Cat peoples, how often do you change their water?

[Bossy Monkey]

I mostly change it when I can see that there are food particles or hair in there, but changed it yesterday because she didn't seem to be drinking (based on litter box evidence) and she had a little lapping party immediately. Sooooo, daily is better regardless of how the water looks?

[Heidi]

1. The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger doesn't like fresh water.

He's rather drink out of the koi pond or a rain puddle than drink fresh water. He will sometimes take a sip from his water bowl a couple of days after I've changed the water. As a result, we keep one bowl of water that I change daily, and one bowl that I change every three or four days.

[Inchworm]

16. "Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger"

You crack me up! :rofl:

Made my DU day :P

:*

[Heidi]

19. But that's his REAL name. It's on his vaccination record, for heaven's sake.

The Wiley and Excellent Boy Cat Named Ginger. Blue Point (house cat). :shrug:

They've got it in the computer now at Dr. Dürr's office, to the receptionist doesn't have to write it out every time I call. :D

And tell me, is he _not_ excellent, even with sand on his nose? (He was helping CMW and our gardener with a landscaping project -- in a most wiley and excellent way.)

[Captain Hilts]

28. THAT's a tightly-coiled killer if ever I saw one! nt

[Forkboy]

34. My cat has taken to going downstairs and drinking my friend's denture water.

Mmmm...cold denture stew.

Needless to say, fresh water doesn't impress. :)

[myrna minx]

2. Twice a day. I change it first thing in the morning and then when I get home from work. n/t

[Bossy Monkey]

9. Amelia the cat wants to move in with you. But be forewarned: she IS a very bossy monkey n/t

[myrna minx]

13. Aww, I love bossy monkeys. Actually the reason I do this is

my last kitty, Nigel, perished from renal failure, which is common in older kitties, but he did not drink enough water, so I make sure my kitty has fresh water to drink. My current baby is so spoiled, that he will only drink out of a people glass--no bowl for him!

[hamsterjill]

25. That's my protocol, too.

I have a multi-cat household and the water bowl can be a source of one catching what another has, so I change the bowls at least twice per day.

[arcadian]

3. The kitties in this household drink water from a human glass.

Only that, when they are inside. Outside, they drink fro any flat surface that has water on it, concrete slab, leaf, whatever. They also like drinking water from large buckets outside, but from a small bowl? No effing way!

[Captain Hilts]

29. We always kept a bucket of water in the bathroom for Mosby "Mose-beast." He loved it. nt

[Marrah_G]

4. I have 4 cats, I change their water every day at least.

[Highway61]

5. Once a day

more if they get food/hair in it. However my kitty puts her paws in the water and licks her feet...weirdest behavior but what a riot to watch.

[Mollis]

22. My cat does something like that.

I never really understood it. lol

[Bertha Venation]

6. Once a day, more if Petey has dropped somthing into it. n/t

[hedgehog]

7. What is this "change water" of which you speak?

With 2 dogs and 3 cats, I just keep refilling the water and the food dish whenever they're empty.










I gave up trying to keep the dogs away from the cat food years ago. They all prefer the dry cat food, so that's what they all eat along with any human food they can scrounge.

[Lost in CT]

8. Our cats have a fountain that filters their water...

[Liberal Veteran]

42. I have the same one (without the grass)

:D

[Lost in CT]

49. Yeah mine is grass free as well. nt

[Lil Missy]

10. Twice a day, but ....

"snarly butt" will only drink from the bathtub or faucet. So every time I go to the biffy, he follows along to get his dribble of sink water.

I swear, the animals have taken control here. I can't sleep, eat, or pee, without permission from one of them. I must twist into a pretzel and slip into my bed at night, so as not to disturb them. "Snarly butt" will actually come smack my head if I disturb him.

WHO IS PAYING THE RENT HERE, ANYWAY????

Little fuckers.

[Orsino]

11. Twice a day, early morning and late evening.

Cats are clean fetishists, and I imagine that they can tell fresh water from otherwise.

[Gormy Cuss]

12. Once a month or when the bowl is dry.

Kidding-- the cat gets fresh water every morning.

[Sanity Claws]

14. Twice a day

I freshen up their food and water bowls at the same time, once in the morning when I get up and once in the evening at my dinner time.

