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MIButterfly

(2,804 posts) Mon Apr 6, 2026, 01:50 PM Monday

Life with Martini and Holly, the Wonder Cats

They're on veterinary food which makes them very thirsty. This morning they both woke me up, "water! water! water! water!" I got up and got their bowl and as usual, Martini stood in the exact spot where the bowl goes, so I had to put the bowl on the counter and pick her up to make room and she clung to the placemat so it went all askew. I straightened the mat and put the water bowl down and they both rushed to drink out of it. I got them some fresh food, but Holly was across the entire placemat drinking the water so I had to pick her up to move her over. Here's the amazing part: Holly HATES to be picked up, it's always a struggle, but today she allowed me to pick her up. Maybe it was because it was only for a few seconds to move her to another position (and not to put her in the dreaded carrier) or maybe she was just so focused on the water she didn't realize she was being picked up.

These cats amuse me and surprise me everyday and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Life with Martini and Holly, the Wonder Cats (Original Post) MIButterfly Monday OP

my 1st 2 had toilet access almost all the time. 3rd 2 decided a old spitton w/ a plant in the water was for them pansypoo53219 Monday #1

I adopted them on December 30, 2011 MIButterfly Monday #2

One christmas, I was given all the leftover mini norfolk pines (I was niyad Monday #3

Every year after I took the tree out to the curb, MIButterfly Yesterday #4

Exactly!!! niyad Yesterday #5

oh, my 2nd male cosmo(not cause kramer) LOOOOOOVED tree gin. 3rd pair never had a tree. pansypoo53219 13 hrs ago #6

pansypoo53219

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1. my 1st 2 had toilet access almost all the time. 3rd 2 decided a old spitton w/ a plant in the water was for them

Reply to MIButterfly (Original post)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 02:54 PM

Monday

MIButterfly

(2,804 posts)

2. I adopted them on December 30, 2011

Reply to pansypoo53219 (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 03:07 PM

Monday

I still had my Christmas tree up and although they had fresh water in their bowl twice a day, they still preferred to drink that nasty Christmas tree water. The tree skirt closed with velcro which was very easy for them to open. They did that for a number of years until I stopped putting a tree up. (I didn't stop having a tree because they drank the water; I just lost interest after my mother died.)

niyad

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3. One christmas, I was given all the leftover mini norfolk pines (I was

Reply to MIButterfly (Reply #2)

Mon Apr 6, 2026, 05:18 PM

Monday

friends with the floral department!). Each of them sat in their own saucers, and I wateered them from the bottom. And my darling kitties just HAD to drink out of every single saucer, even though they always had fresh clean water in their own bowls. I was finally able to find homes for all the baby trees. My kitties were VERY unhappy with me!

MIButterfly

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4. Every year after I took the tree out to the curb,

Reply to niyad (Reply #3)

Tue Apr 7, 2026, 12:40 AM

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the cats would come into the livingroom and stare at the easy chair that was put back where the tree had been, as if to say "what have you done with our tree? We're thirsty!"

niyad

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5. Exactly!!!

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Tue Apr 7, 2026, 01:00 AM

Yesterday

pansypoo53219

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6. oh, my 2nd male cosmo(not cause kramer) LOOOOOOVED tree gin. 3rd pair never had a tree.