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brine909 t1_iztuggx wrote

I've lived with dogs my entire life and I always thought it curled the other way, guess I never looked too closely

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Peter_101 t1_izvbv5a wrote

Yup only cats curl it forward, dogs do it backwards

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Da_Shock t1_izwkrsg wrote

Fun Fact- Cats might curl forward, but they don't scoop water like Dogs do. Individual droplets of water will attach to the rough surfaces on a cats tongue to bring the water back, which I think is cool as heck

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RuthlessHavokJB t1_izwjuir wrote

Yeah and the crazy thing about cats is that they don’t “scoop” water. They touch the surface and fling it or allow the molecules of water to adhere to their tongue and they pull the water into the mouths.

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NoBuddies2021 t1_j007n7t wrote

Wonder if it's the same case with licking their privates?

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buttbugle t1_izwlswp wrote

Sometimes my dog puts her whole snout in the water to drink. Then pulls it out when she discovers she cannot breath all crazy like slinging water everywhere. She will have a confused look on her face then go back to drinking.

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AlbertFishing t1_j1jss7c wrote

My friend lab does this. Dogs can be so dumb in the best ways. Fuck I love dogs.

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justadudebruh t1_izsespz wrote

and then some of it comes spilling out of the side of their mouths as they walk around… or maybe that’s just my pyrenees lol

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u9Nails t1_izsih4d wrote

My Australian cattle dog was terrific at the first part. Punching the water with his tongue. The next motion he was all screwed up with. He would pull the water out the side of his mouth.

The puddle he would make was larger than the bowl he drank from.

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justadudebruh t1_izsiq2f wrote

exactly what my dog does! it makes me wonder if he got any water at all because it seems like most of it fell out and onto the floor haha

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LorenzoStomp t1_izssulx wrote

My parents' GSD would then make a beeline for the nearest person to wipe her mouth on their pants. My mom was keeping her water bowl in the bathroom for a while and she would bust in the door to drink when she knew you were in there peeing because then she could try to use your pants as a napkin.

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justadudebruh t1_izsurb9 wrote

she adapted and overcame, for the human napkins. sounds very german shepherd hahaha

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LorenzoStomp t1_iztf041 wrote

She was just smart enough to get in trouble. She almost died as a puppy from trying to get at the cats' food. I have never seen cats work together before or since but they saw her slink into my parents' galley kitchen and they looked at each other and split up so each went running into opposite ends of the kitchen. If my sister hadn't run in ahead of them and snatched her up they would have tried to end her.

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Tomnesia t1_izu1hc8 wrote

Exactly like mine i guess, another habit is wiping her mouth after she had any kind of food, always on the carpet.

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its_not_you_its_ye t1_izus5en wrote

Why do people always abbreviate German Shepherds?

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hawkinsst7 t1_izw7shh wrote

And what does the D stand for in GSD? Dog? We know that, unless we're talking about Hans and Franz, the Shephards from Deutschland.

(who are here to round 👏 you up!)

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axxl75 t1_izwlpde wrote

It’s just the literal translation from German I guess. Deutscher Schäferhund = german shepherd dog

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refactor83 t1_izumfm7 wrote

My dog is half Pyrenees and he’s the messiest drinker I’ve ever seen. Water goes all directions except toward his mouth. If he gets a third of it I’d be amazed.

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wolfwindmoon t1_izw143x wrote

Had some kind of mutt with the big chops like that. Eventually taught her "face" so that she would stand still while we wiped her face down with a towel.

I say eventually, because there was a bit of a process getting there, and I have a memory of hearing the lapping then thinking "here we go." Then a few short seconds later my grandma go "Ah! Oh my god! Face! Thunder!! Faaaaaacee!!"

Next time I saw her she had a spot the side of my head wiped down her thigh. Got her face... just not with the towel.

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GiveToOedipus t1_izvmvzn wrote

Golden's are notorious for this. Mine sometimes just sticks his whole nose underwater.

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whatwhat83 t1_izwrlym wrote

I think it’s just because Pyrs like to drink literal gallons at a time

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alexs001 t1_izvlyyi wrote

My mom’s terrier has a stupid beard that drips all over the house every time it drinks.

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dinoaids t1_izvteac wrote

And then they wait to get near you to shake.

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justadudebruh t1_izx2ig9 wrote

why if the dribble isn’t getting all over you, how else are they supposed to know that you know that they drank their water??? lmao

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Amationary t1_izt19ig wrote

Meanwhile cats place their tongue on the water and use surface tension to pull the water up and “bite” it

And my dog just dunks his whole head in the water

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commendablenotion t1_izuk8ga wrote

My golden loves doing the water snoot bubble game. Very good at making wet floors.

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sebjapon t1_izvwknq wrote

Actually this video is from the Ig Nobel prize paper that researched the difference between cats and dogs drinking. And that was years ago

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DocPeacock t1_izvrb7w wrote

That's how always assumed dogs did it too but now I feel dumb.

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frivus t1_izszzoy wrote

My tongue does not move like that

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XColdLogicX t1_izul3t0 wrote

Inefficient. You think an animal that has been around for millenia would have evolved a better way to drink. Perhaps through straws or osmosis?

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TheMegabro t1_izv0vhw wrote

If a wolf is drinking from a natural puddle, any water it spills goes back into the puddle. So "efficiency" didn't matter.

