Originally posted by sasvermont
my Mom moved the water dish to the near center of the kitchen floor
Does this mean you had to trip over it everytime you went in the kitchen, SAS?!

I was going to suggest the same thing. If you move the water fountain near the humidifer, maybe she'll get the hint and decide she'd rather drink out of the quiet water fountain rather than that darn noisy humidifier.

Now if it was a de-humidifier, I might suggest that she's like the taste of that water better, but I'm thinking the humidifier has water from the same tap the water fountain does, so that theory doesn't apply here.

Now, for your main question of why is she doing this? All I can say is whhooooo knows..... I believe we will never figure out the reasons behind some of their antics, which is probably part of the reason we love them so much.