Does anyone know if having a water softener for your shower water will hurt a cat? My cats love the shower faucet but my husband thinks the salt from the softener isn’t good for them.
I have a printer crazy cat too. I can’t leave a print job alone or he’ll jam it trying to play with the moving paper. :rolleyes:
OK, Amazon is incredibly fast–I got the Pioneer water bowl in 3 days. Can’t tell if Ted has used it yet. He also used to drink from my water glass at night. I couldn’t bring myself to share, so now I have a bottle with a cap on it. Water from the Christmas tree stand is another huge favorite for all of the cats I’ve had.
Another vote for keeping the lid down on the john.
My housecat demands I run the tap in the guest bath - just a drizzle, TYVM - for her to drink.
She’ll sit on the counter & yowl until I get in there & turn it on.
And it has to be Just Right or I get the Feline Stinkeye.
She also likes to “share” whatever I have in a glass.
But dipping her beeninthelitterbox feet into my glass guarantees I do not want to drink from it anymore :dead:
I think they just like super fresh water.
My Siamese, Sable, likes to drink from the toilet, too. Problem is, there’s something in our water that gives her the itchies. My barn cat, Diamond, is unaffected, so it’s got to be the water that makes Sable itchy. (No, not fleas. But maybe, Siamese being the feline equivalent of Arabians, it’s just brain damage…:lol::lol:
I give them both distilled water. And I keep their water bowls clean. They’re cleaned every day. Some folks never, ever clean a water bowl and the scum that develops must taste bad.
In most parts of the US, there’s a low level of arsenic or selenium in the groundwater. It’s just there, there’s nothing you can do to remove other than go the route I did, having a whole house water filter installed. Even so, Sable has issues with the house water. She’s fine on distilled. The advantage to that is when we travel and take them with us, they will drink the water because they are used to distilled.
Both my cats are absolutely fascinated by a dripping or dribbling faucet. They’ll sit all day, just watching the water fall.
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Close the lid on the toilet. Cats like fresh moving water. Some people leave a faucet dripping into a pan and the cats drink from the drip or the pan.
Paula[/QUOTE]
I wish this was the case with my cat but alas it is not. He just loves the toilet. I bought him one of those fancy cat water fountains and he ignores it.
I’m thinking about getting one of these:
http://www.wayfair.com/TKSInternational-Toilet-Dog-and-Cat-Refilling-Water-Bowl-TDB0892-L1006-K~CDM1008.html?refid=XT49-CDM1008
I have tap cats. Every time anyone heads for the guest bathroom the 3 of them charge to get in before the door close. If anyone doesn’t make it the straggler sits outside the door yowling. Then its all in the tub and rubbing all over the tap until someone lets it drip for them. Can you imagine that convo… sure you can use the the guest bathroom…would you mind turning the water on for the 3 cats that are going to go in there with you 
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