3 Ways I'm Getting My Cats to Drink More Water
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2021
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My cat has trained me to turn the water faucet on for her whenever I’m at the kitchen or bathroom sink. I’m a good little human pet.
Same!!! Mine cries and cries and also loves to drink wherever water I’m drinking even though they have multiple bowls clean and shallow upstairs and down away from food sources. I tell him “your servant is coming don’t worry!!”
You too? I thought I was the only cat mom who turns on the faucet at my Maggies beckon call.
We added a motion sensor faucet to ours so that the cat could turn it on and off himself lol
I like that so many of us can relate.
@@kimberlyann8512 not being a perfectionist but it is.... Beck and Call!! 😁🌹
I'm dirt broke but I do the adding water to wet food thing. There's always something that you can do.
I'm broke, too; I just wound up leaving water in Solo cups around the kitchen, lol
I do this too and they have perfected hydrated poops so I know it's working haha
My cats sleep on my piano so I have like four other dishes there cause he refused to share
Waterfountains don’t have to cost a fortune; I have one without a filter system so I just clean it a lot more. It has made a big difference for my cat and i can very easily see how much water he has been drinking
Turning on a faucet and having them drink from that is a good alternative to a fountain
I got my cat a water fountain and she loves it and drinks out of it all the time. She likes to stick her face over the bubble where the water comes out and just soaks her face. It's so funny. 😻
Baaaattthhhh time!!! Very cute🤗
My dog loves it too!
Ow that cute i’m gonna bought it 😭
Waah! Just got one but my cat is terrified! Hopefully she’ll learn to like it?
@@kcook4243 Mine is new and has a chemical odor. It's strong at the suction cups. This is likely PVC like in some shower curtains and makes the odor. A doctor told me to avoid PVC. It is known to cause thyroid cancer, I have nodules. You do not want to breathe it in. I set mine up and the water also tasted like it. The smell will lessen but I am sending it back.
omg i can’t believe they are seniors!!!! they still act like kittens!!!! 💕
Yes especially haroun
Please for those of us hearing impaired, use captions. Your viewership could grow by around 17%
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Many cats also don't like to drink where they eat, as in the wild their food may contaminate the water! Hence why those double-bowls don't make sense for many cats at all.
(Contamination is also the reason why cats prefer moving water sources, rivers are bound to be more clean than any standing body of water)
this is why i'm so surprised my cat drinks out of her water bowl...still water that's right by her food bowl lol
Oo interesting
I can't remember if she said this but also keep water away from litter box, for the same reasons.
@@shroomyk I believe she mentioned it, but an extra mention never hurts :D
The double bowl I use to out wet and dry food in each side!! 😁
my cat was 18 when he passed. i always love your advice i learn something new everyday. thank you.
after my cat had a urethra blockage a few years ago, we’ve been adding water to their wet food ever since! they end up drinking less because they’re eating most of their water. (: works like a charm
I’m sorry for your cat, hope you, your family and cat are doing well 💕
One day when I’m a vet I hope to meet you and volunteer. Fostering and adopting are so important to reduce the amount of fur babies euthanized each year. Thanks for all your hard work!
🙏🏻💞
If a cat is 100 in human years, seriously ill and vomiting with pain and suffering
Euthanasia is a more than sensible option in fact I would say it is the unselfish option.
Keeping a sick seriously I'll cat alive and suffering is shameful if you can ensure they die with dignity then most owners would choose that if they are putting the cats needs first.
The fountain never worked for us and I'm so thankful my cat doesn't drink toilet water!! What worked for us was adding water to her wet food each feeding. We still have a water bowl for her but we think it just sits there lol.
These are some very happy kitty, good thing that they have the best Cat momma ever
This is exactly what I needed! My cat is 7 years old and recently had to have a couple enemas because of bad constipation. He never had any problems before this but he had a loss of appetite and quit drinking his water. His appetite is back and he eats wet food now but he still won’t drink his water. I’ve been mixing water into his food and hope to get him a water fountain soon.
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I used to take a pint glass filled with water to bed, & woke up to find my cat was drinking out of it in the night, sharing with me!
Hahaha same! My cat loves dipping their paw and then liking it. He also loves shaking it dry afterwards, I once woke up very confused as to why it was raining inside!
