Water Drinking - Cats

Weston Chin

What most people don't know, is that cats do not like to drink water. Some may learn to drink it because of their totally dry diet but it doesn't come naturally if cats are eating a natural diet of small rodents they drink very little, their kidney are far more efficient than ours at ridding the body of waste product. This reflects their ancestral origin from which they were descended, they are accustom to arid region and during the course of evolution would have been forced to develop unusually efficient kidneys if it were to survive.

These situation changes if the cats are fed on commercially prepare food. Today a cat who is given nothing but dry food becomes de-hydrated causing urine to be highly concentrated leading to urinary tract problems such as the formation of crystals and stones. Problem such as constipation and intestinal blockage can also be traced back to a cats natural disinclination to drink fluids.

Cats receive nearly all the fluids they need from the prey they eat: rodent, lizard, birds, and bugs usually have a moisture contents of about 70 percent. Cat feeding on modern dried food, which may be tasty but is far from ideal for them, must have fresh water always available to them and must drink large quantities of it if they are to survive. Although many cats do hate water, there are also cats who are fascinated by it.

Tolerance, for water varies enormously and is generally a personal like or dislike,a number of owners have notice to their dismay that their feline pets seems to have a passion for drinking from puddles in the garden, despite the fact that on the kitchen floor there is an immaculately clean dish of pure tap water awaiting them, this behavior may seems inexplicable, but there is a simple chemical reason for it.

Fresh tap water is heavily treated with chemicals, and often chlorinated strongly enough to have a smell that the cats sensitive nose cannot stand,so the stale water in the puddle and pools outside is more attractive,it may seems to be full of microbes and rotting vegetation, but these are natural and organic and only give it an attractive flavor.

Other cats enjoy drinking from a faucet and will come running when you turn it on... http://catsecure.blogspot.com/

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