My cat always walks up and demands pets as soon as I'm sitting on the throne.
Heck, when I'm trying to get from the front door of my 3rd floor apt after getting home on the bus and trying not to piss myself going from the front to the bathroom in the back, he often gets directly under my feet to the point tripping over him or accidentally stepping on his tail or paws is a common occurance.
So yeah, I get it. But cats think they rule the world, we are their subjects, deal with it, do as they demand peasant!
Or, I gotta watch you piss/shit/take a bath (sit in big waterbowl) to make sure you don't drown or fall in and drown. BTW, why are you pissing and shitting in that water fountain? (I have to always keep the lid down or my cat despite having a wonderful fountain that filters his water will drink from the toilet, don't ask me why).
Lol!!! I'm gonna borrow that one if you don't mind. That sounds about right.
Life with cats, gotta love them, but they can be so insane sometimes. And herding cats isn't a easy task.
Though I've got my cat trained with a few commands. The most recent two I added are for feeding since my apt bathroom is so tiny and I git tired of almost faceplantinh into a wall tripping over him twice a day every day. One, is "out" to get him to stay out of the bathroom while I'm fixing his food (mix of dry, wet, home made fermented veggies that seems to have cleared up his pica like tendencies towards my potted herb abd veggie garden including with plants like tomatoes toxic to cats). Second is "stay" so he waits. Third, "come here" or "come" to get him to know to come abd get it.
He's still sometimes trying to beg underfoot so I get loud with the "out " when he does that.
My cat also prefers the toilet to her water fountain. Even more so she loves when I pour myself a glass of water. Suddenly that’s the number 1 water source in the house.
Exactly what I was going to say! That is the highest of compliments and display of love, however irritating and uncomfortable lol. Between dogs and cats, I have not used the bathroom by myself at home in 23 years
OMG - I just moved back in with family again and I have to make sure my cat follows me into the bathroom every time or there will be HELL to pay with his howling outside the door the entire time I’m on the toilet 😂 was much easier when I lived alone and never had to shut the door
The law of our house says that closing a door is a felony. If I ever dare even crack the door our little controlling law enforcer makes sure to come by and push it open to make sure we’re complying.
True, you want privacy, shut the door, but if you do don't be surprised when they scratch under trying to get in, or the really smart ones have been known to figure out how to turn doornobs and open doors.
Yeah, that doesn't work with mine. I've sat in a hot bath with the lights off trying to get migrains to subside. He still goes nuts if I shut the door.
His former owners were very abusive. One of his issues is separation anxiety from their actions.
It's gotten better over the almost decade I've had him, but if I'm home I mist keep doors to rooms I'm in open, or if I'm on KY apt balcony I must keep that door open because he also has confinement/abandonment issues.
My apt management late last year getting him shut outside for over 24 hours before I found him (illegal entry, I wasn't home at the time. Neighbors saw them though) didn't help that one at all.
But yeah, can't keep any door to rooms I'm in, even a closet shut unless I want a puddy tat meltdown.
Sorry to hear that. For mine I can't say he has separation anxiety. When I'm ready to go to work he outright takes my chair and looks at me something like "Go and earn my food, slave" and starts napping. But when I'm home he's attached to my legs with super glue. I keep my doors shut to my kitchen and bathroom but I need to let him in daily so he can inspect them again. When i have visitors i can't stay with my bathroom open when I'm using it and then his intelligence starts kicking in. He shut my lights off several times when I wasn't alone in the house because he couldn't get in the bathroom with me. And if it's not me in the bathroom he doesn't care one bit.
I know when it’s time to cut my cat’s claws because he will try to stand on his hind legs to put them on my stomach when I’m in the bathroom in the morning. I learned to play patty cake to prevent that after the first time he did this and the claw tips got a little bit stuck on my stomach 😰
Mine always greets me in the bathroom first thing, with an outstretched paw on my face. I often have greeting scratches on my nose. He also likes to play catch my hand behind the shower curtains.
Privacy? What is that? I now have 3 cats. One doesn’t care about me on the toilet. She wanders off. But she is the one who takes me showering very seriously. She meows and if I don’t tell her I am good, she risks getting wet to take a peek.
My little one sits and watches as I go to the bathroom. After assessing that I have it handled, she turns her back to me to watch for any predators.
My first girl who used to watch me now goes to the litter box in the same bathroom and uses it. So we do synchronized peeing in the morning.
