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I imagine the cat is thinking the same thing. 
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That's funny, I wonder what else he thinks he should share with him?
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You should be happy the cat allows you to drink his water. 
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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Count your blessings.
I am having to execute life moments (work with code) with a 5 month old Lab puppy around. They have all the audacity of a cat with the deft and precision of a dog.
- Wasn't my idea but I love her and she wanted a lab........
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At that age, it's less "Black Lab", or "Chocolate Lab" and a lot more "Meth Lab"... 
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Labs are what is best in life.
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gad, someone else drank the coolaid too? 18 yo daughter wants a Golden Retriever. Mind you, we ALREADY have a full blooded full size rough coat Collie, a lab/husky mix (who is ancient and won't die), 3 cats, 2 birds, and the odd critter in the attic.
So, when daughter goes to work/school, we're left tending the puppy. I told her I wanted no part. Cute and smart pup, but damn that thing pees everywhere!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My cat used to do that to so I started putting a coaster over it when I was away from the desk.
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Wow! You have a really smart cat! Always remembers to put the coaster back when he's done drinking. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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 Yeah he was pretty smart but I couldn't teach him to make mu coffee in the morning. So defiant!
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OriginalGriff wrote: sharing a water bowl with the cat?
This is a cat we're talking about - you are not sharing with the cat but steeling from your master.
speramus in juniperus
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Given that a cat is involved and applying Murphy's Law, the probability approaches 100% that the cat has used the litter box and/or cleaned his private parts and then dipped his paws in your water glass while drinking.
I'm a professional cat client, and this is based on first-hand observation.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Do you share your beer too with the cat?
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Do you ever get the urge to try mouse for dinner?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and I notice out the corner of my eye that the cat has jumped up on my desk, stuck his head in the glass, and is slurping away at it.
My cat used to try to do that. Now he has his own glass on the kitchen table. He no longer drinks out of the bowl next to his food dish. He's become a bit of a snob.
Marc
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Not at all. The cats' ancestors lived in the north African desert. Things like not expecting water to be available when there is something to eat or vice versa are part of their natural behavior. A water bowl next to a meal appears wrong to them.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Not just that, apparently (this is from a cat psychologist on the TV that Herself watches).
Apparently, being predators they expect eating to be a rather messy business, what with feathers, tails and so forth flying all over the place - and as a result consider water near a feeding place to be contaminated. Makes some sense, I guess.
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OriginalGriff wrote: consider water near a feeding place to be contaminated.
And that's very interesting as well! I've always wondered why Pushkin has a reluctance to drink the water next to his food bowl. Thanks!
Marc
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And explains why one of mine prefers drinking from the toilet bowl.
Sort of.
If you totally ignore it being a toilet bowl and that the cat knows it's a toilet bowl.
Well, not knows knows, since he'sa cat, but he has certainly seen it in use.
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CDP1802 wrote: A water bowl next to a meal appears wrong to them.
Wow, that is very interesting! Thanks!
Marc
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What will Bahbaraa think ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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317 people enter a knock-out tennis tournament. How many matches need to be played to determine the winner?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Presumably only the last one. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, in total!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That was my answer as well!
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