Our cat, Othello, used to love drinking water from the most unlikely places - anywhere but from his feeding bowl! He used to drink from muddy puddles anywhere outside(urgh!) and when we had just emptied the bath or the bathroom or kitchen sink he would lap the water from round the plughole. He was a large, black, long-haired cat, and one of my favourite photos of him is one taken of him drinking water from the plughole in the bathroom sink, with his rear end sticking up in the air, in a most unflattering manner !!! He has been known to bathe in our bath (but not for long). After having a bath (Othello was asleep in the bathroom at the time), when I got out of the bath and started drying myself he jumped up on the edge of the bath, had a look at its contents, then jumped in! For about 10 seconds he stood there quite happily, but then he suddenly remembered he was a cat and that cats aren't supposed to like water, so he made a mad dash up the bathroom wall to try and get out! Needless to say, I dried him off and comforted him - he was somewhat shocked at what he'd done. Finally, the only other time he came into contact with water, was voluntary, but he wasn't happy about it. He had taken to "hanging out" at a neighbour's house across the road. The neighbour in question had been painting and decorating his house and Othello took it upon himself to leap up on the neighbour's kitchen workbench and knock over a bottle of turpentine and spill it over himself! Luckily he didn't try to lick it off. He must have realised it was a dangerous substance, so he ran straight back home and came mewing to us! We washed him straightaway (2 to hold him in the sink and 1 to wash him). He knew it was for his own good, but he didn't like it. That was the last time he went to the house over the road ......