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Cats and Toilets

I think I’ve figured out why cats drink from the toilet. You see, when you feed a dog, he’ll clean the dish. Therefore you must feed him proper portions. Cats tend to be thrifty by nature. If you feed a cat, he’ll eat when he wants to, and just enough to satisfy himself. Therefore I’ve surmised that cats, being thrifty, drink from the toilet because they see it as a bountiful supply of water and are merely rationing their water bowl for that day that the toilet runs out. Quite brilliant.

I’m not sure why dogs drink from the toilet. It probably has something to do with either their highly personable nature or their poor cognitive ability.

Dishes

On another psychology related note, there appears to be no difference in my wife’s reaction when she sees the sink full of dishes either stacked neatly, in order from largest (at the bottom) to smallest and when she sees the sink full of dishes haphazardly tossed in.

I have two theories on why there is no visible difference in her reaction.

• Theory 1: She knows that a sink of stacked dishes holds more than a sink filled haphazardly. Therefore she’s doing a quick mental calculation on the number of dishes and observing stacked = more dishes, which is naturally disheartening, or messy = chaos, which is also naturally disheartening.
• Theory 2: My wife simply doesn’t like seeing dishes in the sink.

If I were to set the rules, I would emphatically say that there should be no entropy in the sink. I can handle having dishes in the sink, but they should be orderly. In this regard though, I don’t set the rules and therefore I submit to, “there should be nothing in the sink.”