I'd check with your vet first.   You may need to water down the
concentration for a cat.   Remember your cat weighs a lot less than
a human, the saline is made for a human.  

I'd question whether it is safe to drink.  Check with your vet.
In the interim i'd treat it as poison until your vet says otherwise.

Some cats are just curious about water.  My youngest comes running
whenever water flows in any form.

On Apr 12, 12:03 pm, "AKA gray asphalt"
<goodidea1...@hotmail.spam.com> wrote:

I'm afraid it's not a good idea.  Cats who crave salt may suffer from
some salt-depleting disorder, if there is any doubt it's worth
checking the electrolyes in the blood....but salt water would NOT be a
good thing to give as the main source of water for otherwise healthy
cats or any other mammal......we require much more water than salt on
a daily basis since we (all mammals) pee out water which is relatively
salt-free and nowhere near the concentration of saline.  Giving salt
water might ive the right about of water required, but the
concommitant salt load that came with it would require almost an equal
amount of water to enable the kidneys to pee out the unnecessary
salt....the balance of the two are inextricably intertwined and it
would be seriously rocking the boat to give saline.

In hospital when children and babies (comparable size reduction for
comparison to cats) are put on IV drips, they almost never use pure
saline unless the patient has lost a huge amount of saline or blood
from their body first.  Most often, we use an IV solution that has one-
quarter the concentraton of salt in saline, along with some dextrose
and other components.

But do observe that behaviour....if it's just contact solution, it may
be nothing more than a minor pecadillo...but if it's a reliable
behaviour like going for salty treats, pretzels, chips etc...you may
want to have kitty checked over for evidence of any issues, especially
renal.

This is all assuming you are giving a regular "approved" cat food.  If
you are making up the diet at home yourself, check very carefully to
see that you are giving the daily required salt intake, since true
salt deficiency can occur in a diet made from scratch, though it isn't
easy to manage that unless you are really making everything yourself.

--tension