Cat has done me dirty!

Lugout · 2025-02-13T01:39:11+00:00

I can’t sleep. The cat is wandering about the house, as they do. She just walked over my pillow and onto my bedside table. I heard a strange sound… looked over and she was rubbing her head on the straw of my drink mug! Also gave it a lick and a quick nibble! Does she do this every night, and I’ve just been blissfully unaware?! I drink from this quite a lot during the night!! Now I’m realising, mr and the damn cat have been sharing a drink 🥴 she’s a keen arse-licker, too. So her butt is also in the straw!! jesus wept

MadKittenWoman · 13/02/2025 10:56

We had a cat who drank a LOT, including from my water glass. We had a huge bowl in the bedroom to try and dissuade him. He also drank wine..

TY78910 · 13/02/2025 10:45

Hoppinggreen · 13/02/2025 10:24

Genuine non snarky question but why is an overnight glass of water necessary?
I see a lot of people do it but it never occured to me, I can't imagine waking up and needing a drink so badly I couldn't wait until morning
And after reading this thread I sure as Hell wouldn't be doing it!!

I have it for before I fall asleep and then realistically don't need it in the night but then I've had instances where I'll have a cough or something and need it so it's a 'just in case' water 😂

Spanielears · 13/02/2025 10:45

Ours love to drink out of any and all glasses of water around the house - my son keeps a pint glass of water near his bed and woke up to find her happily lapping up the water from the glass! Another favourite is the water from the ironing jug which they dip their paws into to check it’s suitable before helping themselves! 😂

31stJune1973 · 13/02/2025 10:29

Hoppinggreen · 13/02/2025 10:24

Genuine non snarky question but why is an overnight glass of water necessary?
I see a lot of people do it but it never occured to me, I can't imagine waking up and needing a drink so badly I couldn't wait until morning
And after reading this thread I sure as Hell wouldn't be doing it!!

I think my mouth drops open while I'm asleep because I always wake up with it bone dry. I often wake several times overnight and have to have a sip of water because of this.

Hoppinggreen · 13/02/2025 10:24

Genuine non snarky question but why is an overnight glass of water necessary?
I see a lot of people do it but it never occured to me, I can't imagine waking up and needing a drink so badly I couldn't wait until morning
And after reading this thread I sure as Hell wouldn't be doing it!!

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Lugout · 13/02/2025 10:19

KimberleyClark · 13/02/2025 09:19

My friend’s cat went for a walk along the top of her headboard and fell off landing on my friend’s face. Rude awakening that was.

Yup DCat also does this! It’s a fabric headboard so quite enjoys sharpening her claws on it, too. Quite alarming when that’s happening right next to your head in the dead of night

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KimberleyClark · 13/02/2025 09:19

My friend’s cat went for a walk along the top of her headboard and fell off landing on my friend’s face. Rude awakening that was.

TY78910 · 13/02/2025 09:14

My cat barely drinks out of his water bowl but will happily help himself to my ice cold bedtime water. A*shole.

Speaking of a*shole cats - that's my favourite group on Facebook 😂

Miaowzabella · 13/02/2025 09:00

This sort of thing is likely to happen unless you keep bedroom doors shut at night, or shut the cat into whichever room contains the cat flap.

LittleRedYarny · 13/02/2025 08:49

I have to say OP YABVVVVVVVU. When you were bestowed with the gift of a lifetime
of servitude to DCat there was the tacit agreement that this kind of thing was totally fine and in fact you should feel very special that DCat deigns to lick anything of yours, what with it being a lovely servants belongings and all.

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Lugout · 13/02/2025 08:39

maudelovesharold · 13/02/2025 08:23

I always take (misplaced, I’m sure!) comfort in the fact that I read somewhere that cat’s saliva has antiseptic and antibacterial properties.
So it’s just like giving things a once-over with dettox, right?

No. Definitely not the same!

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SallyWD · 13/02/2025 08:38

It'll strengthen your immune system!

nodramaplz · 13/02/2025 08:33

All building your immune system 🤪😆

RentalWoesNotFun · 13/02/2025 08:29

I think it's histatins in the saliva, we have that too.

We don't lick our buts though so I'd prefer not to introduce that to my mouth....

SabreIsMyFave · 13/02/2025 08:28

NinnyNa · 13/02/2025 05:28

I'm awake cause mine shit in my bedroom 🤨

😆😂

SabreIsMyFave · 13/02/2025 08:27

😂 Yummy cat bum juice! 😆

31stJune1973 · 13/02/2025 08:27

I discovered my cats were lapping out of my overnight glass of water, so I now use a water bottle with a lid where you have to pop up the spout to drink out of it.

A bonus is that it doesn't matter if I knock it over while groping sleepily for the alarm/lamp/my glasses.

maudelovesharold · 13/02/2025 08:23

I always take (misplaced, I’m sure!) comfort in the fact that I read somewhere that cat’s saliva has antiseptic and antibacterial properties.
So it’s just like giving things a once-over with dettox, right?

purplehue · 13/02/2025 08:13

Yeah had happened to me..:woke one night to find her drinking from my glass and wondered if it was the first...probably not!!

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Lugout · 13/02/2025 08:07

NinnyNa · 13/02/2025 05:28

I'm awake cause mine shit in my bedroom 🤨

Oh gorgeous!
well DCat woke up the 3 year old by walking over their head at 5am. It’s going to be a long day!

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NinnyNa · 13/02/2025 05:28

I'm awake cause mine shit in my bedroom 🤨

WiddlinDiddlin · 13/02/2025 05:26

I discovered one of my pet rats was slithering out of her cage and going for a wander each night, by spotting little ratty footprints on the rim/side of the pint glass of water I used to keep by my bed.

Took a week to catch her (and not one of the then WiddlinHounds noticed this!!), which I eventually did by staying awake and waiting for her to come get her drink. Then I had to stay up another two nights to find out where she was getting out (fell asleep the first night and she woke me by trampling over my face, again, total canine failure which was fortuitous for Ms Rat!)

We use water bottles in the bedroom - there was a brief period once we had no more rats, where we went back to pint pots, but then the StickDog will drink from them, and after she tipped a full pint of water over DP's face (because she thought she'd pick the glass up and take it to her spot in the bed and a pointy dogs face is not ideal for picking up a pint glass!) we reverted back to the bottles. Seemed safer!

steff13 · 13/02/2025 03:12

My cats love straws. So, probably? 🤷‍♀️

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Lugout · 13/02/2025 03:09

Years ago, when I was little, we had a cat. Mum was sat on the sofa with a glass of wine in her hand. The cat was sat on her knee and she was stroking her. She saw a drop of dribble plop into her glass! Mums face was priceless

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BoxOfCats · 13/02/2025 02:52

I always have a glass of water on my bedside table to drink at night. Discovered one of my was regularly drinking from it.

Solution: there is now a cat water bowl permanently next to the water glass, which she prefers at its easier to drink from. As Jackson Galaxy says, the only way to tell a cat "no" is with a "yes" (you can't stop them doing something but you can change their behaviour by offering a more appealing alternative).