{"id":819,"date":"2011-02-17T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/two-cats-playing-with-water-in-the-sink"},"modified":"2011-02-17T00:01:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:01:00","slug":"two-cats-playing-with-water-in-the-sink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/17\/two-cats-playing-with-water-in-the-sink","title":{"rendered":"Two Cats Playing with Water in the Sink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most cats do not like water &#8211; at least not on their fur. I was quite surprised when I opened the door to my friends bathroom and I was overtaken by two cats that jumped into the sink.<\/p>\n<p>Since I wanted to wash my hands, I lifted the two out of the sink and opened the tap. Quick as lightning (certainly before I had my hands wet) the two cats were sitting the edge of the sink to &#8230;<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christiandoenges\/5451355317\/\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cats in the Sink Playing with Water by Christian Doenges, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cats in the Sink Playing with Water\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5018\/5451355317_32c942f0e0.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Two Cats Playing with Water in the Sink<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&#8230; play.<\/p>\n<p>Usually the first contact with the cool fluid provokes a disgusted look and a revulsed shake to get it off. But not with these two!<\/p>\n<p>Clearly enjoying themselves and playing with relish these two explored and prodded the dripping and running liquid. Even when water ran over their fur the two just shook themselves a little and carried on. That was definitely a first for me!<\/p>\n<p>Later, they repeated their game in the kitchen and I was told that they will even hop into the running shower &#8211; one of them had even fallen into a filled bath tub when curiosity got the better of her. I wonder, if they will learn to enjoy swimming at some point? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my experience, most cats do not like water &#8211; at least not on their fur. I was quite surprised when I opened the door to my friends bathroom and I was overtaken by two cats that jumped into the sink. Since I wanted to wash my hands, I lifted the two out of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,480,482,2,481,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal","category-cat","category-faucet","category-photo","category-sink","category-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}