Post by acodlin on Dec 28, 2010 19:37:04 GMT -5
So three of my brats have decided that the water dish is best used for swimming in. *sigh* it's an automatic water dish that when they drink it lets more water out. This has never been a problem until the last two days. Everytime I set it out, one of the three gets INTO the bowl and starts digging every last drop out. This thing holds about 1 liter of water and over the past two days my carpet has soaked up probably 3-4 liters of water. I just dont know what to do! If I put out a regular bowl they dig until most of the water is out, and then tip the bowl over or push it out of the cage. Locking crocks didnt work when they dug their food out, they still threw it everywhere..
What does everyone else use? I have 2 water bottles, I don't like them but my older group was use to it before I adopted them and I didn't want to get rid of the bottles completely and now its the only way that the rest of my group can get something to drink! This morning I had to set the water bowl on top of the cage (its a FN142) and SOMEONE scaled their way to the top and finished digging the water out and then tipped it over (making all their bedding wet and filling a litterbox full of water), stole a tube of ferret lax (ate half a tubes worth too) knocked over a bag of litter, a couple empty litter boxes AND stole the pooper scooper, if that wasnt enough they dragged my cell phone under the bed and I spent an hour looking for it, stashed their soupie bowl and while I was hunting for it, spilled my coffee. Someone was very naughty this morning >,< I think they are teaming up together trying to drive me crazy! lol
What does everyone else use? I have 2 water bottles, I don't like them but my older group was use to it before I adopted them and I didn't want to get rid of the bottles completely and now its the only way that the rest of my group can get something to drink! This morning I had to set the water bowl on top of the cage (its a FN142) and SOMEONE scaled their way to the top and finished digging the water out and then tipped it over (making all their bedding wet and filling a litterbox full of water), stole a tube of ferret lax (ate half a tubes worth too) knocked over a bag of litter, a couple empty litter boxes AND stole the pooper scooper, if that wasnt enough they dragged my cell phone under the bed and I spent an hour looking for it, stashed their soupie bowl and while I was hunting for it, spilled my coffee. Someone was very naughty this morning >,< I think they are teaming up together trying to drive me crazy! lol
I finally put a x-large metal dog bowl in a large cat litter box (darn those litter boxes come in handy :
. It means that they can still tip the water bowl (but because the box fits fairly close to the bowl, they can't flip the bowl), swim in the water bowl, dig in the water bowl but most of the water finds its way into the litter box. It doesn't stop the tiny ones from snorkeling in the litter box but most of the water stays in the litter box. Just my solution to the fuzzy fish syndrome 
. Loki, towards the end, was suffering from renal failure and drank buckets. His solutions was to steal the water bowl and take it into the ferret room by his hammy so that the water was always there for him. Loki has long since gone to the bridge but other little water rats remain to keep me on my toes about how to keep water in their bowls, while they work devilishly at getting the water out of the bowls. Squiggly just takes everyone's blankies and stuffs them in the water bowl 
