What is it with cats?

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  6 June 2016     21:27314520
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  Fresh water and milk put out every morning but they still prefer stagnant water in soiled plant pots.
  
  

  

  
  
  

  
• Andy B

  • Location: dover
  • Registered: 10 Nov 2012
  • Posts: 1,820
  6 June 2016     21:49314522
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  Our cat is exactly the same Howard.Fresh water and milk but she will usually go round the side of the house and drink water from an old bucket with algy and things swimming around in it.I,m sure the cats know something we dont,perhaps it has some sort of health giving properties,who knows?
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
  • Posts: 62,352
  6 June 2016     22:03314524
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  Something to do with it being rainwater I am told Andy. First noticed it when she had a litter under my stairs, wasn't even my cat then!! She decided to go out and leave me in charge of the "mice" she had given birth to and drank some muck.
  
  If we done it dysentery or worse.
• Jan Higgins

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 5 Jul 2010
  • Posts: 13,895
  7 June 2016     08:48314527
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  Both our cats are the same Howard.
  
  We no longer have their drinking water inside as they never used it even when it was raining instead we now keep a large bowl of rainwater outside.
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  I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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