Cat Water
This is where the cat drinks. When the tap was dripping she got used to drinking at the sink, and now it is fixed she still wants to drink at the sink, so has her own cup of water.
It is actually quite a nice glass, possibly even a decades old wedding present, the last of a set. But the cat deserves the best, even if she leaves muddy footprints on the bathroom counter top.
Why did I take this picture? I liked the way the light was shining on the glass. It was soft sunlight, reflected from the house next door through a very small window into the bathroom. And I posted it because this blog is subtitled my surroundings and I see the cat drinking several times a day, and more often hear the rattle of the toilet seat and thump of her feet on the Douglas fir floor boards when she is leaving.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 Macro USM lens. ISO640, f1.4, 1/160th +/- 2.0 E.V.
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Fancy cat! : )
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She thinks certainly thinks so:)
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Love the light you’ve captured here my friend!
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Thanks! That was exactly what I was after when shooting this. I do like the implied cat too, though only a few members of my family would see it.
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I love the photo, but I really love the idea that your cat drinks from this glass. Ironically, I have been thinking all day today of how my dog is really my furry daughter and not a creature I “own” – here’s to our animal companions who live a quirky life alongside of us!
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I’ll drink to that!
I have a friend that refers to her cat as “fur-baby”, and it is totally true. They seem to integrate their lives with ours in so many ways, often remarkably subtle.
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This brings back fond memories of my cats, Blanche and Stella< who drank from the tub spout. I read somewhere that Maine Coon cats liked running water and they did.
Photographically, I like the light on the glass and the shallow focus. And then there is the yellow.
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Thanks Ken – there is the yellow! I thought our cat would be annoyed about the lack of running water, but she had been trying to drink from this glass which was formerly for human use, and treated the change as if we had finally (and oh-so-slowly) figured out her needs. So that bit was easier than perhaps it should have been.
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Please PLEASE don’t tell my cat about this arrangement. She has to drink from an old plastic bowl and I don’t need her to get any fancy ideas regarding glassware and so forth. Thank you.
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An old plastic bowl? Jeez Melinda, did you forget to take the Courtesy to My Cat course?
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Wait, what? There’s a COURSE?
Do you think upgrading to a new plastic bowl will suffice? Or do I need to go all in and find her a lovely crystal punchbowl? Please let me know ASAP – I don’t want Cat Protective Services to take her; I don’t have the $$$ to fund the legal battle that would result……
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Skip the crystal, and the punchbowl. Our cat seems pretty happy to eat out of a plain enamelled metal bowl. Mind you, she refuses her water from one, or at least from the feeding station. Better move quickly though, CPS moves fast once they get the word, and their internet robots are very busy finding out….
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One of our cats likes to drink out of the toilet even though he has a bowl of clean water at his feeding station. Outside, he drinks from the bird bath.
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I think that cats drink from bird baths as an insult to the birds – one more way of mocking them. Of course, the birds never can see them drinking from the toilet, which would undo all those insults pretty thoroughly.
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