A Michael Broad Blog
An interesting study1 clearly states that the addition of Xylitol to the drinking water of cats was effective in reducing plaque and calculus in their mouths. You know that plaque and calculus builds up in the mouths of cats along the gum line and is a major cause of gum disease. Gum disease is …
Cat drinking water is the simplest and the most complex of subjects. We put water down and the job is done. Not quite. There’s quite a lot going on. It is quite a big and important topic. The paradigm food item for a domestic cat is a mouse, which contained 70% water. Dry cat …
A Bangladeshi man who looked after 12 cats in Petaling Jaya, near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was stabbed to death in front of the house where he lived. The violent incident was kicked off when the Bangladeshi man accidentally sprayed the person who killed him with water from what I understand to be a cat’s …
There is an article on the catster.com website which addresses the question in the title. It starts off with the words, “most cats don’t drink enough water”. This is incorrect. It would be correct if it applied to domestic cats who are only fed dry cat food. However, if domestic cats are fed wet …
NEWS AND COMMENT: This is a big story in the UK and it concerns the quality of drinking water. The back story to this, by the way, is that in the UK there is a crisis among the water companies particularly Thames Water which have been discharging sewage into water courses, lakes and rivers …
This is almost invariably about kidney malfunction/failure…. “Cat drinking a lot of water?” is something that comes up as a query on the Internet. Other search terms are: “cat drinking too much water” and “cat excessive vocalizations and drinking”. Sometimes cats drink out of the toilet and basin but this does not necessarily imply …
It is all about the unnatural chemicals in tap water combined with the trace remains of the detergents on the water bowl. We all know that cats have a great sense of smell and they are instinctive in their behavior which is rooted in wild cat behavior. The domestic cat’s wild ancestor does not …
What is better for your cat? Bottled water or tap water? The article applies to developed countries in the West. Decisions about providing water for your cat can be complicated; perhaps overcomplicated. There is, though, a debate about bottled water versus tap water, which has been dramatically altered by a recent research project about …
