I Don't Want That In Here!

I was telling a co-worker who has a cat, that Jack seemed to like to drink water from my dripping bathtub faucet over drinking it from his water bowl. She suggested I leave a bowl of water filled for him in the bathroom. So I filled up a styrofoam bowl and filled it up with water.

When I got home I heard strange noises coming from the bathroom. Before I could get up to investigate, Jack came out of the bathroom carrying the styrofoam bowl in his mouth. Then he left it on the floor of my bedroom.

When I went over to investigate it, I saw that he had even bit holes in the bottom of the bowl so it couldn't be refilled with water and put back in the bathroom. His message was crystal clear. "I don't want that in here. Keep it out."

The styrofoam bowl wasn't the only thing Jack decided he didn't want in the bathroom. He likes to knock some of his clean litter out of the box and then to roll around in it on his back. Only problem is I have a bathroom rug sitting outside of the tub so I can step on it when I get out of the shower.

When I came home and found the rug sitting outside the bathroom, I didn't understand what it was doing there. I immediately replaced it, and it wasn't long before Jack came out with the rug [which was two times his size] gripped in his mouth dragging it out of the bathroom.

I, of course, put it back in, with Jack trying to stop me all the way, telling him that rug was staying in the bathroom.