YSK: Put an icecube in your cats water dish, it will encourage adequate hydration plus they like it as a novelty
20d 4h ago by sopuli.xyz/u/sopularity_fax in youshouldknow
Let them watch you put it in so they investigate. Its fun too, they like the little crackle it makes upon impact
Cool tip. Moar cat tips please
finally someone cool
How? Cats don't hydrate well from simply drinking water. They take water on more from their food, which is why it is important they get some kind of wet food, and not just dry kibble.
Also, it's more helpful to encourage drinking water by having it in a wide, shallow dish with some kind of pattern on the bottom so they can see it is water.
Mine empty their bowl regularly to the point they learned to move it around noisily to make sure i know to refill it
Mine must be exceptional i guess, just like their ol' sopularityfax
Not saying yours have it, but our older cats usually started drinking more once they were older due to kidney complications, caused by phosphorus in cheap cat food. Look out for that.
I appreciate that; however, tho I moved from Blue Buffalo to a fewer ingredient allergy sensitive catfood thats pretty expensive, there hasnt been any appreciabledifference I'm aware of. One of them or another has always let me know they need water
A little over a year ago we switched all of our cats to a wet food diet. Before that I never realized how little water they get from drinking. It is something like 1/12 of a teaspoon per "lick" (0.409ml).
I assure you, mine are quite a directly thirsty bunch. I must have to water them basically every other day, it seems
I am guessing you only give them dry food.
My cat stopped drinking water entirely since i switched his diet to wet food. Although I do add an additional spoon of water to his food just to be sure he stays hydrated
Theres no wetfood in The Wild
There's no dry food in the wild; all the wild food is wet.
...blood?
Weird downvotes
Its whatevs, used to it. Matters not to the self-actualized :X
First time on Lemmy? Lol
It's essentially just spam. It's not useful information, and isn't explained in any way as to why you should know it, despite the claim that it will hydrate your pet better (because it won't).
Meh, it worked for OP. Cats are unique, it's possible someone else could find this works for their cats because of this post. Doesn't feel like spam to me. And it no longer has negative votes, so I guess others agree
UR essentially spam
Why? How?
Cuz they like to lick it, even kings never knew such luxury nor them. It marvels them
Just try it