Why Is She Doing This???

[Edwina's Secretary]

We have a humidifier in our room that has two water tanks on either side of a fan. Each tank drains into a reservoir. Edwina LOVES the water in the reservoir. Ever time one of us walks into the bedroom Edwina comes running. She sits beside the humidifier and gazes at us with that please?, please!?, please!?!?! look until we take off the tank so she can stick her head down into the reservoir to drink.

This is the same cat that continues to be drama queen about her drinking fountain. It makes no sound that I can hear...but she stretches out as long as she can when drinking from it so as to not get TOOO close to the monster.

grrrrr.... why is she doing this???? What is so tasty about that icky water in the humidifier? Why is the humming fan on that not a problem and the silent motor on her fountain TERRIFYING????

[sasvermont]

Ask your Mom to move the new water dish to the top of the humidifer or at least next to it. Location, location, location. Right Winny?

My Mom moved my favorite water dish to an out of the way location, and guess what? I didn't drink from it anymore, cause I didn't like where it was. So, after a week or so of a standoff, my Mom moved the water dish to the near center of the kitchen floor and now I am drinking from it again.

Cats rule.

So Winny, ask Mom to move it.

Love,

Gabe

P. S. Water is very good for your skin. Since you are not in foggy London these days, the humidity and extra water intake will be good for you girl!

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by sasvermont
my Mom moved the water dish to the near center of the kitchen floor

:eek: :eek: Does this mean you had to trip over it everytime you went in the kitchen, SAS?! ;) :)

I was going to suggest the same thing. If you move the water fountain near the humidifer, maybe she'll get the hint and decide she'd rather drink out of the quiet water fountain rather than that darn noisy humidifier.

Now if it was a de-humidifier, I might suggest that she's like the taste of that water better, but I'm thinking the humidifier has water from the same tap the water fountain does, so that theory doesn't apply here.

Now, for your main question of why is she doing this? All I can say is whhooooo knows.....:rolleyes: I believe we will never figure out the reasons behind some of their antics, which is probably part of the reason we love them so much. :)

[Barbara]

Originally posted by Tubby & Peanut's Mom
[B]

:eek: :eek: Does this mean you had to trip over it everytime you went in the kitchen, SAS?! ;) :)



I guess that's what it meant:p

[sasvermont]

I have only so many spare outlets, floor high, in my kitchen and I first plugged in the contraption near my bedroom door, in a walk way, near my kitchen. So as you walk from my kitchen to my bedroom door area, one must walk around the darn water dish. If you can see the picture of Gabe near the fountain in my signature, that is where it was originally, then I moved it to behind a table, near their food, near an outlet. Gabe and the others did not drink from it there. So I moved it back to the original location, which was one that I did not really like.

The cats won! Of course!

[NoahsMommy]

My parents-in-law ( :) ) have a Tortie who will only drink out of their table top fountain! When they are traveling and don't want it plugged in, they have to remove it from the table and put it next to her food dish. :D

I was there last week and saw that they put the rocks from the fountain into her regular, unused water bowl. Haven't heard how that is working, but I thought it was funny how much our cats have US trained! :)

Silly Edwina...I think you just like drinking from there to confuse your mommy. :D

[Randi]

Originally posted by sasvermont
then I moved it to behind a table, near their food, near an outlet. Gabe and the others did not drink from it there. So I moved it back to the original location, which was one that I did not really like.

The cats won! Of course!
Fister has a glass of water stannding next to his foos bowl and one in out bedroom. Guess where he always drinks from - yes from the one in our bedroom! :rolleyes:

Apart from that, I've read somewhere that cats doesn't like to drink next to their food!

Edwina, you go and teach you mum where to put it! ;) - but please let her get some sleep!!

[Edwina's Secretary]

Dear Gorgeous Gabe,


Ask your Mom to move the new water dish to the top of the humidifer or at least next to it. Location, location, location. Right Winny?

I passed on your suggestion. She said she has another idea of where to put it. Where doesn't the sun shine? She says it is one thing for me to have room service in her (?????) bedroom when the dogs are here but.....

There's lots of room and so she has to unplug a lamp?? I can see in the dark. She reads too much anyway!

I think what she doesn't understand is just how much fun it is for me to make her (and poppa!) move the tank for me. (I'm a bit of a control freak.) And the water may look yucky to her but it's yummy to me!

And if I have to hear what she paid for the fountain one more time I'll.....(it didn't help when she saw it in a catalog for $12 less!)

She's threatening to cut me off the dehumidifier to try and force me to use the fountain more. Any ideas on what I should do if she tries?

Your waterlogged Winny

[Edwina's Secretary]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid42/pca9e74d1d0cc1effd9cb12611a5933b2/fcf16de9.jpg

[Russian Blue]

Edwina is too funny!! I love the stories of her behaviour.

Nakita is also a weird one when it comes to her water dish. These are her rules:

First and foremost: You CANNOT use a pet dish! it has to be in a 'human' drinking glass.

Second, it HAS to be placed beside the computer monitor or she will not touch the water!

Can you tell who rules the house around here?! If you look at the pic, you can see the glass in the background!



;)

[Cataholic]

Kass/Russian Blue- sorry, but I dont see how you can do anything BUT what ever she wants...what a beautiful kitty! So regal, and I bet her coat is very plush, isn't it?

As to Edwina- what a weirdo you are! I think you are a very comical and finicky cat, not to mention, brilliant. Your hoomans have learned very well, haven't they?

