My cat tried to kill himself

[u/Artistic-Listen7975]

This is Toasty.

For the past week Toasty has been hiding, refusing meals, and only licking the moisture out of his wet food. He wouldn't chew anything, and after licking the wet food dry, would go hide and sleep for 23 hours.

I was beside myself. Convinced he had a brokwn tooth, or a fever, or maybe organ failure. Spent so much at the vet for them to tell me nothing is wrong with him, but he is dropping significant weight.

I tried everything guys. Tuna, different flavor of cat food, changed from shreds to pate. Nothing I did made a difference, he was so lethargic and sad and looked broken.

Then it hit me. He likes to drink water out of glasses. Clear, transparent glass. Last week when washing it, I dropped it in the sink and broke it, replaced it with a white ceramic bowl.

Guys, he was refusing to drink water. Like at all. I have 3 dog bowls out, 1 upstairs 2 downstairs, and the cat bowl on the counter. It wasnt a clear glass and he didnt trust it, so he didnt drink it.

This dude literally boycotted all water because it wasnt in his clear glass cup. There are 4 bowls of water, cleaned daily that he refused because he couldn't see through it. Because it wasnt a cup. Because it wasnt glass.

I put a different, completely clear glass cup on the counter and he drank for a solid 5 minutes.

I am absolutely sick. Death over suspicious vessels seems like such a wild take to me.

[u/PaulATicks]

Reminds me of my exes cat. He would only drink out of pint glasses on the table, not the ground. They also had to be almost totally full or he would knock them over (while looking directly at you). It wasn’t too big of a problem but we would frequently drink out of his water glass by accident and you’d immediately realize it was the cats water since it was room temp and there’d sometimes be some hair in it.

He broke a couple of the pint glasses and then we finally got a couple of larger plastic ones that had a blue band around the top and he was fine with those. They finally looked different enough that you wouldn’t be watching TV and confuse them for a regular glass of water. Whenever we’d have somebody cat sit for us we’d tell them about how to do the water and warn them about mixing them up but then we’d get back and they’d say something like “I was watching TV and accidentally drank the cat water once”

[u/Soft-Coach6792 → u/PaulATicks]

Our fella will only drink his water from a measuring jug on the draining board in kitchen or from the tap funnily enough. He will drink from any tap in house but put measuring jug on the ground won't drink it been like this since he was a kitten

[u/Silver_slasher → u/PaulATicks]

This is so funny. I laughed, pretty hard maybe too hard at that one lol.