How Dogs Drink

[becks]

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Using high-speed X-ray techniques, Crompton and Musinsky looked at what dogs do with the liquid once it's in their mouth. They found that dogs take a few laps before they actually swallow. Once the liquid is in the mouth, the dog brings its tongue in contact with the roof of its mouth, trapping the liquid between its tongue surface and the ridges on its palate. Then the dog extends its tongue again, still keeping it in contact with the roof of its mouth.

"This is the really cool part," Musinsky told LivesScience. "Because the tongue is maintaining contact, but it's also sliding out of the mouth."

As the dog brings another chunk of liquid up with its tongue, the tongue drops away and the first bit of liquid goes to the back of the mouth. Repeating the cycle again, the dog brings a new sip of water to the front of its mouth, swallowing the first lap of water and moving the second toward its throat.

[Tilly]

Mine sticks his head in up to the eye balls (or higher) and just opens his mouth ....

[Bradders]

Mine sticks his head in up to the eye balls (or higher) and just opens his mouth ....

hahahaha :rofl:

[Remarkabull]

Acheron sticks his face in the water so all of his nostrils are fully covered with water. Not sure why he does it? Maybe he is getting more water in that way? Either way, it's pretty funny to watch.

[Tassie]

It's interesting isn't it. Rory doesn't so much drink as take on water - lots of noisy lapping. Kirra (and some of her relatives, I discovered), drinks very daintily from the very back of the water bowl, using her chin as much as her tongue.