{"id":2748,"date":"2018-06-19T04:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T12:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2018-06-18T04:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T12:23:26","slug":"newsday-tuesday-swimming-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=2748","title":{"rendered":"Newsday Tuesday \u2013 Swimming Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Yesterday we talked about adventuring cats. In the past, I\u2019ve featured cat breeds that tend to like water, such as the Turkish van, Turkish angora, Maine coon cat, Abyssinian, and Bengal. But have you ever seen a cat love\u2026I mean absolutely love swimming in the ocean? Or is it his people that he loves so much? This video is amazing to watch. You\u2019ll fall in love with this little black kitty named Nathan and marvel at his lack of fear\u2014even of ocean waves and the feel of water on his fur. Here<\/a><\/p>\n

Any cat and all cats can swim, but most of them don\u2019t want to. They will, however, when they have to, like this poor cat who was caught up in the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey last year. He\u2019s swimming for his life and he doesn\u2019t look very happy about it. here<\/a><\/p>\n

Some cats actually like water and will play in it, but not too many will allow themselves to \"\"get wet. Here\u2019s a picture of a Munchkin who delighted in taking a shower with his human when he was a kitten.<\/p>\n

Lily loves\u2014I mean LOVES water. She drinks a lot of it and she doesn\u2019t mind getting her face sprinkled while lapping water from a spigot. But let me accidentally make a splash in the kitchen or bathroom that results in a few drops landing on her fur and she does the shimmy all the way to the back of the house.<\/p>\n

\"\"Our odd-eye white cat used to drink water with his paw. He\u2019d dip his paw into the water bowl and lick the water off his paw. That\u2019s how he drank water. After he tipped his plastic and metal water bowls over several times doing this, we switched to heavy pottery bowls designed for feeding and watering rabbits. That worked.<\/p>\n

Would you like to teach your cat to like having a bath or romping in the water? Good luck. Most experts say that a cat either likes getting wet or he doesn\u2019t. So if you dream of swimming with your cat, you\u2019d better adopt one who already shows signs of being a water-kitty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we talked about adventuring cats. In the past, I\u2019ve featured cat breeds that tend to like water, such as the Turkish van, Turkish angora, Maine coon cat, Abyssinian, and Bengal. But have you ever seen a cat love\u2026I mean … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,12,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}