Do cats ever drink the water you put down for them?

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My kitten never seems to drink her water, but is obsessed by water. Tries to catch it from the tap. Sits in the sink ages.

I've given up with the cat water bowl, but they drink from the dogs water bowl.

My cat likes to drink the shitey water left in my baby's top and tail bowl. I turn my back for a second after changing her and there he is lapping away. Minger.

My cat is currently balanced on a very thin window ledge drinking the condensation from the Windows, making cat art patterns (old house sash Windows hence wet on a winters morning)
I read somewhere that cats don't like water to be next to their food as their instance tell them in must be contaminated.
So mine will drink it from a plastic jug on the floor at the opposite end of the kitchen to their food. Or jump in the sink every time the tap gets turned on.
One will only drink it from her paws.

Nope - never. He'll look at it, walk away with a twitch of the tail and then either drink from: the floor of the shower, the jug I keep water for topping up the iron with, the spilt water from the dog's bowl, the loo or the utility room sink. If outside his preferred source is either the horse's water container - he sits on the rim and dips a paw in, or the bird bath.

Mine drinks from his bowl which is right next to his food bowl
Strange cat

I bought mine a Lucky Kitty ceramic water fountain and they love it whereas they never used to drink water from their bowl.

I've given up leaving a water bowl out at all because our cat will only drink running water from the kitchen or bathroom sink (which makes both washing up and brushing teeth interesting!).

Mine both sit on the edge of the washbasin when I am brushing my teeth. Once I have finished they dart under the tap licking up drips.

I don't even pretend the cats don't walk on the counters anymore. The cooker is covered in little footprints on the otherwise shiny glass.

Yes they do. However I filter my tap water using a brita filter as I don't like the chlorine taste of it. I know when to change my filter when the cats refuse the water.

We don't bother with a cat bowl - there are dog water bowls in the kitchen and our bedroom, and the cat drinks out of those. However, he'll only do it if you're not looking at him - if I walk into the kitchen and catch him drinking he walks off, and every night when I switch the bedside lamp off he jumps off the bed and goes and drinks loads from the bowl! He stops if you put the light on - funny cat, but he's 15 and not about to change

our two drink each other's more than their own, which I guess confirms the theory that they like water away from their food

shower tray and my bedside water are popular too tho

emwithme

One of my rescue cats drinks hers - and (housecat) definitely wees more than any cat I've previously had. I also used to have a cat that would jump in the sink and wait for his servants to turn the tap on.

Ours used to turn the tap on herself. Never turned it off though.

And our neighbour's cat would only drink from a Babycham glass. They had one permanently on the floor of their kitchen, next to the cat's bowl. Visitors were always helpfully picking it up thinking it had been left there by mistake presumably sometime in the 1970s

One cat drinks from her water bowl (and does a little ice-skating action with her front feet whilst drinking).

The other will ONLY drink from the dripping bath tap. Oh, and from the bird bath, which is not always very fresh

Many years ago, we had a cat who would run upstairs and do her furball vomits into the bathroom basin. Most considerate!

Ours drink from the bowls we put down for them .

Only from each other's bowls, mind. They elbow each other out of the way to use the other one's water bowl.

I used to have a glass of water on my bedside cabinet at night. Until one cat started pulling a tissue from the box and dropping it into the glass. So I'd sleepily wake up for a sip of water and get a mouthful of soggy tissue.

I use a bottle with a cap now!

Never she drinks from the dogs and the dog drinks from the cats

Nope, from the bottom of the bath/shower/sink, off the garden table, from rancid buckets that have rain water in but never from a bowl of clean tap water!!!

never - in fact I was so worried that I goggled it and found that cats in the wild get all their water requirements from their food. Obviously if they're not living on a diet of crunchy mice and birds with (I guess) the associated blood then they'll need extra water - but how much will depend on whether they eat wet or dry food.

When its very hot I water down their wet food slightly so its more soupy.

"when cats eat dry food, they need to get almost all of their water from sources other than their food, while a canned food only diet can supply around two-thirds of a cat’s needs" from here: www.petmd.com/blogs/nutritionnuggets/cat/jcoates/2013/april/how-much-do-cats-need-to-drink-30049#

HiddenHome - that sounds very interesting! Just looked on Amazon, but it doesn't explain exactly how it works. Presumably you plug it in and it needs quite a large water bowl??

Laughed at the champagne glass CheeseSlicer

I would like for the one cat to not drink the bath water, as she keeps making the bath mucky. Fur, muddy paw prints. Most annoying, as I have to keep cleaning it! So the fountain idea sounds great.

Might not work for her, as the drip from the tap has to be JUST the right drip. Not too fast, as she recoils in horror, not too slow, as she looks at you pitifully and pleadingly.

I stopped having a glass of water by the bed after the third time the cat knocked it over me during the night. I've now got a bottle! I didn't realise that cats like their water bowl away from their food, but it explains why she'll drink from the bowl on the landing and not hers in the kitchen. Though she will drink from the dog's bowl.

Here is my baby

Yay! I was waiting for some pics sooo cute what's his/her name?