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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / March 2005Cat drinking behaviour
One of my cats, Destiny has just started (or I just noticed) doing the strangest, cutest thing. He often drinks from the toilet as is (or tries to) despite having clean fresh water at all times, but now, he has gotten into sitting on the bathroom counter and licking up the water near the drain in the sink. When I saw him do this, I ran the water very lightly, just a stream, so only a little piled up before going down, so her wouldn't get his toes wet, and he kept doing it, and ow licks at it in mid stream, in the air, which really seems to excite him. Sometimes he puts his paw in mid stream instead then licks it off. Weird! > One of my cats, Destiny has just started (or I just noticed) doing the > strangest, cutest thing. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > licks it off. > Weird! That is cute. When I hear about things like this I wonder if the behavior does not harken back to when the species was wild-- drinking from streams and so forth. If you go to the site below and view the photos you will see other cats that do this. My favorite is a tabby who is draped over a shower rod trying to drink the water from the showerhead!! http://kittenbreak.com/ I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. Toilets are cleaned with bleach and all manner of chemicals, the residue of which, may be left behind despite numerous flushes. Apart from that - it IS a toilet and the any residue of human waste may also taint the water. sarah > I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > sarah Well, it may not be the best thing, but if it killed dogs there would be a lot more dead dogs. I would also like to remind you of how cats wash their nether regions. >>I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. >> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > a lot more dead dogs. I would also like to remind you of how > cats wash their nether regions. Toilets are full of bacteria and residual cleaning agents. Lets keep the eau de toilette for its intended purpose... keep the sewer pipe stink out of the house and aid in the flushing of solid waste materials. > >>I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. > >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > pipe stink out of the house and aid in the flushing of solid waste > materials. Hey, man, nobody around here drinks out of the toilet, but I know many, many dogs that do in other households. Most cats probably wouldn't dream of it. >> Toilets are full of bacteria and residual cleaning agents. >> [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Hey, man, nobody around here drinks out of the toilet, but I know many, many > dogs that do in other households. Most cats probably wouldn't dream of it. True, but it's not necessarily harmless. When I was a teenager, mom switched to using a blue-tinted toilet bowl additive thingie. 2000 Flushes or whatever. I guess no one put two and two together, so Puma (dog, RB) drank up a bunch of blue water, then barfed it all over the place. Poor guy had a horribly upset tummy. He had to eat thrice-drained ground beef with rice for a week. He'd never been a hearty eater of dog food, and he got even worse about it after that little episode! I guess he thought he deserved ground beef every day. And of course our carpets never fully recovered. After all of that, we kept the seats down and the doors closed.  Signaturemonique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca >>>>I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. >>>> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > but I know many, many dogs that do in other households. > Most cats probably wouldn't dream of it. My cat is a snob and *very* possessive of her drinking fountain. ;) > >>>>I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. > >>>> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > My cat is a snob and *very* possessive of her drinking fountain. ;) Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when it is in MY glass! >>>>>>I would never let any cat drink from the toilet. >>>>>> [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when > it is in MY glass! Mine wants me to fill the fountain with beer, but she has to settle for the occassional bottle cap with a wee bit inside... she goes nuts everytime I open a beer bottle. No, it isn't the "oh here we go again... he's going to get hammered again!" but rather more the "I want some... can I have some... can I? can I? pluezzze?" ;) > Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when > it is in MY glass! Luna has always liked to drink water from my glass on the nightstand. I would wake up sometimes to hear her "thp-thp-thp-thp-thp" and I would shoo her away. This ias ALWAYS cracked me up. I even knew that lots of cats do this. But, nothing could have been funnier than waking up to find JASPER doing it, too. HE'S FRIGGEN BLIND!!! How the HELL does he know there is a glass of water next to me at night?!?!!??!! "thp thp thp thp thp" Pam > Luna has always liked to drink water from my glass on the nightstand. I > would wake up sometimes to hear her "thp-thp-thp-thp-thp" and I would [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > "thp thp thp thp thp" ;-) Has he heard Luna doing it, maybe? One of my cats - my second cat, Debbie - used to wake me up by licking my face - always from the left side of the bed. One morning I felt a cat licking my face from my *right* side, which had never, ever happened before. I took a peek - it was my first cat, Sabina, who was by then in her mid-teens & had never done it before. She must've noticed Debbie doing it & decided to give it a try. ;-) Cathy >>Luna has always liked to drink water from my glass on the nightstand. I >>would wake up sometimes to hear her "thp-thp-thp-thp-thp" and I would [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > ;-) Has he heard Luna doing it, maybe? Well, unfortunately he has that whole DEAF thing going for him, too. So, uh...hmmm...nope...don't think he heard Luna do it!!!! LOL! :) > > Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when > > it is in MY glass! > > Luna has always liked to drink water from