Throwback Tuesday — Another Jake-ism

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This post is from August 5, 2016. It was a year after my black cat Jake had passed but he lived on in stories. Still does. We still have one or two of the white towels left.
Back when Jake was alive I had a collection of white towels. I called them pee towels because that’s what they were.
Hey Cupcake! Come quick! There's a pee lump in the box!

Hey Cupcake! Come quick! There’s a pee lump in the box!

Jake was fastidious with his toilet. He didn’t like to walk in a litter box that had pee lumps. With three other cats in the house, even with frequent scooping, there were pee balls in there. In that case he would look for something soft and absorbent to pee on.

At first it was throw carpets. He was considerate. They always were the ones that you can toss in the washer.

Once he mistook my hip waders for something soft and absorbent. It took a long time to get that dang smell out of the rubber vinyl.

I started to put a towel down for him to use at his discretion to make laundry easier.

He never pooped on them. They were “pee” only. He would poop in the box or yowl to go outside and poop there. No accidents or miscalculations.

The towels were washed with bleach therefore they were white. We used them to dry off outdoor furniture and  for other tasks but they were always called the pee towels.

Jake has been gone almost a year and we still have his pee towels. We used them last week when the dishwasher broke and flooded the kitchen.

“I’ll get the pee towels!”

Some things never change!

8 thoughts on “Throwback Tuesday — Another Jake-ism”

  1. A nice surprise today to see Jake! He was very considerate. Our towels go through several purpose cycles too. But the memory of Jakes pee towels and them being repurposed is not only funny it’s kinda endearing. He was a wonderfully quirky and opinionated cat🖤

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  3. Our towels have a life cycle. First they are human towels, either hand or bath or swim. Then they become dog towels, cleaning up muddy canine paws/ drying washed dogs. Then they get cut up into cleaning rags. Except my husband is not great at differentiating sometimes and a guest gets a dog towel.

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    • Before the pee towels had worn holes, a visitor decided not to use the nice towels in the guest bath and rummaged around looking for “regular” towels. Yep, he used the pee towels. On one hand I thought it was hysterical on the other, what was he doing rummaging through closets?

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  4. We too have a special towel collection but it’s not for Teddy, it’s for my husband. He’ll grab a towel no matter where it is for some “fix-it” project and once he’s used it, well, let’s just say oil, grease, grime, you can get most of that out if not all but the towel JUST IS NEVER THE SAME. So we have a huge pile of “Dave Towels” in the garage. Yep – we probably all have some towels that used to be for human usage but have morphed into something ELSE! Tee Hee

    Hugs, Pam

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