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    Bella the Water Cat

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    Meet Bella. We adopted her from the Tampa Humane Society a couple of years ago.

    We first noticed Bella's interest in water as soon as we let her out of her carrier when we brought her home. She made a bee-line for the toilet, and started drinking!

    A little later, she was in the screened lanai (it's like a pool cage - a screened patio with a screen roof), and we realized it had started to lightly rain. But she stayed out there, oblivious to the fact that she was getting wet.

    Now she demands that we turn on faucets for her to drink from. Although she prefers it when we cup our hands under the water and allow her to drink out of our palm (!!!), sometimes she has to improvise, as she does when I'm getting ready for work in the mornings and don't have time to pamper her. She jumps into the bottom of the tub, looks up and the faucet, and waitsl I turn the water on a trickle, and she sits under it, lapping away. I finally decided to try and capture this.

    Not the most glamorous shot of our bella Bella, but I'll try to post some "pretty" shots, too, to try and make it up to her.... :)

    Amy D.

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    Alfred Forns
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    She does like water !!!! Interesting the turkish van like water!!! Excellent capture Lots of feel and love the expression !!!!

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    Too cute!! One of my cats likes to go outside after a rain storm and lick water from the side of the house!!!

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    Amy
    I love those water droplets.....and a beautiful calico.
    Interesting.....one of my cats prefers.....almost demands.....to drink water from the running kitchen sink. He came from the pound....maybe a long lost cousin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alfred Forns View Post
    She does like water !!!! Interesting the turkish van like water!!! Excellent capture Lots of feel and love the expression !!!!
    Thanks, Alfred,

    I looked up the Turkish Van. The disposition seems right - the body shape, too, but Bella really does have the tortoise shell coloring rather than white. I found one web site with a photo of a Turkish Van swimming in a swimming pool! Another with the cat standing belly-high in what looked like a koi pond. (the goldfish isn't safe anymore!)

    We suspect there's some Maine Coon in there somewhere, maybe Turkish Van, too????

    :)

    Amy D.

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    Bella really likes her water! My Calvin used to hang out in the bathroom with me and would drink from the tap whenever I turned it on. It got to the point where he wouldn't drink out of his water bowl anymore. However, he did not like getting his fur wet. I can't picture him sitting out in the rain like Bella. :)

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    Julie Kenward
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    She's soooo beautiful and the image you captured sure shows her personality!

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    Judy Lynn Malloch
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    Loved the history on this image Amy and what a beauty she is. Excellent detail and the waterdroplets puts it over the top for me. thanks for sharing.

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    Ákos Lumnitzer
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    She's gorgeous. No need to worry. She is a glamour puss. :)

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