[geeks] note to self

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:37:18AM -0400, Tim Harrison wrote:
> Tara rescued a cat from the street, and he's been with us since Friday
> night.

Silly cat story: We've had a nice neutered female cat for about 7 years.
Pretty nice black cat, never really brought bad luck. It used to do stuff
like go outside and hunt, but now it generally just hangs around the
house all day - The cat appears to have reached some stage of enlightenment,
that it doesn't need to do anything to survive. :)

So, it was the early morning and I stumbled from my bedroom to the bathroom
to shave etc. - I left the door slightly ajar, there was nobody else
in the house. Midway through shaving, in strolls the cat. I didn't take too
much notice, though if I were more awake I would've wondered what on earth
the cat was doing strolling into the bathroom - The cat is rarely seen
off our couch, asleep in the hotpress or sunning itself in a window.

The cat jumps into the bath, and starts taking a piss into the plughole.

This cat is toilet trained to not go for a piss or shit in the house, it
hasn't done so since it was a kitten. We don't leave kitty litter out for
it, since it tends to jump out a window when it needs to go outside.

Some questions need to be answered by the cat: 

How long has the cat been pissing in the bath?
How many baths have been taken by household members in that time?
(Fortunately I generally shower, but I've had a load of baths in the
last seven years)
How *on earth* did the cat figure out that pissing in the bath was a good 
idea?

Bloody cat. I like it's style though.

Kinda wierded me out at the time, it being early in the morning.

(Sorry about continous references to "the cat" - We've never named it.
 It's the only pet we've had that's been simply left unnamed.)

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