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* In the ''[[Sumomomo Momomo]]'' manga, the male lead uses this and other stereotypical cat habits to defeat a tiger-themed opponent. (But see Real Life entries below.)

* [[Pokémon (anime)|Meowth]] hates water, especially wet water!!

 

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Krosp takes the controls of their falling airship and totals it, crashing it into a hill, to avoid landing in the lake, since then he'd get wet.

** ...and that's nothing to his reaction to the sewers under Sturmhalten. Of course, having spent all his life on the Castle Wulfenbach, he didn't know what a sewer was when he went down there...

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' even cats who are the demonic offspring of [[Satan]] don't like getting wet, particularly since it makes their cude widdle bat wings useless.

* ''[[Bittersweet Candy Bowl]]'', Lucy became hydrophobic after {{spoiler|Mike almost drowned}} when they were younger.

* Francine's Cat "Nemo" in ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]'' was afraid of water as a result of being read ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' until she hypnotized him into thinking otherwise.

* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon, "Fin 'N Catty", features a cat trying to eat a goldfish despite his obsessive-compulsive fear of water (even one drop makes him run to get a paper towel and dry off furiously). After being trapped in a flooded shower stall, he not only overcomes his fear, but he also [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|starts sleeping inside a fishbowl]].

* There was an episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' where Gary the snail (which is the show's equivalent to a cat) didn't want to take a bath and SpongeBob tried many ways to get him to take one, this case is particularly unusual considering that the entire show takes place ''underwater''.

* In ''[[The Avengers: United They Stand]]'' Tigra revealed she has a paralyzing fear of water because she is half cat.

* In the ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' episode "Enter the Cat", Valmont (and later Jade) is transformed into a [[Catgirl|Cat Guy]] after being scratched by a cat statue. Jade is trying to retrieve the statue for Jackie, but Valmont hears her and corners her. So she grabs a hose and turns it on him, full blast. He yowls and runs off while Jade says this trope verbatim.

* In the animated Disney film ''[[The Aristocats]]'', while on their way back to Paris, Duchess, Thomas O'Malley and the kittens all walk onto a railroad track, but when a train comes, the cats all duck underneath the rails, but in the process Marie falls into a nearby river and she cannot swim. O'Malley jumps into the water and gets Marie back to shore, but then it turns out that O'Malley also cannot swim as well. As a result he had to rely entirely on a pair of geese in order for him to get out of the water.

* Done more subtly in the third movie of [[Shrek]] where a soaking, shivering, near-traumatized Puss in Boots is clinging onto Shrek after the trio dunk themselves in water. Anyone in the audience can tell he obviously didn't enjoy the experience.

 

*** Though in places like the Okavango Delta lions do swim regularly in search of prey; considering the area is practically all covered in water during wet seasons they are pretty much forced to.

*** Ligers have a lot of conflicting behaviors and instincts, but they seem to universally love water.

* The [[Moral Event Horizon|infamous]] "cat bombs" of [[World War II]]. It was suggested that, as cats hate water and always land on their feet, [[Insane Troll Logic|they believed strapping a cat to a bomb could guide it toward naval ships]]. Needless to say, field tests of the "idea" were a complete failure, and didn't do the cat any good either.

* Then, there's this guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bScOj4e0bOQ , who swims because he likes it...and his master taught him to scuba dive. The dog does, too.

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