Drinking water

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It's not a problem, just curiosity as to why really?!.

I've never really noticed until today, but when Sophie drinks her water she sounds really quiet to when Rosie laps it up. Then when i observed her this morning she had her right paw in the water dish with her paw sort of cupped as if she was drinking out of it.

She then took it out and started washing it, then switched to do exactly the same with her left paw!.

It was so cute!
 

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Nano does this and so does Prissy (my girlfriend's cat). I have seen at least two other cats do it, too.

Nano also won't drink stagnant water. It either needs to be flowing or she will gently slosh it so it is "rippling" as she drinks it.
 

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Freija does that as well. She wants the water to be 'fresh' so generally when she starts with the paw I know she wants it changed even if it is only a few hours old. Once I change it she drinks regularly. This from the same cat that loves to drink the water in the flower vase that is several days old too!

My parents had a cat, Chloe, who ALWAYS used her paw to drink and eat. She would lap the water into her paw and drink from her paw; she would knock the dry food out of the dish with her paw and eat it from the floor, and she would cup the wetfood in her paw, then eat it off of her paw - always her left paw.

We used to joke she was a raccoon in her last life. She did this every day of her life until she passed away at 19 years old. Her littermate, Oscar, never did this (he died at 18).

Kathryn
 

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I used to have a male tabby named Amigo, he has been gone for 9 years now
The only way he would drink, would be to stick his paw in the water and then lick his paw. He became very good at scooping the water in his paw.
 
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Kathryn41 said:
Freija does that as well. She wants the water to be 'fresh' so generally when she starts with the paw I know she wants it changed even if it is only a few hours old. Once I change it she drinks regularly. This from the same cat that loves to drink the water in the flower vase that is several days old too!

I change the water in their bowl twice a day, and had just put the fresh bowl down some 30 minutes before she started drinking, but this explains how i see the odd grain of litter in the water when i go to change it
 

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Baylee and Max drink differently... Baylee will hit the bowl several times (usually splashing it around, I think so she can see the reflection) and then crouch down to lap it up while Max will be standing up and will lick the sides of the bowl.

So funny the different ways they drink.
 

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My boy Lovey won't drink out of a dish at all.

He has to have his water in a glass sitting on the coffee table (or up high).
He won't drink it if its not fresh either..He will either hop up on the table to drink or stand up at the table and drink it.

My mum's cats wouldn't drink unless it was out of the tap fresh...So you always had to turn it on for them when you saw them waiting patiently!


They do have their funny habits, don't they?
 

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Mischka & Linx love water if there is a drip anywhere,they will be playing in it. They don't drink out of the bowl very often so in another link I was reading about the fountains so I think I will get one.
 

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My Marcellus has always dipped his paws in the water bowel and then lick the water off. We think it is so funny, cute too. Lewis moves his paws frantically, like he's digging a hole before he drinks his water, wondering if he's trying to get it to move. He also loves drinking water out of a cup or glass so I leave a little cup of water for him too...never did I think I would spoil my cats this much...
 

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Cats, even wild cats such as tigers and such, commonly drink water in this fashion. They use their paw as a form of a cup, scooping the water in their paw and drinking from it.

Here's my tiger! He does it everytime!
 
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