Cat has done me dirty!

[Lugout]

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

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I love her. But I don’t was butt residue on my straw!!

Cats gonna cat…

Ever since I saw a video on Twitter of someone’s cat chewing their electric toothbrush while they slept I have kept my toothbrush in the wardrobe overnight 😆😱🤢

Ooooohhhhh, okay. She’s your baby, I can see it. Or he, sorry.

(I also have to keep my water glass in the wardrobe overnight as DCat is an inveterate water stealer)

I watched the cat drinking from DH’s water glass and swapped the very next night to a water bottle.

With a previous cat I did put the toothbrushes away. This lazy lump can’t be arsed jumping up. Our very low bed is the limit of his athleticism. So toothbrushes are thankfully safe.

My glass of water on the bedside table is always covered ever since I woke up to find mine having a midnight drink.

Don’t read on if you are afraid of spiders..

Always turn the light on before having a drink - you never know what has crawled into your glass.

This is also a good reason to keep your water covered.

It’s a giant Stanley-type cup(I’m poor, so it’s actually from B&M!) so I assumed it was safe from interference from critters. Apparently not

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🤮I once caught my dachshund standing on the arm of the sofa and drinking my, luckily lukewarm, cup of tea on the table next to it. I don’t want to know how many times we’ve shared in the past.

I caught my cat the other day licking the rim of my mug which I had bringing tea out of.

My first thought - is this the first time she's done this or just the first time I've caught her?????

I suspect it's the second option

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).

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

My cats love straws. So, probably? 🤷‍♀️

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!

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!

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

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?

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.

😂 Yummy cat bum juice! 😆

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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....

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