To you, the bathroom is where you brush your teeth, take a shower and occasionally hide for 5 OR 45 minutes in the toilet.
Meanwhile, your cat or dog is staring you down at the toilet.
Cats and Dogs are curious beings, and bathroom is their playhouse but for completely different reasons!
Today, we’re unpacking weird pet behaviours, like why your cats and dogs follow you to the bathroom.
Let’s start with doggos!
Close the bathroom door and immediately your dog will guard the door.
For dogs, the bathroom is often less about the room and more about you. They’re social, curious and naturally inclined to stay close to their humans. So, when you disappear behind a closed door, they have questions.
The shower? Running water? Strange sounds? A human standing in one place for several minutes?
Obviously, somebody has to supervise while wearing the towel that smells like you as a hat.
Then there's the floor. Dogs can't sweat, so a hot dog, sorry, a dog that's hot, preferring to lie down on the cool tiles after their evening walk is only reasonable.
Moving onto the Cattos!
Cats are running on a completely different instinct. Their ancestors from Savannah are whispering in their ears to mark their territories. Hence, cats will follow you to the bathroom or announce themselves outside the closed bathroom door, jump in the room once opened to investigate for not more than 2 seconds and leave with their tail high, which veterinary behaviourists have an unglamorous but accurate name for, FOMO.
Even your towels can become objects of investigation. Familiar scents make bathrooms an interesting little map of everything that happened there.
To answer one of the most asked questions from cat owners “Why do cats like sleeping in bathroom sinks?”. Simple answer is, it’s perfect for a nap, the wash basin surface is cool, and it’s inconvenient for you. What all can a cat ask for really?
And that toilet paper roll? Let’s just say it has potential.
Well, which makes one thing clear:
Your bathroom may belong to you on paper. But the real owner of that Somany French Collection Basin is your cat. And since your dog will not stop staring at you while you’re sitting on the toilet, we would say install Somany WC to deepen your dog’s admiration of you :)
