Cats will eventually drown when in any sort of water, despite being at the surface and not visually submerged. This also seems to affect other small mobs, such as silverfish, baby wolves, etc.
Spawn a cat or any small mob (through spawn eggs or /summon) in any body of water
If it stays in the water, it will eventually take drowning damage and die, even when its at the surface (not submerged)
Using /summon seems to start drowning the mobs immediately
Mobs affected include:
Cats and baby cats
Baby ocelots
Baby chickens
Baby pigs
Baby wolves
Parrots
Silverfish
Endermites
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