A new way for cats to drink?
While developing our new EZ Miser 2 gallon
chicken watering bucket I
got into a habit of leaving a full bucket handy to make it easier to
test each variation.
Turns out it's just the right
height for Huckleberry to drink from, and he seems to
drink more water because of it so we've decided to leave it in place to
further spoil him.
Maybe drinking in this
fashion is easier on a cat's back?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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I did the same thing with Leo, and Michi has a kitten-sized pail. Works well; don't have to change the water all the time as it doesn't get dirty or mixed with food; they drink a lot like cats are supposed to; and if you go off for a week, the cat can and will reach down to the water level.
I think that tiny little cat water dishes are only sold in stores because they trick you into paying twice what you pay for a matching food dish.
We have 2 cats. One old , almost 17 and one young. They both drink from a large fishbowl, there are no fish in there. When the old cat was a kitten she used to step in the little water dish bowling it over. As soon as she discoverd the large fishbowl, how tiny she was, she wanted to drink from it. And the same with our yong cat. She came with us when she was only a 2,5 weeks old orphan. As little as she was she saw the "big cat" drinking from the fishbowl and that is wat she wanted too. So we don't even have little water dishes simply because they won't drink from it.
I do apologise for my english. It is not my native langauge so grammar mistakes or wrong words might very well be possible.
Thara
We have 2 cats Cat 1 Bonnie is persnickety and likes to drink water every monring out of a drinking cup that is on the lavatory just for her . . . but only after you fill it with her watching to make sure She also likes to drink out of the watering can that I leave filled around the garden area and out of our little pond. Cat 2 Otha is happy to drink out of her bowl, the dog's bowl, and occasionally wants to copy off of Bonnie and jump up on the lavatory for a drink