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Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water? Feed the cat canned food (higher water content) and provide several bowls of fresh water around your house or apartment. Gail > Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water? > Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water? Treats of tuna juice whenever you eat tuna canned in water is a good way. Feeding canned food makes your cat take in more water. My cats drink more if I have several bowls around near the places they hang out.  SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water? Just leave a dirty dish soaking in the kitchen sink- mine prefer that over any other source including the two kitty fountains I have around the house to stimulate them. Just kidding- kinda sorta. The fountains do work- cats love to lap from a running stream. SignatureToni http://www.cearbhaill.com/kitties.htm Suddenly, without warning, ermiegal@webtv.net exclaimed (27-Aug-06 10:50 AM): > Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water? All of the above. Multiple water sources, fountains (like Drinkwell), tuna water, canned food... I do all of them to get Meep to drink enough. If you live in a hard water area, you might also try using bottled or filtered water, especially if you're trying to get kitty to drink more because of cystitis (which is what I'm doing). If she doesn't like the taste, all your efforts will be in vain. Meep doesn't get straight tap water here for that very reason. I have a 5 litre/liter Britta to supply her water needs (it also keeps the drinkwell from seizing up from mineral deposits). In other places, I've been forced to buy her bottled water, as she's completely refused to touch anything out of the tap. Silly kitty... Good Luck! jmc I very rarely see Amber and Tiger drink water. They eat canned food so they get lots of water there. I have 5 water bowls around the house and when I had a Drinkwell, they never used it (I gave it to a friend who says her cats love it). ---MIKE--- >>In the White Mountains of New Hampshire >> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') Suddenly, without warning, ---MIKE--- exclaimed (27-Aug-06 9:37 PM): > I very rarely see Amber and Tiger drink water. They eat canned food so > they get lots of water there. I have 5 water bowls around the house and [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>> In the White Mountains of New Hampshire > >> (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') I've never seen Meep drink out of her Drinkwell either - but the water level does go down. Depends on her mood, I think, and where she happens to be, when she gets thirsty. I'm not sure why cats are furtive about drinking out of a Drinkwell, but I've seen other posters here who's cats only drink out of it when noone's looking. Guilty pleasure or something? jmc > Suddenly, without warning, ---MIKE--- exclaimed (27-Aug-06 9:37 PM): > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I've seen other posters here who's cats only drink out of it when > noone's looking. Guilty pleasure or something? I think it's instinct. They don;t want to leave themselves unguarded. > jmc >I think it's instinct. They don;t want to leave themselves unguarded. > >> jmc Or they just like getting away with stuff ;). Seriouly though, my cat likes to sneak drinks if I leave a water glass on the nightstand. If you heard how loud she slurps it not a big secret to us. I doesn't bother my wife and I we just have to remember who drank out of the glass last! I also leave a glass on the kitchen table and she sits in a chair and takes a drink. I think maybe cats maybe wired to look for new water sources every so often. I would suggests having a bowl or two you can move around every so often in places were she will stumble across it pretty easily, in addition to the one in the regular spot. We have a fountain for her, but she stops using every so often and we put it away for a weeks and suddenly she loves it again. ??? As I am finding out, if you feed your cat wet food, it doen't need to drink nearly as much. good luck You already got the same advice I figured out, wet food. Dino wouldn't drink a sip and vet (btw why are they called teds?) said he was dehydrated. So I went with wet fod (Special Kitty). The reason i'm posting isn't to say what has already been said. After his 2nd physical, the vet said his gums were a bit weak, so I thought I'd try and mix in some dry food. I couldn't believe it when I saw him drinking water one day because he needed it . Anyways my point is try going back to the dry food from time to time, see if kitty has outgrown the problem. > Any helpful hints on how to ger kitty to drink more water?
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