nah

Jk. Cats is okay.

My first ferret used to jump into the tub, stick her head under the water and pull the bung out.

I thought she was doing it because she was clever but really, she just wanted the bung.

My former roommate had a cat who loved the empty bathtub. She'd run into the bathroom, jump into the tub, and run back and forth in it, sliding around. She had no concept of the tub's true purpose.

One day my roommate drew a bath for herself and was getting ready to undress and enter the filled tub when her cat ran into the room in her usual fashion and leaped into the tub. She had no idea it was filled with water until she splashed into it.

She climbed out soaking wet and walked to the living room where she gave the other occupants of the house a look of profound disappointment and contempt. She never jumped in the tub after that. The tub could not be trusted.

I've had more than one cat over the years who would sneak in to the shower when you weren't looking, and then you'd happen to look down and the cat would just be sitting there soaking wet looking at you.


Cats are weird.

I had a cat that gathered all the different colored sponges in the house together in the bathroom, and arrayed them in a circle. When I popped in for a piss, he was sitting in the center looking proudly at me. He had built Spongehenge.

I don't find cats particularly weird, but that prolly sez more about me than about cats.

Cats and humans make very good partners for each other, because we're both weird. We're compatible enough that apparently cats think their owners/other humans in their lives are just giant mutant cats of some sort, rather than the 'not-cats' they perceive everything else as.

Thats really adorable also

"They don't have the need for relationships in the wild" is very different from "they don't have the capacity for social emotions".

There was a show recently where cameras and trackers were distributed about a town to all the cat owners, in order to study the behavior of cats. The results didn't surprise me. The two most important things for cats are 1) food and 2) other cats. They hunted, stole food from each other, and visited with their neighbors. Sometimes to find a mate, sometimes to fight a rival, and sometimes because they were just bored and looking for action.

Your attitudes about animals are a throwback to the previous century. I'm always shocked when they crop up, and they still do to this day.

Felis catus has not been a solitary creature since Sumerian times, at least, when agriculture / grain storage / E-Z-2-Find prey provided a very strong selection pressure towards social behavior in tighter quarters. Cats aren't all overt about it the way dogs are, but anyone with a multi-cat home knows that cats find ways to accommodate one another, and possibly even enjoy one another's presence.

Speaking of Sumerians:

http://www.theonion.com/article/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion -as-god-creates-worl-2879

Give it a camera phone and access to a social media account and watch its sympathy disappear.

It's fresher, and closer to how they naturally drink ( lapping dew off a surface, for example ). Also, if you don't know this, get your cat some grass ( a divot of the lawn kind, not a bag of the cannabis kind ). They will thank you.