Need advice on my kitty again

@Carla hahaha how true ashes will knock her water bowl over if it's not fresh

@Carla Yes, dewormed and always has a bowl of fresh water. Hahaha! Good luck for her, I'm not trainable🤣 I feed her nothing but wet food.

@Carla Cats are weird like that. I have a 15 year old that will [u]only[/u] drink water from my 5 gallon fish tank. I’ve been wanting to get rid of that tank for years now, but until he goes, it stays 😂

@Carla Mine likes to drink from a fountain. I have a couple of kitty fountains in the house. The main trick is that the fountain must be large, heavy and porcelain, otherwise kitty will destroy them.

@Northwest how true I had I say had a plastic one

@Lilnonames I bought several over the years, only to have her shred them to pieces. I now only use porcelain fountains, that I buy from garden centers, designed originally for fish, with filters, multi-layered, electric, etc.

@Ontheroad Maybe provide kibble, too - so that she has a choice???

I have two cats myself... one ate a wet/dry combo diet when we first got him - but went off wet food in Spring so he was exclusively dry fed for two years... his choice.

When the second cat came, he decided to eat wet food again - but only chicken flavour... now I'm waiting to see if he goes back to just dry food when Spring comes again.

His sister (still settling in and only just starting to come out of hiding) seems to be eating two pouches of whatever she's served a day at the moment... but I have still provided her with a bowl of dry food just in case she finishes that and still wants a nibble.

@Carla 24? Wow! Arthritis? That's ancient in cat years!

@Carla That’s so true about training. One hot day after I had filled my cat’s water bowl, I got myself some ice water, and on impulse, dropped a cube in her bowl. From that day forward, when I gave her water, she’d look up expectantly for that ice cube, [b]then[/b] she’d drink. 😄

@bijouxbroussard Cats can be trained. The trick is that they mostly train you first.

@Ontheroad she's going to spend her life trying...

@Zaphod42 i had one like that years ago. I set up a large pickle jar with goldfish. He would dip his paw in and lick it off. I never saw him at the wayer bowl.

@Northwest when tosh was younger, she enjoyed a dripping faucet

@Kstrong oh yes. She hobbles around pretty gingerly. She can still jump into then onto the back of her favorite chair. She enjoys the vacuum cleaner. I believe it is the only thing she can hear.

@bijouxbroussard well, she found she preferred her drink iced. Is that so much to ask?🙃