Do you have to race your cat/dog to the bathroom?

[zanana1]

My cat doesn't seem to understand that I'll eventually come out of there. If I get in first, he'll throw himself against the door and meow his head off. If he manages to get there before I do, it's just about impossible to get him out and when I sit down, he sits on my lap.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. All of my cats have raced me everywhere...

at least when not in the midst of the daily 14 hour nap.

This latest one gets very upset when she guesses wrong and I turn to, say, the bathroom instead of the bedroom.

[fizzgig]

2. my cat thinks it's time for pets

she's such a brat.

[DinahMoeHum]

3. No, but I have to make sure the toilet seat top is down

when I've flushed it and left the bathroom, otherwise the cat will go there.

[IBEWVET]

4. while I am sitting

on the toilet, my cat will jump up and grab the door handle, open the door and walk out leaving me sitting there

[Phentex]

6. LOL!

That'll teach ya!

[Major Nikon]

5. I have a border collie. She knows when I have to go before I do and beats me there by 5 minutes

[3catwoman3]

7. Our cats regard any closed...

..door as an insult to their freedom of movement. My husband has a workshop in the basement, and any time he opens the door to that room they will shoot in there as if it is the most exciting place on the planet, even though they have been on and out of there thousands of times.

[Arugula Latte]

8. If I don't close the door firmly, one of my kitties will invariably push the door open.

And then there I am, exposed for all the world to see ...

[bigwillq]

9. No.

But my dog sometimes scratches at the bathroom door when I am in there. I'm like, "dog, I'll be out in 2 minutes" LOL

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. At least one cat always has to be in the bathroom when I'm there.

This is what often greets me when I step out of the shower:

[Skittles]

12. I get this:

[Laffy Kat]

14. Hey, love the color of your walls.

Do you remember the paint? It also goes well with your beautiful kittehs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Thanks! Glad you like my walls AND my kittehs!

The paint is "Providence Blue" from Benjamin Moore.

[Laffy Kat]

25. Thanks. I've got a room in mind.

[marzipanni]

19. I like their expressions, especially the one on the sink

"Another weird thing she does!...How does she dare to do that? We just can't fathom why she chooses to stand under running water!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

20. I think he's just looking in horror at me, naked.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. the one on the sink looks just like one of ours.

We have seven cats currently; the youngest two follow us to the bathroom and stand there purring and wanting to be petted. One has to watch the flushing. If there are cats in the house, privacy is an impossibility

[Skittles]

11. my bathroom is the size of a walk-in closet

when I am in there it always looks like this

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Nice kittehs.

I especially like white whiskers on black cats.

[Skittles]

17. he is 17

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. And still visiting you in the bathroom!

Good kitteh.

[Laffy Kat]

13. Kittehs love a captive audience.

Mine rolls over and over around and between my feet while performing this chirpy-flirty thing. If I try to read she'll jump up in my lap and swat at whatever I'm trying to focus on.

[shenmue]

21. My dog used to walk into the bathroom

She was all, "Hey, how'ya doing?"

[oldandhappy]

22. I no longer bother about the door!

Number 10 -- great!

My cat is usually there calm as can be waiting for me to let her drink from the faucet. She inspects the shower when I am finished. She has duties and takes it all seriously!

[yellowdogintexas]

32. Inspects the shower LOL

Two of mine jump into the shower and lick the tiles as if they haven't seen water for days.

[IrishEyes]

23. My cat always wanted to go into the bathroom when I was in there.

If I closed the door on him, he would bump against the door and meow. When I would let him in, he would standing in front of me and stare at the same spot on the wall. I used to joke that there must have been invisible monsters or ghosts in there that he was protecting me from. He was a really great cat.

[orleans]

24. that's so funny. and i thought cats were supposed to be so independent

and yet they seem to have this tremendous separation anxiety

i had cats & kittens when i was little but i don't remember what their take was on the bathroom and the door

i've had dogs since i was a teen & Never had one that gave a rats ass about what was going on in the bathroom. except one dog that was rescued when she was ten years old; for the first year or so she was my shadow and i would leave the bathroom door open--she wouldn't come in but she needed to be able to see me and know where i was. eventually she stopped coming down the hallway to check.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. Cats can sometimes be very needy.

Many of them hate being separated from their human, and a closed door can really bother them if said human is on the other side. One of my bathroom doors has gouges all along the bottom edge from years of cats trying to claw their way in.

[yellowdogintexas]

33. All cats hate a closed door.

The room they need most to be in is going to be the one with the closed door.

[catbyte]

26. My cat, Otis, races me there, too, then hops on my shoulders & surveys the room like a

vulture. My housemate is disabled & requires a shower chair. Otis has taken to hanging out on the chair, hidden by the shower curtain. He lays in wait to ambush the other kittehs when they come into the room. The first time I discovered him, he startled the hell out of me, lol. He looked up at me as if to say, "What?" Cats are mysterious little creatures, lol.

[MrMickeysMom]

27. Mr. Mickey somehow thinks the BR is his fountain drinking time...

I get there first, and he insists that after washing my hands, he take another drink. We actually have a small water fountain for our elder baby. Still, nothing like a fresh drink from clean hands at the sink fountain..

[Arkansas Granny]

28. The big race I have with Boogie is between the living room and the kitchen.

He knows where I'm headed when I have my coffe mug in hand, so he runs ahead and waits just on the other side of the door so he can leap out at me when I walk into the kitchen. When I head back to the living room, it's the same drill in reverse.

Since I live alone, I rarely close the bathroom door, so there's no need to race. He just saunters in and out at will.

[WolverineDG]

29. I always have feline attendants in the bathroom

If I shut the door, all hell breaks loose.