Luna has discovered the joys of drinking directly out of our bathroom faucet.
Prior to this, we used a Catit water fountain but eventually found it got dirty too fast plus the unit was not entirely of stainless steel so couldn't put it in the dishwasher.
At the recommendations of many cat people, I purchased the Drinkwell 360 but this one is so hard to take apart/put back together and it's gigantic which I don't want sitting on my kitchen floor to trip over. I'm returning it.
In the interim Luna has now become utterly obsessed with the bathroom faucet to the point where she's spending hours hanging out on the counter, waiting for us to turn it on. This is a huge problem as it's the main bathroom in the house and on the 2nd level. Constantly climbing the stairs all day to accommodate her is just ridiculous let alone, I'm working from home and too busy to even remember she may be up there.
Plus I dislike her spending so much time up there. I mean, I even find her sleeping on the counter if I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. How is that comfortable?
Can't just shut the door to keep her out because the litterboxes live in that room.
This morning she shunned breakfast and headed right back up to the bathroom I went to get her, put her on the floor and she ran off in another room instead of coming downstairs to eat her food. FYI - weekends I get up later so she certainly has to be needing to eat by now.
A few things:
a) She is 1-1/2 and has no underlying disease. She recently had her wellness exam and all was normal.
b) Can't move the litter boxes elsewhere to restrict access to the bathroom. We have nowhere else in our home where we can squeeze them in.
c) She still drinks out of the stainless steel dish downstairs at times. It's whisker stressless. She gets a clean bowl daily and the water is changed in that bowl several times a day to keep the water clean as possible.
d) Thankfully she's never attempted to do this in the kitchen sink!
e) We have another small bathroom downstairs but the sink is a pedestal type and there's nowhere for her to platform so she never asks for water there.
Potential Life Stressor:
a) She's currently eating more kibble than she normally would. I limit it in general and she's always preferred wet food over it thankfully. However, we are doing a limited ingredient diet to help rule out a food allergy before moving on to more invasive procedures. Many of her favorite foods have been removed from her diet. No poultry at all. No dairy, which she adores and was a good small treat for her. Slowly changing her kibble to a limited type protein (rabbit).
b) I'm aware kibble can cause more thirst which is understandable. I was prepared for that to happen but expected she'd be drinking more from bowls, not a tap!
Any tips and stopping her from doing this? I just placed a bunch of stuff all along the sink so visually there's no room for her to jump and platform to the area.
I know cats prefer running water and found out tap water is their favorite even over purified running water so this makes sense but it's just utterly inconvenient to constantly have to turn the water on for her so many times a day. My knees can't take that much climbing LOL
Suggestions for a fountain that is NOT by Catit or Drinkwell? Would like the water to flow like a faucet since this is her preference.
Prior to this, we used a Catit water fountain but eventually found it got dirty too fast plus the unit was not entirely of stainless steel so couldn't put it in the dishwasher.
At the recommendations of many cat people, I purchased the Drinkwell 360 but this one is so hard to take apart/put back together and it's gigantic which I don't want sitting on my kitchen floor to trip over. I'm returning it.
In the interim Luna has now become utterly obsessed with the bathroom faucet to the point where she's spending hours hanging out on the counter, waiting for us to turn it on. This is a huge problem as it's the main bathroom in the house and on the 2nd level. Constantly climbing the stairs all day to accommodate her is just ridiculous let alone, I'm working from home and too busy to even remember she may be up there.
Plus I dislike her spending so much time up there. I mean, I even find her sleeping on the counter if I go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. How is that comfortable?
Can't just shut the door to keep her out because the litterboxes live in that room.
This morning she shunned breakfast and headed right back up to the bathroom I went to get her, put her on the floor and she ran off in another room instead of coming downstairs to eat her food. FYI - weekends I get up later so she certainly has to be needing to eat by now.
A few things:
a) She is 1-1/2 and has no underlying disease. She recently had her wellness exam and all was normal.
b) Can't move the litter boxes elsewhere to restrict access to the bathroom. We have nowhere else in our home where we can squeeze them in.
c) She still drinks out of the stainless steel dish downstairs at times. It's whisker stressless. She gets a clean bowl daily and the water is changed in that bowl several times a day to keep the water clean as possible.
d) Thankfully she's never attempted to do this in the kitchen sink!
e) We have another small bathroom downstairs but the sink is a pedestal type and there's nowhere for her to platform so she never asks for water there.
Potential Life Stressor:
a) She's currently eating more kibble than she normally would. I limit it in general and she's always preferred wet food over it thankfully. However, we are doing a limited ingredient diet to help rule out a food allergy before moving on to more invasive procedures. Many of her favorite foods have been removed from her diet. No poultry at all. No dairy, which she adores and was a good small treat for her. Slowly changing her kibble to a limited type protein (rabbit).
b) I'm aware kibble can cause more thirst which is understandable. I was prepared for that to happen but expected she'd be drinking more from bowls, not a tap!
Any tips and stopping her from doing this? I just placed a bunch of stuff all along the sink so visually there's no room for her to jump and platform to the area.
I know cats prefer running water and found out tap water is their favorite even over purified running water so this makes sense but it's just utterly inconvenient to constantly have to turn the water on for her so many times a day. My knees can't take that much climbing LOL
Suggestions for a fountain that is NOT by Catit or Drinkwell? Would like the water to flow like a faucet since this is her preference.