[hellostranger]

Dear Edwina,

If you really want to make your human wonder about you, do what I do - drink your water with your paws!! :D For years I have refused to drink water unless I scoop it out of my water dish in one of my front paws. It takes a looong time to get enough water but it's worth it to see the look on her face!!

Yours in catliness,

Lynnseed Enigma (tabby)

[Russian Blue]

Originally posted by Cataholic
Kass/Russian Blue- sorry, but I dont see how you can do anything BUT what ever she wants...what a beautiful kitty! So regal, and I bet her coat is very plush, isn't it?

Cataholic,

Her coat is great, and it's getting thicker every day. She has grown sooo much in the last 2 months. Since she was spayed last week, they of course had to shave the area for surgery. Nakita keeps looking at her little white belly and looks to me as if to say "What happened here?"

:D

[moosmom]

I also have a table top "serenity" fountain that I've kept on my dresser in my bedroom. The sound of the water helps put me to sleep.

Unfortunately, my feline masters insist that it's THEIR purrsonal drinking fountain and make me put filtered water in it so as not to clog up the pump with chemicals. Besides, they HATE the smell of chlorine.

So...I decided to put it down where they food dishes are. I did buy them a kitty fountain out of a catalog but they never use it. What is it with them?????

Casey LOVES to watch the water in my humidifier bubble in the tank. If there is a drip on the outside, he's there licking it off.

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

Originally posted by hellostranger
For years I have refused to drink water unless I scoop it out of my water dish in one of my front paws.

Do you mean like this? :rolleyes:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/p3a4aab3cdae32b0d7bc80787c0bc0fc3/fdc52cdd.jpg
She first acts like a bull, pawing at the ground, then finally sits down and sticks one paw in. Licks that one, and it's not quite good enough sooo....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid19/pcfafdab62361afa29f3067c9b6edc6f8/fdc52ce0.jpg
Yep, she sticks the other paw in. Eventually, after going through this process for about 5 minutes (which seem like forever as I'm standing there watching and trying not to move so I don't distract her) then she will finally stand up, stick her face in the glass and start drinking like a real kitty. :rolleyes: But the slightest movement on my part would completely distract her and she would start the entire process over again. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Vio&Juni]

That's why we love them, isn't it right?
Juni has an entire set of rules regarding how things should work in this house. We obbey :)

[tuxluvr]

We went through a recent transition with water dishes, but I haven't gone down the road of the "fountains".....the first water dish for Ritz was one of those plastic/ceramic looking things...actually food and water dish were exactly the same size and shape. Food dish, fine. Water dish, however was subject daily to a ritual we will still never understand.

These bowls had a slight lip around the rim - one that Ritz would latch onto with her teeth, then proceed to flip the whole bowl over onto the floor and paw around in the subsequent puddle...and I think even manage to drink some of it.

We nailed the bowl to a piece of wood big enough that she had to step on it to get a drink...problem solved (once I posted a picture of this ingenious contraption).

I decided, however, that it looked too "early duct tape" for our remaining decor, so the other day I upgraded the food bowls to larger, smooth-sided models.....seem to be a hit so far.

I am afraid to try the fountain thing - Ritz likes to "baste" her toy mice in water, then pick them out and dunk them into the food bowl, but sometimes they remain "floaters"....she also likes to drop bits of kibble in the water, but I think this is accidental. Not sure how this would work with a running fountain, and I'm thinking if her water moved she might treat it like one of her toys(not a pretty thought)

She also has a midnight habit of flinging her LARGE stuffed mouse around (picks up in her teeth then flings it up in the air, where it lands....welll, as Murphy's law dictates, is often in the middle of the water dish). I'm thinking this would be equivalent to flushing a whole roll of toilet paper.....more mess.

She takes each bite of kibble and occasionally does what we call "picnicking" - takes one kibble in the mouth, carries it to another part of the kitchen, with her back to us, and eats it, then repeats, always taking the pieces to different spots. I think sometimes on the way to her picnic spot, she drops the piece in the water..

T&P's mom, Ritz also "paws" at the water first before actually drinking. Dip, lick, dip lick...then lap.

The water glasses made me chuckle because it reminded me of the glass of iced tea incident this past summer. We had a glass of tea that was set down to retrieve other plate of food, and came back to find Ritz sitting with one paw around the glass and the other leg completely buried into the glass, like she was either trying to stir it or catch one of the cubes....still don't know what that was about, but what a mess!

[thelmalu99]

LOL! LOL!

It's good to know that I'm not the only one with kitties who have water issues! :)

My boys do drink out of their water bowl, but they prefer to drink it out of my glass. In fact, any time JD hears me pouring water out of the Brita, he comes flying into the kitchen and jumps on top of the counter by the fridge (even though he knows he's not allowed on the kitchen counters). He will meow and meow until I give him a drink out of my glass.

Sometimes, I have both of them trying to stick their heads into my glass for a drink. I ask them if I could possibly have a sip, and when I do, they just sit there and look at me as if I'm doing something wrong. When I set the glass back down, they go for it again. Elvis will sometimes try to stick his paw in there, so I have to watch him to make sure that he doesn't.

There is no way that I can drink a glass of water without sharing it with them. For some reason, they have this fascination with drinking water out of a glass.

Last summer was particularly hot here in NY, and one of the ways I got them to drink more water was by having one of those large pint glasses on the floor in my room (where they sleep with me), and twice a day I would refill it with fresh water. They will always drink if you put a glass of fresh water in front of them. If I pour Brita water into their bowl, and some more into a glass, they will both go for the glass. Go figure. :rolleyes: