My cat is so weird. We've been having issues with ants lately - they get into the cats' food and then the cats won't eat it, although they cry for us to feed them. So to keep the ants out, I put their food dish in a shallow plastic marinading dish and fill the marinading dish with water. Now the cats can eat safely. Our picky felines also get filtered water, because Patches, our brindle female won't drink tap water(guess she hates the taste of city water as much as I do?), but cries until we give her water from our charcoal water filtering pitcher. My cat? Ashes? Yeah. That crazy blue-gray bastard is drinking from the ant-moat and completely ignoring the bowl of filtered water right next to him...