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

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

Chester likes to dip his paws in the water. He can't move his bowl without a struggle as it has a rubber rim at the base of it, so it sticks in the spot where it's placed. This seems to work.

I have a water fountain outside they can splash around in surrounded with pebbles and I also have a big rubber based bowl in the ensuite bathroom.

Sarah plays less in the water now but Zack puts his foot in it when he drinks and splashes it around the bathroom the rest of the time - at least it is on the tiles and there is a drain!!

Thank you all for the fantastic suggestion, I will buy a water fountain this weekend. He loves getting his paws wet then use his litter tray. We end up with hundreds of little grey paw prints on the dark wood floor. He just chirp at us when he sees the mop

Ours is a Hagen Cat it one, there is a mat you can also buy which holds it in place. The fountain sort of clips into it.

I like that it holds a couple of litres so you know they will not run out of water when you are out.

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.