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| 785.1 | Water chokes | CSC32::JOHNS | My chocolate, all mine! | Tue Sep 22 1987 16:03 | 5 |
| Gee, my cats haven't had this happen, but *I* have. Not often,
just once in a long while when the water goes down wrong or tickles
my throat...
Carol
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| 785.2 | Heimlich Himmy | NOD::TAMIR | | Tue Sep 22 1987 16:13 | 12 |
| When Honey was a kitten, he also used to drink from the faucet.
He also used to have those occasional coughing spasms. Since Honey
had raised hairballs to an art form, I assumed it was also hairballs.
When I told the vet about it, he suspected that it was merely that
some water had gone down the wind pipe and he was having trouble
clearing it. It was then that he taught me how to do kitty CPR
and kitty air-way clearing. It was during that exercise that Honey
decided never to drink out of the faucet again.
Your vet can probably show you how to do this as well.
Mary
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| 785.3 | Fresh Water Anyone? | 16821::BALL | I AM standing up! | Wed Sep 23 1987 10:38 | 11 |
| One of my former babies, Frederick, loved to drink from the faucet.
He much preferred the cold fresh water from the faucet to his bowl,
so we let him drink as much as he wanted. He didn't cough, but
he would run out of breath. He'd drink then stop and look up
with his tongue hanging out of his mouth and pant for breath and
then go back at it. I suppose your baby could be going to fast
and just choking on the water.
Pat
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| 785.4 | Tap Water Bowl | FDCV01::FPSJAN | | Wed Sep 23 1987 11:19 | 12 |
| Our family, especially our smallest Punkin, likes fresh water alot
better than stale water. We keep a water bowl by the food, but
they know that "good" water comes from the tap so we keep another
water bowl by the tap and frequently refill it. This is the preferred
water source.
Our cats never drank from the tap, but used to lick anything and
everything that just came from the tap, that is how we got the idea
of the tap water bowl.
Jan
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| 785.5 | Private Waterhole | SQM::MURPHY | Is it Friday yet? | Wed Sep 23 1987 11:56 | 6 |
| Holly likes to drink from the tap in the bathtub occasionally.
However, all three cats consider the pan of fresh water I keep in
my room (for sinus condition) their private waterhole. Only once
in awhile do they use the bowl of fresh water in the kitchen.
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| 785.6 | The waterfall drink please! | DELNI::SCHWINDT | | Wed Sep 23 1987 12:36 | 15 |
| My older kitty Dazdee has always had his fill of
water from the sink. He has been doing this since
he was a kitten. At first the coughing attacks
worried me, but he always came out of it without
caughing anything up. I figure he had just gotten
a case of the hickups.
I suppose he just likes the running water. He never
drinks from his bowl no matter how fresh the water is
or how often I refill it. (I'm sure if he was really
thirsty he would, but when I'm around, why not go for
the prefered drink! :^>)
Katie
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| 785.7 | Gee, Mr. Pussycat didn't invent this trick! | VAXWRK::SKALTSIS | Deb | Wed Sep 23 1987 12:52 | 9 |
| I can't go near the bathroom without Argus bounding onto the sink
demanding that he get a drink. He will stay there for hours if I
don't turn off the faucet (but since it is important for an FUS
cat to drink a lot of water, I don't mind). He never chokes, but
he makes the funniest faces while he is savoring his tap water.
Sometimes he licks his chops. Sometimes it looks like he gets a
mouthfull and is chewing it.
Deb
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