My kittehs had all of those things figured out before they were weaned!

I think she was a stray before she made it to the shelter, so she never got the Official Cat Rule Book when she was a kitten. Or perhaps her book lost a few pages during her life on the street.

yes INDEED

She can just absorb that ass kicking and keep on trucking.

My two shelter cats are relentless bathroom pests. One of them sticks his paw under the door and claws at it, or just sits by the door and whines; the other rattles the doorknob and howls if the door is latched; if it is not latched he just throws his shoulder against it until it flies open. The third cat was a farm cat, and she didn't demand bathroom access until she had lived here for a few weeks. The others must have given her a copy of the Cat Rule Book.

Sometimes all three of them come in at once. They drink from the sink, sit in the laundry hamper, or - usually - they just sit and stare at me.

and say "Hi" when someone went into the bathroom. She'd walk in with the biggest smile, and not seem to understand why I would shoo her out.

considers time on the throne to be perfect; a captive available for attacking. When wearing long pants and shoes, she jumps up on the tank and bats the hair on the head around. When legs or feet are bare, she strikes them like a snake. Repeatedly.

And, just like a cat, takes advantage of my tired brain whenever she can.

Except it was that one cat, due to having special diet needs, had to be fed in the bathroom. Which one of the other cats and one of the dogs figured out. So any time the bathroom door was shutting, they would try to push their way in, assuming there was food to be had.

so I can scratch or rub it for her.
She's knows a captive audience when she sees one.

Welcome to the club!

I leave the room he is in it does not take long for him to come looking for me.

Occasionally, if I'm downstairs after getting home and she's upstairs in my room, she'll start to call out and cry. She must get annoyed when she can hear that I'm home but I have yet to make my way upstairs to give her attention.

I had no idea that they were known as "barnacles" and "Lap Fungus"--I figured all cats were aloof until they wanted food. But I learned very quickly: this cat would curl up on my lap before I'd even finished sitting! So yes--even in the bathroom she'd make a place for herself, stretching out along my femur. Maybe the purring helped me out, who knows!

That might be the "rule of cats" but every guardian knows the first rule of HUMANS is that the cat is the master. We are mere minions. And that means if they wanna follow us into the bathroom or anywhere else, we allow it. We really have no choice: They were once worshipped in ancient Egypt and we shall NEVER forget it!

I shut the bathroom door when I'm using the toilet...and my Spookie will stick her paw under the door. If I poke my toe at it (small bathroom...), she'll bat at my toe.

The wiki page on their personality seems very apt to what you were describing, lol

You are so right. I laughed at your remark about them being lap cats before you can sit down. They are quite aggressive about getting their love fix from their chosen human every day.

At night mine has to cuddle up to me at least twice and purr her little head off. The other one is upstairs, aggressively rubbing her face against her chosen human's chin.

That chin has a beard, so additional bonus points to Bombay for whisker scratching.

As far as the bath goes, I totally shut the door but that doesn't stop them. One has a way of scratching the door panel repeatedly. Then when I open the door, strolls in as if I were the interloper.

Here are my two Bombays:

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Cher

What you can't see from the pic is exactly how soft and lush their fur is. Good thing they love affection, cuz you can't stop stroking that gorgeous coat!

I was not a cat person until my Bombay came into my life. I had her for 5 years then gave her to my dad after my mom died. It was the perfect pairing: she got a permanent lap and all this human attention, and he got a sweet cuddly kitty to help him thru the grief. Kitty died 2 years ago, having lived a good, long life with LOTS of love. Dad is still here, but doesn't want another cat. She was one-of-a-kind!

Glad she had such a happy life with both you and your dad.

I never even knew about Bombays--it was just by chance that we got the two sisters; one of the most fortuitous things to ever happen to us.



Cher

Because he should be allowed everywhere.

And Blue, now 10 months old, still jumps up and peers into the toilet when I stand and go...

I'd hate to get distracted and end up with a, um, "pissed off" cat.

All my other cats learned the hard way what happens from too much curosity! Blue, however, has been pissed off twice and still hasn't leanred!

want to come into the bathroom with me. Our Manx girl likes to drink out of the tap in the tub, so morning and evening, she runs in with me, I obediently turn on the tap. She likes to let it run, haha. After she gets her drink, which always gets her head soaked, she runs out of the bathroom and our boy cat, who hates running water, licks all the water off her head. So entertaining!

has been turned by the NSA.