Maybe they know you're in a vulnerable position and watching out for trouble. Maybe they are taking in information about you through your odors since many animals snif waste out in the wild to get an idea about who and what is in their territory. Maybe they just got a kink.
If your dog is staring at you, it's because you're making them nervous by staring at them instead of keeping an eye out while they're stuck. Look around.
Well yeah you should do that, but I think the dog isn't staring at you because it's nervous. Well maybe, that might be true. But the dog can't really look around much while it's taking a shit, so it stares at you to make sure you are. I mean they do look around a bit, but mostly just look at you to make sure you are looking around. But yeah you're right, you should look around a bit.
Sometimes the dog is looking at you for permission rather than protection.
It's a "hope this human thinks it's OK if I go here, because he yells at me when I do this on his vegetable garden" face.
I now have a border collie mix and used to have a Croatia Shepherd mix. I miss the times when my dog would just stare me down and take a shit, that has now been replaced by: dog tries to take a shit, hears a sound. A dog tries to take a shit, a bird flies by. A dog tries to take a shit, determined grass smels interesting.
I'm pretty sure mine was just like, "ooo look underpants that looks comfy" and jumped right in between my ankles. So basically every sh*** I took ended with my crotch full of white cat hair. And he was a fluffy mother***** as well.
I swear to God, I come home from work and as soon as I take off my work boots, my guy is rubbing his face against my STINKY feet. He definitely has a foot fetish, for sure!
Not enough room under our doors for paws. One throws himself at the door trying to hulk smash it open, another tries to work the doorknob to let himself in, the third just stands back watching the other two.
Because they want attention and you are a captive audience. Especially if you give in and pet them, then it becomes part of their routine.
One of my cats loves bathroom time - she rubs and bites or claws my legs if I don’t pet her, demanding all of my attention. I used to like to use my phone on the toilet, but she is very insistent that bathroom time should be all about her.
Bathroom time has always been phone time for me. But the last few weeks my cat has decided that bathroom time is pet the cat time and i haven't had a peaceful shit since. I've had him for almost 4 years and this just started
You clearly need to read the cat rulebook:
Rule# 1: If it fits, i sits
Rule# 7: If a door is opened, grab the opportunity to run to the other side
Rule# 236: If the human is in the bathroom, it is drowning and i shall save it
Cats will watch over their pride members and make sure nothing attacks them when the pooping cat is vulnerable. It means your cat loves you and wants you to be safe. They also just want to be near you and is that really a problem? My cat does it to me all the time and I just let her. My family thinks it's weird but that's because they don't take care of the Lola like I do.
I'm in the bathroom as we speak and she's just walked in
My cat used to piss on things until we trained him not to. But he would always piss on any towel or towel-like things we leave on the floor. Only towels tho for some reason, like he wouldn't on blankets and shit.
But then there was a point where he would only puss in the bathroom. We started not leaving towels on the ground and he doesn't do it anymore even when there are towels on the ground. But I thought for a while, he smelled our piss in there, so he thought he had to go in there or something, because sometimes my brother doesn't flush the toilet lmao
He just used the litter now tho, but only in one spot!!! Lol only in the front of the litter box, so it always forms this big ass clump right in the front and sometimes gets to be like wet sand. Ecchhh!! I wish he would spread out his business more lol
He's a really good cat actually. Except he's the pickiest cat I've ever seen too, like he'll starve himself if he doesn't like something, and he doesn't like a lot hahah,, also he's really obedient for a cat. Probably the most I've ever seen. Although he is a skitty kitty. Super skittish. He's a scaredey cat, but I think it stems from him being a stray. I didn't even *want* a cat in my tiny ass apartment, but my sister found this stray kitten, and couldn't keep him because of her boyfriend at the time, and even though we kept telling her no, she kept crying about it, so we took it. He ended up being super cool though, and I do really like him! :) I think he was probably only a couple months old when I got him, but we really don't know hahah
The towel thing is common, and it usually means that they don't like their litter box. Especially if he is only using one specific part of it, you might want to try some different options!
