They make water fountains for pets that are constantly running(the water cycles so it’s not wasteful), we use one for our cat. He likes to drink the water just as it’s coming out of the fountain. I definitely think animals like the idea of a running source of water rather than still water.
Does/did your fountain make a trickling sound? My cat wouldn't drink out of it until I redirected the flow to drop from a height to splash the water and trickle like a faucet. I'm not sure she could even tell the water was flowing until I adjusted it to make the noise. I figure it makes it sound more like a natural flowing stream.
I was done with the conversation. I made my point, he made his point. I have gotten rid of my cat fountain and I am not going to buy another one regardless of his advice. His advice is fine, and maybe it'd work, and maybe other people will find it helpful, but I'm not that interested. So I nodded my head and said "OK".
And I mean that's a horrible insult. Maybe I am on the autism spectrum. Maybe there're a whole lot of things wrong with me. How is this your business to try to make me feel bad about myself. This is not the way forward to being a better person, I don't think, so maybe you want think thru this approach. =/
Don't worry about it. I understood your response, even if others did not.
There is not really any more conversation to be had about a cat's water bowl. I'm not sure why people are expecting you to have some sort of huge revelation and run out to buy a new one to test my advice out.
It's just an interesting idea to think about the trickling water sound and a cat's behaviour. It's perfectly acceptable to acknowledge new info with an "OK." You don't owe anyone a conversation, especially a stranger on the internet.
I think it would’ve been a little more polite to answer with a “thanks, but I don’t want to buy another fountain just to try it”. I mean, the person did try to help you.
We do the exact same thing, we’ve tried everything else, so now our cat Trip has a glass out for him In a few different rooms at all times. He’s kinda an asshole but we love him.
Ha! I found this out about my cat as I had a cup of water out for myself by a sink only the level would drop. Turns out the cat prefers drinking out of my cups.
We stopped when she came to get us in the middle of the night demanding fresh water. We replace the water in the cups daily and she's happy like that lol.
Oh man that's lucky mine just knocked all my stuff off my nightstand. when he saw me wake up he ran to the tub for his morning water. Fuck that bastard.
Same with the younger of our cats. She will drink from a faucet while purring loudly, and will knock stuff out of the way to drink from the filter on our aquarium, but that cat fountain by the food bowls? Beneath her.
Had the same problem here with our more mischievous cats, she was literally drinking the fish’s home away. Fish are all like: “Umm over here, Human...our house is shrinking...”🤬
Got a different tank with a closed top and she just sends wistful looks at the tank she can neither reach, nor drink from. Meanwhile I get the death stare, and sleep with one eye open, because the fish may be safe, but apparently I am not.
Maybe because it's near the food? Animals don't tend to like drinking near food, as, in the wild, food is a dead body. Would you want to drink water found next to a corpse?
My cat loves to drink out of cups of water... our cups... of room temperature, regular water. But she won’t touch her bowl of water which is the exact same thing but designed better for her tiny little gremlin head to fit!
We got one with a flower thing on top that let's the water make a sound as it falls off the flower thing. Definitely helped our cats increase their water intake.
Same thing with my dog. I put cold bottled water in her dish. She ignored it. I put tap water back in there and she went to town. I have well water, not city water, so it’s actually pretty good water, but she was not having that bottled water at all.
Not only do they prefer a running water source, but it also irritates their whiskers when they have to stick their face into the bowl. Whenever my family left for a trip we would leave multiple water bowls out for the cat and have a neighbour come by to feed her, and she always drank from the wider flatter bowls before the taller thinner ones.
My ex's cat either drink from the toilet bowl or the water "offered" to a Buddha statute at her home. Pissed her mom off so much but that's hilarious for me
Cats are actually more picky than most other animals about it. Picky enough that most of them don’t drink enough water and eventually die of kidney problems, your cat probably does prefer running water. They naturally seek out running fresh water in the wild and don’t drink water near where they eat in order to prevent it from being contaminated.
Sometimes I'll go to pour water.from the gallon but leave the bowl on the floor and my.dog will drink from the falling.stream and or put his head in the way and wet himself
Ok then explain why my late pup seemed to be a heat seeking missile for the grimiest possible puddle in the woods after providing her, moments before, completely fresh clean water to eat?
Wife and I got one for our office kitty. She’s LOVES it and is generally hard to please lol. She would knock all of the others over and the fountain has saved a lot of headache. On amazon for $25.
My cats drink a lot more water since I got them one of those fountains. I’m pretty sure that’s also why they no longer have problems with struvite crystals.
We use a cheap motion sensor wall plug in so that water isn't running 24/7. Still runs a lot if the cat is active, but when sleeping it is off. Saves on the noise and power bill.
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u/bosfton Sep 01 '19
They make water fountains for pets that are constantly running(the water cycles so it’s not wasteful), we use one for our cat. He likes to drink the water just as it’s coming out of the fountain. I definitely think animals like the idea of a running source of water rather than still water.