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How Do You Get A Cat to Drink Water???
We have a household of three cats: A 14year old female, 11 year old male, and a 3.5yr old male.
It is the middle one who we see in the water bowl only one time per day, 1-2 days per week.
He vomits Swiss time, every day, and his turds are round 10-14mm in diameter, dark brown or black, and hard as kids marbles!
Our other two drink healthy amounts, vomit only a fraction as often, and have normal soft turds, medium brown, 1-2 inches long. And pee a lot compared to the 11 year old.
Grady also has sneezing fits several days per week, in addition to his vomiting.
This might not work but can't hurt to try. Put your cat on a counter and hold a wine glass full of water slightly tilted toward your cat to lap up the water. My cat loves it when I do this.
In the 6 years that we've had the cat, we've never seen him drink water. He's been healthy so far. We only feed wet food. I would like to borrow a water fountain to see if he's interested. Don't want to buy in case he's not.
This might not work but can't hurt to try. Put your cat on a counter and hold a wine glass full of water slightly tilted toward your cat to lap up the water. My cat loves it when I do this.
Oh yes, my friend's cat drinks out of the water glass she has on her nightstand.
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You add it to the cat's wet food. If he doesn't eat
wet food GET HIM ON IT NOW.
He eats canned wet food fine. Throws up both wet food and the dry bagged pellets. Been that way since we got him.
Both our primary vet and Cornell are up in arms. Grady displays all the behaviors of a normal feline, no lethargy, no symptoms of experiencing pain, etc.
This wouldn't apply to a medical problem, but if your cat has a cat tree/condo you could try putting a shallow bowl of water on one of the levels. I use a shallow one in case it gets spilled. My cats love watching out the window from the tree all day so it's like a second home. This way they have easy access to water without needing to go to the kitchen. They all have different drinking habits, but they all drink from it regularly so in my case it is working.
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