Apr 25, 2010

It is More Polite to Lick Than to Slurp

Kitty etiquette lesson #37, courtesy of Pookke: It is good manners to use your paw to drink your water; just lapping it up is barbaric... and even (dare we say it) dog-like.

Note from Cute: No offense to doggies! We love doggies. This is Pookke's lesson. ;)

11 comments:

  1. Hey, whatever works for you is ok by me!

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  2. Yes, it is good etiquette to use your paw to drink water unless you put your paw in your food human's glass. I learned that one the hard way.

    *nosetaps*

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  3. Pretty darn cute. Now he has a very clean paw. Good job

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  4. Love the little stretches at the end. Kind of like toe touches in reverse. Momster of Mac and Fuz

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  5. He's an odd one this fellow, my David does all kinds of drinking paw manuvers.

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  6. he he - you come up with the funniest videos. My sisfur's cat Keiko (missy hissy) likes to drink her water one paw full at a time. Crazy!

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  7. I wonder if he now has to use the litter box because he had his paw in the water.....

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  8. My Tuscany drinks just like that. Sometimes she even falls asleep with her cheek in the bowl!

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  9. I know this video is 3 yrs. old but I just had to comment on it, in case anyone sees this. My senior cat started drinking with her paw like this and I couldn't figure out why as she had always lapped her water the usual way; but I got to thinking maybe she had a bad tooth (or more than one)...I had always served her water cold, and cold liquid hurts if you have tooth issues; so I started giving her warm water in her bowl and she immediately went back to lapping. So any time a cat starts doing this their humans should have their teeth checked. Try giving warm water and if they lap it, then you know.

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  10. That is very good to know, @facebook-100001533679558:disqus. Thank you for sharing that here!

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