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  Bear drinking from a faucet Our Bear has lots of water--in every room. Still, he prefers to drink from the sink faucet and comes running any time someone approaches a sink. A recent article explained why, along with explanations of many other "odd" cat behaviors:  Weird cat behaviors that you’re worried about. Behaviors include: making biscuits (kneading) drinking from faucets curling lips eating plants (not) covering poop/pooping in an uncharacteristic place/poop face hiding food exposing belly arching back vs arching back with hissing bringing "presents" chewing claws scratching furniture licking privates hissing sniffing a person's face yelling/loud meowing sleeping on a human stalking sitting in boxes midnight zoomies head butting knocking things over See more  Caturday  posts. Read more  posts about cats . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC monthly newsletter (recent releases, sales/discounts, awards, reviews, Amazon top 100 list, author advice, and more -- st

I came across this very interesting post recently:   The most common annoying cat behaviors, explained (msn.com) . Seemed like a good topic for a Caturday. For sure, these are the kinds of things we all wish cats would not do -- scratching furniture, peeing outside the litter box, and escaping to the outdoors, among others. Good explanation and advice in the article. A couple pieces of advice missing, though, that I have found helpful for those escape artists: (1) build a catio (it is an alternative outdoors and, for most of our cats, it suffices, and (2) leash the cat and go for a walk (our Murjan was simply impelled to the outside and so loved to go for a walk that he would sit in front of the drawer with his leash and demand "mwout" over and over until he got his leash and the door opened -- and then he was off exploring. He wanted "mwout" the day before he died -- and spent his leash time looking for dark places where he could lay down for his final rest. (No, w