I have one purebred Siamese and two feral brown tabby siblings, all approaching 3 yo. One of the tabbies (the female, less bright one) plays in the water bowl and would have continued to drag it all over the kitchen if I hadn’t bought a huge, heavy doggie bowl with a rubber bottom rim that doesn’t slide. Her brother and the little girl Siamese behave themselves with the water bowl. The boy tabby isn’t above licking the occasional drip out of the bathtub faucet but he doesn’t make any mess. The two rescues were neutered/spayed at 3 months, before I was allowed to bring them home. They seemed to do fine and have no undesired puberty behaviors and have remained healthy. The Siamese was spayed at 4 months, it was a condition to get her papers from the breeder. Again, that worked out well.
I had a dog that splashed all his water out of the bowl, until I raised it up on a 1-ft high stool. But your kitty may be smarter than he was (not that that’s a high bar).
Cats like moving water. You could try getting one of those fancy fountains that keeps the water cycling and filtered.
Of course, you might just end up with the cat splashing water all over the wire and plug. Cats are jerks!
Thank you @BippityBoppityBoo. More bad water news is always a good thing, LOL!!!
@needscoffee, the scary thing is that George is a figuring things out kitty already and he’s only 4 1/2 months old. I swear he can count, because last night hubs accidentally gave VBC one more treat than George and George demonstrated that he knew how to caterwaul.
@Johnny_Bravo we have a couple of these. I bought a white one when VBC insisted on taking the lid off this one and leaving it on the floor for people to walk on and break. When we moved here, I thought the cats needed a red one, so we now have two. They are fairly heavy and not easy to drag around, but the bowl is wide enough for an idiot kitten to run through and get all four fuzzy feets wet so he can track water through the house.
Hubs has been out in the catio, considering how to put a “pool” in for the cats. It’s not like we spoil them or anything!!!
At least he has his priorities straight!
Besides the COVID denial thing, he’s worth keeping around. He’s the one who ordered brown paper grocery bags from Amazon because George went through the ones we got from the store so quickly.
Awww….that’s a keeper.
My kitties like to tip over empty brown paper bags and hide inside, jumping out to ambush a sibling kitty who meanders by unaware, thence all hell breaks loose and much pouncing on bags ensues. Inevitably the less gifted kitty tries to dash out of the bag and gets her head stuck in the brown paper handles and drags the bag frantically all over the house. Her feline brother and sister point their paws, roll around and laugh at her.
My cat loves to move the water bowl too and of course the place he always moves it to is somewhere I slip and fall on it. I fixed to by velcroing the to floor. No moving the bowl.
1kg for kittens is what I’ve always heard too. At 3 or 4 weeks, they aren’t even weaned yet; that doesn’t usually happen until they’re 6 to 8 weeks old, and sometimes even longer.
My two 6 month old male kittens are at the vet’s today getting neutered. Silverfish is a gray haired Tabby and OJ is an orange Tabby. I think they could have went in a tad earlier since I would see them go from attempting to nurse on their mama, Duchess (long haired tortie, spayed) to attempting to mount her. She’s been smacking them for both things.
My oldest son’s solution to his cats playing in their water dish was to place the dish in one of those small hard sided kiddie pools. Towels all around the inside keeps feet dryish.
i had a cat that would play in the water dish. he would empty out the bowl. i ended up getting a fountain that did not pool water.
i would fill the tub a wee bit for him to splash around a bit, he enjoyed that.
We have two Maine Coons about the same age. Brother and sister from the same litter. Because we don’t want incest kittens, the boy is getting his snip at just over five months - that’s next week - the vet would like to wait until six. We decided to have him go because its less invasive - and will wait another month for his sister.
(He’s over ten pounds already)
Rescues do it very early because they have a mission to keep unwanted cats from being born.