I feel your pain. We have the previous owners home security system that does that too. Very annoying when there are multiple power outages throughout the night.
Like… the contents of my refrigerator and freezer appreciate the power coming on intermittently but it is NOT conducive to sleeping. We gotta figure out how to disconnect the thing.
She’ll do those last two if we’re playing fetch outside. It’s funny to see her pass her inside water to go outside to drink from the bowl outside.
wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! (From ~middle C to ~five octaves higher…at least, that’s what it did on mine.)
My parents’ cat will only drink out of the toilet. I’m not sure where or if it drinks outside.
Sounds about right. Luckily ours just plugs into the wall so it just spent the night unplugged
Ours loves to drink the water from a dripping faucet. She will sit on the counter all day waiting for someone to come wash their hands or whatever. She has her own cat water fountain but of course she rarely deigns to drink from it.
My newest cat does the faucet thing, but only when I’m in the bathroom - and I can’t shut the door whether she is in or out because cat. I can literally hear her tear across the floor in realization that I’m heading to pee.
When I had cats, they were triggered by two sounds - hearing the bang of the clothes washer or dryer (perhaps the door or just bumping up against the hunk of stainless steel)…because their food was in that room & they always wanted more, and hearing me jingle the handles on my bedroom dresser…because that’s where the cat brush was that one of them absolutely loved.
Since they were overweight & our house flooring was made out of the same material as a timpani drum I could literally hear the thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud as they scurried to my location.
We keep the good dog treats by the washer, so the dog will sit patiently by the washing machine when we’re doing laundry and have to shoo her out to shut the door if she doesn’t get a treat.
I have physical symptoms of anxiety this afternoon with no obvious underlying cause.
I used to live in an apartment like that. Our upstairs neighbors were incredibly considerate, and I never heard them. But they had two heavy cats, and I heard the cats going kathump-kathump-kathump across my ceiling all the time.
ummm, that’s meant to be a “hugs” emoji, not a “jazz hands” emoji. Please take it as an offer for a hug.
…and this one, too.
It looks like Molly Ringwalds grandma in 16 candles.
At some point your home computer decided you really did want to be interrupted during work hours, kicks you off the remote connection to work, and installs an update that takes 45 minutes.
I for one welcome our new computer overlords. 
You say something that angers your so, and your so starts cleaning the house furiously. Talk about perverse incentives. (And no, the thing said wasn’t “clean the house” or “the house is dirty” or any such).
This is definitely a thing in our house. I clean when I’m upset, my kids clean when they’re upset. I am 98% positive that my spouse has deliberately provoked each and every person in our house, in order to get something cleaned (can’t predict what will be cleaned, but it will remove the person from the area, and some other area will get cleaned).