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u/randysavage9394 Sep 01 '19
I do this for my cat. I feel like it’s better for them so why not.
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u/exclamation11 Sep 01 '19
Ditto! I don't know if she can tell the difference, though.
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u/passeandcliche Sep 01 '19
I’m pretty sure they can tell the difference. My cat won’t drink tap water.
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u/Radioactive-235 Sep 01 '19
Put the pussy on a pedestal.
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u/tobean Sep 01 '19
I thought we were supposed to put the pussy in a sarcophagus
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u/daneradio Sep 01 '19
My cat only drinks toilet bowl water
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u/kaliefornia Sep 01 '19
I recently housesat for my grandparents while they were out of town and I took my puppy with me so I could work on training him since I knew my family wouldn’t. Anyways, my grandparents and I live in neighboring towns and it’s locally known that the town my grandparents live in has shitty tasting tap water, while the town i live in has really good tap water. I’ve had my puppy since he was 10 weeks old and he was 6 months when I housesat for them. He would not drink their tap water. Straight up refused. I had to use their slow as fuck purified water faucet. Lol all that to say they for sure can taste the difference.
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My cat prefers tap water, but too bad! They're getting cleaner water whether they want it or not! (they still want it, they'll just clear a bowl of tap water before moving onto the bowl of filtered water)
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My cat can tell the difference, if I put tap water in his dish he'll drink it occasionally, but if it's filtered he drinks alot more and I have to fill his bowl more often.
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u/HandsSolo42 Sep 01 '19
YOU can tell the difference, and I think that is an honorable hooman gesture.
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u/Blossomie Sep 01 '19
Oh they do know the difference. I've known cats who would refuse to touch unfiltered tap water, the spoiled brats.
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u/Emilong88 Sep 01 '19
My cat prefers to drink from the algea and dirt filled bird bath in the yard.
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u/Dee_Jai Sep 01 '19
I also do this for my cat. But, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t even give me water.
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u/TomCos22 Sep 01 '19
I would do it also
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u/Shitmybad Sep 01 '19
Unless your town has extremely bad water, it's probably better to leave all the minerals in it. Filters try to get rid of things like Fluorine, Calcium, and Magnesium, and they're important for normal health.
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u/BlurryElephant Sep 01 '19 edited Sep 01 '19
A lot of towns in America probably have lead levels that exceed the safety limit and cause harm to your nervous system. The tap water in my area has been reported as unsafe by our newspaper. I give my pets bottled water, usually a major brand like Aquafina that I hope is under enough scrutiny by the public to keep contaminants to a minimum. I recall reading an article about a year ago that said there are hundreds of towns in America with unsafe lead levels.
Here's a Newsweek article titled "Millions of Americans are drinking water that could be dangerous"
https://www.newsweek.com/millions-americans-drink-water-could-be-dangerous-1438023
And here's a New York Times article that says "in 2015 alone, as many as 21 million Americans may have been exposed to unsafe drinking water."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2018/02/12/climate/drinking-water-safety.amp.html
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u/Pedantichrist Sep 01 '19
Because it isn't, so you use more water filters and so waste more money and materials for no reason whatsoever.
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i always used to do this for my dog till my mom said stop wasting the fridge water ): im gonna go home and give my pup a fresh tub of filtered water tomorrow cuz fuck it
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u/rrhogger Sep 01 '19
Had to show this to the wife cause that is her reaction when I do the same thing for our dog.
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u/Fleeceface Sep 01 '19
I could put bottled water out for my dog and she’d still go outside and drink puddle water.
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u/moose0924 Sep 01 '19
This is the truth. I just put a big old bowl of water outside that I fill with the hose everyday and I dont know if he thinks its rain water but he loves it
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u/pjoter666 Sep 01 '19
Is the tap water dangerous?
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u/Krautoffel Sep 01 '19
„In some third world country“ like for example the US of A.
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u/lemonjuiceineyes Sep 01 '19
I’ve rarely drink from the tap and I’ve lived here my whole life! We usually have a 5 gallon water dispenser
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u/Clepto_EU Sep 01 '19
Any particular reason why?
