idea, but they will come out of a dead sleep just to accompany you. I > > think it's because you HAVE to pay them attention. It's awfully common. I try locking the door, but I can't cope with the howling so in he trots, sits in front of me and miaows, I tell him it's not hygienic for me to stroke him before I've washed my hands, but hey does he care? > 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal > behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar > experience? It is revenge... for them not having their own private bathroom. The bathroom is where they observe us at our most vonerable, at his time they conspire towards the day they can over throw human kind and once again rule the land. I know how it is, Karl. > The bathroom is where they observe us at our most vonerable, at his > time they conspire towards the day they can over throw human kind and > once again rule the land. And I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords... On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:22 -0700, rijj wrote: > 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the bathroom > taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal behavior? What is > the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar experience? It is sentry duty. They are protecting you while you are most vulnerable. I suspect it is a carry-over from the "wild". MLB > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:22 -0700, rijj wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It is sentry duty. They are protecting you while you are most vulnerable. > I suspect it is a carry-over from the "wild". MLB I feel the same way. You can get alot of chatter from them if you talk to them while your in the shower. They look soo serious; my cat usually stays in there and takes a morning nap afterwards. > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:22 -0700, rijj wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > It is sentry duty. They are protecting you while you are most vulnerable. > I suspect it is a carry-over from the "wild". MLB Could be. But how can they tell the difference between us sitting and thinking in a chair or sh.tting and stinking on the bowl? The smell? Don't laugh, I'm serious. Maybe the bathroom itself has nothing to do with it. At least one of my cats will always follow me when I go into a different room. Whaddaya think? Phil > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:22 -0700, rijj wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Phil Phil, I like M. L. Briggs' explanation! The difference between the bathroom and others is, in there you are REALLY giving away your scent. Other animals track spoor to hunt, don't they? > Phil, I like M. L. Briggs' explanation! The difference between > the bathroom and others is, in there you are REALLY giving away your > scent. Other animals track spoor to hunt, don't they? It was my terminology I coined "sentry" weeks ago. OT Very stimulating Mary, if you had a nickel for each post, why...you'd be a nickel richer right now. Are you really trying to explain the difference between a toilet and a living room chair to Phil? What I'm hearing is that Phil sh.ts in the living room chair. It would explain his cat's confusion. > > > On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 15:35:22 -0700, rijj wrote: > > > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > > Phil, I like M. L. Briggs' explanation! I does make a lot of sense. The difference between > the bathroom and others is, in there you are REALLY giving away your > scent. Other animals track spoor to hunt, don't they? That's very true. But my cats follow me in before the scent is in the air and they also follow me into ever other room, too. That's why I can't say for sure. Looks like this will remain another one of their impenetrable mysteries. That's what makes cats so fascinating. Phil >That's very true. But my cats follow me in before the scent is in the air >and they also follow me into ever other room, too. That's why I can't say >for sure. > >Looks like this will remain another one of their impenetrable mysteries. >That's what makes cats so fascinating. I'm sure they think the same of us, after all we do take a dump in a drinking bowl LOL. -mhd ROFL..."drinking bowl" depends on your particular feline! The only one who considered it a "drinking bowl" in our family was my (now RB) Akita - the cats would glare @ him w/contempt when he indulged in that...which me & the cats considered typical d-pet behavior. Only the bathroom is where the Deadly Duo follow me; recently RB Sylvie, completely blind, used to waddle in when I was "engaged" and I'd pick her large self up, she purring loud and wiggling happily, for kisses and petting session. Maybe she smelled me, who knows? Since she's gone now, Rowdy has begun doing that, but he snuggles up elsewhere as well, so I know Sylvie had some other way than sight to know I was in bathroom. >>That's very true. But my cats follow me in before the scent is in the air >>and they also follow me into ever other room, too. That's why I can't say [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > -mhd What I want to know is how he can hear me turn the computer on wherever he's asleep in the house, then he comes down shouts for attention, and if he doesn't get it jumps up and sits betweem the keyboard and the monitor, it's like he's jealous of it! > What I want