The best drinking water, in Nysse’s opinion, is the one on a flower pot saucer. Not that he doesn’t drink from his own drinking bowl – but there is something about this muddy water under the flower pot that makes him come back to it again and again. Even when I’ve just changed his own water.

Since he drinks like a slob, splashing almost as much water on the side as he gets into his mouth, this always ends with a small puddle on the window sill.

I’ve tried giving him a (clean) terracotta saucer of his own, right on the same window sill, but apparently it’s not as good as the one with the traces of mud and limescale.