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It seems to me that my cats haven't been drinking more water since the weather got hot. How can I get them to drink more, or should I just assume that they'll drink as much as they need?
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my cats aren't drinking much water
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Mine never drank much water at all when it was in a bowl. He did decide to drink out of our cups so we started leaving cups all over the house with water in them for them. Then I got them a water fountain and they drink alot more water now. I think they like cool water so maybe if you put an ice cube in the water they will drink more.
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mine like cups too
i have one in the kitchen one in each bath and one in the bedrooms
i have one in the kitchen one in each bath and one in the bedrooms
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Do they eat canned food then they might be getting enough otherwise try a new way for h2o
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They mostly eat dry food. Probably 70% of the time. They have a bowl of water in the kitchen and one in the bathroom. I added some ice cubes to the water as recommended above.
You could invest in a kitty water fountain. Those will often encourage cats to drink. Mine also like to drink out of the bathtub, since the faucet drips a little bit. If you are really concerned, however, wet food is the way to go.
My cat doesn't drink out of her bowl either. (and I must say it was an expensive bowl, so I was quite dissappointed
) But she loves drinking out of our glasses, these big ones that we have, so I just gave her those, or she will drink from the tap. I tried the ice cubes but had no luck with it, I hope it works for you. The kitty water fountain is a great idea I will have to give that a try as well. I would suggest to try and leave the faucet drip and see what they do, besides the glasses that is my cats favourite place to drink, the bathroom sink
Mine love their catit fountain. It wasn't too expensive and has a dome they love to lick. I do think that will increase their water intake.
My kitten Iris is a good drinker, Chloe is just so-so. However, we just got a CatIt fountain this week and already both of them have increased their water intake noticeably! I still add a bit of water to their wet food at night, but if other things you try don't work you may want to consider a water fountain.
Good luck!
Good luck!
we have the bistro water things. my babies drink really well out of it.
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I wondered about those.. Ie that is in my budget
Maybe if you bought some very low sodium or sodium free chicken broth and mixed some in with their water that would get them drinking. I know you can get sodium free, free range chicken broth at my local health food store. Try like a couple of tablespoons at first and see if this gets them interested. If not, use it for cooking or something. Just get low or sodium free cause a lot of salt will dehydrate them more. (could work with beef broth as well) Just an thought.....