to know is how he can hear me turn the computer on wherever > he's asleep in the house, then he comes down shouts for attention, and > if he doesn't get it jumps up and sits betweem the keyboard and the > monitor, it's like he's jealous of it! My Boots does that when I pick up a book. And Diego likes to lie on the newspaper in the morning so the dh has to pay attention to him not read. It's like when you have toddlers and get on the phone. Because you are doing something that requires most of your attention they get bent out of shape because at that moment they can't have all that attention - even if they really don't want it then anyway. It's the principal of the thing. People should be available at all times to pay homage to their dependents. > It is sentry duty. They are protecting you while you are most vulnerable. > I suspect it is a carry-over from the "wild". MLB One of my two cats -- a 3-year-old longhair grey tabby -- also has a carry-over from her maternal instincts, or so it would seem. (She was "fixed" as a kitten.) She and her sister think that typing paper crumpled into a ball is the world's best toy. Occasionally while I am sitting on the toilet in the morning, she will carry one of those crumpled balls from elsewhere in the house into the bathroom and lay it at my feet, just like a mama kitty bringing a mouse to her kittens. It's a day brightener for the morning when she does that! :-) My hop-a-long (mending broken leg) cracker jack caramel tabby quickly decided that the shelf above the bathroom commode was his when I was showering. It's barely large enough to hold him; even less so with bathroom gear on it, which he just sprawls over, not a care in the world. He always faces in my direction. > 2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal > behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar > experience? Hope he doesn't land in the porcelain throne some day. > My hop-a-long (mending broken leg) cracker jack caramel tabby quickly > decided that the shelf above the bathroom commode was his when I was [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] >> behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar >> experience? >2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal > behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar > experience? Very normal. The bathroom is a place of wonder and mystery to a cat.  Signature-Kelly Stella and Delilah take turns coming in. Usually, Delilah is first. She will stand on her hind feet and push open the door with her front. If it is shut too tight, she knocks. Then she comes in, gets a pat and leaves... as she leaves, in comes Stella and she will usually flop over for some fuss and stay to get involved in the hand washing. At the moment, I am suffering with all day morning sickness. Where ever the cats are, as soon as I start being sick, they are both in the bathroom, looking concerned. Stella will jump on my back and start purring until I am done then follow me back to where I am sitting and sit on my lap. They are like two little nurses. Signature.oO rach Oo. >2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal > behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar > experience? >2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the >bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal >behavior? What is the reason for it? Anyone else have a similar >experience? I'll go one step further.....while sitting on the toilet, one of my cats like to climb in my pants while they're around my ankles. She will remain there till I make her get out or I flush the toilet. Someone explain this ludicrious behavior....I mean it's like me hanging around the front of their catbox while they take a crap. Something I don't do and have no desire to begin. Cats are crazy!!! A Cat > >2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the > >bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Someone explain this ludicrious behavior....I mean it's like me > hanging around the front of their catbox while they take a crap. No, it is like you sitting on their heads while they take a crap. :) >>2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the >>bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > A Cat Ummm.... I'll take a HUGE flame risk here .... your cat smells fish? >>>2 of our cats parade around us and the devices when we are in the >>>bathroom taking care of certain personal needs. Is this normal [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > >Ummm.... I'll take a HUGE flame risk here .... your cat smells fish? Well Fillup I gotta give the devil his due that was funny but it would have been funnier if you had gotten it right the proper terminology would be "smells like dead fish" although maybe the women you date store their fish in unusual places. I am amazed at how many posts I have read from women who want everyone in the world to know about what they do while sitting on the john while Sammy or Sugar or whomever (taking for granted that Sammy and Sugar are actually cats) and they always say "IS IT ONLY ME"?? .......lol......we might have to consider changing the name of the group health+behavior+toilet porn Brad LIFE'S JOURNEY IS NOT TO ARRIVE AT THE GRAVE SAFELY IN A WELL-PRESERVED BODY, BUT RATHER TO SKID IN SIDEWAYS, TOTALLY WORN OUT, SHOUTING... " HOLY @#$%... WHAT A RIDE!" |
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