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Phentex

(16,713 posts)
Wed Jun 5, 2019, 05:09 PM Jun 2019

Because they're dogs... [View all]

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!

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Because they're dogs... [View all] Phentex Jun 2019 OP
pack behavior lapfog_1 Jun 2019 #1
they know what they're doing... Phentex Jun 2019 #8
Lord only knows.... Boomer Jun 2019 #2
I refer to it as a "small furry brain" DBoon Jun 2019 #4
well... Phentex Jun 2019 #7
They exploit us through their clever simplicity DBoon Jun 2019 #17
It's the feet that are dangerous. Phentex Jun 2019 #6
My mother in law had to dissect in nursing school The Mouth Jun 2019 #20
No matter when the bowl runs low, it is always at 3:00 AM that I hear my dog's tags clanging hlthe2b Jun 2019 #3
yes! Phentex Jun 2019 #5
I put out several bowls up on the windowsills for my kitteh, but she really only drinks from one. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #10
Growing up I had a cat Phentex Jun 2019 #11
The things we do. LOL. nt Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #12
When they aren't looking, switch the avebury Jun 2019 #21
One of mine has Addison's and is on prednisone as a treatment. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #9
We had one that went through this... Phentex Jun 2019 #13
Yes, she also has to have an injection every month. Laffy Kat Jun 2019 #16
And yet when it's time to move a couch, is Steroid Dog anywhere to be found?? More_Cowbell Jun 2019 #18
You could rename that precious babe after JFK (he suffered from Addison's as well) hlthe2b Jun 2019 #19
i miss when my cats only got water from the toilet. it was cleaned regularly. pansypoo53219 Jun 2019 #14
And you didn't Phentex Jun 2019 #23
ALWAYS more than enough. dif house, water lower. cats only watch it flush. : ( pansypoo53219 Jun 2019 #24
They're gaslighting you. procon Jun 2019 #15
This made me laugh! Phentex Jun 2019 #22
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