Drinking out of MY water!!!

[purr]

It never fails.. They always have clean fresh water.. always. I change it about 10x a day but WHY if I have a glass of water sitting next to me they'll move ina nd stick their whole face in and drink it?

Since Osiris is rather small and if she cant get her head down far enough to drink out of my glass she'll whack it off my end table all over my carpeting.

All 3 of my cats will do this!!!

[sazemisery]

1. My Lego drinks water, iced tea, Red Bull & vodka...

You name it, if it is in my cup he wants some.

[ET Awful]

2. Mine used to do that until I bought them one of those FreshFlow fountains

Now they leave my glass alone :)

[purr]

3. I tried that..

The motor crapped out on me and I chucked it. They still went after my glass!

[demnan]

5. Lily still goes for the glass of water every time

even with the Sureflow fountain. I think she just likes to share things with me.

[prole_for_peace]

4. same thing with mine.

mine stick their paw down in the glass then lick it, repeat over and over. like i want their poopy litter box feet in my drink. if i even THINK they have done it i get a new glass.

[SW FL Dem]

6. My cat insists on doing this in the middle of the night

I usually have a glass of water on the night stand. Jamie has to climb over my head to get there. We have at least 5 water bowls around the house, I just don't get it.

[EmmaP]

7. Yup

Murphy (Siamese) did the same thing. Beware the bookcase headboard. I left a glass of water there when I went to sleep and, in the middle of the night, Murphy wanted a drink. He couldn't quite get his little snout down to the water level, so he used his paw to tilt it a bit. Crash. Water on my head at 3:00 a.m.

When he went to live with my parents, he did the same thing to my mom. She doesn't leave her water glass on the bookcase headboard any more.

He did get a little better about not always drinking out of my glass when I changed his water "bowl" to a water "cup" (as in a human drinking glass...only it's plastic). Bizarre little animal.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I always have a full glass of water in the sink...for my cats of course.

They used to put their paws in the plants to get the water, so now I leave the glass of water there so they will leave the plants alone.

[Jamastiene]

9. Sunday Girl does that too.

She will drink milk, water, or Dr Pepper, whatever I'm having right out of the glass. Always leaves hair floating on the top too. I used to just touch the hair with my finger and get it out. Now, I either watch it closely, try not to look before I drink, or get her some in a bowl. My cats seem to all hate the plastic water dish. They didn't like the metal one either. Yogi will do this strange thing when he drinks water. Either he drinks out of the faucet or he plops down in front of the dish and uses his paw to pull the dish to him, splashing water everywhere. I am seriously thinking about picking out one of our regular eating bowls out of the cabinet and replacing their water dish with that. THey certainly don't like the pet bowls that I have tried and I've tried every kind I have seen.

[Patiod]

10. They're nothing but little psychos

I went 40 years without a cat, most of those years with sensible little four-on-the-floor am-I-being-a-good-boy? dachshunds.

I am astounded at feline audacity.

I've had to switch away from a glass of water, which was either used as a cat bowl or knocked onto the floor when I wouldn't get up and feed her at 3 am. Now I buy bottled water, so when it gets knocked on the floor EVERY SINGLE G#DDAMNED MORNING there's no damage done. I've just given up trying to fix her, and merely adjust my life around her to allow for the least possible damage.

I never understood why people "let" their cats do bad things - jump on the dining table, jump on guests, drink out of their glasses, etc.

Now I understand. She's beaten me down.

[demnan]

11. Yes, feline audacity!

They've beaten us down for sure. The water thing doesn't bother me, but the sleep deprivation is starting to take its toll.