Cats also have insanely sensitive and wide frequency hearing. It might notice some sort of coil or switcher whine or other noise that wasn’t there before.

Isn’t all cabbage a little cursed? But also kind of blessed.

Smells like victory.

Brother!

Little dictator energy

Most things are about the smell for cats. If they don’t like the water somewhere it means there’s a smell around that drives them away. Old food will do it, but it doesn’t need to be a smell that humans would even detect. It could just be pheromones.