Water issues..

[grampyngramy]

Kazee very seldom drinks on his own. If I take the bottle to him he will drink. Remember he is blind in one eye. And maybe partially blind in the other. I am not sure if he can't find the bottle or just doesn't know he needs it. I took some water melon and water and mixed it together and strained it into his water bottle in hopes maybe he will smell it. Nothing yet. Changing water daily. Any ideas?

[Nancy in New York]

Kazee very seldom drinks on his own. If I take the bottle to him he will drink. Remember he is blind in one eye. And maybe partially blind in the other. I am not sure if he can't find the bottle or just doesn't know he needs it. I took some water melon and water and mixed it together and strained it into his water bottle in hopes maybe he will smell it. Nothing yet. Changing water daily. Any ideas?
Let me alert a member to this thread that also takes the water bottle to her squirrel.
IF you ever need a babysitter for Kazee, just remind them that he needs them to squirt the water bottle
for him every half hour. :grin2
Before I alert SammysMom to this thread, I do want to add. While Sammy would drink on his own, whenever the bottle was offered to him, he would eagerly drink. You would think a squirrel who knows where the bottle is, would drink if he was thirsty, but apparently Sammy didn't realize he was still thirsty until given the bottle. :eek :skwredup :grin2

[Charley Chuckles]

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get Little Girl to drink her water, she always used her bottle, I haven't seen her do that for months, and she has never used a dish even though I keep one there :shakehead I do give her a ba ba of FV every morning (she will be 3 but still takes it, she was a head trauma baby) but I never see or hear the bottle being used ...I also give her watermelon, but don't know what else to do :dono I even tried rubbing a pecan around the rim of the bowl and on the bottle tube, but nothing :tap
Sorry for the thread jack, just am so worried and can't understand why she stopped drinking, and she doesn't look dehydrated :dono

[lilidukes]

I've had neuros who would only drink from a bowl.
I use a heavy crock dog bowl that they can't tip
over.
I have sqrls who drink almost a bottle a day and some
who barely touch their water. Each ones needs are
different.

[grampyngramy]

I have been pulling my hair out trying to get Little Girl to drink her water, she always used her bottle, I haven't seen her do that for months, and she has never used a dish even though I keep one there :shakehead I do give her a ba ba of FV every morning (she will be 3 but still takes it, she was a head trauma baby) but I never see or hear the bottle being used ...I also give her watermelon, but don't know what else to do :dono I even tried rubbing a pecan around the rim of the bowl and on the bottle tube, but nothing :tap
Sorry for the thread jack, just am so worried and can't understand why she stopped drinking, and she doesn't look dehydrated :dono

No thread jack seen by me. Same issues, maybe we can all help each other. I tried rubbing water mellon and orange around the spout, I figured the stronger smelling things may draw him in, but it did not. I also have a heavr ceramic ramekin for water but he has yet to even think of using it.

[SammysMom]

Okay, you just put a small white towel over your arm and approach wth the bottle properly positioned and gently squeeze until the squirrel on the receiving end deigns fit to be finished. Sammy is rather a lazy sort and I think getting the water to come out takes too much effort. :shakehead
He also drinks from the pressed glass vase that we keep on the radiator in our dining room for the CAT.
In my opinion, if they are not looking or acting dehydrated (i.e. low appetite and energy levels) leave them alone and they will do fine. I would definitely offer the bottle, but not go crazy as long as there is one available at all times.

[CritterMom]

Actually, with Kayzee being as neuro as he is, I would keep an eye on his water intake. We don't know exactly how he perceives his scrambled little world, you know?

I would do this though - first, buy a few more water bottles and locate them in multiple places, so he is running into them all over the place instead of just the one spot. Second, clean, clean, clean. The problem with water bottles is that people get lazy with them. Do you want to drink day old water that has been in a glass? No - it tastes yucky. Fresh at least once a day.:thumbsup

[grampyngramy]

Actually, with Kayzee being as neuro as he is, I would keep an eye on his water intake. We don't know exactly how he perceives his scrambled little world, you know?

I would do this though - first, buy a few more water bottles and locate them in multiple places, so he is running into them all over the place instead of just the one spot. Second, clean, clean, clean. The problem with water bottles is that people get lazy with them. Do you want to drink day old water that has been in a glass? No - it tastes yucky. Fresh at least once a day.:thumbsup

I change his water every morn and rinse with hot water also. I use our fridge filtered water as our tap water suckks. We have 3 water bottles and this is the one he likes. The others he wanted nothing to do with.

[grampyngramy]

Ok, little turd drank from the cats water. It is one of them square one ice cream buckets. I was in the kitchen finishing dinner and I turn around in time to see him climb the bucket and drink. I about shipped my pants.