@@julianarojas4054 They're so funny aren’t they. We had a cottage in a rural area of France. When Misty caught small snakes she used to put them(still alive) in my handbag, whilst shrews went in my husband’s slippers.
@@MayfairMagic HA! 😹 Silly kitties! 😻
@@realcanadiangirl64 👍👍👍
Reminds me, yes, they were both interested in my big 24 ounce drinking cup with different but mostly peppermint tea. And I needed to watch out for the teabags to not get stolen and played with. In summers, their favourite were ice cubes in a shallow plate to kick around and play with. They were hydrated, but never from running water. One of them even liked dunking all her toys in the water. We jokingly called her racoon because of it. She would be sitting in front of her bowl and watch capillary forces drip out of the bowl, when she landed a stringed toy so an end of ribbon hung over just right.
Miss my little racoony scientist.
My 10 year old loves her water fountain! It's also important for seniors that the water source is at a height so they won't have to bend too far to get to the water :)
Yes :) I repurposed indoor orchid pots as watering bowls as they’re a nice height for arthritic shoulders.
This is also true for young cats (my boy will pick the higher dish over the lower every single time)
My Portuguese niece is training to be a vet, bless her loving heart, so proud of her!
Our cat Lola rarely ever drinks from the bowl of water we have for her next to her food, instead she prefers the plastic jug of water that my mother uses to fill up her steam iron. It was left out one day and Lola started drinking from it, and now it is part of her morning routine, she will go and visit my parents in the morning and sit on my mum's dressing table and meow until one of them goes to fill the jug up for her. She gets her face right in there as well its hilarious! at least we know she's getting plenty of water!
My cats wouldn't like drinking out of their bowls but loved to try drinking out of glasses when we sat them down, so I started getting a glass of water, pretend to drink some, then set it down on the floor and start doing something else. We'd then soon see one of the cats drinking from the glass.
A good tip is to not put the water next to the food, as odd as it sounds, a lot of cats don't like water that's next to their food bowls, especially as they can be messy eaters ending up plopping bits of food into the water introducing contamination...
@@twocvbloke I agree with that and from now on if I get another cat I will do that, but with Lola that's all she's ever known and it doesn't bother her. She still drinks from the bowl next to her food, just not as often as she does the jug. She's a fairly clean eater preferring dry food over wet food. She's quite bossy, a real diva 😂 if we change her routine now I'm sure she'd tell us off about it
Does your mother use distilled water for her iron? If so, Lola may prefer the taste
@@alexismontez4230 no just regular tap water and then she descales it when necessary (using a different jug) She is a real Diva I think she honestly probably just gets a kick out of the fact that she can boss my parents about to go and get her fresh water every morning 😂
Thank you soo much for highlighting the importance of cats and water AND giving tips! My babies are all seniors and starting to show some potential issues with kidney disease. My mom and I have been struggling to find ways to increase their water intake, so this video is soo helpful!
My cat steals the giant dog water dish and pulls it to middle path and spills which trips my husband
0:30 Perun is adorable 😍
Apple Pie, going on 15, has no teeth, so I routinely thin her canned food with water. This also makes it easier to mix in her l-lysine.
Does lysine work for you? I bought some because my cat started having symptoms of FIP, specifically thr black goop coming from the eyes. I bought some to put in his food then had a vet tell me it was basically a myth and it doesn't do anything for cats. What's your experience?
It does well for feline herpes symptoms. I don't know about any other ills.
i hope your cat lives a happy life no matter how long it is!
One of my cats actually prefers drinking out of a cup vs bowl even if everything else is the same. If you leave a water cup around in her reach there is a good chance she will drink from it.
My cat also used to do this. Even when we poured her a fresh bowl of water she would still try and drink from our cups 😂
My cats insist on drinking from mugs and I'm a good pet human so I oblige
That may be because she sees you drinking out of these containers, so she can assume it's a clean drinking source!
@@soulcatcher_pajome so we should pretend to drink from their bowls?