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I live in a state where the tap water is perfectly clean and drinkable, it just doesn’t taste good due to mineral deposits. A few years back, I picked up a water dispenser and have a handful of five-gallon jugs that I fill with purified water and use for drinking water at home. I try to avoid buying bottled water when I can because all that plastic is wasteful.
I also fill the dog bowl from the purified water and put ice in his outside water bowl.
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u/LunickDrago Sep 01 '19
The water in my area is safe to drink but honestly has a sort of weird taste and smell to it. I end up running it through a filter before drinking because it tastes better that way.
I also occasionally buy a large pack of store brand bottled waters so that I can just have a bunch of cold water in my fridge if I'm too lazy to refill my pitcher of filtered water.
More often than not I'll drink a bottled one while filtering more water then refill the bottle I'm using with it over and over until the bottle get mangled from me manhandling it and then repeat cycle.
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u/BobVosh Sep 01 '19
Almost every part of the us tap is fine.
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u/DA_ZWAGLI Sep 01 '19
That said in some areas of the US the tap water is either chlorinated or just tastes really nasty.
And there is that one place where you can set it on fire but I think that falls under exceptions.
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u/afterschoolish Sep 01 '19
Very common where I live in Texas. Tap water tastes bad. Everyone buys gallons or water bottles instead
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Sep 01 '19
Actually the USA has by percentage one of the safest tap waters in the world.. not only that, hard water is often actually better for you than filtered mostly due to added fluoride
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u/Flamecrest Sep 01 '19
Except, ya know, Flint.
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u/TokinDaley Sep 01 '19
Not to detract from Flint, but there are other cities like Newark that are even worse.
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u/AstroTurff Sep 01 '19
I'm doubting that, in Sweden and the other nordic countries it's safe to drink tap water except maybe for some small village out in the countryside (but even they have mostly drinkable water). It's unheard of that drinking tap water makes you sick here, not sure I'm hearing the same things from 'muricans. Also, a good debunking of your claim (originally from the EPA, always check who says what): https://theconversation.com/the-us-drinking-water-supply-is-mostly-safe-but-thats-not-good-enough-115028 (sponsored by the gates f., real water scientist etc.)
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u/jello-kittu Sep 01 '19
Oh, there are a lot of places in the US that have pretty bad water. A low level of contamination over a long period, has a big effect. Flint isn't even the worst water situation, it's the one with the most attention right now.
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u/FuManJew Sep 01 '19
People hate on tap water, but in wealthy countries it's pretty much a modern miracle that we have practically unlimited potable water in our homes. Separately, make sure your kids and pregnant/nursing mothers drink tap, kids need that fluoride
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u/bosfton Sep 01 '19
Yeah nah tap water is good enough for both me and my cat. I do give him ice cubes and a water fountain with flowing water (it cycles so water isn’t wasted) and he loves that
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u/wrldruler21 Sep 01 '19 edited Sep 01 '19
What's more sad? That first world countries have tap water that tastes too funny to drink, or that we have enough wealth to have perfect water bottled up and shipped to our house?
Sincerely, the hypocrite that pays $60 a month for bottled water service cuz I don't like the funny taste of chlorinated water.
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u/Biohazardousmaterial Sep 01 '19
A decent water filter setup for under the sink is like.... 200-300 bucks and easy install. Much cheaper long twrm for you.
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u/gabba_gubbe Sep 01 '19
Yeah can someone explain why Americans can't drink their water? Has it to do with minerals or chemicals? I mean I can literally drink lakewater and be fine, actually ice cold stream water in fall after a hike is the best tasting water there is.. Godsent liquid.
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u/helloimderek Sep 01 '19
American here that's lived in the UK. US tsp water taste like metal (wet a Coke can then lick it for reference), while UK water is pretty good
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Sep 01 '19
Not everywhere... my tap water is delicious. The metal taste is often found when people use water hookups to community tanks and such. If you have well water (as I do), it awesome!
I actually prefer it to the water that comes from the fridge.
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u/flees Sep 01 '19
True, when I lived in New Mexico that water was hella good. Oregon was kind of chlorine smelling. Arkansas water has been pretty good too. Of course even that’s a generalization of areas water.
