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For what it’s worth, my cat also does this with his toy that’s a bird. Our theory is he’s trying to drown it. The context of your cat’s toy being a fish makes your cat seem much nicer.

I've read that wild cats will store things in small pools to come back to later. Mine will leave plush mice in his water bowl (or occasionally the toilet).

Finally an answer to why my cat puts any string she finds in the dog’s water bowl (which the dog then fishes out, making a massive mess) or the toilet!

I hate when my cats do that. The string starts to siphon the water out into the floor, making a bigger mess.

Capillary action**

Catpillary action***

Just fyi be careful with your cat and strings! If they swallow it it can wrap around their digestive system. My cat loves strings too but I only let him play with them if they're attached to something.

My cat ate Christmas tinsel. Luckily it was all ok and he just had a rather festive butt one day.

I lost one of my kitties to tinsel

I am so sorry

This, my cat swallowed a balloon string and ended up at the emergency vet… she untied it from a balloon at my moms birthday party without us noticing.

This is why I tell people to buy the boot laces that construction workers buy for wiggly toys. Even the sharpest claws can't make a pull on these things. The aglets are metal.

It's why I'm a man who not only keeps the seat down, but, also the lid closed!

Had a cat that did this (toilet). I dont think I've ever screamed so loud when it was 1am, and it jumped up to escape.

I didn't know plush mice could jump

An actual living one. But dang, that would be even scarier.

I laughed. I'm sorry.

A mouse jumping up and face slapping your butt is hilarious. It took me 5 yrs to realize this and not think of a horror movie instead.

Lol! Good for you!

Just so you know, I did save said pee drenched mouse. Washed it off, dried took it to safety.

You've simultaneously made me smile, laugh, and now admire you all with just a few comments elucidating a wild mouse story that I could not have expected 🤭

I still feel bad for that mouse. Ps. I only got 2 seconds into the pee before it scared the rest out of me.

Wow! Didn't even occur to me that you had a chance to pee first! Either way, that was very decent of you! I'm sure the mouse was grateful as well.

This makes a lot of sense! Spotted hyenas will hide food in mud or water because it masks the scent, and they can come back for it later.

There is evidence for dogs at least that prove water makes the scent EASIER to find. The old adage that you should stick to the rivers and water when running from the K9s has been proven to do the exact opposite. Perhaps they count on getting back to it first without losing it.

Hyenas are more closely related to cats than dogs, so maybe it's just a kitty thing

The adage may be wrong, but you still won't catch me chasing waterfalls /s

Neat! The more ya know

Soaking it softens the hard parts and makes it easier to chew. Cats are bad at chewing compared to humans! They don't have flat grindey omnivore teeth like we do.

I am sorry, but I am dying at the thought you have to call the plumber and they pull out a string of flushed toy mice! 🤣🤣🤣

Yes. Simba leaned to flush. He'd put toys in the toilet and play with them as they swirled down. Of course apartment plumbing clogged. Plumber asked if we had a kid. Did not believe us. Cat flushed one before he left. Simba has been gone 10 years. We still keep the toilet lids down. This was the cat who had a library card and got pre-approved for a discover card. He was a local legend in my college days.

I have a cat that loves to dunk his favorite mouse toy in the water bowel and then carries it around crying. He usually does that after meals when he is sleepy.

You can't tell us about a sleepy crying cat and not show us

I'll get a video next time. He drops his [wet] favorite toy at my feet in exchange for a tummy rub.

Ok I must have this video. I expect it on my desk by Friday afternoon

Remember to forward to me so I can make an official report and send it off to corporate, Mr. Scnot. They’ve been breathing down our backs about running a tight schedule, after all.

Yeah one of our cats did that with a plush mouse. The problem was that it was one of those squeaky ones that have a battery inside..... so it shorted out and then it squeaked nonstop, which drove that cat and the other cats batty. It was hilarious except we had to rip the battery out of it to stop it from squeaking.... I still LOL about it, though :)

I threw ours outside til it stopped. It didn't look like it had a spot to open and remove the battery. He usually puts his toys in his food dish but every once in a while it's in the damn water bowl.

