My Bob is like your Tyler with the water. Bob loves to jump in the bathtub with me, and it gets alittle hairy at times, lol. Tom has been awake very early this morning and already knocked 500 QTips in the toilet compliments of my son who forgot to close the lid. I actually counted them to make sure I got them all, (it was a brand new box) Tom is still minty green this morning, one would never know that an orange tabby and tidy bowl blue makes a minty green cat.
WOW! To have a cat actually jump into the tub with you must be quite an event. There are some who actually like water; a former coworker told me that her cat liked to jump in the tub while she was taking a bath, and would go nuts over the scent of the shampoo she was using.
At home, Tyler will get in between the shower curtains and grab my leg (and sometimes gives me "little teeth")! At the camp, where I am now, the tub is an old claw footed 1925 "Standard". He will walk full circle around the tub, but has never jumped in.
500 Q-Tips in the toilet!!!! WOW! While inconvenient, it was best to pull them out and not try and flush them. Tom can live with his new mint green fur to serve as a reminder not to jump into the toilet! (His natural color must be beautiful)! And we all know that if a cat gets into mischief where something breaks, or falls over, or spills, it's never that cat's fault. In your case, your son forgot to close the lid. In my case (Tyler punched out a corner of a window pane in the camp over the weekend while I was at work) it was my fault because the putty had come loose outside and I hadn't fixed it, plus I had to leave him for 2 night (with lots of food and water).
Since this is a toilet forum, I'll end with the fact that Tyler is fascinated by water, drinks out of the faucet, sleeps on the toilet lid for hours, but hates the sound of the flush, especially the one inside the cabin which is very noisy. But when the tank refills, he often sniffs around the tank lid and gives head bumps to the flush handle. Just what is he thinking?
Matt aka achutch