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Cat Forum / General Topics / July 2005Cats won't use Drinkwell?
I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the splash water games, etc., but they don't buy it. I'm very disappointed; I thought they would like it. But they don't seem too. Perhaps it's just a matter of time? BTW, I am so scared that they're not getting enough to drink I have reinstalled their icky bowl of stagnant water, which does get changed every day. Indicators of level mean they *may* be drinking out of the dog's (also stagnant) water bowl. But his gets changed daily, too. Feh. Pets. > I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it > with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Feh. Pets. yeah... Live mice brought into house by airhead cat in the past week: 4 Mice returned to nature by yours truly: -1 Mice eventually eaten by other cats: -2 ---------------------------------------------- = Mice left in house: 1 You might wash the fountain out with a little vinegar and water... I recently got a water-cooler, the first 9-10 cups tasted horrible. pat : > I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it : > with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] : : pat Just fill the fountain with water to get them used to it first and place it well. Once they drink from it, turn it on and move it gradually to where you want to have it eventually. Live mice brought into the house last week: 5 Dead mice removed: 5 Birds brought in: 2 Removed: 1 Where's the remaining one ??? Carola Thanks, pat. I will try this. I did notice that even though I rinsed the filter (as instructed) before installing, there was some carbon in the water the following morning. Maybe that's a feline turn-off? >> I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it >> with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > >pat > Thanks, pat. I will try this. I did notice that even though I rinsed > the filter (as instructed) before installing, there was some carbon in > the water the following morning. Maybe that's a feline turn-off? The turnoff is probably that they're not used to it, but tasting funny won't help. Didn't know they were filtered (makes sense though); I like the idea of leaving it by their food for a couple days turned off. <shrug> my cats don't care as long as their servant is providing for them. pat >>>I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it >>>with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] >> >>pat >I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it >with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the >splash water games, etc., but they don't buy it. Disconnect it and let them become used to it without the noise. BarB >>I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it >>with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >BarB Thanks, BarB. I have unplugged the thing and am watching for developments.... > I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it > with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Feh. Pets. I have three, and at first my cats were afraid of it, wouldn't go near it. so I emptied it, and set it in a central area of the house, empty and unplugged. Every day I would scoot it (with my foot) a couple of feet closer to thier regular water dish. Once they were used to it's presence there, I added water to it, but still left it unplugged. After about a week, I stopped refilling their old water dish, and just let them drink out of the fountain. Then another week went by, I cleaned the fountain, added fresh water & plugged it in. They loved it! So I bought 2 more (one was for a d*g, but he's such a sloppy drinker, I had to wash it every day, so we confiscated it from him and gave it to the cats). I have 1 cat that hasn't known any other water source, and when we had to isolate him for a day after his big snip, he wouldn't drink from the water dish I gave him, he wanted the fountain - made a beeline for it the first chance he got, and drank for about 5 minutes. I'm very impressed that your cats will drink from bowls/fountains. None of my babies have drunk from their clean, fresh, regularly changed water bowls with any regularity. My last boy liked licking water off the shower walls/floor and mud puddles and Angus (current owner!) drinks almost exclusively from the water that leaks from my toilet cistern with the occasional lick off the shower or basin! None have ever had health problems, I just make sure they always have access to fresh water and trust that they get what they need, whatever the source. Kate and Angus > > I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it > > with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > water dish I gave him, he wanted the fountain - made a beeline for it the > first chance he got, and drank for about 5 minutes. Per Magic Mood Jeep?: > I am so scared that they're not getting enough to drink I have >> reinstalled their icky bowl of stagnant water, which does get changed >> every day. We have a birdbath outside the kitchen. The neighbor's cats seem to prefer it to other sources. My theory is that the bird poop adds a little flavor. Our own cat would drink from a bowl only grudgingly. What she *really* liked was hopping up on a table when nobody was looking and drinking from somebody's glass. So now we just put her water in a tall drinking glass next to the food bowl on the floor and everybody's happy.  SignaturePeteCresswell : Our own cat would drink from a bowl only grudgingly. What she *really* liked : was hopping up on a table when nobody was looking and drinking from somebody's : glass. : : So now we just put her water in a tall drinking glass next to the food bowl on : the floor and everybody's happy. Oh ... Miss must be of aristocrat background ... is it cut glass you give her? :-) Carola >: Our own cat would drink from a bowl only grudgingly. What she *really* >liked [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > >Carola My girl kit does the "sneak a drink out of the Upright Servant's glass" thing, too, but I'm betting that Pete serves her from Waterford.... Thanks to all of you for your suggestions. Hoping to see some improvement, Allison <--waiting patiently >I ordered a Drinkwell a few days ago and installed it. The cats eye it >with suspicion. How can I get them to use it? I've tried playing the [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > >Feh. Pets. |
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