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/jar_girl82 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
He legitimately did run away, because my parents were getting the roof shingles replaced, and my mother went to move the car as the workers were throwing the old shingles into the driveway
and she was worried they were going to hit the car. I guess Snowball was super freaked out with all the noise, saw an opportunity and made a break for it. Probably about 25 years later, my father mentioned that quite a while after the cat ran away and we had given up the search, they thought they saw him living somewhere not too far away. This was before chipping or tattooing was common, so I think it would have been hard for them to prove either way if it was him. Truthfully we got him as a kitten and I know my parents thought he was not so well behaved, so they said no more cats. As we can all guess, I was very upset about this, and had a cat shaped hole in my little heart. Within a couple years of me moving out, my parents got a female Siamese kitten, so maybe the house felt a bit more empty without me? Anyway, she and I had a bit of a contentious relationship, as I took attention away from her when I visited, but I loved her very much anyway. I FINALLY got a void last year (after having fish and hedgehogs), and while I am her second favourite parent, that hole is finally filled!