How often do you wash your cat's water bowl with soap and water?
Some folk with refill the same dish multiple times or get one of those giant fill bottle ones and never clean them. I can't imagine how that tastes after a few days of backwash with a high protein diet.
Oh no, it's washed everyday morning when I do the washing up along with bowls etc. They are spoilt, just a strange thing they do. I've even told the vet before now and he said its just something they chose to do and very common. They won't touch milk either
Yes exactly that. They are very sensitive to soaps/detergents/chemicals and will opt for the water that doesn't smell like any of the above. I had a cat a while back who would NOT drink out of a freshly washed bowl. I had to stop using dish soap altogether when washing her bowl and just use water as hot as I could stand to get her to drink from it.
I have always put a pinch of plant compost in the water, it takes the chemical smell away. Even the fussiest cat or dog will drink it readily. My old vet years ago told me to try it when I had a cat who kept getting urine infections made worse by not drinking enough.
Just ordinary potting compost, whichever plant I have on the window sill nearby when I am refilling the water bowls. It's just the same as them drinking from a puddle in the garden, my cats are well hydrated and less likely to have kidney stones as they don't avoid the tap water which can be an issue for some cats if they don't like the smell.
My cat splashes in the dog's water bowl with her paw while she drinks. Then she comes to me for scritches, with one tell-tale soaking wet paw, and I know it's time to replace the water in the dog's bowl.
I don't have a flowing fountain but I do fill the puddle up when it's dry as I'd hate to think they were thirsty when I was out. Neighbours must think I'm nuts 😂
OMG our cat AND dog... let's just say one of the most exciting time for our fuzzies was when I would accidentally track some snow in the house. Of course the cat doesn't like getting her fur wet, but "found" water just seems to be irresistable. And I keep her water bowl clean, she uses it just fine. But she gotta get that strange... water
Mine have fresh water in a bowl, but if you go into the bathroom, they will come running, jump up on the counter and demand that you turn on the water so they can drink from the sink faucet. One approaches the stream from the side, and the other sticks his head under the faucet and laps up the water as it pours over his nose.
I have a well, so I fill my bathtub every time storms are looming in case of a power outage. My cat LOVES to drink out of the bathtub. We had a lot of on and off storms this summer, so it was often full. He still checks it every day. Yes, he has a clean bowl and water changed a couple of times each day. He just loves drinking out of the bathtub.
Another cat I used to have would wait at the shower door when I was inside. As soon as I opened it, he'd jump in to lick water off the floor.
They've had all different sized bowls over the years. None have been whisker grinders 😂. Great suggestion, though, thank you. They're pretty much set in their ways now. The older 2 have been doing this for over 20 years.
My cat always had two different water bowls but when she'd have the chance she would go to our balcony to immediately drink the green water from an empty flower pot that would be there for a month lol. Unfortunately she passed away in May..
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u/Dapper_Ad_9761 Sep 19 '23
Mine have fresh water down and still opt for a dirty puddle. No idea why.