{"id":131662,"date":"2016-09-27T23:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/the-cat-and-the-sink-and-the-water.html"},"modified":"2016-09-27T23:04:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T05:04:08","slug":"the-cat-and-the-sink-and-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/the-cat-and-the-sink-and-the-water.html","title":{"rendered":"The Cat and the Sink and the Water"},"content":{"rendered":"

All three of our cats love water from the faucet. <\/p>\n

Kunoichi, possessed of massively thick fur, just sticks her head under the flow and drinks from the basin. The water rolls down her but never causes her discomfort.<\/p>\n

Neko has always been the smart one, in terms of lapping at the stream from the side.<\/p>\n

Purrl, on the other hand, has done some of the most amazing contortions to get at the water. And even when she finds one that isn't getting her wet, the next time she's up at the sink, it's like no learning has occurred.<\/p>\n

Cats …<\/p>\n

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All three of our cats love water from the faucet. Kunoichi, possessed of massively thick fur, just sticks her head under the flow and drinks from the basin. The water rolls down her but never causes her discomfort. Neko has always been the smart one, in terms of lapping at the stream from the side. … Continue reading “The Cat and the Sink and the Water”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/3ecc08af-79df-4510-a679-6bfaffb9585eimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51126,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/15\/kitchen-project-day-190-sink-the-sequel.html","url_meta":{"origin":131662,"position":0},"title":"Kitchen Project – Day 190: Sink! 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