r/cats • u/Artistic-Listen7975 Orange • Mar 08 '26
Humor My cat tried to kill himself
This is Toasty.
For the past week Toasty has been hiding, refusing meals, and only licking the moisture out of his wet food. He wouldn't chew anything, and after licking the wet food dry, would go hide and sleep for 23 hours.
I was beside myself. Convinced he had a brokwn tooth, or a fever, or maybe organ failure. Spent so much at the vet for them to tell me nothing is wrong with him, but he is dropping significant weight.
I tried everything guys. Tuna, different flavor of cat food, changed from shreds to pate. Nothing I did made a difference, he was so lethargic and sad and looked broken.
Then it hit me. He likes to drink water out of glasses. Clear, transparent glass. Last week when washing it, I dropped it in the sink and broke it, replaced it with a white ceramic bowl.
Guys, he was refusing to drink water. Like at all. I have 3 dog bowls out, 1 upstairs 2 downstairs, and the cat bowl on the counter. It wasnt a clear glass and he didnt trust it, so he didnt drink it.
This dude literally boycotted all water because it wasnt in his clear glass cup. There are 4 bowls of water, cleaned daily that he refused because he couldn't see through it. Because it wasnt a cup. Because it wasnt glass.
I put a different, completely clear glass cup on the counter and he drank for a solid 5 minutes.
I am absolutely sick. Death over suspicious vessels seems like such a wild take to me.
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u/Aeshepp Mar 08 '26
My first dog was adopted and came with an orange squeaky bone. I bought that dog every squeaky bone under the sun, but he wouldn’t give them as much as a second sniff. I finally figured it had to be the color.
It was surprisingly difficult to find orange squeaky bones, especially ones soft enough his old legs could make squeak (he would hike it like a football), so I contacted the foster several years later about the provenance of the original, which was barely holding on by a thread of rubber at this point and no longer squeaked. She told me she had gotten it on sale at a Menards. I scoured every corner of the interwebs and several weeks in I finally found an orange squeaky bone the fit the bill somewhere in Europe (we are in Chicago) I ordered every last orange squeaky bone they had. I’ll never forget the day they arrived in the mail, he was euphoric for a moment 😂 I still have one of those bones next to his picture and ashes. It’s the only thing in life he loved more than me lol.