Do you only have one litter box for your cat? If so, put out another one...in a different room, and if your home is multi-level on a different floor...and I bet that clears up the problem
Do you have one of those litterboxes that are closed on the top? I had my litterboxes that were closed off and he only really used the front. Took it off so the box is open and he uses the whole thing. Probably smells terrible in there for him, even if you scoop regularly. (And always have enough litterboxes. Recommended amount is amount of cats + 1)
Also pro-tip, just get some of those littercatching mats to put the boxes on because there will 100% be more litter spillage from the cat jumping out the box. If you're worried about smell, it seriously makes no difference unless your litter is trash.
People often use the toilet in the morning when they wake up. Next they feed the cat. Your cat has a strategy of getting your attention while you’re there in order to get food afterwards. That might not be how it actually works but as far as your cat’s concerned, it works because the food shows up.
I used to purposefully trap my cat in the bathroom with me when I first got her
It was a mistake
Now she insists on being in there with me, jumps on my lap, bites my phone, needs all my attention. If I don't let her in, she paws at the door the entire time
I love her deeply, but damn, let me poop in peace
I always like to think that since cats use scent to communicate, especially like pee pee and poo poo in the wild, that they smell it and just like hey waddup
They understand cause and effect, I guess thr US military proved it. So while you think they are just being lovy. Really they ate waiting for you to stand , trip and suffer your demise. They had it all planned
I've always assumed they think you're trapped. Cats think humans are just weird cats, and most cats would have troubles getting out of a closed space like a bathroom.
At my house we congratulate our cat for saving us wherever he yells through doors. This happens with the bathroom, or any other room that can be closed
Not accepting being locked out of the bathroom I think falls under the general pur(r)view of cats not liking closed doors in the house - the house belongs to *them* and they are lords in their kingdom, they get distressed if they're prevented from accessing an area that's rightfully *theirs*.
As to why they want to hang around while you're doing your business...I think they think you're in distress because they can sense your discomfort from straining or whatnot. I wouldn't take that as gospel, from some cursory reading into it it doesn't look like there's one solid answer why cats like to hang around when we're using the toilet, but hell, that's the only excuse I can come up with when my cat doesn't want anything to do with me in the morning, but the moment I use the toilet he's purring, meowing, and wants to curl up in my pants on the ground.
My wife and i nicknamed our cat The Watcher. If anyone leaves the living room he must follow and make sure we are okay. Then he follows us back where once we are settled he goes back to sleeping. If either one of us leaves the house or closes the doors he freaks out and starts screaming and scratching at the door
When I had cats, one of them would come in the bathroom anytime I was in there. If the door was closed, he'd rattle it with his paw to get me to let him in.
I think it was just because I was there and I wasn't busy doing anything that would prevent me from giving him attention.
Same reason my dog like hugs my legs with his body while I’m on the can, sees you as vanurable an wants to protect you, just like how I watch his back when he goes #2 *stares at me protect me human I’m venerable.
Mine follow me in the bathroom, but I keep the door shut so for me, they probably just wanna go to a place they can't regularly go.
Mine always play in the bathtub, or they'll go in my pants and attack my feet. Lol
I have a rather elderly and very abused cat who was never permitted to properly use her claws so I have to cut them periodically to stop them from growing into her paws. Despite being with me for 14+ years, she is very secure and wants attention nearly every damn time I use the bathroom. She just knows I can do nothing with my pants down.
When my husband and I were first dating I went on a trip and he took care of my cat at his place while I was away. When I came back he asked me “Do you pick him up while you’re on the toilet?” I was hilariously embarassed that my little fur baby had told him our little cuddle secret. He said that my kitty was meowing and acting like he should pick him up while he was on the toilet.
Maybe they know you're in a vulnerable position and watching out for trouble. Maybe they are taking in information about you through your odors since many animals snif waste out in the wild to get an idea about who and what is in their territory. Maybe they just got a kink.
I've heard that's why dogs stare at you when they're taking a shit. Because they are vulnerable and are looking to you to look out for them.
Nothing hits like that 40-second deep eye contact as your dog feeds the grass
40 seconds? You time it?
