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jamina1@gmail.com - 13 Dec 2006 15:23 GMT
Hi everyone.
I've read alot of posts about cats who splash water out of their bowls.
I've been using a 4 inch deep casserole dish (about 9 inches across)
for her water dish since the small plastic bowl she used to have was
scooted and sloshed across the floor. Its heavy enough that she can't
scoot it around, but she still scoops and splashes water out of the
dish (somehow, even though there's only an inch or so of water in it) I
tried towels, but they were just saturated and continued leaking water
on the floor. Angered, I stopped filling her water dish at all and she
started drinking from the toilets.
Finally I just put a cooking pan underneath her bowl. It helps, but
there's still water on the floor. I was contemplating getting a kitty
drinking fountain, but I'm afraid the falling water would just give her
more opportunity to bat the water around onto the floor.
Have you all with similar cat behaviour had success with the kitty
fountains? What other techniques would you suggest?
Darth Breather - 13 Dec 2006 16:43 GMT
> Have you all with similar cat behaviour had success with the kitty
> fountains? What other techniques would you suggest?

We usde a bathroom flormat (the kind with rubber underneath and carpet
on top) under a big plastic lid from a storage box. It w3as like a
rectanglar plastic tray. The water bowl went on top of that. So if the
cat splahed water the tray caught it and if any spalshed out from that
it was absorbed by the bathmat. also we only half filled the bowl if
she needed more water like if we were going out we put two bowls.

There was another tray for the food bowl becoz once the cat spalshed
lots of water from her bowl into her food and couldnt eat it. The trays
could be washed frm tiome to time.
Roberta Bagshaw - 14 Dec 2006 01:46 GMT
If you have a bath in your bathroom, you could put her water dish into the
bath.........

Alternatively, if you have a shower, just keep her water dish in the shower
recess.  Either way, it won't really matter if she splashes water in there.

Just make sure you leave a washable bathmat alongside the bath or shower
recess, so she can dry her feet on the way out!

Cheers
~Roberta~

> Hi everyone.
> I've read alot of posts about cats who splash water out of their bowls.
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> Have you all with similar cat behaviour had success with the kitty
> fountains? What other techniques would you suggest?
tension_on_the_wire - 15 Dec 2006 05:11 GMT
> If you have a bath in your bathroom, you could put her water dish into the
> bath.........
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> Just make sure you leave a washable bathmat alongside the bath or shower
> recess, so she can dry her feet on the way out!

Good idea.  You can also put some water directly in your bathroom
sink with a plug.  The steepness of the sink makes it difficult to
splash
out of it, although a determined feline might still find a way.

--tension
 
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