Because they're dogs...

[Phentex]

they do strange things.

They each have a raised stand with bowls for water and food. The food bowls are white and the water bowls are stainless. For some unknown reason, they will both drink from only one of the water bowls. I can wash them at the same time and fill them at the same time and it does not seem to matter. They will lick one bowl dry and ignore the other. I cannot remember how long this has gone on.

Then...last week...

they switched bowls. NOW they will only drink out of the other water bowl.

It's not that I care. But when you hear the dry slurping sound because they have run out of water in the one bowl but refuse to go one foot away to the other bowl, you gotta wonder!

[lapfog_1]

1. pack behavior

probably

[Phentex]

8. they know what they're doing...

I thought we were the pack leaders. But no.

[Boomer]

2. Lord only knows....

what is going on inside those thick skulls. (Said lovingly, mind you... and have you ever been hit by their head? It HURTS! They DO have thick skulls!)

[DBoon]

4. I refer to it as a "small furry brain"

Dogs think, but about simple things and in ways that would puzzle us

[Phentex]

7. well...

they have made slaves out of us at times so there's that.

[DBoon]

17. They exploit us through their clever simplicity

and some people think cats are in charge!

[Phentex]

6. It's the feet that are dangerous.

Paws the size of baseball bats that hurt when they get ya.

And they think they are lap dogs!

[The Mouth]

20. My mother in law had to dissect in nursing school

she said the brain inside a BIG husky is about the size of a peanut, IIRC. The other several inches is bone.

[hlthe2b]

3. No matter when the bowl runs low, it is always at 3:00 AM that I hear my dog's tags clanging

against the walls of the stainless bowl. It is not a small bowl--at all. I swear she risks a ruptured stomach/bladder just intent as she is to empty the damned thing so she can wake me up. (and she knows I all but die with grievous guilt to see the bowl has run dry)...LOL

Little dickens!

[Phentex]

5. yes!

That's what I'm talking about. In my case, they lick and clang and then glare at us. GO TO THE OTHER BOWL! I say. But they want me to get up and get more for that bowl.

[Laffy Kat]

10. I put out several bowls up on the windowsills for my kitteh, but she really only drinks from one.

If that one is empty, instead of going to another bowl of fresh water, she just pushes the empty one off the windowsill, usually in the middle of the night.

[Phentex]

11. Growing up I had a cat

that would only drink out of a glass. Drove my mother crazy! But I filled it up.

[Laffy Kat]

12. The things we do. LOL. nt

[avebury]

21. When they aren't looking, switch the

bowls to see if they will drink out of the one that still has water in it.

[Laffy Kat]

9. One of mine has Addison's and is on prednisone as a treatment.

Prednisone is a steroid and it makes you thirsty. As a result, she will drink every drop of water I put out. My vet said that a dog her size only really needs 12 cups a day, so I make sure she gets that and then I cut both of them off around 9:00 p.m., so they don't have to go out all night. Still, I get up with them around 2:30 a.m., sharp and 5:30 a.m. Sigh. I don't mind, though. I know there will come a time when I miss her so much.

[Phentex]

13. We had one that went through this...

he also attacked the food bowl while on the medicine. We love em so we do what we can for them.

[Laffy Kat]

16. Yes, she also has to have an injection every month.

Thankfully, it's only $50 a pop. I feel lucky it is treatable and she is quite happy.

[More_Cowbell]

18. And yet when it's time to move a couch, is Steroid Dog anywhere to be found??

I had a cat on steroids for a few years. His big thing was deciding that as Kitty on Steroids, he didn't need to cover up anything in his litter box anymore.

I thought that was kind of bad, but the cat I have now *compulsively* covers things up, like for 15-20 minutes. It drives me crazy at night. I don't know who he thinks is going to come around and know that he was there.

[hlthe2b]

19. You could rename that precious babe after JFK (he suffered from Addison's as well)

Regardless, likely makes him a good Democrat!

[pansypoo53219]

14. i miss when my cats only got water from the toilet. it was cleaned regularly.

[Phentex]

23. And you didn't

have to remember to refill it.

[pansypoo53219]

24. ALWAYS more than enough. dif house, water lower. cats only watch it flush. : (

[procon]

15. They're gaslighting you.

They know who makes the rules. If you don't want to be merely the entertaining wait staff who does whatever you're told, get two cats. Only then will you appreciate how good your life was in the BC (Before Cats) Era.

[Phentex]

22. This made me laugh!

I think you're right.