On Dec 16, 8:35 pm, " JimH" ask wrote:
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John H. wrote:
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:40:29 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
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"John H." wrote in message
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Here's what my cat does every time I visit our downstairs bathroom.
The
damn thing won't drink out of a bowl!

http://tinyurl.com/22uj5j

Let me guess: Likes the drip? What the hell is it with them? My
son's cat's the same way. She once slept in the sink overnight
waiting for someone to turn on the drip in the morning. I wondered
if she didn't like the taste or scent of the bowl, so we switched to
glass (instead of plastic), china, you name it. Nope. Only the drip
would do.
Amen, you got it. It's gotta be a drip. And, I can't just run a
little
water in the sink and stopper it.
They want the FRESH water, no one likes stale water. Fix yourself a
glass of water, let it sit for half a day, than taste it. Now you
understand why cat's like fresh water.
Wrong. Cats (along with most animals) could care less if the water is
fresh or 5 days old as long as it is not contaminated.

Fresh to us is cold and fluorinated. A cat could care less.

You might be correct, but I was giving you my perspective and reasoning
based upon owning 3 cats over a 20 yr period. These cats would stand in
front of her full bowl of water and meow for a fresh bowl. They also
like to drink out of the toilet after it was flushed, or paw at the
faucet so we would let it drip slowly, or hop up while you were brushing
your teeth just to drink the water as it flowed. So based upon my
experience they really did prefer fresh water.

I was wondering what feline experts would say and according to
felinefollies.com (and numerous other sources), they say:

TEXTBOOK ANSWER -- Cats, like most other animals, prefer their food and
water fresh, and running water is most appealing for that reason.

So based upon my 20 years experience, and the advice of all feline
experts who said cats prefer fresh running water, I have to disagree
with you, cats do care if their water is fresh.

Fresh can mean anything and the purified/treated water coming out of our
faucets is certainly not what nature calls fresh.

If you want to turn this into a loogie picker/booger type discussion,
which you are really trying hard to do, then you can discuss it with
yourself. ;-)

No, I have to disagree with you, I casually mentioned fresh water, and you
started this discussion. I am ending it now.

I certainly understand why you would want to end this discussion.

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Me too.....I don't blame him one bit for ending this.
It's because it's very hard to teach idiots.