Time out for a bit of silliness.
This morning the cat sat in front of the water dish and yelled pitifully. The dish was full, so I ignored him. He came into the bathroom with me, and proceeded to drink from the spigot while I brushed my teeth.
The Squire came down for breakfast, and Eddie followed him into the kitchen to complain, alternately sitting in front of his dish and trying to climb The Squire’s trousers.
The Squire went over to the dish and discovered a piece of brown leaf, about the size of a nickel, floating in the water. Once he pulled it out and showed it to the cat, Eddie sat down with a huge sigh and drank as if he hadn’t had water in days!
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Yes our cat Earl is often greatly aggravated in our inability to use our much larger brains to figure things out.