Why Is My Cat

[pastafreak]

...drinking water from a bowl I just watered a plant in?
I just caught Toby doing this...immediately after he'd been eating and there's fresh water next to his food dish. He's done this before. Weird cat

[Tilly2]

Dylan does that. He'll drink out of the bird bath.
Weird dog.

[ladybirder]

Not weird at all pasta. Par for the course with cats;-)

[Tilly2]

...and dogs. :-)

[ladybirder]

True Tilly except for my current dog who will not drink out of any other dish than his own.

[wolf63]

I was told that a drinking bowl shouldn't be near the food. Something bout their kill contaminating nearby water. I bought them a water fountain.

[pastafreak]

Sammi...the greyhound I had for a short time...drank from the toilet. I read that it was something about the water being fresher.
I suspect Toby would be afraid of a water fountain...he's very wary of anything new.
I guess I'll try a different location for his water...or I'll just leave bowls in random places.

[ladybirder]

Don't trip over them pasta. I'd be bound to.

[pastafreak]

Now you've gone and put the idea in my head...

[Ken4155]

My dog is so weird he will only eat his food if i am in the house with him. I can put his breakfast down and if he's not ready for it, he won't eat it. I leave the house for a few hours, his breakfast is still untouched, but as soon as he has finished greeting me as if i've been gone for days, he scoffs the lot.
Love to know what goes on in their minds:-)

[calmck]

Cats like fresh water. Mine rarely drink the water near their food but do from other bowls round the house and from the glasses near the beds

[Hazlinny]

Late cat Mitzi (21) always drank out of the bird bath - perhaps she liked the "bird-flavoured" water!

[pastafreak]

I'm now wondering if the material the bowl is made from makes a difference. His water dish is metal, whereas the bowl he drank from is plastic/melamine. Food bowls are ceramic.

[ladybirder]

Don't you just love the birds in a bird bath. Wash, poo, drink, in that order!!

[smurfchops]

I always have fresh water in a ceramic bowl out next to the cat food, but my cat likes to drink water out of my glass when I am watching tellie. I have to make sure I don’t take a swig afterwards ..l. Also we have crows in the garden, that put stale bread in the bird bath before they eat it.

[tiggerblue10]

My 2 only drank water from the bathroom. The water came from the tank rather than the mains which I think contains less chlorine.

[emmie]

my brothers cat drinks from the tap in the kitchen, even if water is put down for him.

[netherfield]

My dog will drink from a puddle in the garden before her bowl, I've often wondered if it's because of the chlorine or other additives in tap water. Dogs certainly can pick up smells better than humans, don't know about cars.

[netherfield]

Cats not cars.

[Gill1941]

All my dogs and now my two cats only drink from the fish pond or random water bowls I have round the garden for passing hedgehogs etc. The water bowl in the kitchen is virtually untouched.
The fish pond is now very dirty with fish poo etc and, as my husband has been dead for 5 years, it hasn't been cleaned in that time.
Cats are strange creatures.

[Redhelen72]

because cats like to be difficult and awkward!
I have a water bowl in the utility room for the cats but they prefer to drink from the dog bowls that are inside and out!