Thread: Suggestion on how to deal with water...

Hi there, I had a cat once who did this. He would not drink until he had moved the dish across the floor, spilling water. Someone told me this was because he can't see the surface of the water and wants it to move about in order to gauge where it is. Another theory is that such cats have a bit of a throwback to living wild and like to think they're drinking from a large expanse of water, complete with waves.

Either way, there's not much you can do! What I did was to get a great big ceramic dog water dish, which says 'DOG' on it, and he couldn't move it as far, but he had a go, every time! Good luck!

Find Dexter a new home.......
No,didn't think you would go for that.
I am sure there is not an answer other than have a water bowl with a lid on it & small hole to put a straw in & then teach our brainy cats to suck but knowing them they would blow even if they were that clever.I am the same as everyone else,I have them paddle in it,lay with front paws in while they drink,one who lays with front legs wrapped round the dome of the water fountain & walks away with all his front dripping wet as well,I have tried litttle bowls,big bowls,deep bowls & shallow bowls,heavy bowls to stop them being pushed around the floor & guess what,I am still in the army of "moppers" & very clean floors,but come on what better way to wake up than paddle in great big puddles with bare feet.......or even better still, you have guests round & a cat comes flying through & jumps on their laps & wraps very wet legs & feet around their neck & ask for a big kiss !
Lets see if anyone out there has cracked it yet..

Oh I am feeling so smug But then again I have to mop around the food bowls a couple of times a day! Hector does like to take a great mouthful of food from the bowl and drop it not on the mat under the bowls but on the floor then eat it in delicate little mouthfuls

Wellynton Boots is packing his bag to come & show Hector & Roxy the proper way to drink from a water fountain......

Originally Posted by jckkerrison

Wellynton Boots is packing his bag to come & show Hector & Roxy the proper way to drink from a water fountain......

I will put an extra food bowl down...........and buy a new mop!!

Ours go through periods of a couple of days when they will each like to splash water or move a bowl, but nothing permanent. Perhaps if you got him one of the fountains he would enjoy seeing the water move and not do so much splashing. Three of our four love the fountains and do most of their drinking from them. Zephyr often sleeps right next to one:

We have ceramic water dishes which Louie or the dogs cant move but have to have another dish underneath to catch the overflow when Louie is in a stir the water round mode at least he cant sit in the big one now

anna put dish in her cage she just paws the water out.... got small litter tray for dish ....no water left in dish but its in the tray .....
do not use dish... just put litter tray half full of water she stands in it plays then drinks it
the carpet and her quilt are wet

Hiya, they paddle around to clear 'leaves' from the water, one of ours paddles, the other stands on the edge of the bowl untill it tips a bit and that seems to satisfy his urge to clear the water. Ours very rarely manage to splash outside the bowl because our trick is.... A piece of large clear perspex on the floor (means you don't notice it) this prevents any splashes making it to the wooden flooring (just incase), and as for the bowls we have a large straight sided ceramic dog bowl inside a large metal sloped sided bowl, the water only makes it as far as the second bowl, hey presto!!! Although this means there is a lot of water to be drank we do obviously still change it through out the day. Hope this helps.