Why Is She Doing This???

[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.