Whenever I get home from swimming my cat couldn't be more happy to see me. He roles around all over my feet and legs rubbing and biting, I think he gets high off the chlorine. When I take my suit off and put it in the shower, he goes in and rolls all around in it purring and meowing. I think this is so funny...by the time I get out of the shower he is rubbing all over my flip-flops and usually falls asleep with his head on my flipflop.
So I was wondering if anyone elses cat loves chlorine? It really is the cutest thing, he is definately his momma's cat.
My cats love to chew my goggle straps and will absolutely destroy my pull bouy if I leave by swim bag unzipped. In addition, after I swim, when I sit down for dinner, they'll come in under the table and start licking my legs. That's usually when they get a quick boot to stay away! (yes, its a gentle boot).
After my Saturday morning workout I usually get home about 8:00AM and slip back into bed with my wife. Miss Muffin would come up on the bed (if she wasn't there already) and nudge her nose in my still wet and chloriney beard. She just loved it.
Our new kitten, Kitty Gidley, 4 months old, loves water! She doesn't mind being bathed and just last week we took her in the back yard pool. I held her and slowly walked into the water. She was as mellow as can be. Let her go and she swam the *** paddle to the side and jumped out. My wife thinks she is a Turkish Van cat who apparently love the water.
No plans to enter the Alcatraz swim yet.;)
Glenn
I'm a cat lover and so enjoyed this post! I can't say my cat goes crazy over chlorine, but when I returned from a beach trip, she sniffed my sandals all over, looked at me very quizzically, sniffed some more, sniffed my feet, then went on her way. Maybe it was something my sandals touched, but nothing remarkable to my sense of smell--altho. come to think of it, at the house where I stayed, there was a neighbor's cat that would come and hang around on the deck.
My cat loves the smell of chlorine as well. She goes to town on me, licking my hands and feet when I come home to greet her. She also sniffs my bag. I wonder why they like the smell.
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I had two kitties who both loved bleach and wet with pool water bathing suits too. My cats love cat nip and would chew the sock with it in it until it split open, then they would roll in it until they couldn't walk and were drooling... so cats like getting high. Evidently the bleach, pool water or cat nip didn't hurt them because one lived to be 15 and the other 17.
Okay, you pool manager types out there help me out here. Chlorine GAS takes the place of oxygen in the blood. Less oxygen, more of a buzz/rush/high? Could that be why cats like bleach and stuff soaked with pool water? But does liquid bleach and chlorinated pool water work the same way in cats as chlorine gas does?
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My two cats also like to rub up against my legs after I return from swimming. Tonight, after my husband got home, one of them curled up on the couch with his wet suit.
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I noticed that with a couple of cats I have owned. I always clean with bleach and when I do the cats flip out and rub all over everything. We put them up when we clean, but they still go nuts over your hands.
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I just got two kittens. I have had them for almost two months. They love my swim bag, towels, suits, and goggles. If I don't put stuff up so they can't reach it I come home to it being in the bed or hallway.
They also love to jump in the shower with me. I love having cats that are swim fans!
These are just the most hilarious things I have ever heard but cute too. My cats hate strong smells like bleach & other cleaner types. My one cat is big into feet, anti-social weirdo & the other likes licking my hands after I put lotion on. Kinda strange.
