Don't know if it works for cats too: Dog gets the vegetable water when I've
cooked vegs, and she loves it! (Vet said she has to drink more.)
Over here in Europe we eat Mozzarella cheese. This comes in a bag and floats
in cheesy water. Instead of throwing it out I pour it into a bowl, and cats
are very eager to drink that!

Carola

Like previous posts, my Rexie likes his fountain, my sink (while I'm
getting ready in the a.m. I let the faucet drip), my tub (he thinks he
can turn the faucet handle - ignores the fact that I'm doing it for
him!).

But his favorite is hubby's beer mug, which normally holds water, but
sometimes tea or coke.  He HATES carbonation.

This URL should take you to a pic of him and the mug.

http://albums.photo.epson.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=3009731&a=30428038&p=67388826

He'll stick his paw into it and his if it's not full enough!

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~>What is your trick(s) for making yours drink water?
~>
~
~I feed them both dry and wet food.  The wet food has water in it (its
why they
~call it wet) and they hardly ever drink water from their bowl.  I've
never
~tried to look at the color of their pee.  How do you do that?

2 of mine eat mostly canned food, one of them exclusively canned food with
a few crunches of dry every few days. The one eating almost all canned
(Shamrock) pees like a race horse, no kidding. I've heard him in the litter
box and it seems it'll never stop.

Giving my cats their own glass was the *only* way that I could get my girls
to drink water.  Now they have two glasses.  They need to feel important
too.
kili

I just had to change my cat's diet due to too much dry food.  If they
don't get enough water, they can have digestion problems like my cat
did.  He was throwing up his food hours after eating it and my vet
suggested that this was due to not enough liquid for his food to pass
through.  I was totally unaware of this being the cause, since he's
not only got access to the toilet inside, but a water bowl outside
which he constantly drinks from while he's watching the apartment
complex. (we're on the 2nd floor, and he never strays from the
balcony).  If a cat is a big eater, consuming a lot of dry food, then
drinking water can cause the food to expand in the stomach.  We had a
dog die from this when I was a kid.
My cat eats all canned food now and is doing well.  I'm gradually
adding a little dry now because I still think he needs it.  I like the
suggestion of mixing dry food with water, but wonder about the clean
up.  Since cats don't always consume the food all at once, doesn't the
food get kind of soggy?  When I was mixing canned with dry (before the
all canned diet), the gravy from the canned food made the dry get
pasty and sticky.  My cat rarely ate it all and cleaning his bowl
became a daily chore.
pepsi

My trick is to put an ice cube in their water. That seems to draw their
attention. After they hit it a few times they usually take a couple of laps
of water.