Now with the water

    There are three bowls of water for the cats. It's filtered, it's clean, it's even cold since the bowls are porcelain. OK, pretty cold. There are also two bowls of food. One of the bowls of food is in a larger bowl with water in it and there's old scuzzy olive oil in the water. All this is to discourage ants, who have overrun Amelia's food (well, it was Amelia's food then) in the past.
    I bet you can see where I'm going with this. New cat, the one I thought was the smart one, drank of the skeevy olive oil water instead of from the other three bowls. Even Amelia never did this. Now, I can think of a good reason for this. One of the kibbles fell in the water yesterday, so in the overnight hours, that same water would have been full of meaty goodness. I had just cleaned the bowl, though, so it was quite kibble-free. Hopefully he's learned his lesson. Bets, though, are that he'll knock another kibble in the water and drink out of it again. He is after all the smart one.