It was when my beloved Blake started drinking out of the toilet that I suspected he had CKD. I was right. I noticed paw prints in the toilet bowl, and saw him actually doing it. Can't have been comfortable! So then I kept the lid down and put small bowls of water round the house.
I also have a blue ceramic bowl filled with water in the garden, in which I float a solar fountain when the sun shines, and Blake used to drink out of that. So does one of my feline neighbours, even in winter when it fills up with rainwater and can become a bit stagnant. The other day I found a motionless frog in it, completely submerged.

Yikes. I thought it was dead. When I tipped the water out it sat there, then hopped away.
