Cats That Like Water

I threw some raw cat food into the sink to thaw, and filled the sink with water. This thaws the food quicker, brings it closer to room temperature and usually repels cats.
I go out to the barn for a few, come in and Queen Bee is sitting on the floor sucking down chicken hearts from the sink like candy and she's soaked from her neck to her knees.
Then I got to thinking, one year we had fleas, and I gave the cats a bath. I only gave the cats a bath because my to do list said "I found fleas on Ty, Computer Cat, and Asthmatic Cat! Give the cats a bath". Oh boy. Do I look like an idiot? (Don't answer that.)
By the time I got to Queen Bee, I looked like something the cat dragged in and had saved her bath for last, partially out of dread and partially thinking that if the others didn't kill me dead, she'd finish the job. I started pouring water over her and she was cool as a cucumber. She didn't move and seemed to enjoy it.
She's weird, but she gets that from me I guess
I always thought cats hated water but she doesn't seem to mind it. Baby Girl either. The other night she was misbehaving (as usual ) and I flicked some water from my fingers at her, and she didn't run off, but attacked the water droplets as they hit her.

Whoever said humans are top of the food chain need to get with the program.
We can't possibly be the only people who have cats who actually like water, can we?

No, although yours do seem to be a little more aquatically inclined

Furballsmom said:

No, although yours do seem to be a little more aquatically inclined

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Maybe they have gills

My cats are, often, in the rain... sometimes, in quite heavy downpours. It doesn't bother them. I suppose it depends on what cats are accustomed to. Or, too, how desperate they are for a certain outcome -- like really wanting chicken hearts out of a sink of water... or a fish out of a fish bowl.

While my cat doesn't like water, she finds it mildly irritating at worst, and won't even bother leaving my bathtub until there is an inch or more of water in it.

Gwen was obsessed with licking shower water out of the bathtub after anyone showered, and didn't seem to mind having wet paws as a result. In fact, she would leave little wet pawprints all over the apartment. In her later years, she'd jump into the bathtub and stare at me until I turned the tap on for her (just a trickle).

One of the kittens (grey/ragdoll) a crazy water cat. She wades in her drinking fountian .... I really need to get a pic of it.
Anyhow she drove everyone so crazy with her water obsession that she got a Tupperware container of water in the shower with floaty toys.

Also she could just be really food motivated.

The previous water fountain I had, Austin was splashing around in it and making a water mess everywhere.