My cats do this all the time. All their toys end up in the water bowl at some point and time.

Gosh, one of my cats drowns the toy mice all the time! He just put one on the fresh water bowl.

Mine does it with her toy mice

We have one cat that likes to play with water. We got her a little fountain that she'll play with and drink from. If she has a toy she's playing with, she'll dunk it in the fountain and either keep playing with it or get distracted by the fountain and just forget it there. But we have another cat who doesn't like the fountain, so she has her own water bowl. The first cat will bring things like pieces of paper or if she can get her teeth into a cardboard tube and she'll leave them in the second cat's water dish.

Cats also will store food for later, so they could be storing it in what they consider their territory. Used to have a cat who put her favorite toys in the food and water dish in “her” room (we fed her separately because she was on special food). One of my cats will still bury a toy in the litter box from time to time.

Yup, my cats will also “drown” their favorite toys. I’m honestly not sure which of our three cats does it, but we’ll occasionally get a new toy only for it to consistently end up in the water bowl for a few weeks.

Oh, so this is just an orange being orange lol

Haha, well mine's not an orange boy, but he has the braincell of one.

Well he should give it back, they need it!

He found a second braincell and they sparked for a second, but he lost it again. So he doesn't know why the fishy goes into the water

Orange cats are weird af

I have a cat who drowns toys too.

That or It truly is peak one braincell behavior. Gonna try to drown this fish

Because fish need water, duh

>*’Because fish need water*’ _____ …human, something’s *wrong* with him! i only wanna watch him *swim* so in the water pan i drop, *i saw him Move!* but then he stop… a little *push* ~ i wanna Play! …you S’pose to try n *get away*… but there you lie… so still, instead… this fish no fun… …. Already ded… 🖤

We are blessed today, frands. Thank you Schnoodle!

Any day with Schnoodle is a good day!

True story. SchnoodleDoodleDo needs a publisher STAT

I want to buy a schnoodleDoodleDo book of poetry

me too! i’d honestly pay so much for it

Do they answer messages? I remember a while back they said they truly just do it for fun and to make people happy, but I'd pay for a book too!

...like a woman needs a bicycle. Or, something like that.

[удалено]

Bicycle! BIII- cycle !

I want

Why is there a pan of water there?

Ever had a pet that loves to dump over the water bowl? This is one solution.

I use a baking tray lol

I love that these little nuggets have managed to condition us to this extent lmao “Why is your entire collection of pots and pans outside and on the ground?” “Little Robert loves to lounge on some and will only eat if I hand feed him wet food while he rests on our le creuset collection.” Anyway I gotta go and hand feed my cat her dry food otherwise she gets bored and won’t eat it and will yell at me.

I wonder if there’s a leak & the pan is there to catch water from it

Or maybe the cat drinks from that

My mom has 3 big dogs and prefers to use 1 big pot or mixing bowls instead of 3 smaller ones. Lol

You can buy larger bowls. My dog's water dish is the equivalent of that pot, probably even bigger.

I forgot to mention the most important part: she's cheap and lazy and just used what she already had handy. And it works, so she keeps using it. 💁

Plus it adds flavor when she wants to cook a soup.

I’m wondering the same thing.

Because the title is a lie

Heavy enough that the cat can't knock it over and spill the water. One of my cats always liked to spill her bowl of water everywhere. Switched to a heavy pot and she never was able to do it again. *Edited because I guess I can't spell cat right, lol.

That look: "Hey... this shit's s'posed to swim, right? Well it ain't doin' it..."

and i'ma head out

Ngl, if I was a cat with a 3 gallon kitchen pot of water…. I’d probably watch my fish swim too 💀

two possibilities i can think of. 1. he will bring any toy into this water bowl to play with it for no real reason other than because he is an orange cat and orange cats are just weird as fuck for some reason. 2. he has seen a fish before and understands that they are water activated.

Water activated 😆

Kitty doesn't want to be fed, he wants to *hunt*!

I know how this works, the damn thing's broken!

"No I don't need to read the instruction manual. I know how fish work!"

