Why didn't the dog...just go the constantly running water bowl located right at dog head level?

I said they can feel more when dousing. The racoon is simply examining the items.

"Their paws contain highly developed nerves, and the water actually makes their paws more sensitive.

"Dabbling behavior in water is a fixed motor pattern in raccoons. Since only captive raccoons exhibit food-dousing behavior, scientists believe that washing food is simply a substitute for normal dabbling behavior, which has no other outlet in captivity,"

http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/564573.html


Feeling things underwater is what they do. Why do you imagine the owners have supplied the racoon with a water bowl full of toys? It is to occupy its attention.

That was some SIIICK bark-o-twist rover pulled to get into position....Dig that Tail-Gaurd™ water-bowl action-"You dehydrate that baaad ol' puddy, hounders!!"

Water Bowl Prank Backfires has been added as a related post - related requested by RFlagg on that post.

Maru has a dog equivalent! Water bowls, boxes, same difference...

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Is it using the water bowl as a toliet?

I kind of felt sorry for him at first. The way he was looking at the camera like "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?!???????" like you just put poison chemicals in his water bowl.

But when he goes for more... now that is hilarious.

My parents adopted a German Sheppard that had spent the majority of 5 years chained up outside. They threw trash out in his area, cans, glass...he rarely had clean water and I think about as much of the food he ate was trash as it was actual dog food. This was down near my grandmother's property, they started giving him food and water and called the police/animal shelter. That went on for the better part of a year, and they eventually found out that they deemed the dogs living environment suitable because he had food and water every time they checked. Which my parents had been providing to him and they said it didn't matter who gave it to him as long as he had it.

Eventually they convinced someone at the property to give them the dog....and they hadn't had the dog for 2 days when the police showed up to take it back claiming the dog had been stolen. It took another day or so with police witnessing it that they were giving the dog to my parents and they've had him since. His collar had dug into his neck because he'd outgrown it, the tree had grown around his chain, he could barely move 5 feet in any direction. He's about 10 or 11 years old now. He had heart worms when they got him, bad joints although not nearly as bad as the dog in this video, fairly labored breathing due to the heart worms is the best guess, very afraid of lightning they couldn't put him in any sort of structure without him ruining it. He's gotten better about the lightning and behaving more like the other dog they have.

But before his previous owners lost/left their house in 2006-2008 range they had gotten another dog and had a bunch of cats. They of course didn't treat them well and when they lost the house they left most of the animals behind. So now that neighborhood has a huge stray cat problem, and my parents try to keep food and water out for them. I think there is one other person in that neighborhood that even bothers to try to make up for what those people did to those animals by feeding them and keeping water out, plus try to get them neutered so they can't keep breeding.

And I've seen a dog that I can't even guess how old it was chained outside a house, it had a little dog house but it's water bowl wasn't big enough to hold water all day on a hot day. It's horrible, but at some point you just can't call in on every animal problem you see because you'd spend all your time doing that....and the laws are so shitty when it comes to animal cruelty that the person just replaces the animal if someone were to take it.

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I'm not going to upvote this. Why conflate fantasy with engineering? This is celebrating ignorance. Oh look he had this cute but terrible idea. I guess the ad guys thought it would be cute and Harry-Potter-esque to do something like this. The people who make this fail at creativity since they couldn't come up with something real.

Here's something I came up with in 5 seconds -- A lego mindstorm robot which uses a sensor to keep your dog's water bowl at a certain level. There's probably a way to do it with most of the sensors. The accelerometer could detect when a floating lever has been tilted over, for instance, and then open a tap from a much larger container.

Mom - fill the water bowl! Dang!

Replace the water bowl with a toilet, and that was me during college on Sunday morning.

This may be a Turkish Van cat:

"Perhaps the most interesting trait of the breed is its fascination with water; most cat breeds dislike being immersed in water. The unusual trait may be due to the breed's proximity to Lake Van in their native country; it may have acquired this trait due to the very hot summers and have extremely waterproof coats that make bathing them a challenge. As such, Vans have been nicknamed the "Swimming Cats" for this most unusual trait. Most Vans in the United States are indoor cats and do not have access to large bodies of water, but their love and curiosity of water stays with them. Instead of swimming they stir their water bowls and invent fishing games in the toilet."