@@lisahenry20 I can't promise that it would work, but it would certainly be a super interesting experiment to see if cats actually trust us that much :D
I prepare food for cats according to the recommendation of Cat Nutrition Foundation and I cook it before serving. My cats drink only the 'soup' that comes from that. As soon as I started feeding it to them, they prefer the soup to water.
thank you for the tips, my cat's 12 too and he definitely doesn't drink enough water, ill try these out! love your videos ❤
Great tips! We use Catit flower fountains. I like them because they easily disassemble to put in the dishwasher (run them on a separate short cycle if cat germs make you queasy lol :) and because the pump is cheap, under $10, and easy to replace. We've been running two or three fountains for years and find that the pumps do occasionally fail, so I keep a replacement on hand.
They don’t like a day over one ! They have aged gracefully 😻
What I love from my cat is that as soon as he eats he dry food he drinks water right away. We keep it right next to his food bowl. I love him! Such an angel he is to our family 😻
Coco looks so so sweet at the end
Also love water fountains. He drinks it sometimes during summer or hot weather.
Yes I am going to hang out with my cats and give them water right now
My cat is a great drinker. Now. She got super constipated several years ago. After treatment, the vet said we needed to encourage her to drink more. So we got her a new bowl (wide and shallow) and she gets fresh filtered water twice a day with ice cubes. We can’t use the ice cube tray for ourselves without her demanding some for her bowl, too!!
We talked multiple times about getting her a fountain, but she likes to lick/est plastic so it has to be made of ceramic, ideally. I’m not even sure she’d use it at this point, either. She’s such a creature of habit that I wonder if she’d adapt to a fountain. She’s 16 now, so I’m always fearful of trying to change too much of her world.
You might be able to make something using a fish tank pump
useful info. all your senior kitties are lovely, I particularly like listening to the chatty one's voice!
I love the Haroun meows throughout the video.
Omg ur cats live like queens and kings😳🥺🥰
I have a cat who's obsessed with bottled water so I always have to share and every time I'm in the bathroom she taps the Dixie cups and there I am, filling a Dixie cup for her lol.....maybe I should try a fountain!
Good timing with this HEATWAVE
This is so handy. My cat was recently diagnosed with FIC, and coming home from vet visits for flare-ups have been such an intense experience for him that he'll barely drink anything for the next day or so. We've been giving him wet food and tuna juice to compensate during those times, but I love the idea of getting him a fountain, so I'll try that as well.
my kitty is a senior and recently started losing weight. this video has been my recent reality of squeeze packet treats and lots of water dishes, i'd love more tips for senior kitties!
I just ordered a Petlibro from Amazon I’m excited to start using from my 8-mo old kitten.
Thank you so much, my sweet boy is ten this year and has epilepsy stemming from dehydration so it's been difficult trying to get him to drink enough
One of my girlies has had bladder issues since she was like 2 years old, so she's been getting cat food soup (1 part food, 2 parts water). That seems to help.
@@zammmerjammer Ooh! I'll have to try that one out, thank you!
Your cats are all beautiful furbabies. I enjoy watching your videos.
My mug from the bathroom sink is the most preferred water dish for my babies 🥰🥰🥰
My cat only drinks from a human glass! He can be quite demanding if it isn't full. I sure love that little bossy-pants. Considering the size of puddles/chunks in litterbox, happily I'd say he drinks plenty.
My cat is 18 and loves to drink from a regular water glass because of the height from the floor. She has a few around her regular spots so she can always find water. I also have a jug that the tap water sits in overnight to let public water chemicals evaporate out before she gets it. Straight from the tap can be tricky.
I also mix water or cat-safe broth into her food constantly. It's made such a difference that dry food is now only a treat and not a regular meal. I'll have to try the baby food addition - Thank you!
My two street rescues were strange, not liking running water at all, I had fountains, and when offering wet food, they let it dry out, before they ate it. And even though one of them had a congenital thing, that ate away all of her teeth (forgot the name of it, but it is autoimmune) and the other one had eosinophilic syndrome and lung fibrosis disease, they were 13 and 16, when they passed away. I miss my finick babies. The fact, that they both were such lovebugs despite their hard start in life made all worth it.
Buffy loves faucet water. She's a 13 yr old siamese mix. 😸❤
I love the design. This is exactly what I’ve been looking for. I hope they’ll ship internationally soon 😻😻😻
Watching this 2 weeks after getting my cat a fountain,, he loves it.
I’ve had a fountain for my cat for years, but a game changer for me was adding water to his wet food... he gets to eat his own fancy fish soup 😻
My cats were scared if the water fountain at first but grew to love it! I knew they would since one of the two loves to drink from the tap!