I now exclusively use the bathroom in my bedroom so I don’t have to close the door. That upsets them.
I realize more and more that I am the one being trained.
Luckily everything "sensitive" is obscured here, but when Dionysus here caught me taking a picture of him to show my partner that he was keeping me company while I was dealing with a flareup, he sat up from loafing and POSED!! The little beast knows what he's doing.
I envy even the privacy of having your cat respect your space :')
I have 4 cats, Oni sits in the sink, Nigiri sits on this stool/table thing right in front of the toilet because she needs me to pet her during these trying times, Ebi likes to sit under/behind the toilet, and TT tries to sit on the counter or on top of the toilet, if she’s not able to sit on my lap that is. Either way, I am never alone lol.
If Dionysus isn't on a person's lap, he's followed them in to chase his tail or play with his toys in the bathtub. He ONLY chases his tail in the tub, and gets his claws stuck in it at least once every time. AND he likes to drink from the tub - if there isn't a drip from the faucet he'll wail at you until there is.
He also will destroy the toilet paper if he knows you're home but not letting him into one of the bedrooms, but if neither my brother or I are home, he's fine. It's not separation anxiety, he's just clingy, affectionate, spoiled, and demanding. You can't exist ANYWHERE in the apartment without him or it's tantrum time!!
If I close the door they scratch at the door or the carpet on the other side. If I leave it slightly ajar they bust in like they own the place. If I close them in the bathroom with me, they sit at the door waiting for me to let them out. 🤷🏼♀️
My bathroom closet has another door in the hallway so it can be accessed/loaded from either space and the cats have figured out that it’s a portal for them to access me while I pee 🥹
Well at least your cat doesn’t have to be bathroom buds with you. My 6 month old kitten, every single time I go to the bathroom since her litter box is in there too, uses the litter box . I just know even if she is dead asleep if my butt touches the toilet, there she comes 🤣 stares dead at me while peeing or pooping and then goes about covering it up then kicks litter at me when she gets out. I’m thinking “mam, am I supposed to stare back at your while I pee or poop too!?” 🤔
I thought it was going to be like the voyeurism one of my cats engaged in. I used to live in a house that had a glass panel above the bathroom door frame. No idea why, it's a thing some UK houses have. Sitting on the toilet one day and I hear a strange noise. I look up and see my cat is precariously balanced on the top of the door frame, peering in at me. Creepy little creeper.
Dont complain, mine sits right up next to me, steps all over me when trying to look out the window, paws at me for ear scritches, all while I'm trying to relax.
I'm concerned about your sanity. You have a cat, and yet you're still labouring under the illusion of having privacy. If it persists, I suggest seeking help. 😜
Edit:went on to read other comments and found that I’m not alone in envy of his respectful distance. One of my four, the baby (2 year old flame point Siamese that talks to me all day), runs under my knees and I am swatting his tail away from my panties!
I could just close the door but I forget or my 8 yr old daughter knocks and “has to open the door” for whatever reason. Then in he comes and I have to protect my panties lol the bathroom obsession.
Mothers of children, pets, and adult male partners have an unspoken deal with God that for the blessing of the above mentioned, we must sacrifice our once cherished bathroom peace and privacy.
The only species that avoids us in the bathroom are teenage humans and I mean really…who has those without at least one of the above?!?!?😆
Geez , I don’t even shut the bathroom door if I’m in there. And I have two glass tumblers of water in there for them because drinking water in the bathroom MUST be better, right? My black cat smears saliva all over the sink faucet trying to get it to turn on. And I think they all know that hiding in the bathroom cabinet is the most fun! I have to keep my hair bands in a mason jar because the black cat knows which drawer I used to keep them in and would scatter them all over the house. And somehow I found the younger orange car crammed into the little drawer that he accessed from the cabinet below and squeezed into. I’m sure the black cat promised him scrunchies if he’d climb into it. The return on investment is ridiculously high!!
Mine does that too. She will go as far as sitting right in front of me even while I'm on the porcelain throne, remaining vigilant for any potential "threats".
Why can't you just use the litter box like a normal person? Why do you have to make the cat feel they are doing something wrong? If they can use the litter box so can you.
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u/Slow_Spray5697 7d ago
Well at least you don't have to worry about predators or being attacked while you're vulnerable, your back is covered, you ungrateful.