It’s been a while since we had a gratuitous kitten picture… 
I am not exactly sure when Molly and Dolly’s birthday is (they are littermates), but since I suspect Dolly was about 8 weeks old when I adopted her in mid-July last year that would make their birthday sometime in mid-May. So I guess they aren’t really kittens anymore… 
You may remember this post from quite a while back. Well, after two years and two additional cats, I still have not found an answer to the age-old question, “Just what is it about cats in sinks anyway?”
Yes, Molly and Dolly love to play in the bathroom sink and are especially “helpful” when the water is turned on.
As soon as they hear the creak of the hot water knob, Molly and Dolly race to the bathroom. They are especially interested in the sink when I am brushing my teeth or washing my face and Dolly has been known to stick her paw down the drain to try and prevent the water from disappearing. Molly loves to try and “catch” the water as it pours out of the faucet and usually ends up soaking wet.
Although they love the sink, the bathtub is very popular too. When they play tag, it is their favorite home-base and every morning I have to clear the tub of cat toys before I shower. Dolly doesn’t just sit on the edge of the tub while I am in there showering: Sometimes she will actually climb in and wait at the back of the bathtub until I am finished!
Usually I find Molly and Dolly’s bathroom antics quite charming: They make my morning and evening routines interesting to say the least and I can be found smiling most mornings and definitely giggling every evening.
However, I absolutely did not find it entertaining when they attempted to pull the stopper from the sink’s drain Monday evening while I was taking out my brand new contact lenses. These new lenses cost me a pretty penny and the last thing I need when putting them in or taking them out is to drop them down the drain as a result of “assistance” in feline form.
Therefore, cute as the may be, in order to thwart their water play and the potential loss of my new contacts, I am afraid I will have to start banning Molly and Dolly from the bathroom… for a few minutes each day at least.
Yep! I have jumped on the YouTube bandwagon. Check out my directorial debut!
Just what is it about cats in sinks anyway?
– Aristotle, 384-322 BCE *
Mouse and I have been working on this picture for about a week now. OK, actually I have been working on getting this picture for about a week by racing to get the camera every time I find her in the bathroom sink. I then spend the next half hour trying to get her to look at me so that I can take the picture.
As you can plainly see from this photo, she is a beautiful cat and really very photogenic when she wants to be. However, she is also as stubborn as she is beautiful and for this particular “cat in sink” endeavor her stubbornness has been both a help and a hindrance.
In this specific enterprise her stubbornness has been helpful because, amusingly enough, the reason that I am able to spend half an hour trying to get her to pose in the sink is because she wants me to turn on the water faucet so that she can get a drink. She is so patient stubborn that she will wait in the sink literally for hours to drink from what she sees as her own personal water fountain.
On the other hand, her stubbornness has been a hindrance because as soon as she sees me approaching the sink with the camera in hand she turns her back and refuses to look at me. Calling her only gets her attention for a split second and has resulted in about 100 digital pictures that contained nothing but a blurry brown streak because she has this habit of turning her head away from me in defiance just as I snap the camera.
Now I am sure you are wondering exactly how I finally managed to get this photo. I would love to say that I had some wonderful trick up my sleeve, but I must admit that it was nothing so grand. I think she finally realized that I wouldn’t put the camera away until I took her picture so she reluctantly complied. The reason I think this is because she has that same look on her face as I get on mine when Mom wants to take pictures at Christmas.
So, just what is it about cats in sinks anyway? We may never know for sure, but if you visit Cats in Sinks.com you will find a whole lot of pictures of cats in sinks!
(*) Perhaps Aristotle didn’t write this down in any of his works, but I am sure it was a question that he philosophized about.
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