One cat, Chipsie, dips her paw in the water and licks it, then after 5 minutes or so of that, she finally dips her face to the bowl and drinks. She also like to slap at the water for some reason, which is annoying because it has necessitated keeping, and frequently changing, a towel on the mat the water bowl sits on. Also, I had to replace the bowl with one of those that has the bottle that keeps it full, because Chipsie started whacking the bowl to move it around the room, which spilled a
lot of water, and sometimes even turned the bowl over. The bottle adds enough weight she can't play with the bowl any more.
After the bottle-bowl went in Mazzie would climb on top of the bottle and actually reach down to drink, with his hind feet on top of the bottle and his front feet on the floor by the bowl. He'd just come back up when i got this picture, not fast enough digging the phone out.