water bowl bumping

[cassiesmom]

This is a Cassie thing too - I've seen her do it but I can never figure out exactly why she thinks it's necessary. "Water ... bowl ... must ... be ... right ... HERE." I'll try to get photos but she usually stops doing it if she notices me watching.

[pkohler01]

Hi

My three cats used to do this. I dont like the idea of the spray bottle so I try to figure out a deeper meaning to their actions. As it turns out, I found that my cats prefer moving water. I resolved this by doing the following:

- leaving the bathroom sink on at a trickle

- buying a water bowl that swishes the water around. the one I got is a thing with kind of an inverted bowl over it and the water pumps up and trickles over the edges into the base.

[krazyaboutkatz]

My cat Sunny will be 7 years old on the 25th and he's been playing in water his whole life. I tried using a drinkwell fountain and he would just make a mess and splash all of the water out. Now I'm back to using regular water bowls but I have to put them inside of a clean litter box. This way if he decides to play, the water goes inside of the box and not all over the floor or carpet. Good luck.

[lbaker]

When I first read the title "Water Bowl Bumping" I thought it was under the "Cat Games" Forum. It sounds as though Bouncer has made up his own game and simply enjoys it KAK's idea of putting the bowl inside a larger litter box (maybe on a towel or spongy surface?) would take care of the spillage issues too.

[KitCat]

Put a cake tin or some other object underneath so it will catch any water that's spilled.

[Jessika]

Is there any way to get a tray or something to set the bowl in, like a stand of some sort? Or would she bump it out of that too?

The only other idea I had was somehow weighting the bowl down somehow, maybe with weights or... hey... you could always superglue it to the floor... :P

[Sundance]

I've had the same problem with 2 of my kitties, and I kept getting bigger and heavier dishes until I ended up with a very heavy ceramic dog dish with straight sides. I set it on a piece of rubbery shelf liner, and no matter how hard they butt the dish, it doesn't move The only way water gets on the floor is if I spill it as I set the dish down...and that's my fault! Good luck!