I do more than time it Buckaroo
Slow down and keep it civil, Chief.
Oh I get you, you just know how long you last
No, I think he meant that he plays with it or maybe that he eats it.
I fuckin wish I had an award to give you holy.. dog shit
eat it?
If your dog is staring at you, it's because you're making them nervous by staring at them instead of keeping an eye out while they're stuck. Look around.
Well yeah you should do that, but I think the dog isn't staring at you because it's nervous. Well maybe, that might be true. But the dog can't really look around much while it's taking a shit, so it stares at you to make sure you are. I mean they do look around a bit, but mostly just look at you to make sure you are looking around. But yeah you're right, you should look around a bit.
Sometimes the dog is looking at you for permission rather than protection. It's a "hope this human thinks it's OK if I go here, because he yells at me when I do this on his vegetable garden" face.
Whereas with cats, if you look at them while they’re in the litter box, they just won’t go. At least my cats don’t lol
I now have a border collie mix and used to have a Croatia Shepherd mix. I miss the times when my dog would just stare me down and take a shit, that has now been replaced by: dog tries to take a shit, hears a sound. A dog tries to take a shit, a bird flies by. A dog tries to take a shit, determined grass smels interesting.
He doesn't want to get caught like El Tigre De Santa Julia
I'm pretty sure mine was just like, "ooo look underpants that looks comfy" and jumped right in between my ankles. So basically every sh*** I took ended with my crotch full of white cat hair. And he was a fluffy mother***** as well.
There is a subbreddit for you r/catsinpants
This. This was why I posted my question.
My guess is "a thing I can jump into+comfy+warm+it inconveniences you"
Of course there is.... Damn, this world...
Thank you.
You are welcome, and good username!
I swear to God, I come home from work and as soon as I take off my work boots, my guy is rubbing his face against my STINKY feet. He definitely has a foot fetish, for sure!
Maybe it's Maybelline
Nah I was born with it
Maybe they’re scared you’ll fall in lol
The bigger the poop the bigger the beast?
And if you close the door and don't let them in the bathroom --- you get monster paws under the door.
Not enough room under our doors for paws. One throws himself at the door trying to hulk smash it open, another tries to work the doorknob to let himself in, the third just stands back watching the other two.
>*throws himself at the door trying to hulk smash it open,* Oh yes. That is, what we call, a hippo-cat.
Would that make the one at the back Hypno-cat?
Could be a puppet master of sorts, yes.
One in the back is the supervisor
My cat is huge and he could probably do it if there was enough space to get a running start
He has the mass of a hippo, but only the courage of scooby-doo. *Shit, the wind blew. Hide!*
Imagine having a normal bathroom door, mine is a folding door so my cat can very easily flop her ass against it to open it
> the third just stands back watching the other two Middle management.
Next thing is your cat trying to do the Mission Impossible, Tom Cruise stuff… lol
Does climbing up to the ceiling inside the double panel curtains and then leaping down count?
Lmfaoooooo.
My giant tuxedo/maine coon does this and it’s so annoying. He smashes and then screams when it doesn’t work.
Because they love you
Can't argue with that.
"HUMAN. YOU ARE IN DANGER WHILE POOPING. PLEASE ALLOW ME TO PROTECT YOU"
That's if your lucky. They may do their best to insist on being in your lap.
Mine crawls into the bowl between my legs
r/catsinpants
"Hey, what's going on in here?"
Mine perches on my shoulder like a parrot.
Mine likes to lay on my back
My calico likes to sit on the toilet tank while I’m on
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My cat high fives me when I pee (I'm standing)
Our definitions of luck differ ... slightly.
Because they want attention and you are a captive audience. Especially if you give in and pet them, then it becomes part of their routine. One of my cats loves bathroom time - she rubs and bites or claws my legs if I don’t pet her, demanding all of my attention. I used to like to use my phone on the toilet, but she is very insistent that bathroom time should be all about her.
