Before I enter into the next series of photos tell me you didn’t try to sneak in there and turn the water on?

Heck yes I did.  It gets him out of there, but he doesn’t really freak out like you might expect.  And sometimes he’ll just sit on the side of the sink, rather than down in it, but he’ll have his tail laying down into the sink; you can then turn the water on and move his tail directly under the stream and he doesn’t care.

Aw, little Chessie. Look how tiny he is in that sink! Now he has to really squish to get in the sink (of course, I think the sink here is smaller, but still).