And then they wait to get near you to shake.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Whys it gotta be so inefficient tho

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

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

doggystyle

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

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.

Absolutely love dogs, and anything they do

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

Why can't they suck?

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Yup only cats curl it forward, dogs do it backwards

I can hear this gif

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

Thanks, that's great advice!

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

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.

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