Cat Stories
In memory of Marlys (1990-2005), I offer two cat stories.
1) Ani.
Ani Banani has a sink fetish. She loves sitting in the bathroom sink, and she loves drinking water from the sink faucet. There is so much love in her little tortoiseshell heart for the bathroom sink that I didn't think she could find room for more sink love, but... I was wrong.
My mom has a shedding blade just like this one for her long-haired cats that does a remarkably good job of pulling out all the old fur from their undercoats. Almost as much as she loves to sit in the sink, Ani loves to be combed, so I got one of these shedding blades to try out on my cats. So it turns out that the magic combination of the bathroom sink, water dripping, Ani, and the shedding blade is her little peanut-brained equivalent of nirvana. Her eyes nearly roll back into her head in ecstacy.
2) Liam.
Liam is a clown. He always has been, from the time he was a little kitten. If anything goes crashing to the ground, even if I don't see who did it, Liam is the one who gets yelled at. No, I don't feel bad about that -- I'm pretty certain it's justified.
The other day, I was getting ready to take a shower, and Liam was playing between the fabric shower curtain and the clear shower lining. I got into the shower, expecting him to run away when the water came on, but he didn't. He sat on the floor and watched me shower.
There's an old Paula Poundstone routine where she talks about her cats getting really freaked out when she took a shower; they'd look at one another and say, "She must've been really bad to get punished like that." It reminded me a bit of that, Liam watching me in the shower. He just stared, fascinated by the whole process. It was a bit creepy -- I've never been stalked by one of my cats before.
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One time when I took a bubble bath, both of them were in the bathroom with me. When I got into the bathtub, Ani started freaking out and started pacing along the tub edge. She calmed down after a while but became fascinated with the bubble islands that formed on the surface of the water and was trying to reach them with her little paw. She was very cute.
Do you remember Rachel that when Ani and Liam were babies we would leave them at home with Lucy Kaplanski on a loop for 8 hours at a time, since that was the only thing that would keep them (sort of) quiet when we were away?
Oh, Rachel, you forgot to tell how Ani has all these techniques to drink from the sink: directly from the faucet, with her cupped paw, off the back of the paw, etc. With about a year and a half lag, Liam started drinking from the sink last spring. Does he still do that?