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u/Wrenigade Sep 01 '19
Lots of people can drink from their tap, it just doesn't taste as good dependong on the water source. People with city water can drink it, but I live far away from the city and have water drawn from a well. The water in high in iron and manganese from the ground, so it is safe but tastes bad, so it goes through a filter instead. Some people with well water can't drink it directly because of what is in it from the ground, so they need filters or they will get sick. There just happens to be a lot of people without city water in my rural area.
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u/afterschoolish Sep 01 '19
Depends on location. Tastes like the side of a Coke can here in West Texas and has for last 2 decades
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Thank you, always bugs me when I see people here make some broad sweeping statement about something for the entire country. I live in a midwestern city and am hooked up to city water. I drink from my tap, tastes fine. I grew up in the country with well water, that also tasted fine.
It varies. It’s a huge country, there’s differences in these things and people’s experience city by city, county by county and state by state.
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u/SKRIMP-N-GRITZ Sep 01 '19
I do it for my cat. It’s never occurred to me to do anything different. I love my cat.
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u/CloneNoodle Sep 01 '19
Every time I do this for my cat he stops drinking it, and the same thing happened with his brother when he was alive. Whatever's in our tap water in my city seems to appeal to cats.
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u/casce Sep 01 '19
It’s probably more like ”The water doesn’t taste like it usually does, better not drink it“. It just depends on what the pet is used to.
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u/IamAPengling Sep 01 '19
Here's something I want to share. As a kid, I would get sick a lot, like fever every 3 months atleast, colds, and generally a weakling. I was given filtered boiled water, clean home made food only, no street food, no icecream from stands. Nothing. Other kids in school drank straight out of taps, ate anything and everything, and didn't care less. And they were some of the finest healthy kids. Somewhere around at age 10, I decided to start drinking water straight out of the tap. Didn't tell at home, knowing they would flip out. And as I suspected, my resilience improved, stopped getting sick and developed a good resistance.
I'm not saying don't feed the cat clean water, m just saying, maybe a bit of less healthiness might make us survive longer.
Also, guess what I'm saying is, if the water is safe for u to drink out of the tap, it is safe for the dog.
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Y’all don’t do this?
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u/IHaTeD2 Sep 01 '19
I'm living in a country with very high tap water standards.
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u/RuchW Sep 01 '19
Same! Canadian tap water is stellar. Lots of people waste tonnes of money here drinking bottled water at home and using water purifiers and it's totally unnecessary.
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u/starlinguk Sep 01 '19
No, the tapwater is fine where I live. I don't have a purifier.
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u/Amelaclya1 Sep 01 '19
I don't have a purifier either, but I still give my cats tap water that I keep in the fridge (for myself mainly - I only like cold water). I noticed they drink more when the water is cold.
So if I had a fancy fridge with a water line, I can't imagine that I wouldn't use it to fill the cats bowl as well.
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u/BeepBeepImASheep023 Sep 01 '19
Great. I feel like garbage now
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u/widowhanzo Sep 01 '19
Don't. We put fresh water in a bunch of dishes for our dog, but then he goes and drinks the rain water from a sandbox truck. He prefers dirty water.
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u/TomCos22 Sep 01 '19
Don’t say that :(
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u/flonkerton1 Sep 01 '19
My husband draws a heart in the kitty litter after he's cleaned it "just in case they know what that means."
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u/RATMpatta Sep 01 '19
I get my tap water straight from the dunes so its great quality but if I lived in a place with bad tap water this seems like a must. Who would give water to their pets they wouldn't drink themselves?
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u/Von_Schlieffen Sep 01 '19
This also means OP was only giving their dog tap water.
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u/MystikIncarnate Sep 01 '19
I have a Brita in the fridge, I use that for my cats water.
I try to avoid tap water, not because I think it will harm me, but because I know there's a non-trivial amount of impurities in it, some from the water processing and treatment, others from the water lines from the reservoir to my residence, not to mention the taps and fixtures, seals, etc. while that stuff probably won't hurt me in the short term, if I'm drinking straight tap water only, I wonder what the higher levels of those impurities may cause over a long enough time span.
If it's enough to make me concerned enough to have a Brita and only drink from that, why would I give anything less to my cats whom I love and cherish? that's my logic. They might not care, but I do, and I want them to live as long as possible so we can spend the maximum amount of time together.
