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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

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.

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

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.

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

My tongue does not move like that

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

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.

has to be the most demanding way to drink water.

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

M-L-E-M

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.

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

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

Oh snap he’s doing it upside down!

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

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

when she asks me where i learned to do that

Or most four legged mammals that use their tongue to drink

That’s dog gone cool

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

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

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.

Love ACDs..that's what I have! Very special breed!

So does your mother

My westie does this!

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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Why do people always abbreviate German Shepherds?

I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're not a dog.

It sounds more like “SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP SHLORP”

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

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

/r/holup

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.

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

That is so inefficient

Wouldn't it be easier and faster to just stick their face in the water?

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

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

I can hear this gif

Yup only cats curl it forward, dogs do it backwards

Y uz lot lttr whn fw lttr do trck?

Why can't they suck?

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

Absolutely love dogs, and anything they do

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.

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

doggystyle

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

😡🔺️

thank you Reddit I didn’t have to scroll far for the perfect reply.

Whys it gotta be so inefficient tho

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

Nope. They don't think that way. But horses do

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.

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

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

6. 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.

And then they wait to get near you to shake.

My friends horse sucks on hoses

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

Because Dogs rule, cats suck.

blursed

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

A very fun think to see for sure

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

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.

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.

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

No cheeks

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!)

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

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.

This reply basically won the internet.

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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.

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

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

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

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.

are there more species that drink like this?

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

are there more species that drink like this?

Why don’t they use a cup?

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

so this is why they get water all over the floor

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

TIL.

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

Wait im pretty sure cats curl backwards when drinking too

Edit: https://youtu.be/z2fC6ryJuDs start at 1:57

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

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

SCCCCHHHHLLLLOOOOORRRRRRRPPP

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