Edit: Unless you mean inefficient as in slow rather than wasteful of water. Moderately slow drinking could actually be a feature. Lots of animals are slow drinkers.

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XColdLogicX t1_izv12k6 wrote

The quicker you drink, the safer you are. I was also joking lol

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Spacier_soda t1_izv4jyh wrote

I don't know if that would even be an advantage, do wolves have natural predators?

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TheMegabro t1_izvqtyx wrote

A lot of wolves are killed by wolves from other packs. Cougars/mountain lions will sneak attack, kill, and probably eat an individual wolf (a wolf travelling in search of a mate) if they have a chance. Bears would eat a wolf if they were able to grab one, although they aren't as soft-stepping as a cougar so it is unlikely for a bear to catch a wolf by surprise.

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h-bugg96 t1_izvqlgw wrote

Maybe it is by design. My dumb boy forgets to drink a lot and then goes for the whole bowl at once. Sometimes he drinks too much. Too quickly and throws up. Caue he's dumb. So it would probably happen more often if he wasn't such an inefficient drinker

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DocPeacock t1_izvr8tn wrote

Sometimes, when he's drinking water at the dog park, my dog dunks his entire head underwater. So, no straw necessary.

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king_koz t1_iztxeh8 wrote

Do dogs have the capability to drink using suction? I've seen videos of snakes drinking on Reddit, could a dog drink like that?

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PappaDukes t1_izu6pnj wrote

This gif never gets old. Love watching it every time it's posted.

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stehfan t1_iztp0px wrote

M-L-E-M

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PowerMugger t1_izuxj4y wrote

It sounds more like “SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP”

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Agent101g t1_izu0gwc wrote

Oh snap he’s doing it upside down!

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awol655321 t1_izuqu53 wrote

37 years old and I never knew dogs do this. I thought they were just dipping outstretched tongue up and down w/o the cupping technique

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max5015 t1_izuzifc wrote

I wanna see how a cat drinks water now. They're so quiet compared to dogs.

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Odinroars1 t1_izvhhlb wrote

How do dogs drink water!? As loud as fucking possible.

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eluderwrx t1_izuxo5c wrote

yep and 99% of it comes back down on the floor

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Titanican1912 t1_izvj964 wrote

Absolutely love dogs, and anything they do

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BizarreSmalls t1_izvqkff wrote

Whys it gotta be so inefficient tho

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[deleted] t1_izvui4j wrote

My husky dunks his snout and likes to blow bubbles in his water.

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woah_whats_thatb t1_izvzmf9 wrote

Does it bother anyone else the tongue doesn't scoop the other way?!?

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the_short_kid t1_izw90vt wrote

Theres no way this pops up in my feed right after i think about it for the first time in a couple years

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obiwanconobi t1_izwklf6 wrote

Also the ridges on the top of their mouth helps to stop the water falling straight back out

Doesn't do much for when they walk around the house dripping for 10 minutes after a drink

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webbie0225 t1_izx0adw wrote

LOL this makes me want to go visit my dog (pyrenees) at my parent's house

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rambo6986 t1_izvd3bp wrote

Why can't they suck?

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kmn493 t1_izw9rnu wrote

Their mouths are large and unsealed. Humans have a tiny gap at the front. Dogs' gap starts all the way in the back of their jaw. See this image for reference. The surface of the water would have to be all the way back there before they could get the suction. So their entire muzzle (including their nostrils) would have to be under water.

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DarklyDrawn t1_izvjek8 wrote

The most fascinating evolutionary aspect of dogs drinking are the rugea...

...it’s like there has to be an intelligence in nature that digs physics, not just math.

That intelligence is not my dog, who is pretty smart but still no engineer or physicist.

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dnewfm t1_izw3z33 wrote

Not my dog. He just splashes water everywhere, and then smashes the 'water' button again because it's all on the floor.

He's an asshole but he's adorable, so we keep him.

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maretus t1_izw4gp4 wrote

Wow, dogs be getting a lot more water in their mouths than I thought. That’s a damn bucket full.

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comfortably_smug t1_j1unmih wrote

I like how when my good girl is really thirsty she just sticks her whole mouth in and eats the water

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drerw t1_izui8ib wrote

Or most four legged mammals that use their tongue to drink

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Elmalab t1_izti2yp wrote

has to be the most demanding way to drink water.

why not just put your mouth in and sip it up?

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stealth57 t1_iztpb04 wrote

  1. Most dogs’ snouts are long, they’d have to dunk their entire head under water.

  2. They don’t have control over their lips like we do but that’s also because of their long snouts.

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TheMegabro t1_izv309l wrote

  1. The water could be freezing cold, which would be make head dunking even worse.

  2. The water, although not freezing, might have alligators or crocodiles in it. Any distance you can put between you and the water helps when dodging a surprise lunge from the water.

  3. Lowering the head really far cuts down how well an animal with forward-facing eyes can see the land surrounding the water, inviting a surprise attack from large land predators, cougars/bears/lions/etc.

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TheMegabro t1_izvte3w wrote

  1. If the water is a shallow enough puddle, a wolf sticking their face in to slurp directly wouldn't even work. They'd end up having to lick the puddle and swallowing after each lick - oh my god, lapping is just an evolutionary optimization of puddle-licking.
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Elmalab t1_izwm21g wrote

are there more species that drink like this?

because all those points would be a disadvantage for a lot more animals than just dogs.

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Elmalab t1_izwm30f wrote

are there more species that drink like this?

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