Hello,
I searched the forum for similar issues, but no luck... so here goes:
One of my two cats feels compelled to stick his paw into his water bowl and knock a fair amount of water out of the bowl and onto the feeding tray (which often spills out onto the floor). He then drinks from the bowl, not the spilt water. He does this almost every time he goes to drink. It rather annoying to have to clean up the water all the time, and it's starting to do some minor damage to the baseboards, tile grout, etc.
It's almost as if he needs some reassurance that the water is actually in the bowl before he attempts to drink it. This behavior occurs with all my water bowl types (shallow stainless steel, deep stainless steel, shallow black ceramic, etc).
Maxwell is about 8 months old and he started doing this when he was about 4 or 5 months old.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this behavior and/or ways to repel the behavior?
Thanks!
-Chris
I searched the forum for similar issues, but no luck... so here goes:
One of my two cats feels compelled to stick his paw into his water bowl and knock a fair amount of water out of the bowl and onto the feeding tray (which often spills out onto the floor). He then drinks from the bowl, not the spilt water. He does this almost every time he goes to drink. It rather annoying to have to clean up the water all the time, and it's starting to do some minor damage to the baseboards, tile grout, etc.
It's almost as if he needs some reassurance that the water is actually in the bowl before he attempts to drink it. This behavior occurs with all my water bowl types (shallow stainless steel, deep stainless steel, shallow black ceramic, etc).
Maxwell is about 8 months old and he started doing this when he was about 4 or 5 months old.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this behavior and/or ways to repel the behavior?
Thanks!
-Chris