{"id":12960,"date":"2020-06-24T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T19:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12960"},"modified":"2022-01-26T23:10:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:10:46","slug":"daily_1988_-_thirsty_cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/daily_1988_-_thirsty_cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1988 &#8211; thirsty cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1988_cat_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nOne of the neighbourhood cats is thirsty, and has discovered that there is water in our pool. Several times now I&#8217;ve seen it jump up on the pool edge to drink. Its thirst has got to be pretty bad if the pool water &#8211; which is clean for a pool, but chlorinated and not sparkling fresh &#8211; is the best it can get.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like this much. I worry that the cat will slip and fall in and won&#8217;t be able to get out. At first I also worried that its claws would puncture the pool edge, which is made of rubber and already has a few (non-cat-related) leaks that we&#8217;ve patched. But if it hasn&#8217;t done so yet, it&#8217;s probably not going to, and in any case, we could probably patch those holes, too.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also impressed that it found the water. It must have smelled the water with enough precision to realize that jumping up on that blue\/gray thing would help it reach the invisible water.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I bought a bowl for the cat &#8211; and for any other thirsty cats or creatures. I forgot to fill it up since the weekend, though, and it was mostly empty today, so I found the cat back at the pool. Now I&#8217;ve filled up the bowl again.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an outdoors cat, make sure you provide it with water during the day, and preferably in a shaded place!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1988_cat_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the neighbourhood cats is thirsty, and has discovered that there is water in our pool. Several times now I&#8217;ve seen it jump up on the pool edge to drink. Its thirst has got to be pretty bad if the pool water &#8211; which is clean for a pool, but chlorinated and not sparkling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,774,768,779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-neighbourhood","category-photography-2","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12965,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12960\/revisions\/12965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}