my glass on the nightstand. I > would wake up sometimes to hear her "thp-thp-thp-thp-thp" and I would > shoo her away. Your post brought back great memories. My old cat Gnarly (who looked a lot like Monique's Oscar if Oscar had lilac-cream dilute tortie colors--e.g. bits of blonde with her gray including a wedge across her eyes that looked like the sun coming through blinds) did this. (What a sentence!) For the first ten years I had her I was so busy--school and work then 60-hour work weeks. So when I lay down to sleep I was tired beyond tired. I always have a glass of water on the nightstand at night. I would wake up to that "thp thp thp" sound 1 out of three mornings, maybe two hours before I had to get up. It is weird the stages your brain goes through when you hear things before you are totally awake, lol!! Anyway, I yelled at her and it became a game. It was clear that she thought it was funny as hell to wait until I was asleep and get my water, and see how long it tool the "thp thp" to wake me up. I miss her so much. She had the softest fur on any cat I have ever felt. She was mean as a snake, not very bright, terribly beautiful and buckets of fun. She was all mine, and I was all hers. (She had a flat, wedge-shaped head like your Jasper but it only showed well when she was wet from the bath. ET phone home. :) This ias ALWAYS cracked me up. I even knew that lots of > cats do this. But, nothing could have been funnier than waking up to > find JASPER doing it, too. HE'S FRIGGEN BLIND!!! How the HELL does he [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Pam > But, nothing could have been funnier than waking up to > find JASPER doing it, too. HE'S FRIGGEN BLIND!!! How the HELL does he > know there is a glass of water next to me at night?!?!!??!! Smell. Signaturehttp://www.slywy.com/ >>But, nothing could have been funnier than waking up to >>find JASPER doing it, too. HE'S FRIGGEN BLIND!!! How the HELL does he >>know there is a glass of water next to me at night?!?!!??!! > > Smell. Water has smell? I mean, trust me, I know that cat has an AWESOME sense of smell, since he depends on it...but still! :) Pam > >>But, nothing could have been funnier than waking up to > >>find JASPER doing it, too. HE'S FRIGGEN BLIND!!! How the HELL does he [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I mean, trust me, I know that cat has an AWESOME sense of smell, since > he depends on it...but still! :) It does to a cat. > Water has smell? It does if it isn't completely and utterly processed to death. And even then it smells like plastic. Even *I* can smell water. Sometimes it's a very faint metallic smell from the minerals. Sometimes it's that processed smell with a hint of chlorine. Sometimes it smells like the container it came in, if it's purchased water. Fresh water from a stream smells different from ocean water, lake water, bottled water, tap water, or well water. Rain also has a scent. It's not the water itself (H20) that has a smell. It's the minerals and stuff IN the water. Many cats have a problem with tap water due to chlorine used in cleansing systems in cities. Signature-- ~kaeli~ Punctuation, capitalization, and grammar are your friends, and will help people think that you aren't such an ignorant moron, after all. http://www.ipwebdesign.net/wildAtHeart http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace > Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when > it is in MY glass! Sarrasine has been known to drink from my water glass but far more annoyingly if I am asleep and she wants attention she has been known to flick water at me! For some reason she also likes to stick her tail in her water dish! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs > > Mine loves her chilled filtered water, but never more than when > > it is in MY glass! > > Sarrasine has been known to drink from my water glass but far more > annoyingly if I am asleep and she wants attention she has been known > to flick water at me! Now THIS is a cat with moxy! What I found so hilarious about my Gnarly when she drank from my glass is that the glass was usually half full and it was a tall glass so she had to stuff her little wedge-shaped head doen INTO the glass and then "thp thp thp." It was very funny. Then of course when I yelled her name she quickly extracted it and zipped away. I know she thought it was funny. She was right, too. :) > For some reason she also likes to stick her tail in her water dish! > > Lesley > > Slave of the Fabulous Furballs Thank you! It may seem "cute", but the amount of toxins from toilet cleaning stuff, and other toxic chemicals used to keep our human environment sanitized could be extremely dangerous to our pets..dogs or cats. And that includes the drifting mist from a person using Raid to kill bugs, but the vapor trail from that spraying could land and be very toxic on the dog or cat food and water dishes. ~Diana~ > That is cute. When I hear about things like this I wonder if the > behavior does not harken back to when the species was wild-- [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://kittenbreak.com/ Our office is now full of cries of "ahhhhhh" after this URL was passed round. Thank you for brigthening the daily grind for 30 workers Lesley Slave to the Fabulous Furballs > > That is cute. When I hear about things like this I wonder if the > > behavior does not harken back to when the species was wild-- [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Lesley You're welcome, Lesley! I'm glad you and your colleagues enjoyed it. I go to that site every day, sometimes several times a day! > One of my cats, Destiny has just started (or I just noticed) doing the > strangest, cutest thing. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > licks it off. > Weird! Not to burst your (wonderment) bubble, but... this is fairly common behavior - for a cat. ;-) Cathy > One of my cats, Destiny has just started (or I just noticed) doing the > strangest, cutest thing. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > licks it off. > Weird! Nothing weird about it. Mine laps up water mid-stream from her Drinkwell fountain and does a little dance with her front paws before doing that. I call it the water ritual. |
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