Am I weird?

[Chinadoll]

No more weirder than I. The ferts like to play in the shower...but only if they know they can get in and out at will. The kitties love water. As I fill the tub, Gigi will hop in to play with the water, but once it gets to the middle of her legs, she hops out.

All 3 kitties like to paw at the water in the tub and try to drink some(I don't let them once I've added soap or anything.) Bixby and Gigi like to walk on the rim of the tub..occasionaly they'll knock the other in...it's funny... but can hurt. Bixby freaked the first time Gigi knocked him into the tub and tried to claw his way out, I've got the scar on my shoulder to prove it.

[RockyRoad]

Sally likes to lay on the laundry basket while I am taking a shower. But the thought of someone, even a dear pet, staring at your body is just scary . And plus, imagine shoving a German Shepherd(full grown) into a bathtub! Lady takes her baths outside and Sally takes her baths mostly anywhere cause she licks herself clean. And Floppsy, well, she does not even bathe. And no, you are not weird. You are a loving pet owner.

[ChrisH]

Floppsy & Popcornbird - What, bothered about a creature looking at you without clothes, I must admit that made me laugh a little. Then just a little while ago - strangely enough, while I was having a bath, with Bob looking on waiting for some bubbles - I remembered.
When I was about 14 or so we had a budgie named Henry, now Henry was a lovely little bird, used to chatter and sing all the time, but he did do this one thing.... at this time the only heating in the house was in the living room where Henry was, and when it was a bit chilly I dressed and undressed in there and I noticed that whatever Henry was doing as soon as he saw me begin to undress he would run to the end of the perch and stare! As soon as I was sure I wasn`t imagining it I told Mum, she didn`t believe me and had a good laugh until I proved it by showing her! She let me put his cover over the cage at those times after that.

[NoahsMommy]

Um...I don't shower or bathe with my kitties...they HATE water too. But...Basil will jump into the tub after we shower in the morning and Noel is my bath time companion; she likes to sit on the toilet. (She too LOVES to eat bubbles from the bathtub)

It's gotten to where I have to shower and bathe with the door open because they claw at the carpet if it's closed. I don't think it has anything to do with me being naked or the water, they just like being with me.

I don't think its wierd to undress around an animal...maybe it was at first...Basil eyes get big when I have a bra in my hands (the straps look like a fun toy)...

[RockyRoad]

You know what? There is nobody weirder than I. I hate water. Just like a cat. My showers last about 5 minutes and I NEVER take baths. I do not swim in pools, lakes, or anything. I only drink water. Now tell me I am not weird. (Plus-on AOL I alphabetized my buddy list! How pathetic am I?)

When I say I never take baths I mean that I do take showers, just not baths. Ugh you have to sit in all that water!!

[HoRsELUvR]

when i was about 6 or so,my cat Reese sometimes came in the bath with me and she would walk around the rim,but wouldn't get wet.

[All Creatures Great And Small]

Originally posted by FloppsyLadySally89
(Plus-on AOL I alphabetized my buddy list! How pathetic am I?)

No more pathetic than me organizing my AOL favorites into categorized folders by theme, and THEN alphabetizing them
The actual term for this condition is "anal retentive", I believe, not pathetic

My RB girl kitty liked being in the bathroom with me, but not to look at me (probably would have caused blindness - I should only be viewed through a pinhole in a piece of cardboard, LOL). She liked to drink water from the hand-held shower, and then when I was done, she liked to lick the water off my legs and feet (which tickled HORRIBLY). I also had never bathed her, so she didn't associate water with anything scary. My boy kitty, on the other hand, has had so many traumatic baths from my daughter, that he will rarely come in the bathroom, and if he does come in and I pull back the curtain to say hi, he bolts from the room! (Then again - could be that blindness issue )

FLS - you wouldn't want to take a bath at my sister's house - my brother-in-law is so cheap and doesn't want to waste water that he takes a bath in HER bathwater after she's done! EEEEEWWWW!!!! (He's still remembering post-war England, I guess)

[Cookiebaker]

Originally posted by All Creatures Great And Small
FLS - you wouldn't want to take a bath at my sister's house - my brother-in-law is so cheap and doesn't want to waste water that he takes a bath in HER bathwater after she's done! EEEEEWWWW!!!! (He's still remembering post-war England, I guess)

I hafta admit, that the mere thought of this is quite revolting for some reason. Uggggh!! (Maybe I'm just remembering too acutely those biology courses where we learned about bacteria. Uck!)

[Twisterdog]

Well ... I personally would never take a bath with an animal, it just seems rather unsanitary to me. I like nice clean bath water ... no dog hair floating in it, thank you very much.

My son, however, being a boy and not really caring if he is clean or not, often takes a bath with his dog, Lucky. Lucky loves water and loves to play with all the bath toys and bubbles. She will stay in the tub with him for an hour, if I would let her.

[aly]

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
Basil eyes get big when I have a bra in my hands (the straps look like a fun toy)...

HEhe, whenever I have foster kittens, thats usually their favorite toy when I'm trying to get dressed!

[NoahsMommy]

I don't think that animals have any concept of nakedness. Its US who feel this and project those feelings onto the animals. The birds/cats/dogs are watching because we are moving and doing something...they are intrigued, not little perverts.

[Cookiebaker]

Originally posted by NoahsMommy
I don't think that animals have any concept of nakedness. Its US who feel this and project those feelings onto the animals. The birds/cats/dogs are watching because we are moving and doing something...they are intrigued, not little perverts.

Thank you, NoahsMommy, those are my sentiments exactly but didn't know how to word it.

[RockyRoad]

Originally posted by popcornbird


OMG! LOL! That is sooooo true! These little feathered friends of our's DO have a staring problem! LOL! I have never wanted to change in front of my birds cause.......as I mentioned......it gives me the creeps. But anyway, one day I went in my room to change and had no idea my brother left the birds on top of the moniter in my room. I didn't notice they were there until I was in the middle of changing when I heard the pittar patter of bird feet. I looked and OMG! Both of them had run to the edge of the moniter and were STARING!!! They made me SOOOOOOOO embarrassed! LOL! They were staring with the look in their eyes as if to say, "You shameless human, we have eyes too." Ever since that day, I am always sure to CHECK the room I am changing in for any little feathered friend staring from the corner. I don't know how so many of you bathe with your pets, especially with an animal as big as a dog. I would die from embarrassment! LOL!

Exactly!! Once my sister let the cat sit on the blankets on top of the laundry basket when she was taking a shower. Then she cleaned up and left. Then like an hour later I came in and turned on the water and undressed and then Sally was right there staring!

~I don't really think that they know what they're staring at. Maybe they are just thinking "poor thing, her fur came off" or something. ~

[Andie]

Originally posted by popcornbird

I don't know how so many of you bathe with your pets, especially with an animal as big as a dog. I would die from embarrassment! LOL!

They are usually more interested in the shower doors than me. I have no idea what is so interesting on the shower doors (maybe it's the water droplets or the shadows or something) but they usually sit there and stare at the doors.

[ChrisH]

I want to make it clear that I just told the story of Henry because I had read Popcorn and Floppys post and thought they were being oversensitive but then remembered that when I was a young girl I had also got embarassed too.
Floppsy, and especially Popcornbird, NoahsMommy has written, in a much better way than I could, what I should have added to my post.....

I don't think that animals have any concept of nakedness. Its US who feel this and project those feelings onto the animals. The birds/cats/dogs are watching because we are moving and doing something...they are intrigued, not little perverts.

Thanks NoahsMommy..

Chris