Do your cats play in their water dish?

[krazyaboutkatz]

I have three male cats and two of them like to play in their water dish. Pepper started doing it when he was a kitten and then stopped for quite a while but has started to play in the water dish again. Sunny plays in it every day. I had to put the water dish in a litterbox so that water wouldn't go all over the place. Do you think that they are just bored.

[Blackfly]

LOL, im afraid ive never seen a cat do that, though my little kitty accidentally jumped into the toilet because she thought the seat would be down.
I'm pretty sure she didnt have much fun in there though, lol

[wayne0214]

K A K, welcome to Pet Talk. In answer to your question, yes, I have Snow Cat ( a flame-point Siamese) who plays in the water bowl while drinking from it. This causes a problem because his front paws alway gets washed when doing this and the communal water bowl gets sediment in it. It has to be dumped at least once a day to keep it clean.

........wayne

[AmberLee]

Dear K.A.K.,

Cassy loves to play in his water dish sometimes, and it does seem to be when he's bored. I try to distract him with another activity (when I catch him at it) and it works.

Any one have distractors to suggest?

[BaileyDonk]

Not necessarily bored - maybe they just like the water. My one cat has always played with her water in her dish, and also the water in the toilet sometimes. And years ago, I had a cat who played in puddles and even ran around in the sprinkler and played under the hose water when I was watering the plants!

Sharon

[LoudLou]

Bonzo plays only in "Running" water while Mocha dips her paw into the bowl like she is fishing for stuff. My Hubby thinks we should give her a "Finger Bowl" with her meals!

[Pam]

Yes Andy plays in the water dish all the time. I am sure Trevor and Bella wish that he didn't though! Andy is just drawn to water in any form. If I turn on faucet at the kitchen sink he comes running to watch and occasionally puts a paw under the stream. I have told this before but for the newcomers I will repeat. Once, after scrubbing the floor, I was pouring the dirty water down the toilet. Andy heard the splashing and came running to watch. I guess he was planning to jump up on the rim, to get a closer look, but lost his balance and fell in the toilet. He was not happy and took off like a streak of white lightning.

[Blackfly]

actually, you know what? its true Bisk doesnt play in her water dish, but she does jump up to the bathroom sind to play with the water when its running

[Gio]

Foxy is literally obsessed with water. Just this morning the kitchen floor was such a mess . He puts his paws in whatever liquid we forget to hide, from coffee, to wine. He tries to steal stuff from the sink. One morning I was washing my hair, turned around five seconds and there he was with HIS head under the tap .

[BaileyDonk]

My Alex cat likes to drink water by dipping her paw in it and then licking her paw. She prefers this method to sticking her head in the bowl. Using the "paw method", she can drink from all sorts of strange places.

I was trying to grow an avocado from a pit suspended with toothpicks in a glass of water - it took me a long time to figure out why I could not keep the water at the right level to sprout the pit. When I figured out it was Alex stealing the water, I kept moving that glass around the house, but wherever I put it she would find it... The avocado never made it.javascript:smilie('')

Sharon

[Randi]

Every evening, Fister goes in the bathroom (if the door is ajar, he will open it) and stand in the middle of the floor. If we don't come out there he will call for us. He wants us to throw water across the floor towards the drain, so he can sit and watch it run down. He will occasionally lick some from the floor. He's obsessed with this! Silly cat!

I should just point out that he has got two other glasses of water to drink from, one in the kitchen and one in our bedroom.

[Ila]

Misty is such a picky cat. She does not play with her food or water it is too messy for her. If a little food gets on the floor beside her dish she is taking her paw and putting it in a neat pile hoping I will clean it up. It is really quite funny to watch her. She does that and then gives me that look CLEAN IT UP MOM!!!
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[nsweezie]

Scooter plays with his water dish all the time. Or I should say played with. He made such a mess so many times that I bought him a really heavy water bowl, and he can't pick it up in his teeth anymore.
I personally think that he just liked to see me scramble everytime he knocked over the water dish!

[sasvermont]

My two like to drink from glasses, not bowls. They had been drinking from a glass in the bedroom, but I decided that the carpet was getting too wet and moved the glass to the living room coffee table (glass top) and then I have one in their general feeding area. There is always a bowl near their food, but the use it to drop toys in..... and sometimes not toys, but things that they find of interest.

They do play in the bathtub water and get in the shower right after I am through each day. They love to lick the water from the tub floor. Go figure.

Miley will often jump right in the tub if you are bathing rather than showering.

My guys love water!

[Randi]

Originally posted by sasvermont

They do play in the bathtub water and get in the shower right after I am through each day. They love to lick the water from the tub floor.

I'm sure Fister would do the same, but we don't have a bathtub, so he licks it from the floor. His glass of water in the bedroom is definately the one he prefers, even though he has a glass right next to his food in the kitchen - he's not spilling a drop!