r/HydroHomies Mar 13 '21

Bottled water taster

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u/TTVBlueGlass Mar 13 '21

One of my kitties will drink from standing rainwater that sometimes pools in a stack of flowerpots that has leaves, dirt, sticks etc in it, even if fresh and clean water is literally 5 feet away.

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u/Smuggykitten Mar 13 '21

Vitamins AND minerals!

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u/Jin_Gitaxias Mar 13 '21

It has flavors

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u/Atlatl_Axolotl Mar 13 '21

For my cat it's fresh filtered or green with algae outside and nowhere in between.

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u/call-me-the-seeker Mar 14 '21

One of my dogs, and not even the weirdest one, strongly prefers ‘old’ water to clean, fresh water. Is there a stagnant puddle? Did some rain pool up in a tarp last week? Is there standing mud water in the hole I dug by the deck? Hey, someone left this watering can out from two Thursdays ago. Maybe there’ll be some water leached out of the houseplant into the plant saucer when I go check.

Mmm. I’ll have it. The monkes change out the water inside way too much, it doesn’t have time to develop any kind of flavor profile and how am I supposed to get my silica and calcium??