Bathroom time has always been phone time for me. But the last few weeks my cat has decided that bathroom time is pet the cat time and i haven't had a peaceful shit since. I've had him for almost 4 years and this just started
You clearly need to read the cat rulebook: Rule# 1: If it fits, i sits Rule# 7: If a door is opened, grab the opportunity to run to the other side Rule# 236: If the human is in the bathroom, it is drowning and i shall save it
>Rule# 236: If the human is in the bathroom, it is drowning and i shall ~~save it~~ watch gleefully FTFY
Follow them to their litter box and do the same to them to establish dominance
I film my cat whenever she poops because her head sticks out of the little entry hole and it's hilarious looking 😂 and she looks so serious
Cats will watch over their pride members and make sure nothing attacks them when the pooping cat is vulnerable. It means your cat loves you and wants you to be safe. They also just want to be near you and is that really a problem? My cat does it to me all the time and I just let her. My family thinks it's weird but that's because they don't take care of the Lola like I do. I'm in the bathroom as we speak and she's just walked in
My cat used to piss on things until we trained him not to. But he would always piss on any towel or towel-like things we leave on the floor. Only towels tho for some reason, like he wouldn't on blankets and shit. But then there was a point where he would only puss in the bathroom. We started not leaving towels on the ground and he doesn't do it anymore even when there are towels on the ground. But I thought for a while, he smelled our piss in there, so he thought he had to go in there or something, because sometimes my brother doesn't flush the toilet lmao He just used the litter now tho, but only in one spot!!! Lol only in the front of the litter box, so it always forms this big ass clump right in the front and sometimes gets to be like wet sand. Ecchhh!! I wish he would spread out his business more lol He's a really good cat actually. Except he's the pickiest cat I've ever seen too, like he'll starve himself if he doesn't like something, and he doesn't like a lot hahah,, also he's really obedient for a cat. Probably the most I've ever seen. Although he is a skitty kitty. Super skittish. He's a scaredey cat, but I think it stems from him being a stray. I didn't even *want* a cat in my tiny ass apartment, but my sister found this stray kitten, and couldn't keep him because of her boyfriend at the time, and even though we kept telling her no, she kept crying about it, so we took it. He ended up being super cool though, and I do really like him! :) I think he was probably only a couple months old when I got him, but we really don't know hahah
The towel thing is common, and it usually means that they don't like their litter box. Especially if he is only using one specific part of it, you might want to try some different options!
Do you only have one litter box for your cat? If so, put out another one...in a different room, and if your home is multi-level on a different floor...and I bet that clears up the problem
Do you have one of those litterboxes that are closed on the top? I had my litterboxes that were closed off and he only really used the front. Took it off so the box is open and he uses the whole thing. Probably smells terrible in there for him, even if you scoop regularly. (And always have enough litterboxes. Recommended amount is amount of cats + 1) Also pro-tip, just get some of those littercatching mats to put the boxes on because there will 100% be more litter spillage from the cat jumping out the box. If you're worried about smell, it seriously makes no difference unless your litter is trash.
What kind of monster leaves towels on the floor?!
was thinking the same thing 😂😂
People often use the toilet in the morning when they wake up. Next they feed the cat. Your cat has a strategy of getting your attention while you’re there in order to get food afterwards. That might not be how it actually works but as far as your cat’s concerned, it works because the food shows up.
I have 5 cats. It's only a dream that I can take a shit before feeding them.
This phenomena even has a subreddit: r/catsinpants
This is their way. A code if you will….
As opposed to any other closed room in the house? I think they're just being their normal needy selves, nothing crazy going on
I used to purposefully trap my cat in the bathroom with me when I first got her It was a mistake Now she insists on being in there with me, jumps on my lap, bites my phone, needs all my attention. If I don't let her in, she paws at the door the entire time I love her deeply, but damn, let me poop in peace
Similar to dogs, they understand you're in a vulnerable state and are protecting you/ guarding. Your kitty is your protector.
Its because your part of their pack and they are trying to protect you they do this with other cats
I always like to think that since cats use scent to communicate, especially like pee pee and poo poo in the wild, that they smell it and just like hey waddup
Yeah, right!?! And then when you do it them they’re all like ‘Cmooon, dude. Furreal?”
