Why Does My Cat Drink Dirty Water ?
Cats should always have a supply of water, especially if you are feeding them dried food. There on your nice clean kitchen floor is a bowl of nice clean fresh water, in a nice clean bowl.
But after a few days you see that the bowl contains the same quantity of water. Is you cat a cactus ? NO. And yes, if you look after your cat you will surely see it drink water from a puddle in your garden.
They do this because tap water is usually treated with chemicals, often chlorinated strongly enough for a cat to smell it. Cats noses are far more sensitive than human noses and many cats find this chemical odor very offensive. Stale water in puddles and pools has a far more attractive smell are far as a cat is concerned. Puddles may be full of rotten vegetation and microbes, but cats find this organic soup very tasty.
Don’t worry … nothing bad will happen to your cat unless it’s drinking water from a lake full with aligators.
if you really want your cat to drink water from it’s bowl you need to rinse your cat’s bowl more thoroughly than you would a plate for a human and let the water from the tap stand for a while before putting the bowl down for your cat, this will allow the chemicals to dissipate.
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