I just bought one and it has a chemical odor, strongest at the suction cups. This is likely PVC like in some shower curtains and makes the odor. A doctor told me to avoid PVC. It is known to cause thyroid cancer, I have nodules. You do not want to breathe it in. I set mine up and the water also tasted like it. The smell will lessen but I am sending it back.
Just wanna say that this is my favorite CZcams channel.
I love watching how you take care of all these little angels. Love these kittens/cats and you. Meaow❤
Your cats are so healthy & beautiful!!
My previous cat loved drinking water from the tap, she played with it a lot. The one I have now only accepts water mixed in with food and I also but some cat milk from time to time.
I have both a cat fountain and a water bowl with attached reservoir. You need two sources of water because one may go dry and you may not notice especially in the summer. The cat fountain is essential and the one my cat drinks out of 90% of the time. My cat will use the water bowls for cleaning, grooming, drinking, etc.
I like seeing that water fountain in action. I bought 2 of them using your affiliate links. Keep up the great work. Remember Styx and Stones may break your bones, but your Kitties will never desert you.
I used to put Tigger's water bowl on top of the tub(near the faucet, but outside of the curtain) in my master bathroom. That way, I could hear him drink and monitor his drinking habits. He loved it. I did buy a fountain but it was noisy and scared Tigger.
What water I put in his bowl wasn't tap. It was filtered via Pur. He liked bathroom faucet, also, but I didn't. As long as he would drink, I was happy. Never had a problem with dehydration or diarrhea. Lucky, I guess.
I just wanted to say thanks for giving me the push to order an additional fountain for my rescue cat. I’ve only ever had 1 fountain but my cat only drinks water out of the fountain and barely ever out of the additional bowls in the rest of the house. I hope I the additional fountain helps since she seems to get occasional constipation despite eating a can of wet food (she always wants some dry food and haven’t been able to get her off of it completely).
thanks im trying to get my cats to drink water this helped me
Great tips! Thank you! ☺️
My 11-year-old cat was diagnosed with kidney problems last year, having a water fountain has really helped her. After watching the video, I might buy a second one! There's a water bowl in the kitchen that my other two cats prefer, but adding another water source in our bedroom might be good. (I also have a senior, 13-yo cat and a 3-yo cat-that-still-thinks-hes-a-kitten.)
All of your cats are so adorable
We have a bowl behind a door, a bit more hidden and one near their food. Changing them regularly seems to work for us! They LOVE fresh water ^^
Thank you for these educational cute lessons!
one holy lesson i've got is that cats love to drink on a tall cup or glass. if you're wondering why cats drink water from your glass of water is because they prefer those! it's tall and narrow and it doesnt hurt their whiskers.
my cat always drink from my starbucks cup (the tall white cup with a basic style idk ) so i gave it to him lol and put it on the floor and then now he always drink a lot of water from that cup!!!!
I wash and clean the cup daily and make sure the water is clean and it's full.
My cat is 16 years old, and I definitely want to increase her water intake. Thanks for the tips!
My cat has a fountain that he is obsessed with it. After I’m done washing it he will stay by my side meowing until I plug it in. 🥰😂
Our cats simply play with water fountains, but absolutely love old dark blue ice cream containers. We have about a million scattered throughout the house and catios. I also save and freeze boiled chicken water (no salt or additives, just water from boiling chicken fillets) and they like this too. Warmed in the microwave preferably. Yes, they are very spoiled darlings.
Awhh i wish this video came a little earlier, because My cat had a huge drinking problem. But thank you for tips in the future 🤩
During the really hot smoky days due to California fires last year I would put some of their favorite treats in a shallow dish with only about a tbsp of water and they would have to fish out the treat, consequently drinking a bit of water at the same time. At first they got confused but eventually just ended up lapping up the water and eating all the treats at the end.
Thank you! Love the mention of us hooms drinking water too lol I needed that
So sweet!!
We have water fountains but mine prefer drinking from my water cup!
My theory is that they see us drink it, so they know it's fresh. Idk if this is true. Mine do it too tho. 1/3 will use the fountain lol
My lovely kitty knew how to ask for water after turning her water bowl over and we did not notice.. she saw my sister carrying a water bottle so she ran to my sister.. hung to her legs.. then ran back to the empty bowl.. as if saying " give me some water " such a smart kitty! ❤
Thank you for these ideas. You are definitely a kitty Angel.
