Raining cat'S and Dog'S !

Well well well...It has been raining in chennai like heaven's bladders were full and were waiting to explode! Chennaites must have prayed with unconditional sincerity to the rain gods this year, who in-turn seem to have been pleased. The phrase that first comes into one's mind amidst such incessant rain is "It rained like cats and dogs". What's amusing is that there isn't a proper explanation to that idiom anywhere! Now, this sets me thinking...

I believe it has been cut short from the original phrase, which must have read like "Rained like cat'S and dog'S...PEE"!!...So is it a similie for the way the heavens work in conjunction with the way cats and dogs pee??

Let us see some interesting aspects of these animals' peculiar pee-ing habits.

• For starters, they never pee all at once!
• They pee only when they want to and not when forced by others.
  
• They pee at varying speeds and angles, depending on prevailing conditions and circumstances.
  
• They choose the remotest of locations to pee!(just like the rain gods choose every other god-damned place except chennai!)
• At times,they irritate by just pee-ing in parts, where just small drops appear at discrete intervals, consuming a lot of time and preventing the master from doing something else!

The above is perfectly true with respect to Chennai's rain patterns, with the following substitutions:

They <=> rain gods(or)clouds(or)skies(or)heavens
pee <=> rain
master <=> common people

But if one is more observing, similar patterns are found in the lavatorial habits of rural Indian people! So here comes the all-important question...Was the above term coined by an Indian, to divert the attention of the rest of the world away from us and instead towards animals??!! ;)