This thing about cats is such a hoot! I have two who are litter mates and just over a year old. Puddles and Patches (a calico) think they have to be with me wherever I am in the house. I go to the bathroom, they go to the bathroom with me. Pudd likes to get on my kitchen counter tops but just let me reach for a bottle (hand lotion dish detergent) and say 'down' and away he goes. The mist from the spray isn't much but isn't something he likes but yet he'll drink water from a running faucet - not up where it comes out but down by the drain with the water running over his head. Cats are far from dumb animals. They've trained me and my husband used to think I was untrainable. Ha! Little did he know how easy it was but the cats knew! They are such good company.