Sometimes Turbo likes me to 'feed' him his water, which just means sharing from my cup. If Im drinking out of a bottle I will pour some into the little plastic lid and he will drink it from that too.

Ha! My cats, especially Taj, like to drink out of one of my cups of water...so I keep a big drinking glass near the tv (on the floor.) That gets knocked over often, but she loves it so much. My ex let her drink out of his water all the time. Not me...for one thing I drink diet coke, coffee, or beer...for another...um, ewwww! :)

I sarted giving the boys (UK) pint sized glasses of water when I lived in London. Steve always kept a glass by his bed and was disturbed more than once by the boys lapping away at it.

Diz now has his own pint glass in my room - he seems to prefer it to any other source. I got rid of the fancy Cat-It running water fountain in the end - he used it sometimes, but not enough to justify the cost of the filters.

Very occasionally he shames me by drinking out of the birdbath in the garden. But I only don't like it because it has bird poop and feathers in it (Dad cleans it on a regular basis) and not because - as Mum thinks - that Diz is too posh for it! Posh? He drinks out of a pint glass not a cocktail glass!

I do monitor his water intake carefully. But there are three sources in the house and another three in the garden. I just have to keep on top of his glass because he is shut in for up to four hours at a time (see various posts re bad Diz bullying behaviour). As another poster suggested he can go without food, but his water gets renewed every day (I keep a close eye on his litter for the same reason)

I'd agree with the others. Two days isn't long enough for cat boarding.

I wouldn't worry too much over a couple days. Food, yeah, put out a good heap. Nice big bowl of water, maybe a low pan. But, leave the toilet lid UP. If the water somehow gets upset, he can drink from the toilet, he's probably looking for an excuse anyway.

As for leaving the TV/radio on, Slick seems to like it better when I leave the radio on our local station, they talk quite a bit, what with 5-10 minutes news every hour.

He likes it better than music all the time. He told me so.

When I had cats, if I left them overnight or for the weekend, they'd be fine with the dry food and plenty of water. However, they would let me know they didn't appreciate me leaving them by shredding napkins, and tossing various items on the floor.

I've got several and regularly leave them for a night or weekend. In true cat fashion, they act as though I'm an inconvenience to them when I return. They DEMAND extra canned food, rubbing and seem to feel it is a requirement to go in and out of the house every 5 minutes till I get fed up with opening/closing the door.
Toilet lid is ALWAYS left up whether I am home or away, just in case.

I always just leave out a super huge serving bowl of water, plenty of food wet and dry. I also sometimes leave a talking radio station on very low in one room. I figure after the first night they sleep most the of time anyway.


Have a good trip pico, although you are probably gone already. :)

Some cats do not like tap water. Apparently they can smell the chlorine. Water left open for that chlorine to dissipate (ie from a toilet) is often preferred by cats.

And plants, too.

yeah, I wish I could stop the triffids slurping from the bog, they always leaf a mess

New user title for classic: Crazy cat lady

We have left our cats home alone for up to three nights. Any longer than that and we get a neighbour to come and feed them. They don't seem to worry at all. We just close off the rooms we don't want demolished and they seem to do fine.

MB and I have gone away and left Bosco at home anywhere from 2 nights to a week...if we're going to be gone longer than a couple of nights, we get a friend to check in on him every day. No matter what, he's always pissed off at us when we get back. :(