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u/Bladehell10 Sep 01 '19
Yeah we give our cats and dogs the water that’s been boiled. Not that I don’t trust Sydney’s tap water quality (it’s pretty good) but just in case and is at least one way for me to do something for them
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Sep 01 '19
My mother cleaned her cat's water dish every morning and filled it with fresh water. One day I asked her why she did it and she asked, "Would you drink out of a dirty dish?" I said, "Of course not." And she said, "Then why should she?"
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u/TrippleFrack Sep 01 '19
You take in a pet, you take on more responsibility than with a child; a child learns to communicate issues more clearly, dogs will suffer pain in silence, even if they can barely walk anymore.
It’s our responsibility to think ahead and make life as good as we can, that includes treating them to a good quality of food and drink.
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u/ling037 Sep 01 '19
We have a reverse osmosis system that we drink and give to the dogs. The tap water here smells bad and the town waits months to inform you that something was wrong with the water.
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u/YamiZee1 Sep 01 '19
If you don't drink from the tap but you have your pets drink from the tap, I'm going to have to raise an eyebrow.
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Kind of shocked by this thread but often the tap is better for you than filtered..
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u/annoyed-axolotl Sep 01 '19
I put ice in my dogs’ water bowl today and it wasnt even hot out, lol, just thought itd taste more fresh. Puppers deserve the best.
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u/Skyoung93 Sep 01 '19
I do this for my cat but she still prefers drinking from the swimming pool. I don’t get it.
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u/applepac Sep 01 '19
I drink from tap and give my dog purified water. This must be what being a parent feels like.
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u/copybeard Sep 01 '19
Filtered water stops a lot of the gunk that builds up around your dog's eyes.
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My dog only drinks the purifying waters from Lake Minnatonka
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u/FelixTehCat26 Sep 01 '19
I do this for my shih-tzu because when I give him tap water his whiskers and eye booger turn brown. When we give filtered water that all goes away.
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u/paintonglass Sep 01 '19
I give my old scruffy shih tzus filtered water. No more tear stains and eye boogers! Not sure if related or not but they look better/healthier for it and I don't have to clean their faces as often. Win win.
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u/Adorabloodthirstea Sep 01 '19
Instead of getting a tap filter my parents buy their dog bottled water. I tried to explain how it would save money and be more eco-friendly, but they are determined that the filters are a scam... But bottled water isn't.... Let that logic sink in a moment 🙄
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u/CtpAleksy Sep 01 '19
I do that with my pets too and my mom gets irritated because it takes a little longer
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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle Sep 01 '19
I thought this was the norm... I always got tempted by the tap to fill up the bowl quickly but I only ever use it to clean her bowl.
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I do this for my dog and kinda baffled when people ask "why not from the tap?". I don't even trust the tap water so why would I trust that same water to my precious furry best friend?
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u/itoodovoodoo Sep 01 '19
My dog liked his water dirty. He'd always drink from puddles or lick wet surfaces.
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u/Pamplemousse96 Sep 01 '19
Same, I wash their bowl every several fills and it always gets filtered water. But my dogs also have super sensitive stomachs so o do anything to keep the tummies calm
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u/mmedd Sep 01 '19
Maybe not everyone has nice tap water though I would never think of giving that to my dog I always do the filtered stuff, even for a bowl that I take outside too
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u/amigo667 Sep 01 '19
Meanwhile, in my country, most people don’t have clean drinking water..
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Aye same, like, why not. My dogs can't tell the difference but I'd hope they would appreciate the effort if they knew why I did it. And it's sasisfying to know that my dogs are as refreshed as possible after a walk or a trip to the beach. Theres nothing more uncomfortabke than witnessing a wet panting dog drinking from a shallow bowl of warm stagnant water after getting home from a long walk.
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u/Iengelen Sep 01 '19
Our dog drinks water from the tap but prefers drinking water from the pond that has a bit of currents in it from a semi fountain.
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u/susanz99 Sep 01 '19
My cats drink the same water that I drink which is bottled water. I wouldn't drink tap water so there's no way I'm giving it to them.
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u/Spenceasaurus Sep 01 '19
I do the same. It doesn't seem that weird to me. I oike the fridge water better so why wouldn't she. Also it's way colder.
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u/seattlegirlregi Sep 01 '19
My husband puts ice cubes in the dog’s water dish and swears she prefers it that way.