Keeping Your Cat Hydrated

The following are a list of ideas that will help ensure your cat is sufficiently hydrated:

• Feeding canned foods.

• Mixing water into your cat’s food (wet or dry).

• Placing water containers at different locations in the house.  

• Using water fountains:  http://www.petfountain.com. 

• Using different sized water containers:  

  • Wide, shallow dishes, such as a glass pie pan.

  • Tall, skinny containers, such as drinking cups.   

• Leaving water in the bottom of a sink, bathtub, or shower for your cat to drink. 

• Offering low sodium chicken broth, clam juice, tuna juice, or low salt gravy mixes (check the ingredients to make sure no onions or garlic are present).

• Putting a shallow bowl under a slowly dripping faucet.

• Making ice cubes out of fish or meat broth and putting them in your cat’s water bowl to flavor the water.

• Offering Catsip or lactose free milk.

• Changing the water at least daily.

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