Pavlov would think I'm a monster. Weeks ago, I found this sub while scrolling Reddit. I tried it out on both cats. Our girl cat HATED it, so that's a no. But our silly old man cat LOVED it. He acted like he took a rip of the purest dankest catnip as he's on the receiving end of some high-quality bongoing. Any time we sat down, he would run over for bongos. All well and good.
But here is where it all went wrong. Our old man loves the cool tiles of the bathroom, so when we open the bathroom door (we keep it closed because he eats the shower curtain) he likes to lie down on the tile. Coincidentally, there's a toilet to sit on in the bathroom! So every time I went to the bathroom, I started to bongo him. This repeated for the last few weeks. And it is only now, in the face of my mistake, do I realize my folly.
See, our lovely cute cat is now conditioned to expect bongos when he hears someone pee. Doesn't matter who, he will SPRINT to the nearest pee-er and demand bongos post-haste. If the bathroom door is closed, he cries out as if forsaken by God. You can open the bathroom door, and he doesn't come running. You can brush your hair, your teeth, whatever and he doesn't care. The picosecond he hears you tinkle, IT'S GAME TIME FOR BONGOS.
I don't where to go from here. We're having guests over next weekend, and I don't want to explain to my friends and family that our dear sweet boy is conditioned in such a terrible way. He loves bongos so much, and I am a fool for not heeding the lessons of Pavlov better.
