i have one cat that puts his paw in the water and drinks from his paw.
One of ours does that...I can’t imagine it’s too clean given she has dustmops for paws, but she seems happy enough about it.
And one of our cats would turn the water bowl over to lick the spilled water from the floor! Till we got a bowl that he couldn't upend.
But nothing is funnier than the way this cat drinks by putting its whole head under a running faucet: http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/blogs/crazy-water-cat.html
Please put your coffee cup down before viewing the video. I'm not buying you a new keyboard! :-)
Maincoon?
One of my cats, Coobs, has to ‘scoot’ the water bowl first, I guess to see if anything is in it (it’s a silver bowl so I guess it’s hard to tell for him), and then keeps his paw on the bowl the entire time while he’s drinking. He also likes to watch whenever the toilet flushes, he’ll put his front paws on the rim and watch everything go down with intense interest. My husband thinks he’s dumber than a Brick (also one of his nicknames) but I think he’s secretly a genius! ;)
Mine likes her water cold so she gets it from the refrigerator dispenser. This is done by sitting in front of us and meowing and whacking us with her paw until we get her what she wants.
I have one that cleans out baby food jars like that.