I reread 5 or 6 scattered pages of your post, trying to refresh myself on Puddy's problems, but I didn't read all of them. I'd bet Puddy's deaf, which would explain why she's so loud. My MamaCat, who's also deaf as the proverbial post, sounds like she's in the same room even when she's downstairs and at the other end of the house! LOL Could she have been objecting to being locked in the bathroom? As for the drip, my tub does it by itself, but I wonder if you could put a piece of aluminum foil or plastic wrap over the tub spout and put a little hole in it, making a drip out of a bigger stream of water? I'd try some stupid ideas like that to make her happy; she needs to drink, and at ancient ages I've been known to do lots of foolish things to make them happy!!