This is fantastic thanks so much for sharing. I found getting a water fountain really helped my cats water drinking and also decreased his utis.
What works for my fussy lass is a small plastic container on my kitchen bench next to my tap and every morning when I make my coffee I change her water too. Cold, fresh, and clean. She wouldn't drink it when it was next to her food. But she will drink, and always has, her lactose free pet milk from there, nnlever her water.
She was emaciated when I rescued her. The pet milk started as a way to fatten her up, and a year on she still enjoys it and is a healthy weight so I'm keeping it for now
I've been wanting to get a fountain for a while now for my mom's older cat. Thank you for helping everyone get that 20% off. It definitely helped a lot. I bought the one with the 8-filter pack included.
Ever since I got a cat fountain my cats have been drinking 3 times more water!! It really works
I dont give my cats dry food .And they drink a good amount.I also make chicken soup and they love the
liquid.
Thank u!!! I needed this
my cat always goes up to the sink in the bathroom and practically begs me to turn the faucet on... she'll chuck all the towels nearby to the floor if i don't do it lol
both Sugar Baby and now King Julius prefer (prefered in Baby's case) wet food with alot of gravy and not pate. we also got Julius a fountain and he absolutely love it. he still sometimes wants us to turn the faucet on in the bathroom, but for the most part, he loves to drink water from the fountain.
My 17 year old, sits on my face when he is hungry. Lol and he drinks out of the flower pot.
Thanks for the information and suggestions!
Both my cats love water fountains, we have 3 😻
Great advice thanks! 👍🙂
Great video, great advice. Thank you for the discount code for the fountain. I bought it-waiting for it, can’t wait to see the kitties with it. I also bought the Raycop vac from another video w/your discount code. That UV HEPA filter vac is fantastic! It’s really made a difference in removing hair and allergens on furniture. You’ve made a difference in my family’s lives~thanks again for the helpful info. Keep the amazing videos coming! xoxo
Outstanding video as always that you
So cute
our kitties have 2 water fountains and they love them. much better than them begging for the sink to be turned on and then forgetting lol
I needed this video so much Tony is 12 weeks old but I've only seen him drink from his water once! I only feed wet food I mix in water, I've got a fountain but I'm going to get another for his favourite hangout spot thanks so much for the tips!
Thank you! This will help because I have a 19 year old cat who won’t always drink
Love the geriatric kitties. Hopefully your vet has some tips. My vet taught me how to give IV fluids to my 20 year old boy. He plumped right up and came to life when he’d had a treatment.
How do u feed and take care such that your cat live such a long life ?
@@mindful47 I know this isn’t good for all cats, but for mine we give her moist food whenever she seems hungry, and we keep dry food out for the other cats. Now I know some cats will just keep eating the dry food so you have to not keep it out but it works for mine.
@@mindful47 I mixed equal parts water and wet food for my geriatric kitty, so it was drinkable rather than chewable. Also, the vet prescribed renal food, which made sure the nutrient balance was correct to support the kidneys and prolong life.
@@funfelines3003 do u cook for your cat or just use store bought wet food?
Ty for this ♥️
That’s a great idea!
This was sooooo helpful! My cat refuses to drink from her bowl and prefers the tap. I’ve been trying and trying to get her to drink but nothing worked. Definitely will try this! Thankyou! ❤️❤️
Could you leave the tap dripping for her?
thanks for these tips Hannah!
It's a valuable thing for us,I do like your video very much,thank you
I keep glasses of water in the bathrooms and usually refresh them when I'm standing there so he know's its new water. Mine also hates wet food and cat fountains so he gets wet treats more frequently.
I fed to my cat big tubs of chicken livers that you buy at the supermarket. I'd mix in some dry food so he got fortified cat vitamins and it made a soft and pasty mush. He loved eating that stuff, and he got plenty of water out of it. It was also easy for him to chew and swallow because his teeth weren't so great.
I wish I'd seen this new before buying a fountain. That one looks much less disruptive and I like the shallowness of the dish.
Thank you for making this video! My cats are 1 year old and one of them drinks a lot of water but the other one barely drinks any other water. So thank you this really helped me get them to drink more water!