Water invention the cat's miaow

The Courier Mail ^ | Oct. 17, 2005 | Kelly Ryan

[ryan71]

"He invented and built an infra-red water saver – a device that detects Simha approaching the bath and turns on the tap for him."

Invented? It's called a motion detector and you have one on the front of your house to turn lights on.

"A friendly engineer in his street helped him find the parts."

Here, Kid, use this motion detector to turn on this solenoid valve. Hey, nice invention.

Please...

[Mercat]

The reason she drinks from the toilet is because it is actually fresher than the stagnant bowl of water on your kitchen floor. Our cats always sit outside the bathroom door in the morning, waiting for the flush. Like John Cage of Allie McBeal, they prefer a fresh bowl.

[Mercat]

I have a cat which is supposedly part desert lynx. He's certainly different - wilder - than any other cat I've had. We had to board him for a week and they had to sedate him... so I'm already stressing out about how we care for him next time. He looks a lot like this young man's cat.

[SwatTeam]

One of my cats likes running water to drink so I got one of those water fountains. She still pesters me to drink out of the bathroom faucet but the other two like the fountain.

[pageonetoo]

Our cats always sit outside the bathroom door in the morning, waiting for the flush.

We have three cats and a dalmation. Spot likes to drink from his bowl, or from muddy puddles, when we walk in the woods. He just wants to wet his whistle.

But one of our felines, Shadow (alias "Demon", "Satan", "damn cat", and various other epithets), has to follow me to the pot. He likes swirlies (almost as much as the top stair step, in the dark)! He will jump onto the seat, and stick his head right into the bowl, dipping into it. I have to act fast, to slam the lid, befoe he gets there. Damn stupid cat...

[RightWingAtheist]

That's the difference between cats and dogs in a nutshell. Our dog would drink out of anything including the koi pond in the backyard, but our cat was oh so finicky. Whenever she was enjoying a drink at the loo, we'd gather around and laugh at the sight (it was pretty hard not to), and she'd just poke her out at us and give us a curt "meow!", as if to say "Yes humans, I am drinking out of your toilet. I tastes better than what you put in my bowl, ok?" And then she'd go back to her drink.

[To Hell With Poverty]

I wanted to get one of those fountains for our kitties, who just won't drink out of their own bowls, but my husband said "Oh for God's sake, they lick their own asses! Why do they need filtered water??" I had to admit he had a point.

[pbmaltzman]

I have a cat which is supposedly part desert lynx. He's certainly different - wilder - than any other cat I've had. We had to board him for a week and they had to sedate him... so I'm already stressing out about how we care for him next time. He looks a lot like this young man's cat.

Getting a professional pet-sitter to come in, maybe every other day, while you're gone might work. I did that for my two cats, when I took a 10-day trip to help a friend move back to California from Kansas City, Missouri. I had long-term feeders, but the pet-sitters would come in, scrape the litter boxes, feed the beasties, etc. They even washed some dirty dishes, to my great surprise. My beasties weren't wild, but they were kinda shy with strangers.

[pbmaltzman]

I wanted to get one of those fountains for our kitties, who just won't drink out of their own bowls, but my husband said "Oh for God's sake, they lick their own asses! Why do they need filtered water??" I had to admit he had a point.

ROFLMAO! Indeed they do. And why do they do that? Because they can!

Still, I eventually want to get at least one of those fountains for my pair of cats.

A male cat, who has since crossed that Rainbow Bridge, would sometimes drink from the toilet bowl and also from a dripping faucet.