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liamsen:
!!!!THIS ACTUALLY HAS A REASON!!!
The most people put the water bowl next to the food bowl.
This makes the water soiled from the cats point of view!
Why?
Because outdoors water is often contaminated if dead meat is next to it (aka an animal corpse, cat food)
If you put the water bowl next to the cat food the cat is worrying due to it’s instincts that the water could poison it.
That’s the reason why cats often prefered water that’s far away from the food source. Even toilet water seems cleaner and less dangerous for them!
Solution?
In our home the water bowl is in another room. While the food bowl is in the kitchen, the water is in the bed room.
Since we changed that our cats are drinking much more water and seemed even healtheir because of that!
oh we did this! by accident! There was a cup of drinking water on the coffee table and she adopted it as hers, and ever since we have been leaving a cup of water on the table or on the shelf by the window, and she loves it and drinks a lot and her fur is better! Science, I guess.
liamsen:
!!!!THIS ACTUALLY HAS A REASON!!!
The most people put the water bowl next to the food bowl.
This makes the water soiled from the cats point of view!
Why?
Because outdoors water is often contaminated if dead meat is next to it (aka an animal corpse, cat food)
If you put the water bowl next to the cat food the cat is worrying due to it’s instincts that the water could poison it.
That’s the reason why cats often prefered water that’s far away from the food source. Even toilet water seems cleaner and less dangerous for them!
Solution?
In our home the water bowl is in another room. While the food bowl is in the kitchen, the water is in the bed room.
Since we changed that our cats are drinking much more water and seemed even healtheir because of that!
oh we did this! by accident! There was a cup of drinking water on the coffee table and she adopted it as hers, and ever since we have been leaving a cup of water on the table or on the shelf by the window, and she loves it and drinks a lot and her fur is better! Science, I guess.
