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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / February 2005Ping: Catnipped
How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? Persia is absolutely enamoured with hers. In the middle of the night I sometimes hear her slurping at the pouring water before she rejoins me on the bed :) Jill  SignatureI used to have a handle on life...but it broke off. > How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit was > drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? Persia is > absolutely enamoured with hers. In the middle of the night I sometimes > hear > her slurping at the pouring water before she rejoins me on the bed :) Yes, they all love it. Jessie still wants a drink from the faucet every time DH or I go near one, but I think that has more to do with wanting attention than drinking (although we do think she's part camel going by the amount of water she can ingest at one time and how long it takes her to top off!). Bandit treats the Drinkwell like a watering hole on the Savannah - she lies down next to it to camp out for an hour or so, every once in a while leaning over to drink her fill. I'm glad that I read another thread you posted about washing it, though. I didn't know until then that the "propeller" ("impeller") thingie came out. The magnet that holds it in place is pretty strong and I wouldn't have tried to "force it" otherwise. So thanks! Hugs, CatNipped > Jill >> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit >> was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > CatNipped This reminds me, I need to go clean Persia's fountain now. I think the mineral content in our local water has gone up. It takes far less time for it to gunk up than it used to. (sigh) Jill >>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit >>> was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jill Maybe you could filter (Britta) the water? Our girls prefer filtered water, chilled of course. NO, I am not trained! >>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit >>>> was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > Maybe you could filter (Britta) the water? Our girls prefer filtered > water, chilled of course. NO, I am not trained! You don't give them bottled water? Charlie does. Jo >>>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit >>>>> was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > Jo Shhh! They don't know about such things. >>>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said >>>>> Bandit was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Jo The bottled "Spring Water" I used once gunked the fountain up even faster than the tap water. I suppose I could use distilled water but I can't imaging that tasting very good. Jill >>>>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said >>>>>> Bandit was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] > > Jill It wouldn't be good for them either. Really Charlie uses it as a convenience. We store the bottled water we keeps for the kids ball games etc in the garage near where he keeps the cats outdoor water bowl. So he just keeps a bottle next to the bowl and fills it as needed. Jo >>>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said >>>>> Bandit was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > Jo Mine prefer rainwater. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >>> Maybe you could filter (Britta) the water? Our girls prefer filtered >>> water, chilled of course. NO, I am not trained! [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > -- > Adrian I have fresh water in a bowl inside the house for my two cats. They never drink from it, instead they go outside and drink from a ceramic dog bowl outside the back door that I only clean out and refill every couple of weeks. Tweed > Mine prefer rainwater. Frank prefers seawater, I'm afraid. He drinks directly out of the sea, but also if there is a bucket of rainwater and a bucket of seawater side by side on the porch, he will invariably go and drink of the seawater. Luckily the water around out island isn't very salty. SignatureMarina, Frank and Nikki marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi Pics at http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/frankiennikki/ and http://community.webshots.com/user/frankiennikki >> Mine prefer rainwater. > > Frank prefers seawater, I'm afraid. He drinks directly out of the sea, > but also if there is a bucket of rainwater and a bucket of seawater > side by side on the porch, he will invariably go and drink of the > seawater. Luckily the water around out island isn't very salty. That just goes to show, the only thing you can say for sure about cats, they can all surprise us. :-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) A house is not a home, without a cat. >>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? >>> Yes, they all love it. Jessie still wants a drink from the faucet [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Maybe you could filter (Britta) the water? Our girls prefer filtered > water, chilled of course. NO, I am not trained! LOL I don't even filter my own water! Memphis water comes from Artesian wells; it's pretty darned good tap water. Maybe it is just my imagination about the gunking - uh, no, it's not. The fountain used to need a thorough cleaning every 7 days, now it's more like every 4-5 days. Okay, maybe I'll get a Brita filter pitcher. Jill >>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said Bandit >>> was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the others? [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Jill We have hard water here too. What I do is store their tap water in a bottle and then refill the fountain from that - if you let it sit a day or two that seems to let the minerals settle to the bottom - just don't empty the whole bottle into the fountain. Hugs, CatNipped >>>> How are things with your Drinkwell fountain? I know you said >>>> Bandit was drinking more water which was the goal. How about the [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > > CatNipped There's a good idea! Less costly than filtering, too :) Jill <---still broke |
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