This is Hopper at one of her favorite watering holes, the frontyard birdbath.
Hopper is rather particular about the water she drinks, and my latest theory is that she doesn't like drinking out of any vessel that Hilbert has defiled with his touch. The evidence on this score is a little shaky, partly because Hopper sometimes has no choice but to drink from a Hilbert dish. This makes rigorous data collection difficult.
On the other hand, when she is unhappy with her hydration choices she has started yowling loudly, which makes data collection easier. Life is kind of strange around here these days.
There's always something new to learn about these cats.
Or about any cat.
(Mine don't try to drink from the birdbath because it's a convincing plastic faux concrete that tips right over and dumps water on a cat who puts so much as a paw on it. They only tried once each.)
My Jesuit teacher in school used to say "Even an ass doesn't fall in the same hole twice." A lot of humans today would have disappointed him.
Flavored bottled water for cats--essence of bird. No added sugar.
You'll make a mint--or a catnip.
Only if the label states: “Your human does not want you to have this.”
We had a cat who hung out by the birdbath - to paraphrase Willie Sutton - 'because that's where the birds were. When we finally reaized what was going dwn we felt like we were absolute monsters.
This is why, in spite of planting lots of bird-friendly vegetation, I have never had a bird feeder.
California really did shrink last year, it turns out: https://bityl.co/6jn0
California has had net domestic outmigration for something like 28 of the last 30 years. Only people coming from sh*....uh, I mean the developing world, has kept it from shrinking up until now. As a child of the wave of 'back east' people who came in the 50s, 60s, 70s, and even early 80s this makes me very sad. I would like other Americans to enjoy the great weather, scenery, potentially great schools, 'free' community college and the like. But liberals prefer that foreigners get these benefits.
I'm told that a bit before my time of arrival (late 80s) there were billboards which read "Welcome to California. Now Go Home."
Yup. That was directed at fellow Americans. Since foreigners are the ones, on net, coming to California now, that has become verboten.
@Mitchell Young
There's a lot of migration from the south into California because California is a border state and thus the first place asylum seekers and economic refugees come to (see also Texas and Arizona, for other examples of states with large immigrant populations). I think the mistake you're making here is that you think "Americans" are not the same as "human beings."
Well, Larry, I kinda think we owe our fellow citizens first. Or why bother having a 'nation' and paying taxes and the like. It's kinda funny that the Left wants to wrap itself in the flag and talk about 'our democracy' etc but actually doesn't give a rip about the things that actually make a nation and a demos.
Urban legend. I've been here 60 years and I've never seen one.
I'll reply here to myself since this commenting system doesn't permit me to respond to Mitchell Young's response:
Your apparent need to draw arbitrary lines on the geography of the earth and separate humanity into "citizens" of one region or another has finally devolved in the last century into a real threat to our very existence. I'm not playing, nor should anyone interested in survival of the species and the planet.
As for "the Left" wrapping itself in the flag, what a laugh.
https://www.unilad.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/trumphugPA.jpg
Good. I suspect a great many things about California would be better were its population more like 30 million instead of 40 million. Modulo how it got there. Similarly for the rest of the nation.
No doubt. California peaked in 1968 when it had about 20 million people and was 80 percent non-Hispanic white.
This blog is like stepping back into 2005.
Serve me human, she says...
Do cats like sparkling water?
Can someone try this experiment?
And what of, say, tuna flavored water?
there's something fishy about that...