Who knows what goes on in the mind of a cat?

He has me round his littlest claw, if the truth be known. We are currently trying to learn that cats are not allowed on the table but he has a strategy for that, too, which is crouching low on the table when I say "Off!" in the hopes that I won't see him. Cats are very like small children!

It's really practicing ignorance, ignoring any animate object larger than itself... ;)

@pgntwo Until they want something from us larger animated objects, at which time they make absolutely certain that we cannot ignore them.

Well, Madame Freya, I has discovered that water is cold but do not hurt becos you cans lick it off clean. I does not likes it on my face or my head and in my nose it makes me snuffle, so I goes away and washes when it gets too tickly and wet. Love from Mephistopheles (this are big words which I not understands and cans not mew - it is like Mew-Hiss-Cough-Spit -Sneeze and I think my mother made it for me but I is not sure. I don't remembers my mother very well. My hoomin who is calls Howl-ings says it when I is on the table and he has told me NOT!)

Cats have dominion over everything. They are gods trapped in small bodies and everything - most of all humans - are there to serve them (which includes asking their slaves to turn on the tap so it dribbles)! I'm planning on getting him a water fountain.

@Poppylicious That is so true! He has a very nice scratching post but he still claws the furniture because it commands instant attention!

@owlwings But he's a cat! You'll get him a water fountain and he'll still insist on playing with the water from the tap!

Yes, it is certainly a mouthful but that is what he told me his name was when he was a tiny kitten. I think that his mother must have been reading Goethe! He is either Mister or Misty usually, It is only when he has been particularly naughty that I use all five syllables.

Oh, I'll bet that happens often @owlwings kitty's love being rowdy.

This is just one way that they have of controlling us!

Cats and dogs are very fond of drinking from toilets, for some reason. Of course, it's not quite as disgusting as we percieve it to be because they have a different set of bacteria and viruses which make them ill, nevertheless, we don't particularly want them to spread the germs around the house! I think that we have settled on "Misty" or "Mister" as his everyday name and he is showimg signs that he knows that's his name, though he may be responding to the tone of my voice (cross, summoning/calling, affectionate &c.). Cats and dogs do have very acute hearing and certainly recognise the sounds of certain words very quickly, just as they recognise the sound of a particular car engine and can accurately distinguish it in the general traffic noise long before we can. The difference is that dogs are much more responsive to spoken commands from humans (who are seen as 'pack members') whereas cats are essentially loners and, if anything, only see humans as 'friends with benefits'.

I think that all cats are fascinated by water though most don't like getting wet at all. I knew a cat once who ate by picking up food with his paw and licking it off!

@puddleglum He gets fed at 5:30 or 6:00 as I am making coffee (for me). He first shows me where his dry food is (as if I didn't know) and tells me to fill up his bowl (even though there is plenty of dry food in it), then he ignores it and mews impatiently at me while I open his pouch of wet food. I think I should have called him Nero because he has despotic tendencies!

@owlwings Haha! Mine would probably do that too if I'd capitulate and buy him food in a can instead of dry.

Mao from Mephistopheles! He is now a grown-up cat, having just turned a year, and has discovered that it's possible to turn one's head sideways to drink from the tap but now prefers the water jug on the dining table. This is quite fascinating because it's a glass jug and, if you put your paw round the back of it while drinking, it looks HUGE and seems to be inside the jug!

@owlwings I'm a year old, too! Love, Huckleberry the Cat, Kitty Blogger