We have two cats. The girl is a wuss and a princess and won't dare step a foot outside. Our neighbors call our male cat "cowboy" because he walks around the neighborhood with a swagger. In fact, he often goes into various neighbors homes to visit for a while, wanders upstairs, etc. I've never known another cat to do that.
My cat Orlando likes water. He was only 5 months when he adopted me and I was living with 18 year old Rosalind, who has since gone on to her reward. Their energy levels were total opposites and Rosalind was going deaf. Orlando would sneak up behind her and pounce on her tail. Just playing but she got very startled. So I used a squirt gun when he did that. He was astonished at first, but quickly realized it was not hurting him, and decided it was good fun. (Orlando thinks everything, except going to the v.e.t., is fun.) Now he jumps in the shower and rolls on the wet tub, and when it rains he goes out to splash in puddles. My other cats Rudy and Margot are more typical - a single droplet of water on their fur and they act like they've been burned with a red hot poker.
I love cats, and I love MY cats. They vomit on my floor. They meow in the middle of the night and wake me up. One of them jumps on my bed, gets down, jumps up, etc., until I get up and feed them. I rarely move them to make the bed if they're sleeping on it, even if I really need to change the bedding. Some chicks can't come back to my place because they start weezing upon entering the apartment. My cats are awesome. They're a pain in the butt but I love them. Ed O.
