ginger cat

[SouthPark]

Back again! ....... I finally got around to making the video of gingercat drinking water from her bucket hehe.

It's her bucket actually. Originally it was for placing under the same leaky tap (which has since been fixed) - and gingercat would stand on her hind legs and put her head and upper body down into the bucket to drink the catchment water at the bottom of the bucket. So basically it's her own bucket and has no problem drinking water from it hehehe.

Gingercat really does - on some occasions - when she is thirsty ---- will truly sit in front of the bucket -- and won't drink from it because she prefers fresh tap water --- not 'overnight' water. She is basically saying (in her style of comms ----- time for refill hehe). Although, if she's thirsty enough, we know that she'll drink overnight water hahaha.

In the video, gingercat was actually waiting for her water. That's why she was at her water site (with the white foam, that normally has the pot tilted on an angle to allow her to drink during the day time).

A pleasure to share this video captured this morning of gingercat drinking water from her bucket hehe.

gingercat drinking water video link (click here)

[DeaC]

My 3yr old Lola just found out how refreshing the kitchen sink tap water is. Orchids must share it with her. They have us wrapped around their little paw. Why not put out a shallower dish for gingercat and save your back? Just sayin'!

[MJG]

SouthPark, the video is so cute. I hadn't realized that gingercat stands and practically lets you do the feeding with the bucket at that angle. It's a very cooperative effort, isn't it? She clearly trusts you and is very at ease.

[Diane56Victor]

She has you very well trained...😁

[SouthPark]

Originally Posted by DeaC

My 3yr old Lola just found out how refreshing the kitchen sink tap water is. Orchids must share it with her. They have us wrapped around their little paw. Why not put out a shallower dish for gingercat and save your back? Just sayin'!

DeaC ----- hahaha..... gingercat can be quite bossy hehe. That's actually another reason I call her the boss, or the supe hahaha. With gingercat, it's a case of "you don't need to find me ..... I'll find you!!!". Can't escape gingercat haha.

Gingercat has 2 water dishes and 1 bucket (that's the black coloured bucket). One shallow dish - which is a regular plastic pet bowl with two sections (1 for food, and 1 for water) ..... is placed at the back, near her black coloured bucket.

A white foam piece (which is where gingercat was waiting in the video) is normally used to keep the bucket slightly tilted upward a little ..... so that water doesn't just run out the bucket (ie. to stop the bucket from being totally horizontal).

The other cat food bowl is placed somewhere else near a door on the other side of the house -- so that gingercat can drink there too.

A 'cane toad' actually sits in her drinking water - in one of the cat food bowls ...... pretty much every night! The toad uses it to just sit in!!! I usually just scare off the toad, and then wash out the bowl, and refill with fresh water. Then the same thing happens again the next night, and the next, and the next ..... until the toad decides to move on and live somewhere else ------ or if gingercat deals with the toad .

Gingercat usually doesn't attack the cane toads, and usually just leaves them completely alone. But there was 1 time (just once) where gingercat took out 1 toad. It was gruesome .... the remains that is .... in the morning. Poor toad. The cane toad is just trying to survive as well.

haha ..... gingercat does have a paw around me ... only a little bit

Originally Posted by MJG

SouthPark, the video is so cute. I hadn't realized that gingercat stands and practically lets you do the feeding with the bucket at that angle. It's a very cooperative effort, isn't it? She clearly trusts you and is very at ease.

MJG ---- thanks for watching the video! Gingercat has that habit of either sitting next to the tap, or sitting next to her bucket (when I'm around only hehehe) ....... it's her signal to say something like she wants fresh-water because the old water from the day before is no longer fresh. It's really interesting.

Originally Posted by Diane56Victor

She has you very well trained...😁

hahahaha Diane!!!!! Me and DC (aka DirtyCoconuts) refer to her as the supe or boss hahaha.

[SouthPark]

Gingercat just doing her usual activities for the day hehehe.

Google drive links (higher res pics):

Pic 1 link

Pic 2 link

[Ray]

Friends of ours just rescued a stray ginger - 4 weeks old, maybe? Only weighs 12 ounces, but is doing great. Playing with her makes me want to get a cat, but it also reminds me of what “bad parents” we are:

I had a cat in the dorms. She went on our honeymoon. She taught new cats to hunt blue jays. We always had at least one cat.

Before we had the “pets you pay tuition for” we had 5 cats and the occasional litter, 2 Irish Setters, 4 fish tanks and a pair of finches. All got moved from KY to SC (not the finches).

As kids arrived and grew, we started reducing the number of pets through normal attrition, but 2 cats and 1 or 2 dogs was typical. Our kids grew up with the animals and loved them.

When our daughter went away to college, she remarked that she could breathe so much easier and her eyes didn’t constantly itch. She later realized that it returned when she visited a frat house - one that had a resident cat that loved her.

So crap! Our daughter was allergic to cats and we didn’t even realize it, making her live with them for 18 years.

When the last cat passes on, we decided against any new ones, but we have a small miniature dachshund that’s the size of a cat!

[Dollythehun]

Interesting, Ray. I became very sick with multiple chemical syndrome when I worked at the University. Years ago, emphasis on very sick.

A renowned allergist tested me. I was allergic to eggs, mold and cats. I react to mold and pollen. Go figure.

[SouthPark]

Ray and Dolly ...... oh geez ...... allergy to cats is or can be nasty. I had that when I was a kid. Well, I still am a 'kid' (at heart) ...... but anyway, this is a true story - I had bad allergies to dust and cats when I was a kid. I got nasty migraines pretty much every day - also attributed to sinusitis.

Interestingly, the docs put both myself and my sis on a de-sensitising treatment that lasted for ------ maybe several months. It was something like a set of innoculations where we had to go in to the docs at scheduled dates ----- to get the innoculations.

Amazingly - after that treatment program --- I didn't get those migraines anymore. Very much de-sensitised. I'm not allergic to cats and dust anymore! The treatment appears to have been permanent.

Prior to that treatment program, they determined what the allergies were --- by doing some sort of skin test. I think they rubbed the skin on the forearm with allergens, on various sections ..... on the palm-side of the fore-arm ------ somewhere near the region where we usually get the 'pulse' taken ---- but a bit further up than that. And then the skin would come up in a rash with a 'positive' reaction. So some testing was obviously done before the treatment program to see what allergies we had.

[SouthPark]

One of gingercat's hangouts - a very old electronic typewriter box hehe

Google drive link (higher res): Pic link