togetherness

[cellio]

This degree of togetherness is pretty unusual:

And even more unusual, look who was first to leave (letting me get a better shot of Erik):

I still can't get either of the boys to snuggle with Embla (or vice-versa), though.

Erik and Baldur always stand while eating, while Embla always sits. (This feels like the beginning of a logic puzzle: standers always lie, and... no, never mind.) I wonder why that is. Is it a gender thing? An individual-cat thing? Random but consistent for a given cat? Usually random and my cats are weird in their consistency?

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[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I think it's an individual cat thing, possibly influenced by height & size of cat and height & size of dish. My parents had one rather small cat who always put one front paw (I think it was always the same one but I can't remember which) onto the edge of her water bowl and another who drank by dipping her paw in and then licking it - since she was a long-hair there was plenty of water scooped up by each dip and plenty left at the end to be shaken onto the floor and then make paw prints leading away, the prints becoming more paw-shaped as the excess water came off. The second cat also usually ate her soft cat food by paw, but she did a decent job of cleaning off her paw before walking away so there weren't paw shaped cat food prints on the floor to go with the water ones.