Hi,
I am fairly new here although I have been checking this place out regularly. I have a beautiful male American shorthaired Tiger named Samwise (in short, just Sam
) who is about 10 months old now. He is a total brat. I live in Rhode Island and my husband and I adopted him back in January from a little village shelter... only a couple of days before we found out I was pregnant... oy (I am halfway now)!
Anyway, he is a very sweet and affectionate cat but can be a big brat sometimes. He is up to date with all his shots and also got neutered back in January when we got him. He is a strictly indoors cat since we don't want to take any risks during my pregnancy with toxoplasmosis. I am not immune against it. My husband took the job of cleaning the cat litter on himself, poor guy. He is not declawed either since I am morally opposed to it and who knows, he might get the chance to get outside later.
One problem I have with Sam is that I can't put his bowl of water down for him to drink whenever he wants. His food is in the corner of the kitchen and we are fine with it but whenever I want to put water down, he instantly throws his front paws in the water and starts playing with it, splashing it all over until he gets ALL the water on the floor AND ends up tipping the bowl over. After getting rid of a plastic bowl, I tried a china bowl thinking he couldn't tip it over but it didn't help. He uses all his might to do it anyway. I have tried putting a rug under the bowl, but it becomes so yucky and attracks little bugs like silverfish. I have tried with newspaper that I change daily but that's not a good idea either because Sam also licks the water from the newspaper after he spills on it... can't be healthy for him.
Yesterday we got this water dispenser thingy for him that gives water whenever needed. It turned out to be worse than a bowl since this gives him PLENTY more water to play with.
I don't know what to do. Another solution could be buying a super-heavy big china bowl that he can't possible tip over? But still he would get all the water on the floor anyway using his paws.
The only place he will drink water from is running water from the fosset. But that's pretty difficult for me to handle all the time. He just loves the sink. He also sleeps during the day in the sink of the main bathroom (we don't use that one as much since we have another bathroom in the bedroom). Also, our bedroom is a no-no place for Sam when we go to bed so we close the door at night... but since there are no doors between the kitchen, hallway and living room, he comes crying every single morning in front of the door and sticks his paws under the door until we are awake and open the door... maybe partly because he is thirsty??
Another little quirk of his is that he starts chasing his food around too. He will throw his food from his bowl with his paws, let it slide over the kitchen floor, chase it down and then eat it. That's not really that big of a problem for me though.
Is there anyone here who has or has had the same experience with their cat? Starting to become desperate here... although I love my little baby to death!
Here is a picture of our Sam!
Thank you!
~ Noor
I am fairly new here although I have been checking this place out regularly. I have a beautiful male American shorthaired Tiger named Samwise (in short, just Sam
Anyway, he is a very sweet and affectionate cat but can be a big brat sometimes. He is up to date with all his shots and also got neutered back in January when we got him. He is a strictly indoors cat since we don't want to take any risks during my pregnancy with toxoplasmosis. I am not immune against it. My husband took the job of cleaning the cat litter on himself, poor guy. He is not declawed either since I am morally opposed to it and who knows, he might get the chance to get outside later.
One problem I have with Sam is that I can't put his bowl of water down for him to drink whenever he wants. His food is in the corner of the kitchen and we are fine with it but whenever I want to put water down, he instantly throws his front paws in the water and starts playing with it, splashing it all over until he gets ALL the water on the floor AND ends up tipping the bowl over. After getting rid of a plastic bowl, I tried a china bowl thinking he couldn't tip it over but it didn't help. He uses all his might to do it anyway. I have tried putting a rug under the bowl, but it becomes so yucky and attracks little bugs like silverfish. I have tried with newspaper that I change daily but that's not a good idea either because Sam also licks the water from the newspaper after he spills on it... can't be healthy for him.
Yesterday we got this water dispenser thingy for him that gives water whenever needed. It turned out to be worse than a bowl since this gives him PLENTY more water to play with.
I don't know what to do. Another solution could be buying a super-heavy big china bowl that he can't possible tip over? But still he would get all the water on the floor anyway using his paws.
The only place he will drink water from is running water from the fosset. But that's pretty difficult for me to handle all the time. He just loves the sink. He also sleeps during the day in the sink of the main bathroom (we don't use that one as much since we have another bathroom in the bedroom). Also, our bedroom is a no-no place for Sam when we go to bed so we close the door at night... but since there are no doors between the kitchen, hallway and living room, he comes crying every single morning in front of the door and sticks his paws under the door until we are awake and open the door... maybe partly because he is thirsty??
Another little quirk of his is that he starts chasing his food around too. He will throw his food from his bowl with his paws, let it slide over the kitchen floor, chase it down and then eat it. That's not really that big of a problem for me though.
Is there anyone here who has or has had the same experience with their cat? Starting to become desperate here... although I love my little baby to death!
Here is a picture of our Sam!
Thank you!
~ Noor