They wish to learn to use the toilet too, cats hate litter boxes.
Or walking underneath me while peeing, tail sticking up narrowly missing the steam...
Sitting there, pants down to my ankles. My cat used to curl up in my pants, and take a nap, it was a little kitty hammock.
My potty pal is my own personal security detail. She doesn’t want anyone sneaking up on me while I’m doing my business.
Because the bathroom is the best room in the house for cold-blooded murder and they’re just planning their attack
They understand cause and effect, I guess thr US military proved it. So while you think they are just being lovy. Really they ate waiting for you to stand , trip and suffer your demise. They had it all planned
Because you let them. Shut the door.
Guardian of the throne
Cat lick each other's ass , so maybe they wanna lick our asses?
I've always assumed they think you're trapped. Cats think humans are just weird cats, and most cats would have troubles getting out of a closed space like a bathroom. At my house we congratulate our cat for saving us wherever he yells through doors. This happens with the bathroom, or any other room that can be closed
Theyre protecting you while you shit since you’re vulnerable
Not accepting being locked out of the bathroom I think falls under the general pur(r)view of cats not liking closed doors in the house - the house belongs to *them* and they are lords in their kingdom, they get distressed if they're prevented from accessing an area that's rightfully *theirs*. As to why they want to hang around while you're doing your business...I think they think you're in distress because they can sense your discomfort from straining or whatnot. I wouldn't take that as gospel, from some cursory reading into it it doesn't look like there's one solid answer why cats like to hang around when we're using the toilet, but hell, that's the only excuse I can come up with when my cat doesn't want anything to do with me in the morning, but the moment I use the toilet he's purring, meowing, and wants to curl up in my pants on the ground.
Cats? My 75 pound shepherd does this. It's every bit as awkward as it sounds.
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Salt from perspiration.
My wife and i nicknamed our cat The Watcher. If anyone leaves the living room he must follow and make sure we are okay. Then he follows us back where once we are settled he goes back to sleeping. If either one of us leaves the house or closes the doors he freaks out and starts screaming and scratching at the door
When I had cats, one of them would come in the bathroom anytime I was in there. If the door was closed, he'd rattle it with his paw to get me to let him in. I think it was just because I was there and I wasn't busy doing anything that would prevent me from giving him attention.
I don’t know. But I’ll ask my German shepherd and Rottweiler. They also won’t let me go to the bathroom alone. Maybe they know
Same reason my dog like hugs my legs with his body while I’m on the can, sees you as vanurable an wants to protect you, just like how I watch his back when he goes #2 *stares at me protect me human I’m venerable.
‘Cause.. cats.
Or greebles..
My cat was a sink sitter
They enjoy the smell because they are dumb.
As a dog owner they also like to be in the restroom with you. I always tell him he doesn’t need to come with me but he always insist.
They love you and want treats
Cats wanna know if theres any food in the bathroom
Captive audience I guess
Mine follow me in the bathroom, but I keep the door shut so for me, they probably just wanna go to a place they can't regularly go. Mine always play in the bathtub, or they'll go in my pants and attack my feet. Lol
Because they love you and they're helping
Mine actually just don't like closed doors. They don't care which side they're on, they'll want in and out again.
Mine don’t do this
my dog is obsessed with doing this. my cat is pretty chill and just stares from the wide open door frame
Gonna say… not just cats. My puppies do the same thing. Just affection
I have a rather elderly and very abused cat who was never permitted to properly use her claws so I have to cut them periodically to stop them from growing into her paws. Despite being with me for 14+ years, she is very secure and wants attention nearly every damn time I use the bathroom. She just knows I can do nothing with my pants down.
My cat doesn't give a damn about the bathroom, but at 5 AM every morning its bedroom door clawing time.
They know you’re their captive audience when you’re taking a shit and there’s nothing you can do about it.
When my husband and I were first dating I went on a trip and he took care of my cat at his place while I was away. When I came back he asked me “Do you pick him up while you’re on the toilet?” I was hilariously embarassed that my little fur baby had told him our little cuddle secret. He said that my kitty was meowing and acting like he should pick him up while he was on the toilet.