I got a bowl that’s too high for him to get his paw into while sitting but low enough he can drink out if it.

Honestly, this has been driving me crazy.

several gallons. He made quite the mess.

I’ve got a young dog who does that but a cat? She’s a dandy, that’s for sure.

My stress and anxiety are ramping up, big time, for fear that the incoming weather will also cause power outages. I'm just no up to another one of those, right now.

I put a little fan on the floor to help expedite the drying process. This kitchen is carpeted. Hopefully not for much longer. But anything spilled is a nightmare.

I'd better go see what she's up to.

I wonder if putting the waterer on a sheet pan or large serving tray that has a lip around it? I had kitchen carpeting in this old house when I bought it…I feel you pain.

And a knock off 'sham wow' under the bowl.

I will be in the kitchen quite a bit, over the next couple of days, so I'll be able to keep an eye on things. But I'm serious about buying that Blink camera!

It’ll also be a great source of entertainment, I’m sure.

but having cats myself I have to laugh. Paper towels and toilet paper for me. Coming home from work dog tired and stressed to have that waiting for me. TaChar laying right in the middle.

Arthur likes to dip his paws in water but Carys was bailing it out. Maybe she likes the gurgle sound it made.

Such a strange little creature.

My little feral girl (no longer little and 13 years old) has always put her feet in the water. She scrapes at the water and splashes it out of the blow before drinking. She will scoop half the water out before she is ready to finally drink. I have never been able to successfully stop her. The best solution I have come up with is to switch to an electric "fountain" for cats. I set it on a small rubber mat, so when she scoops at the water, it won't make such a mess.

Here is a link to the one I bought from Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DLXF7XL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I attribute this behavior to her days in the wild. She was probably drinking out of ponds (found her on the golf course) and probably had to scoop algae out of the way before drinking. Who knows?

She would walk up to the water bowl and paddle the water with her paw and splash it onto the floor. You had to watch out for your drink too. She would run up and dip her paw in it. She like to suck the water out of her paw after getting it wet. We had a tile floor and just put an old towel under the bowl. We had 3 big dogs and 4 other cats at the time so she didn't get the time to make a huge mess. It's a tough situation because you don't want your cat to be afraid to drink out of the water bowl, but then you don't want the mess either. Maybe get a large plastic bus pan and put a water bowl in that? Then she can splash away until her little heart is content. Oh and by the way, I think Carys kinda looks like Willow Biden, the Whitehouse cat. How cool is that?

A top from a big plastic tub and a knock off sham wow towel. And there's a little fan running to help expedite the drying process.

She does look a lot like Willow, doesn't she.

She's not the one who liked to paddle the water. She's just saying, "hey what's a girl gotta do to get a drink around here anyway?"

Now she's chasing the boys around the house.

He will stick his paw in the water like he is trying to catch whatever is causing all that activity, and feel around for it like it was prey -- of course, he splashes water out when he does this, so when he withdraws his paw the bowl is lower and is automatically refilled from the reservoir, with accompanying gurgles and bubbles, setting off a new round of excitement ... he used to do this for several minutes at a time, but seems to have tired of it as he's gotten older.

When he was still a feral kitten, I had the water bowl on the back patio and he would clamber all over the reservoir when he was trying to catch whatever was making the bubbles -- even knocked it over once. I wrapped a towel around the reservoir so the bubbles couldn't be seen and he didn't do that afterwards. Maybe that's something to try, and it's easy to do.

cat that liked to scoot the water bowl causing the water to spill/slosh out. Then she would lick it off the floor. It was a mess. Always cleaning water off the floor.

She seems to have lost interest in annoying me. Now she's wrestling with Arthur. OR it's just a ruse and the two of them are plotting some new shenanigans.

When I flushed the toilet, she stood up on her hind legs with front paws on the toilet bowl to watch the water swirl away. When it filled back up with fresh water, she stretched as far as she could to try to swirl her paw in the water. One time she almost fell into the toilet trying so hard to reach the water. I keep the down.

When I pulled the plug after washing dishes, Ember jumped to the edge of the sink to watch the water disappear. Since it's a double sink, leftover soap suds would bubble up from the drain of one sink as I rinsed suds out of the other one. Ember would leap into the sink to put her paw into the suds. As I rinsed those down the drain, too, she tried to hold them back with a paw. Once they were gone, she put her whole little face into the drain looking for the disappeared suds.

She didn't splash water out of her bowl, but every once in a while she would put her little windup chicken toy into the full water bowl. I never figured out if she was trying to give it a drink, wash it, or drown it.

She has outgrown all those things now.