Shelter Cat Turns On Faucet, Causes $5k in Flood Damage

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22. I have a horse that will do that - turn the water on full

Any pasture she's kept in, we have to take the handles off the spigots or she will turn them on full blast. The only damage is that our electric bill (we're on a well) will go way up and we'll have low water pressure inside the house until we find the gushing spigot and turn it off.

While we were building the house, one of the workmen noticed that the spigot in the pasture didn't have a handle. He considerately brought one out and installed it without asking about it. The next morning when he got to the worksite, the spigot was going full out - he accused the painters of not turning it off. I heard them yelling at each other, came out and solved the problem.

That horse likes to stick her head under the flowing water - if she can't do it with a running flow, she will stick her head into the water trough up to her ears and shake it back and forth. She's been known to dump half the water out of the trough this way...