Tag: drinking

clandestine drinker

Never ever have I seen Henry drink out of his water bowl.  I replenish it not just daily but several times a day when I pass it.  I have also tried leaving it for longer because I thought he might like it when it has been standing for a while.  I’ve tried serving him in glasses or coffee mugs but he ignores them.

What he does though, is jump onto the kitchen sink and he drinks from whatever has been standing in the sink.  Since I caught him doing this I’ve been tampering with possible flavours but he drinks whether the mug had coffee in it or was clean before, whether it is a rinsed beer glass or a measuring jug with beaten egg stuck to the sides. He seems to be doing it just because. He is a cat, after all.

And quite uncharacteristically, my husband said: “At least, he drinks SOMETHING.”

water, water everywhere

I change the water in Henry’s waterbowl everytime I feed him (i.e. three times a day), I change the bowl once a day.  Yet I’ve never seen Henry drink out of it.

He gets enough to drink, though. He drinks rainwater, he finds outside.  He drinks water standing in the sink if I don’t get to him first.  He drinks from puddles after I had a shower.  And just now I caught him drinking from my husband’s toothbrush mug which he (my husband, that is) inexplicably always leaves filled with water after brushing.

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