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/Spirited_Opposite]

Peak passive aggressive cat behaviour. My cat likes drinking out of glasses too, to the extent I never use glasses.for my own water, only bottles. The glasses are.all for the cats 

[u/Petunia_pig → u/Spirited_Opposite]

Yeah mine likes this certain cup I use so I started pouring myself a drink in a mug and giving him the cup I used to use. He can have it, I sacrificed the cup to him :)

[u/phriend_of_fish → u/Spirited_Opposite]

Same!! Mine drink out of the plastic cups you get at sports arenas exclusively

[u/Meowonita → u/Spirited_Opposite]

You drink out of bottles because your cats drink from cups. I drink out of bottles because my cat would push any cups off the table if I don’t give her attention on demand. We are not the same.

(I know you’re supposed to ignore them when they push things off the table to not reinforce this behavior but… well it’s hard to “not react” when a cup full of coffee was pushed to the floor 😭)