[old mark]

15. We never give our cat water - it makes her tough to have to find her own.

She finds it in the dog's water dish, which is filled with filtered water several times a day.

mark

[YDogg]

43. I LOLd.

[schmuls]

17. I change mine at least twice a day - I know someone whose

cat will only drink out of a glass. When she moved, she put the glass on the same table and the cat continued to drink from it, even in a new spot.

[Dangerously Amused]

18. 2-3 times a day, minimum, for four kitties.

First thing in the morning (it is usually near empty by then), last thing at night and mid-day if it needs it and/or I remember.

I have one kitty who will not drink from the water dish unless he is standing in it with one paw. It would be funny but for the fact that if he has been in the litter box prior to standing in the water, the water gets all gross and it is a most excellent way to spread parasites to all the kitties. :( Or, if he goes to the litter box right after drinking, he gets a lovely litter encrusted paw and tracks litter chunks all over the house. Fortunately he also likes to drink from the bathroom fauce, so I try to encourage that behavior because it means he drinks from the communal water dish less. However, that of course means I am stranded on the toitie while he takes his time drinking from the faucet. :eyes:

[Flaxbee]

20. at least twice a day. Change the water more often!

Yuk, water gets 'stale' - your cat deserves fresh water. Why the hell wouldn't you change water daily? Is it that much effort to do it? You feed her daily, change her water daily. Especially if you don't feed her any moist food, she needs fresh water. She can develop real health problems if she doesn't get enough moisture.

Are you joking?

[Rob H.]

21. In her bowl, once a day; in her glass on the bathroom counter,

several times a day. She'll drink out of the bowl if she has to, but she prefers the glass 'cause she's goofy like that. :)

[cherish44]

23. Every day...

Of course my cat like to take a nip out of the toilet once in awhile so I don't think he's very fussy...

[Betty88]

24. twice a day at least nt

[Jamastiene]

26. Once a day whether it looks like it needs it or not.

If it looks like it is dirty, I change it again anyhow, even if I have already changed it that day.

[Lucian]

27. Once a day.

I wouldn't want to drink water sitting in a bowl for two or three days. :puke:

[ashling]

30. Patches requests me to inform you that

she will only drink water from the bathroom sink, thank you very much!

:rofl:

[crimsonblue]

31. never, I just add more. n/t

[Sandrine for you]

32. When they ask for...

They go to the washbasin and ask for water, so I change it. Happen every 2 or 3 day.

[Justpat]

33. Every day.

Sometimes twice a day. I have two cats and one of them loves to dip his paws in the water and watch it swirl around.

[TXRAT2]

35. I can change they're water every fifteen minutes

And they'll still drink out of the toilets.

[elocs]

36. Never. My cat will not drink from her water bowl, but only water from bowls in the sink.

So I have to make sure there is always at least 1 bowl with water in the sink.

[kedrys]

37. Oh God.

:rofl:

Twice a day at least, plus every time one of the parasitic little fuzzballs loudly bats at one of the two bowls in a loud attempt to loudly relocate it and attempt to get the hoomans' attention. Loudly.

Usually, this occurs between 2:30am and 5:45am. :P

[crispini]

38. Daily.

Or whenever I forget and they give me the ol' stink-eye, but ideally, every day.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Likewise

My cat thinks he's a raccoon; washes his paws in the water bowl every day.

Leaves water tracks all over the house.

What can you do... :shrug:

[Skittles]

40. I have one of those water bottle things that lasts for a while

but I also put a fresh ceramic bowl of water out for them daily

[Lex]

50. Same here

but kitteh prefers the bottle thingy because it goes "glug glug" with a big bubble after she drinks a bit of water. She loves that.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. We fill it about 30 times a day

The dogs seem to prefer cat water, and only one of the cats will drink "dog" water.

[Kitty Herder]

44. I change it daily, but my male cat still prefers to drink out of the toilet.

The female, however, has better manners. ;-)

[MrSlayer]

45. My cats will only drink cold filtered water.

Spoiled little bastards. We'll fill up their bowl several times a day.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. kitty does not drink water. my vet has assured me its fine

[grasswire]

47. no plastic water bowls for kitties

That's a no no.

One of our cats will only drink from a pottery bowl on the porch.

Another of our cats drinks about three cups of water a day, because he takes a diuretic for CHF.

Two are toilet drinkers.

[Lyric]

48. Water dish? HAHAHAHA.

My cats jump up onto the sink whenever they want a drink, because they know I'm a sucker and I'll come turn the water on for them.

:rofl: