The strangest thing happened this evening. I walked into the kitchen and noticed that Katniss's water was yellow! My first though was that she maybe got some food in there and water got discoloured, but the shade of yellow was completely different to the colour of her food. I then had a look around to see if anything was about that she could have put in there, but couldnt find anything. Then I thought it might be pee.. It didn't smell like it though, didn't smell of anything, but is it possible that she peed in her water bowl? Maybe just a bit to make it discoloured, but not enough for it to smell? Anyone experienced anything like this before?

I think if she had peed in her water bowl, you would have been able to detect an odor. I'm not sure the ammonia would have been absorbed in the water. And I don't know how difficult it would have been for your girl to squat over the bowl and pee in it. I know it's strange, but I'd wash the bowl and move on. Keep and eye on her when she's near the bowl and see if it happens again. It would be odd how the yellow color would get into the bowl.

Hm, I'm now 90% certain she did it. Friday and Saturday passed without incident, but yesterday I was in the kitchen with her and she went to her bowl and legs both sides and squatted as going to wee. She has got one like this, so I presume it's quite easy to balance as it doesn't really move due to rubber bits on the bottom https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hing-Designs-C ... +food+bowl.

Before she could pee, I picked her up and took her to the litter box and she did her business there (now I kind of wish I just let her do it, so I could be 100% sure).

Afterwards when I removed the bowls for a bit she was just walking over the fish. Such a strange thing to do.

Her water and food are clean, both bowls get washed daily and she is eating her food. Her litter tray is also clean and she uses it all the time. She has always had the same bowls so it can't be "i don't like this new bowl, so I'm going to use it as a toilet instead" kind of thing, so really don't know what's bothering her.

That configuration looks more like a toilet to me! LOL. I think bowls that have a large separation may be in order. Strange that your kitty does that. Really weird behavior.

I've heard of hybrid cats doing that but I've never seen it. Very interesting. I wonder if she thinks she's marking her territory.

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I'll get her a new water dish and place it away from her food and see what happens.

Maybe she is telling me "Please, toilet train me, I want to be like you" .. *wishful thinking*

Maybe she would like a water fountain better!

I think that on one occasion at least Babbage has peed in his fountain.

To be fair it does look a bit like a urinal:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sanitary-Porce ... t+fountain

He has also peed when he was allowed to play in the bath at my mum's place - from what I recall, Asian leopard cats do urinate in water in the wild.

That's like peeing in the pool! Gross! LOL

Exhibit A for the prosecution: