Cat Always Drinks An Oddly Large Amount of Water?!

(05-13-2014, 10:38 AM)Bloomsie Wrote: I would highly recommend taking your cat to your most trusted vet. Cats are typically supposed to drink a lot of water to prevent dehydration, however it seems that your cat is drinking to survive. Also take into account that weather could take it's toll. How is the weather where you live now? Is it extremely hot? Perhaps your cat is dehydrated and this is it's only way of cooling off.

What breed do you have? Sometimes different breeds have a different way of living. I currently have a Russian Blue. According to my vet, they need to drink two to three times the average cat because of their thick coat and active body. If Russian Blue's don't get enough water throughout the day, their kidney can crystallize. So perhaps your cat is drinking enough in relation to it's breeds' needs.

Hey, thank you for the reply. My Cat is an American Short Hair, and a tabby. He's also a fairly large cat too. And I don't mean fat, I mean he's just big and lanky. The weather we've been having recently is about 70 in the sun and 65 or so indoors. We also have all our windows open (we have screens in) and the fans are always running, so it's plenty cool.

I have no idea why he drinks so much! It's just something that he's done for a long while, but I'm never sure whether it's just a normal cat things or a sign something is wrong.