My cat Brutus has loved water since he was 4 weeks.
He always ran TOWARDS the spray bottle, instead of away from it, so that he could drink the stream out of the air.
It's actually really cute, but we stopped doing it because we thought he was peeing on things (it has now stopped, after we moved into a new place, and got him checked out by the vet).
Recently, in our new apartment, he's able to sit on the bathroom sink.. so whenever we turn on the tap, he's there, meowing his face off to get a drink. We would let him pretty much every time. But he doesn't seem to know when to stop.. and more often than not, he won't unless we turn the thing off!
In any case, we found a few puddles just outside our bedroom (thank god, not on any carpeting). But it didn't smell like cat pee at all, nor was it yellowish. It just looked and smelled like water. There's no way it could have leaked from anywhere as far as we can tell. So we've only been allowing him to drink out of his water dish (which is rinsed and refilled twice a day). And it seems to have stopped..
Do you think Brutus had a few accidents because he was drinking so much water?
My mom suggested getting a drinking fountain for him, but I worry there's no way to regulate his drinking if we do that. Or maybe if we did, the novelty of it would lessen, and he would go back to drinking normally?
It's not a big problem or anything, I just thought it's weird for a cat to drink so much, and take bird-baths in my sink.
He always ran TOWARDS the spray bottle, instead of away from it, so that he could drink the stream out of the air.
Recently, in our new apartment, he's able to sit on the bathroom sink.. so whenever we turn on the tap, he's there, meowing his face off to get a drink. We would let him pretty much every time. But he doesn't seem to know when to stop.. and more often than not, he won't unless we turn the thing off!
In any case, we found a few puddles just outside our bedroom (thank god, not on any carpeting). But it didn't smell like cat pee at all, nor was it yellowish. It just looked and smelled like water. There's no way it could have leaked from anywhere as far as we can tell. So we've only been allowing him to drink out of his water dish (which is rinsed and refilled twice a day). And it seems to have stopped..
Do you think Brutus had a few accidents because he was drinking so much water?
My mom suggested getting a drinking fountain for him, but I worry there's no way to regulate his drinking if we do that. Or maybe if we did, the novelty of it would lessen, and he would go back to drinking normally?
It's not a big problem or anything, I just thought it's weird for a cat to drink so much, and take bird-baths in my sink.