Mellow and his Crazy Antics

Mellow by name but not by nature, our cat is quite strange, he has two water bowls filled with fresh water, but he prefers to drink out of the bath tub. In the morning when I get up to go to the bathroom, before I can open my eyes properly he runs under my feet, skids into the bathroom jumps into the tub and stares at the tap until I turn it on. Mellow wont drink while the water is running, it has to be turned off and then he will lick the water from the plug hole. I also caught him drinking out of the toilet yesterday.

We try and always shut the bathroom door otherwise there will be the constant sound of the toilet being flushed, he sits on the cistern and presses on the flush handle. It always makes me jump especially if I am the only one home, it always takes a couple of seconds to realise that its only Mellow flushing the toilet.

In the past Mellow has been trying to get my attention when I sleep by standing on my chest and tapping me in the face or on any bit of skin that is showing with his paw, if I ignore him he starts to hit me with his paw and his claws, as soon as he starts doing this I push him away, but I guess he has accomplished what he set out to do and that was to wake me up. It seems he doesn't do this so often now, so I guess the ignoring him and pushing him away did the trick, he does seem to understand that if the alarm goes off he can come in and meow until I get up, although he doesn't understand at all if the alarm goes off and I decide to stay in bed for an extra half an hour, he likes to meow and pester me until I get up. If I ignore him, he does eventually curl up on the bed and sleep by my feet.

Mellows latest bout of crazies is him running from room to room at the fastest speed he can go, I think he chasing the invisible bird when he does this. He likes to make as much noise and knock as many things over as possible while he runs.

I think his favourite thing to do is to watch the birds and the squirrels through the windows, if the creature he is stalking moves out of his view he races to the next window so he can continue to watch it. we have one squirrel that likes to taunt more Mellow, he comes right up on the porch, the first time it came that close Mellow tried to pounce, but instead of landing on the squirrel he pounced straight into the glass door with a loud thump. I have seen the squirrel come back several times now, and poor Mellow just lays there meowing.


The kitten in the picture titled its a rainy day, finally was adopted and has a new home, her new owners selected her on Saturday and she seemed to be very happy with them, I am always happy when one of the cats at the shelter finds a home, especially the ones that are a little bit unfriendly.