My dog will not drink from his bowl unless he sees me dump out yesterday’s water in the morning and fill it up with fridge water. My mom keeps a bowl for the dogs at her house, and the other day she filled it with tap water. One dog drank it, Snobface McGee did not. When my mom dumped it and refilled it with fridge water he drank it. He’s my buddy though so I will always make sure he has fresh fridge water.
This reminds me of our dog, whose tastes have evolved significantly as the kids have gotten older and the food they drop has presumably improved. Cheerios, once a delicacy to be inhaled, now sit on the floor unbothered until we sweep them up ourselves.
Idk what it is, but your comment has gotta be one of the most well crafted and funny comments I’ve ever seen. I swear it reads like poetry.
Why thank you! I did spend a bit of time trying to paint the right picture, because it’s legitimately funny to me how the bar has raised so much over the years.
Paging @Stimmed@reddthat.com of !dog_doesnt_eat@reddthat.com. They definitely have some interesting “picky dog” stories.
My dog is the pickiest eater I know. The problem I have is that it is never consistent. One day nothing is good enough, another he ignores steak for kibble, the next is a cat food day, then all of a sudden it is time for steak!
He has the forbidden knowledge that you can crave certain food at the moment, but he has no way to tell be what exactly he wants haha.
but he has no way to tell be what exactly he wants haha
Might it be possible to teach him to associate a picture or toy with certain foods (or food categories), and “request” foods by bringing you that toy? Something kind of like this but in reverse. I once had a neighbour whose cat (yes, cat!) would purportedly “request” his dinner from a lineup of sealed canned food.
If he was food motivated to teach with, sure 😁
I usually set out options and give the command to eat. I’m getting better at guessing which food he wants though.
Refrigerated water does taste different, at first at least
This was a story!
If they can smell and taste better than us, I’m sure water is closer to soda for them with many different flavors. My dog gets breta filled water, but prefers mountain spring water > rain puddle > breta filtered > tap.
Haha, reminds me of that dog who would only eat dog food that had been “microwaved.” (I’d link a video, but the only place it’s coming up in a search is on Facebook.)
When I was broke, I always said if I had money I’d splurge on my pets. Now that I’m better off, I give them filtered water and expensive food. Their food honestly costs about the same as mine at this point, but it’s 100% worth it.
The way I see it is that they didn’t choose to live with me - I chose them. So if I’m not giving them my best, that just isn’t fair.
I’m a grown man with a fat bank account and I drink water from the tap as do my four kegged friends. I am lucky enough to be able to choose to live in a developed city with clean drinking water. Which really should be the norm. I know this story is supposed to be uplifting but it makes me sad.
I’d think your four kegged friends would drink from the kegs
And when he’s yeeting his friend to the vet he’s throwing a sick kegger?
These people could also be living on a well which typically have hard water. Most of them are safe to drink from but it won’t taste great so it would make sense to filter it. There’s nothing that hints at where they live so I wouldn’t get to bothered by it.
We moved to a new city and for the first time we had to buy a water container with a filter. I’ve never tasted tap water with so much chlorine in it and I was always the first one to say it’s stupid not to drink directly from your tap.
So yeah, you don’t know the people’s situation in OP’s screenshot, maybe the tap water just tastes bad.
Just because the water coming out of the
maintreatment plant is good, doesn’t mean it’s free of contaminants by the time it reaches your tap. Why not filter it once more before, you know, incorporating it into 70%+ of your body mass?Because those filters don’t filter out the stuff you’d actually wanna filter (lead) and they can grow mould and make your water worse instead. (I got this from a consumer testing org like wirecutter)
The top contaminants filtered by fridge filters are chlorine, lead, mercury, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals. And, yes, like any other filter, you need to change them regularly.
What they filter and how effectively they filter it is entirely predicated on what type of filter you use and if you regularly replace it, just like and other water filter.
This is why you change the filter on a regular basis. Also, even basic Brita filters remove lead.
It’s not necessarily a filter thing, it could just be a temperature thing. In some cities even the cold tap water isn’t that cold in the summer.
Loads of people in cities with perfectly clean and healthy tap water still use water purifiers because they like supporting the filtration industry, or worse believe in crystals doing magic to their water.
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I’ve lived my entire life in the two best tasting water serving cities in America, and I grew up with and decades later continue to use, water filtration. I don’t understand the flex you’re doing here. And what is sad? Also, you do know much of the industrialized world outside the States drinks bottled water, right?
I went to Orlando Florida on holiday in like 2008 i think. The water from the tap smelled and tasted like sulphur
I hope they’ve remedied that since
They probably have; Florida has clearly been on an upswing since then lol
Why does a story about giving filtered water to a dog make you sad?