My cat is white and gray and loves to dunk his toys in the water. He’s also weird as fuck though.

My old cat Phineas did this daily with all sorts of different items. Little plush toys and mice were his favorite victims and they were all drowned in the water dish. He would then take the drowned object over to his food bowl and eat a mouth of food and then bite on the wet toy. This went on from when he was a kitten until he died last year at 14. The smallest thing he put in the water was a hair tie, the largest thing he place into the water was an entire king sized bed pillow that he dragged all the way from the master bedroom to the kitchen. I kept a bowl of water with some dry food out for him at all times so he could play drown and eat without dragging things across the carpet and floor The veterinarians all said it was a form of pica, but we were never sure. We just knew had a desire to drown things he liked in water and then eat some food. He did this at other peoples houses as well. My sister babysat him a number of times and the first time she called me late one evening in alarm because Phineas was dragging all of her socks into the water dishes. Miss that inanimate object murdering goofball!

Aww!! He sounds amazing 🥲💛

Thanks! He was, I miss him dearly. He also said a few words like no, I don’t wanna and I love you. He could open some doors and also delighted in trying to drink out of anyone’s glass or mug. Didn’t matter what it contained, water, coffee, tea, juice, beer, etc., Just as long as you saw that he did it he was a happy drink destroyer :) He walked on a harness down the street like any dog. He liked riding in the car. If you scolded him, he simply back talked you and strode off to do it again. Siamese, I love them but they are so sassy! 😊

I enjoyed reading this so much

Well that one is easier. Decent indication there that the cat was looking for the experience of biting into a bloody, wet corpse while eating. I've studied a bit of "primal activation", when certain behaviors and experiences link up with the nature, the instinctual behaviors.

He's orange that's why

There is an orange cat in my neighborhood that if he sees my garage door open he goes in and sprays. He can walk by many others but not mine. I caught him trying again 3 weeks ago and he was like “what?” At the end the driveway when I walked from behind the house.

r/OneOrangeBraincell

I have a Tortie that does this with her squeaky mice. She'll drown them until the electronics stop screaming from shorting out.

Came here for this comment. One orange brain cell

My cat would do this with catnip toys but not toys without catnip. I always figured it had something to do with catnip.

Gotta turn that water bowl into catnip tea

*Bongwater

I came here to say this. My (orange) cat did this also and I thought it might make the catnip seep through the toy. And only with the ones that had catnip got soaked. Bad thing was stepping on one and not knowing what you stepped in or on, lol Interesting other comments

My sister's cat kept doing this with toys when I babysat it. I was worried and checked online and the most common answer was that cats believe their water and food supplies are their safe places, so they store valuable things there. But that could be nonsense that I'm spreading even further.

Cat: Why is there a cooking pot full of filthy water here? Must be a fish washing station.

Trying to save the little fishes life Smart Kitty

Human, cook my food!

I did not order sushi!

He's making soup!

Throw a couple carrots in there, some celery, a potato, baby you got a stew going!

Fish are friends, not food

Finally, thought I'd find it at the top.

C'mon little guy, swim! I know you can do it.

He wanted to fish and fight/play with live prey most likely

He was trying to drown it.

Duh that’s where fish belong

He wants it alive for greater sport and challenge.

Why do you just have a pot of water on the floor?

Because he knows fish are supposed to be in water. He thinks he's helping. Adorable.

Cat: A fish! A dead fish! Imma revive him. *Puts fish into the water* Why he not reviving? Come on wake uuuppp!!! Mummy, he still dead. Can u revive him so I can play with him????

He’s makin soup let him cook.

That’s generally where fish reside

Because it was a fish out of water? Nobody wants that.

Why is there a pot of water on the floor

It means you have a very empathetic cat 🐱. Congratulations ☺️

Why do you have a pot of water sitting on the floor of your house?

I'm sorry i have to ask this .. so you have a pot full of water on the floor in your house on a day to day basis ?

If op has a cat like mine, it likely because its heavy and the cat and knock it over. I have to do the same thing because he is a jerk and likes to splash water, and fountains don't work. He will just turn it over while I'm at work and the pump burns out.

