The Cat and the Watercooler...

Let me start out by saying Juno is not a very smart cat. We have wondered several times if she was dropped on her head as a kitten. Lately she has become obsessed with water. Yes, we have the only cat in the world that actually likes water. She plays in the toilets, she plays in the bath tub, she is always curious about what is going on when Alex is taking a bath, etc.

A few weeks age we discovered water all over our dining room floor. After some investigation we discovered the water jugs that we buy to make Alex's bottles had holes in them, all four of them. Upon further inspection we noticed the holes we actually bite marks. Juno had chewed through all 4 plastic jugs of water and water had spilled out all over the floor. She did this again a week later when we forgot to put the jugs in the pantry.

Things got even more interesting when we once again found water in the dining room. However, this time there were no jugs in there to be leaking. So we really weren't sure what had happened unless the Highbridge Springs water cooler was leaking. We have one of those 5 gallon water cooler with the 2 spouts on the front that you can push for water. A short time later we heard water pouring out of it. Juno had figured out how to push down the lever and was letting water pour of the cooler!

So we put foil across the levers hoping it would discourage her since they would be harder to get to. Wrong. She just managed to get the foil off the levers and then got water everywhere again. So on to plan B. Matt put heavy duty packaging tape across the front of the levers where it was hard for Juno to get to them. We can put a cup under it and reach in above it to fill it but she can't get her paw in there. Her answer? Chew through the tape. And she did. Chewed it enough to be able to rip it away.

Now there are several layers of tape across it and hopefully this will at least slow her down. There is already teeth marks in the tape but so far she hasn't gotten through it.

However, I guess she was bored since she couldn't get to the water and decided she wanted fresh food last night and started to chew through the bag of cat food. Luckily I heard her and was able to stop it before we had a full bag of cat food all over our laundry room!!

Since I technically picked this cat out, I am wondering if Matt will ever trust me to pick out a pet for us ever again...