Comment on YSK: Put an icecube in your pets water disbh, it will encourage adequate hydration

Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mine empty their bowl regularly to the point they learned to move it around noisily to make sure i know to refill it

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  • chimp@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not saying yours have it, but our older cats usually started drinking more once they were older due to kidney complications, caused by phosphorus in cheap cat food. Look out for that.

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    • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I moved from Blue Buffalo to a fewer ingredient allergy sensitive catfood thats pretty expensive, but there hasnt been any difference I’m aware of. One of them or another has always let me know they need water

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• sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Theres no wetfood in the wild

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There’s no dry food in the wild; all the wild food is wet.

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• nocturne@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A little over a year ago we switched all of our cats to a wet food diet. Before that I never realized how little water they get from drinking. It is something like 1/12 of a teaspoon per “lick” (0.409ml).

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  • sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I assure you, mine are quite a directly thirsty bunch. I have to water them basically every otheemr day, it seems

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    • nocturne@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I am guessing you only give them dry food.

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• Czele@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My cat stopped drinking water entirely since i switched his diet to wet food. Although I do add an additional spoon of water to his food just to be sure he stays hydrated

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