Do you ever see your cat drink?

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Toots is an awkward bugger

She can have a full water bowl upstairs but she will go all the way downstairs to deliberately drink from the dogs water bowl whilst glaring at them at the same time

Yes.

Usually from the dog's bowl.

Never from his bowl, only from the dogs!

Only from muddy puddles.

Only from puddles or the paddling pool.

Yes - twice a day, when we go in the bathroom! DCat jumps onto the toilet and looks into the sink. This means he wants us to let the cold tap run slowly, so he can drink fresh running water!

Yes, they had various cups dotted round the house. But now have two fountains. And they love them.

One cat has the habit of shouting at me until I follow her upstairs and fill up a plastic jug for her, inside the bathroom sink. She will only drink from this jug, in that precise location.

I've concluded the other cat is a succulent because I have never seen him drink.

One cat drinks from the cat bowl. Both drink from the pond

Yep, i have a tap drinker. Every bloody bathroom visit

I’ve caught her at my gin .

Yes but only from puddles or usually the toilet, his bowl is not good enough apparently

Rarely see either cat drinking from the cat water bowl. One will walk past it into the hall to drink from the dog’s bowl. The other will stand on DH’s head at 2am to help herself from the drinking glass on his bedside table.

One drinks from the cat bowl, both drink from the pond like tiny panthers at a watering hole. My parents cats will only drink from the running kitchen tap despite having bowls and fountains.

Ours drink from taps, the river, puddles, or from our mugs. Rarely from their bowl.

Switched to fountains a couple of years ago.
Astonished at how much they do actually drink.
Also discovered after many years that cats don't like food and water together. Moving the bowl changed things.

Boycat drinks very quietly, usually testing the water first with a cautious paw then resting one or both front feet on the side of the bowl. Girlcat dives straight in and can be heard from the next room. They only drink from their bowl (only place they can drink from, as indoor), and average about 150ml a day between them.

First time I saw one of my cats drink he was about four and drank from a glass of water on the table, after that I put a big of jug of water on the mantel piece which he liked for a while.

The other cat drinks puddles of water from the glass patio table.

I plan on getting a fountain sometime soon.

He likes garden water, from puddles, plant pot saucers, anything dish-like.

She has a water bowl next to her food but this gets ignored and instead she will drink out of the sink or from left over rain water found outside.
Cats eh.

I once woke up in the night with my cat's bum inches from my face as she happily drank from the glass of water on my bedside table.

I now assume most of the water I drink is "cat water"

Yes but only from the toilet or the birdbath

None of mine bothered with water bowls until their kidneys started to fail or they became diabetic. I always had drinking fountains for them and they used them rather than the bowls. Water bowls outside in the enclosure, fountain indoors.

One would drink Whiskas milk until they messed with the recipe a couple of years ago, then refused it. Only gave it because of illness and not eating though so not sure that counts.I wouldn't use it otherwise.

Also, wet food only means they don't drink as much.

Yep, regularly from his bowl. And only his bowl. He's a weirdo

My cat wasn't a big drinker but when he did he would only drink from the dogs' water bowl. We had two dogs at that point.

In the end I gave up providing a separate water bowl for the cat and just used to fill a very large metal one which all three of them shared in the kitchen corner. That seemed to work. They all drank from it regularly and there were no open hostilities. 😃🤣