This is my cat, Rocco. We got him from the cat shelter about 18 months ago, and he's about 4 years old. He's also a bit of a comedian. We knew he was going to be a handful when he escaped out of the back door the day after we brought him home, and went missing for a day. I was sure we'd lost him and he wouldn't be able to find his way back, and was worried about going to the cat shelter to confess. Late that night I found him in the garden, quite unconcerned. We didn't try keeping him in again. He soon showed us another odd trait. He won't drink from a bowl - only from a sink or tap. He jumps onto either the kitchen or bathroom sink and waits for us to turn the tap on, and he drinks from it, often with water lapping round his paws which he doesn't mind at all.
He also like to sit and sleep in odd places. The top picture is him sitting on the kitchen table and watching me work on my laptop. Most days I find him on there, and if there's a tea-towel for him to sit on, or a vase of flowers for him to try and eat and then knock over, well that's just a bonus for him. Just recently he's taken a liking to our fish tank. Usually he sits on the floor looking up at it, like we would watch TV. But, now he's discovered that if the lid's not on properly, he can sit on top of it and watch them from the there. I've not seen him trying to catch them yet....
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when I was little we had a cat called Dinky, he too would only drink from a running tap, to come in from outside he used to jump on the windowsill and paw the window. And us being slaves to our animal followed his every command.
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