Today I have a gentle story for you, I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
It's written by my lovely wife.
One of my cats back in Portland had a habit of having zoomies around our apartment, and after gaining full speed he’d land into the empty bathtub, turn around, repeat.
Until one very rare occasion when I got ill and decided to take a bath…
I left the door open for just a few seconds, while the bath was still filling (about half full), but that was enough: here he comes running, ignoring all my screaming attempts to stop him… zooms past me, takes the most dramatic and the bravest cat dive ever, meows very loudly and runs off covered in soap bubbles, leaving a wet trail on the floor 😂😆 One of the funniest moments ever!
Since that day that cat would very carefully jump onto the edge of the bathtub, feel the bottom of the bath with his paw to make sure it’s dry, and only then he’d go sit in there.
THE END
We discussed whether any of our current cats would learn from this mistake and agreed that no, they'd probably wait seven seconds and do it again, in the same bathwater.