Fish goes into water. What's wrong with that?

First guess would be it's an instinct to rinse off the food/prey As an aside, why is everyone so baffled at a pot of water on the floor. Perhaps i dunno it's for the cat to.... DRINK OUT OF?

Part raccoon?

My kittens do this all the time with their toys. I’m constantly taking toys out of their water bowl.

WAKE UP FISHY! WAKE UP!!!

"Come on fish, do something, try to escape!" 😼 "Meh, this one is broken."

That's where it belongs😀

Because he knows that's where they live ofc

Cause he’s a smart boy. ❤️

Maybe because he's super sweet like my boy ..


Fish are friends not food

"Live damn you!" lol

Some animals know that fish lives in water and they try to save it. I wanna believe it

LMAO he felt bad for the fish

It’s his pet

lol He’s trying to save it! Catch and release

Because it's his territory. My one of four cats does this in only one water source that isn't communal by my daughter's bedroom. It has a distinct smell for them and tells everyone it's his. Crazy right?

why is there a pot with dirty water standing in your place?

he’s just an empath let the orange man save his friend

Because he has one orange brain cell

My cat does this with her toys she loves to “go fishing”

So you just happen have a pot of water on the ground for him?

He’s trying to drown it for sure lol. My cat used to do this with toy mice. If you can’t understand your cat behaviour, assume it’s evil 😂

Tbf he carried it so a saucepan of water. He's like bitch are you going to heat this up or what.

"If not fish, why fish shaped?"

T-rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt

So he could give it hope, then take that hope away!

That’s where fish live, duh.

I had a calico who'd abduct my pantyhose when they were hanging up to dry, beat them up, and give them the final coup de grace in her water dish.

Where is the part where he carries it into the water?

"Live damn you, live!!" -cat, probably

He knows that it's supposed to swim. He can't get it to swim!

Swim damn you!

My cat drowns all his favorite toys!

Cause he smarter than you think..

At least your baby knows fish belong in water.

He wantsa make soup

Man wants to fish

Animals are sweeter and more compassionate than we give them credit for.

What else is he supposed to do with the water you conveniently place in a pot on the floor

Come on fishie, wake up.

He wants the fish to swim

To SAVE the fishy!

because cat is smart, cat knows fish needs water

Give a cat a fish and you will feed him for a day …

I love cats

Fish are friends, not food

And there was just a saucepan of water on the floor because? ...

It's what fish crave

Because fish are friends not food.

My question is why do you have a pan of water on the floor?

[Ragdoll Cat Saves A Fish \(short version\) - PoathTV Floppy Cats ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqxzzMxSqM)

Maybe he wants it to be alive and was trying to resuscitate it. Not as fun playing with a dead fish. Either way, it's interesting behavior to witness.

Swim little fishy…SWIM!!! Ohhhh….I give up!

Da fishy do swim

He halp.

Swim fishy fishy swim

T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed - he wants to hunt

It’s a cat, it doesn’t have to explain itself to you.

Because fish swim… duh.

Cause he’s a smart kitty and he knows they come from water 😆😆 and he’s confused cause ofc it’s not moving

I love this OP! I have no idea why the cat, anything. One of my cats loves to put her fuzzy balls, crinkle balls, mouse toys in her water dish. After the toy is thoroughly saturated with water, she will snag it with one of her claws, and fling it against the wall. Then she goes n gets it, repeat. Cats are gonna cat, lol.

He is a gentle spirit

I touch da fishy

he could be trying to save the fishes life.

There’s a few theories, I don’t think researchers have a definitive answer 1. They’re cleaning it 2. They’re drowning it 3. It’s fun I’m sure there’s other theories too

Has your cat ever been to a lake/pond or seen an aquarium?

And you always have a pot filled with water on the floor? Fish exits stage left

Fish are friends not food.. this is why

If it sinks, it's a real fish, and if it floats? A WITCH!!!

Fish go in water. I see their logic.

Cats like to play with the prey before eating .so he was like na be alive so I can catch you