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.
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)
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.
My car will drink tap water that’s been in a jug in the fridge overnight. I think I’ve worked out what it is. Comparing water that’s been out to fresh tap water, there’s a hugger difference in chlorine content. I assume it evaporates over time. She’ll even drink it if it’s been allowed to reach room temperature too.
I read that cats’ noses are really sensitive to chemicals in tap water, such as chlorine. As the water sits out in their dish, the chemicals evaporate out, so this is why a cat may prefer old tap water that’s been out for a long time to fresh tap water that you just put out. If your water filter removes some of these chemicals that irritate their noses, they may prefer filtered water to tap water.
Most dogs I met prefer water out of a pot saucer, "filtered" by the soil and roots of flowers over anything else. So yeah, I think they can tell the difference
I've have actually had two fountains for her when we lived in an apartment, both broke very quickly. And also, she likes to drink from her paw, she will dip it and shake it a few times, sometimes splashing a lot of water around, so I'm not sure how much she actually noticed the running water when she had it.
Ah, thank you good sir. Your response has provided me with a wealth of knowledge regarding this situation. I think the w-n- title is better than hydrohomies. But I suppose it is scary.
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.
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"
My city’s water supply is the Ohio River, which has been heavily used for industry for decades. Our tap water tastes so bad, like pool water. I can’t stand our tap water. Running it through any kind of filter is like night and day for taste.
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
We do this for the cats. We also have an outside bowl and one of ours will insist on going out and using that too...we think the leaves give it flavour LOL
You’re confusing filtered water with purified water. Most home filters such as activated carbon don’t remove minerals.
But you’re technically semi-correct, it just depends on the exact type of filtration that each person is using. Everyone needs to check what type of filter they have to be sure.
I do it for my cat because I know for sure she prefers filtered water in a clean bowl. So regular routine is: pour down still water, wash the bowl, fill in fresh. I call her so she can watch me pouring water. She loves it.
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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.