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[arliss]

TC is still unnerved by the sound of hard rain. He'll hide from it as soon as he'll hide from thunder. But it's a nice, gentle rain tonight, and neither he nor I actually noticed it above the sound of the computer fan and the low strains of the stereo. But when he hopped up in his bathroom window hammock as I scrubbed the tub and toilet, we saw that the window was wet. I'd closed it earlier because of a cold wind from that direction. He meeped at me, so I opened the window.

Every now and then, as long as it doesn't actually get his hammock wet, nor his fur, he likes the window open when it rains. The gutter runs just above the window, and when it's full, it drips down the window screen. TC licks the screen dry with some obvious enjoyment. I think he likes the "wild water" as it's falling from the sky, as a change from the tame stuff that comes out of the tap.

Or maybe that's just a fancy of mine.

Comments

[riani1.livejournal.com]

Our cats like drinking out of puddles after it rains. I think you're right about the "wild water" thing.

I love your icon. I was wondering if the cat was looking out or in. We have a black cat too, and if his big yellow eyes are closed his face disappears and in dim light we can't tell which side of the cat we're looking at.

[fufaraw]

Actually, TC's a brown tabby, a stripey cat. The stripes on his back, though, are dark on dark, and he was facing strong light off snow, so it's hard to see stripes in that picture. serasempre used just the cat's outline in the collage she made for my page background, too. If you look, you can tell his left haunch is much smaller than his right.

I'm such a coward I can't let TC outside, at all. I've listened for the kids' cars in the driveway before I could fall asleep, and lost too many cats to cars to be able to do that anymore. I'm such a devious person I take him out on the deck in my arms...but only when it's very bright sunlight, or falling rain, or falling snow. No soft twilights or pre-dawns for him. Outside is scary to him now, and I'd like it to stay that way.

[sail-aweigh.livejournal.com]

I like your fancies. "Wild water" indeed.