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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2004Water question
Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? I have a cat health book here that says 1oz per pound o' body weight. That would put The Dust at about 13oz. His bowl holds 12oz and he has never even come close to consuming even 1/2 of it in 24 hours ever. So now he is visiting the water bowl often. He is still drinking the same amount of water, no more than he has before but he spends a lot of time at the bowl lapping. He does this a lot at night when he is most active. During the day when I have been home with him he hardly drinks anything but at night, he sounds like a dog drinking out of the toilet. Speaking of which, I have been monitoring his water intake for about a week and we have kept the toilet lids down so he can't drink from there. So he spends more time at the bowl but is not consuming more water. As far as his urine goes it's exactly the same as always. One, sometimes two times a day he pees. It's a big quantity of urine but nothing so excessive it leaves a puddle or floods the box. When I scoop every morning it's just a baseball sized lump of litter. Is this a lot of urine? Now remember he only goes once or twice a day. We have a TED appointment on Wednesday for a blood pressure check-up so I will address it then for sure. I have just been doing a lot of research in the cat book and on the net and everything I find is talking about a cat consuming "excess" water. This isn't the case, same amount. And a cat with increased urination. Again, not an increase just a big amount at one time. Otherwise his appetite is good, he is back on dry food, he takes his high blood pressure pill every day. He is active, alert and is gaining weight. I am just so paranoid with his health. Anyone else seen this strange behavior. It's kind of the equivalent of me drinking an 8oz glass of water by either chugging it or consistently sipping it slowly. Damn cat. TJ and The Dust > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? I > have [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > > TJ and The Dust To me it sounds pretty normal TJ. Let us know how the appointment goes. Karen I'm guessing that even if you knew the exact amount a cat should drink, it wouldn't have much to do with what they will drink. Ours probably drink about 8 to ten ounces between them out of their bowls. But they also lick dripping faucets, jump in the tub to see if anything has collected around the drain, check out the birdbath and the neighbors cats water bowls. Jo > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? I have > a cat health book here that says 1oz per pound o' body weight. That would put [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > TJ and The Dust Oh yours sure do drink everywhere! :) Dusty is an indoor only beast, we don't have any dripping faucets, toilet lids are closed, no other pets with water bowls, fish tank lid is tight and we all shower behind a glass door. LOL. He has no choice but to drink his fresh, filtered, cooled by ice cubes water out of his little yellow bowl! TJ and The Dust (who is snoring away next to me on the desk) > I'm guessing that even if you knew the exact amount a cat should drink, it > wouldn't have much to do with what they will drink. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I have > > a cat health book here that says 1oz per pound o' body weight. Well, it would be impossible to tell how much water a cat should drink without discussing what he eats first. :) If a cat eats mostly wet food, then he'll probably drink very little, but if he eats mostly dry food he should/will drink more. I wouldn't worry if he is peeing normally. Baseball sized per day per cat sounds about right. We usually fill a gallon ziploc bag worth of pee and poo per day... I'd say in an average day there are around 20 or so urine clumps and I've noticed that urine and clumping litter have an additive effect when mixed, i.e. you end up with more than you started with, as far as volume is concerned. You're not paranoid, you're a good slave. :)  SignatureVictor Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? <<<snip>>> >I am just so paranoid with his health. Anyone else seen this strange behavior. >It's kind of the equivalent of me drinking an 8oz glass of water by either >chugging it or consistently sipping it slowly. Damn cat. > >TJ and The Dust Amber is like this. He is at the water pan a lot and he pees a large pee-ball. I figure his bladder is twice as large as my other cats. But I don't feel he is excessively drinking or peeing. It varies with the season and activity. And how much wet food he gets. The Dust is a large cat and needs more water for his body to work. And so he would drink and pee accordingly. He must have a very good sphincter and a large bladder.Or maybe his kidneys work in cycles instead of continuously. A comprehensive urine test would help settle your mind. My vet has urine strips that show the composition of a lot of things in the urine. He used this on Sheba the day she was diagnosed with diabetes. CATherine I'll start right off by stating that I don't know anything about cat blood pressure or meds for this condition in cats. That said, hope to reassure you that "baseball-sized" clumps of urine/clumping litter are the norm in our litterboxes. AFA how often the Evil 3 visit the boxes individually, can't say.Am able, though, to see them in the box doing their things and am always on red alert for straining or cries of pain therefrom (none so far). One of your posts, Pam, answered one of my first mental ?'s: you keep his drinking water cold or very cool for him? If he's not really drinking more in quantity, but it just seems to take him a long time to "get it down", could his *teeth* be paining him like ours would if bad teeth we had were in contact with cold drink or foods? Vet can tell if any teeth are loose and/or infected. Our Evil 3 drink about a full 6" diameter ceramic bowl a day of filtered water, but as everyone knows, it's warm and humid down here most of the time; LOL they all let me know in non-subtle ways when the water bowls are running low here. : >Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? : <<<snip>>> [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] : : CATherine > I'll start right off by stating that I don't know anything about cat blood > pressure or meds for this condition in cats. That said, hope to reassure you [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the time; LOL they all let me know in non-subtle ways when the water bowls > are running low here. Shmogg gets a third of a can of wet food for breakfast, and another third for dinner (cans hold about 400g of cat food, IIRC). He also sometimes drinks out of the shower when I'm done (why, I'll never know), and he also drinks about 100ml of water very day from his special cup under the bathroom faucet (hewon't drink fromany other location, nor out of any other cup, silly cat), and he pees quite a decent puddle at least once a day. IIRC, cats don't sweat, so perhaps he drinks slowly when he's feeling hot so that the coolness stays on his tongue longer. Yowie > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? I don't know the answer to your question. My cats eat mostly wet food, so don't drink a lot of water. They use the litterbox about twice a day per cat. They are sending lots of purrs for the Dust to be alright and to soothe his worried Meowmie. Have you checked what Phil says on Max's house? If you don't have it bookmarked, it's at http://www.maxshouse.com/ (man, I hate that music!). SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki Lots of purrs and best wishes for nothing to be wrong with Dusty, and hugs for his worried slave, SignaturePolonca & Soncek > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? <snip > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? (big snip) > TJ and The Dust I don't have any idea; Mike drinks almost exclusively from dripping faucets, so it's hard to gauge how much water he gets. And he sprays so blasted much it's hard to monitor the litter box for output, since it's all over the house instead of in the box. But I wanted to send some healthpurrs to Dusty, and purrs for his visit to TED tomorrow. ------ Krista TJ, I have the same problem, Wilson will not drink, unless he has to. Its a big worry to me, and the only way I can get him to drink is when I fill an old plastic beaker to overflowing and place it in the bath tub, I think I wrote about it on here once. He likes to watch the water dribble from the tap, but doesn't drink from it, sometimes he jumps up on the sink, and I quickly grab a pot or anything he can drink from and fill it up, and HOPE. Jean. P. > Hi guys! I have a question... How much water should a cat drink a day? I have > a cat health book here that says 1oz per pound o' body weight. That would put [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > TJ and The Dust |
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