We were well trained by Jonesy!........

Being responsible pet owners we always make sure that our cats have fresh food and water every day......a fact that should make our lovely felines happy, happy, happy? Was Jonesy satisfied with this? Was he heck! Did he want fresh water in the cat bowl twice a day? Did he heck! Nope. He wanted fresh running water on tap...literally, lol. Jonesy was always vocal in his demands, and any gentle chirp to catch your attention would soon escalate into a full blown yowl if he was ignored. Trying to pretend you did not hear him did not work. We once managed to go for a full half an hour of ear splitting pathetic 'no one is taking any notice of me' howling before we gave in! He was persistent and in the end managed to get us trained rather well. Jonesy didn't bother with wanting running water from the downstairs tap. Oh no...he wanted running water from the bathroom sink tap upstairs. Generally he would wait until after we had eaten, and were slouched on the sofa relaxing. One bound off a lap, and rapid thuds of a four legged creature storming up the stairs, followed by frantic scrabbling noises as he hauled himself onto the banisters, would signal the start. Jonesy would utter one short, quiet meow. We would ignore it. Silence for a minute. Jonesy would utter a slightly louder meow. We would ignore that in the hope he would get fed up. Silence for another minute. Then Jonesy would start to yowl. This would go on for as long as we could put up with it before giving in and charging upstairs to open the bathroom door. Jonesy would drop down to to the floor with a thump, and then race into the bathroom, leap onto the toilet seat (which we fortunately we always kept down!!) and wait impatiently until the sink tap was turned on. While he was young he had no problem in getting onto the slippery sink but as he got older, bigger and heavier various acrobatic movements accompanied his effort to get onto it. Usually much toe tapping would occur, by whichever one of us had gone into the bathroom, as Jonesy took his time to drink and shake his head and splatter us with droplets of water! Oh yes we were well trained! Why do cats do this, lol? How come the fresh water in the bowl was not good enough? Neither of the two girls ever did this, except for once, a few days ago, when Ripley did exactly the same thing as Jonesy with regard to the bathroom/sink/tap. She had never done it before, and hasn't done it again since, and it freaked me out. Only Jonesy used to do this, so why did she suddenly behave in exactly the same way as he had now he was gone? She howled at the bathroom door, I let her in and she leapt onto the toilet seat. I was a little perplexed but turned on the tap, and to my amazement she scrambled onto the sink and proceeded to drink the running water. She only did it for a few seconds and then jumped down, but it was strange. The girls tended, and still do tend, to avoid water, but Jonesy would love to sit in the bathroom while I had a bath. He would place his front paws on the bath rim, and peer intently at the bubbles and water in the bath. If I playfully splashed the water he would jump onto the edge of the bath, and skid and slip as he wobbled up and down. He did fall in twice, but it didn't seem to put him off! Gosh he made me laugh, and gosh, he exasperated me at times.What a character he was!