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Donnad, I noticed in your picture gallery you snapped some shots of your MC with head in toilet. Ran-Gan does this also, drinking from there even tho' we leave water for the cats down at floor level in a bowl. Is this common with these cats?
We have to be careful to leave the lid closed otherwise he's in there slaking his thirst.
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Originally Posted by Whyemier
Miss Ginger is not drinking from the toilet, she is investigating the new hole in her litter kwitter. I am toilet training her!!! well that's the idea anyways. Haha. I have been training her for about a month now. See the thread Litter knitter. Although I am sure drinking out of the toilet is not harmful. My beagles will every chance they get. It just grosses us out. Thank you for looking at my pictures. I love this little monster!
p.s. I am glad it's not you! ;)
I did read threads on the forum about members maine coons drinking out of the toilets though, when I joined :-D though Neevie doesn't do it - we actually close the toilet lid so it wouldn't happen, because she's a licker... means when we're having a cuddle, I get my hands thoroughly licked clean - now, I know it's a bit hypocritic because I know she tends to clean very dirty parts of her own body with that tongue, but I don't think I would like thought of that tongue having been in my toilets as well.... :rofl: gotta draw the line somewhere...
Alekto, you have a point, I think most animals will choose fresh cold water over warm water in their dishes. I too, kept my toilets lids closed until I started potty training Ginger plus we have a gate on the bathroom door that just allows Ginger through not the Beagles. I would love to buy the "kids" one of them awesome waterfall bowls but they are over a hundred dollars! I can not justify that kind of money for a water bowl.
I got her this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pet-Mate-060...s=fountain+cat about a year ago.... but she wasn't really impressed at the time - she sniffed it carefully before concluding that this one one of those humanz things holding no interest whatsoever - now that she's learned that drinking from the tap is really interesting (apparently...) we might reinstal the thing.
very cool!!! $35 US I have added it to my Amazon wish wist :)
Good luck everyone with the fountains.......
Several of our MC's loved drinking from a running tap,one even used to be able to turn taps on until we changed them so thought we would buy a fountain,the first one was a drinkwell ,they loved it,water chilled & flowing & we had it for a few years until the day finally came when the servant got fed up mopping the floor where they sat & swiped their paws through it flooding everywhere,it was a daily battle mopping the floor would just get it dry from one when another had a go & wet paw prints on clean bedding & across places where they shouldn't go finally tipped the balance so back to water bowls,which in turn got paddled in & tipped over then saw the catit fountain,brilliant water came down over a dome into a bowl & although they put their paw on the dome they didn't splash it all over so much so peace reigned amoung furries & mum until two certain brothers joined the household & one of them discovered the joys of laying with two front paws locked firmly around the dome to drink, of course when he moved away there was a soaking dripping bib trailing everywhere,guess what,we are now back to heavy drinking bowls again...... !!!!:satisfied:
My Teddy drinks from the loo ! Not because I like him to, he has just figured every lock out that I have put on it !!! lol And to be honest I have tried a few but he is so strong he just breaks them, so I thought lets go to the major problem the loo door, so I put on an oldfashioned cast iron latch, thought that will sort you out...............nope..............so lets put a gate up at the door, you know one of those tall baby gates,............omg he pulled it of the blooming door frame,...............not a happy mummy that day for sure !! lol he does weigh in at seventeen and a half stone so when he wants something he usually gets there !!! lmao I still put water out for him but he completely ignores it !!! lol Drinking from the wash hand basin tap is also his other source of water !
From reading all your posts I think I will opt for the heavy drinking bowl for Dylan when he arrives !!! lol