the kitten chronicles - part 162

The boys love water this has been much discussed in previous entries. It fascinates them. Water from a tap, any tap is completely magical and never loses its appeal for them. Water in a bowl is a non-starter. They never drink the water I put in their gleaming stainless steel water bowl. And why would they when you can leap up into the kitchen sink and have all the cool fresh water you can drink right out of a tap? Sometimes they put their paws into the flowing stream and lick the water off the paws .Delicious! And only tastes just slightly of paw. But today I saw something that disturbed me. The fur-faces had moved the laundry basket (not that heavy, I'd just done the laundry) and pried the cover off the drain. A couple of months ago I wrote about how I discovered a bunch of their toys down the floor drain. I thought it was just an accident they had landed down there. But now I think it's a carefully crafted plan by the fur- brains to flood the basement. Damn, if they weren't shoving more toys down the drain. Deliberately. Eventually water will come up (they can see it down there) and voila - they'll have all the water they ever dreamed about right there on the floor. What they don't know, just being tiny-brained cats who can't possibly compete with the massive intellect of their leader, the Big Cat, is I plan to vastly increase the laundry in the basket so they won't be able to move it off the drain cover. I may even change my shirt 6 times a day like Bobby Kennedy is said to have done. That will show them. The Big Cat is clever. He's also clean smelling. xxx dad