Playful Scout/Trouble Maker Scout

Scout is almost 6 months old now and is your average playful kitty. He loves grocery shopping day and can't wait to wrestle the paper bags, play hide & seek in them and jump out at me and Scooby to "scare" us.
See those shoes in the background of this picture? He loves to pounce on those and hide his mousies and little mylar balls inside them. Or bat shoes and mousies down the basement stairs that you see to the left.
Mom was scolding him today however. He keeps playing in our water fountain. He paws at the water & splashes it all over the floor and tries to chew the electric cord. Mom kept yelling "No Scout No" at him & picking him up to move someplace else to distract him. She even swatted him on the bottom, and he looked like he was gonna cry, but he just kept prancing back over to the fountain to play in the water. Mom took the fountain away and replaced it with a heavy ceramic water bowl...but he keeps doing the same thing with the bowl! He bats at the water with his paw, then grabs on to the edge of the bowl to try to tip it over, and manages to slosh water all over the floor. Mom says he will probably outgrow this, but in the meantime she is very frustrated! Scooby & I just sit & watch and cheer him on silently. -Shaggy, The Good Kitty.