I just had a nice hot shower and something happened that was so hysterically funny that I laughed myself silly! Tessica sees it as her job to be the official Bathroom Supervisor - whenever one of us has a shower, she plants herself on the edge of the bath in between the curtain and the liner, and she supervises to make sure that we don't miss any bits. Sometimes she paws at the water drops on the clear curtain, but mostly she just sits there and watches.

I was halfway through my shower tonight when she noticed a bit of dark-coloured lint down at the far end of the tub, and started pawing at it... she jumped right into the tub to try and fish it out but she failed and jumped out again to consider her options. I didn't really want her getting wet, so I picked up the shower hose and washed the offending lint down the drain - and she thought this was the greatest game on the planet! She chased the floating lint down the tub from behind the shower curtain, and when it went down the plughole she jumped right into the tub again (at the wet end this time) and started frantically pawing at the plughole to try and get her toy back!

I laughed so hard that John came in to see if I was all right or if I was having hysterics! Tessie loves the bathtub and spends hours playing in it when it's empty, but that's the first time she's ever jumped right INTO the tub while the water's running - I wonder if it will be the last? She didn't seem the least bit horrified by the nice warm shower - if anything, she liked it!

Obviously nobody ever told her that she's supposed to be scared of water!

Copyright © Karen Kajikit
July 10, 2007