My cat and rain water

[PAUL161]

My cat, who just turned 19 last month, loves to drink rainwater. Now, this is a pampered cat that even has a heated house, (she lives in the garage), for winter weather, gets the best food, and has fresh filtered water every day, but if it rains, she can't wait to get out and drink rainwater from a puddle. Just curious if this is a mineral thing?

 

[JPSmit]

I suspect it is a cat thing - ours has all the aforementioned amenities (actually is a completely indoor cat) but likes to drink out of the toilet.

 

[GregW]

Is the filtered water near the food dish? My understanding is cats don't like that. I've had two that preferred water in another room. I have tried spring water in the past for the minerals without any luck.

 

[PAUL161]

Greg, we've always had her water by the food bowl and she has never had a problem with that, but saying that, she has always prefered rainwater over filtered water. I guess it's just a cat thing.

 

[John Turney]

One of our poodles prefers water from the outdoor fountain with a bit of algae in it. I won't tell you how pampered he is.

 

[DrEntropy]

Our three current residents get open-fed with dry kibble and twice a day are given canned food (Friskies salmon pate, no less). The girl-cat Ethel will prefer drinking water from a storm drain curbside to water from an "automatic" water dish outside. She will drink the auto-water if nothing else is available and only sporadically drinks from a bowl sitting beside the indoor food station. Fred and Lucy drink from either the bowl or the auto-watering one. There's no figuring cat-think.

 

[pdplot]

My son's cat Gretzky drinks from the bathroom sink faucet.

 

[JPSmit]

My son's cat Gretzky drinks from the bathroom sink faucet.

Does a cat called Gretzky have 99 lives?

 

[GregW]

And if it's used 90, is it Waning?