Monday, February 10, 2014
Jasper has been fussing about his water dish. He doesn't like the water. He doesn't want to drink it. He splashes in it, as if he's trying to catch a fish in the bottom. He hooks the side and drags the dish. Since the dish is on a tray, when it crosses the side of the tray it spills all over the floor. He'd been doing it for the past two or three weeks.
I mentioned it to Daughter, and she said two of her cats have been doing the same thing.
A mystery.
Then one day (Saturday, I think) I had left a glass of water on the counter when I went to bed, and absentmindedly drank it the next morning -- and spat it out! It smelled and tasted strongly of iodine.
Water processing plants add iodine to the water when there's a problem with bacteria. We've had several water main breaks this winter, one about three weeks ago just up the road, so it makes sense they may be worried about contamination. I don't know why the iodine smell and taste gets so bad when the water isn't fresh out of the tap, but there it is....
Mystery solved.
So now I have to make sure his water is changed a few times a day.
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Speaking of water, the Thames is flooding. Parts of England are flooded for the first time in a few hundred years. Weird.
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2 comments:
We always got an extra dose of chlorine. Iodine sounds worse.
I dunno, maybe iodine is cheaper.
There's a town a bit north of here that has so much chlorine in the water all the time that people take their dark laundry to laundromats in the next town.
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