@TheLongRider
That's hilarious! I have a similar agreement with my cat Hobbes about being allowed to drink water in the kitchen sink.
I'm down first in the morning, I feed them and then sort out the dishwasher. Hobbes has breakfast, jumps into the sink an expects me to turn on the tap for him, despite there being perfectly good water fountain in the same room. I think Hobbes is smart enough not to ask DH...
[Voice comes from the bathroom]
'Mooncup!'
Yes?
'The cat's being weird.'
What do you mean, weird? She's a cat, of course she's bloody weird What is she doing?
'She's standing on the edge of the bath with her paws up on the sink and looking at me.'
She's braver than I am to be downwind of you in the morning, then Have you filled the sink yet?
'What?'
She likes a drink from the sink first thing. It's probably better for her guts than the green stuff in the garden.
'What? I'm not doing that, she's got a fountain in the kitchen'
Yes, she knows that, but she likes freshly run water in porcelain in the morning.
[not directed at me]
'No, go and drink from your fountain. You'll get fluff over my toothbrush if you do tha- NO! Stop it! Off! [pause] Stop looking at me like that. No. Can't you do something useful like pass me another toilet roll? No. No. Don't you start shouting at me. I am never letting you come in here with me again. No. Oh, for [mumbles] - Just. This. Once. OK? Happy now? Don't flick it over me. Great, now sod off and leave me alone'
[ten minutes pass. Eventually, the owner of the voice comes downstairs]
'Have we got a small attachment for the vacuum cleaner? I'm going to do the bedroom again because I must have missed a bit yesterday and there's a big puff of cat fluff in my glass'
Ah. I didn't realise you bring full glasses of water upstairs at night ...
Eight years later, the sink is filled every morning and he never, ever, leaves a glass of water unattended.