Because home filtration should be unnecessary. Safe water for all.
It never made sense to me how people think as if being a dog or a cat means they can eat garbage and drink filthy water. They won’t die, but neither would you. But you are absolutely risking disease/shortening your lifespan.
I’ve seen what my cats drink and eat. They find stagnant puddles riddled with mosquito larva and eat grass and dirt. I still give them filtered water in a nice constantly running pet water fountain.
Make sense now? We as pet owners don’t think they can eat garbage or drink filthy water. But we’ve observed it. We don’t actively give them garbage or filthy water.
I once started a story in a party with “well, I was brushing my dog’s teeth”, and this asshole who was a +1 for a friend stopped me and started interrogating me. He just couldn’t wrap his head around the concept that I brush my dog’s teeth and try to keep them in general clean and healthy. This joke of a human being had dogs, as in several, and during that conversation we all learned that he pretty much neglected them. He thought dogs only need to be bathed every two months and fed daily and that was it. No walks, no play time, no hygiene routine, no vaccines, no de-worm, no vet check ups. Just miserably living in a cage for 18 hours a day and an occasional play session in the backyard. Like, no shit Raul, no wonder your dogs are losing teeth and always have diarrhea. You don’t care for them and only feed them leftovers you dipshit. Thank goodness we never saw him again. I hope his dogs are doing better now.
Dogs are better able to handle dirty food and water than we are.
Doesnt mean you should feed your dog dirty food and water though.
My previous dog, despite having access to much cleaner water in the kitchen, drank daily from a bird bath in the garden… and she lived to the ripe old age of 14
Well, I probably wouldn’t lick my own asshole, either.
Its been ten years and people keep reposting.
It’s my civic duty!
If people weren’t still seeing it for the first time it wouldn’t still be getting upvoted
Is this something I am too European to understand?
Tasty tap water.
Floridian here. Even from the fridge with the extra filter it tastes a little bit bad. I’m used to it, but when I visit out of state the water tastes “fresh” or “crisp”. My brother who came to visit said my tap water tastes “slimy”. It’s not algae or anything just Florida water universally sucks in some manner.
Depends where in Europe you are. In England it mostly tastes like swimming pool water unless I filter it.
And when it comes to tasty, colder is better.
It’s not necessarily an infrastructure thing impacting safety, but sometimes a water source thing effecting flavour and temperature.
Toronto is on the north shore of Lake Ontario and has amazing tap water, Kingston is 200km east also on the north shore of Lake Ontario and has horrible tasting tap water. The difference is that Toronto is next to a deep drop off in the lake, whereas Kingston is on a huge shallow section of the lake where the water doesn’t flow nearly as much. Both are perfectly safe to drink but in Kingston they have to add more chlorine / treatment chemicals which add an off taste to the water, plus in Kingston the water comes out of the tap much warmer in the summer.
Water treatment plants just make the water safe, often you will need to filter it to remove anything else contained in the source water. Americans often buy filters to remove other contaminates, then you can go a step further with additives: magnesium sulfate, potassium bicarbonate, or potassium chloride and floride are pretty common. The minerals create the taste profile, it’s the reason bottled water often tastes better than tap and why Dasani and Aquafina taste different.
Bagels shops often import water from new York for it’s unique bacteria and mineral profile (similar to the magic soil in Italy for winemakers) https://www.ediblemanhattan.com/food-for-thought/why-is-new-york-tap-water-good/
Our governmental system only contains enough feedback to account for 200 million people. Beyond that, the level of signal quality degrades and democracy breaks down.
This results in bad tap water
We have a filter on the cold water of our kitchen sink. We always just fill the dog jug with the filtered tap water because you’re not going to fill it with hot water. Well now they are spoiled and won’t drink unfiltered water. We tried to give them unfiltered water once and it just sat there for like two day almost untouched. Spoiled little assholes would die within a week in the wild.
…why…wouldn’t I do that? The tap water here is gross. Because I’m worried about the cost of filters? Lol.
What kind of monster did this guy marry, that this is even a question?
Stop guilting me
For a non burger, what is refrigerator water? Is it condensed water? Why?
It is water from the filtered water dispenser built into the fridge.
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That is a thing, but I know of exactly one person personally that has that. Most people here just have screw on filters that goes on their sink tap, or a fridge with a water dispenser, which already needs a water line for exactly the reason you guessed, ice cubes.
Most refrigerators here come with a built-in filter now at least to make ice. And often using a fridge filter or one that attaches to the sink tap is something anyone can do themselves, whereas an under the sink or whole-house system is something many people would hire someone to put in. So it’s probably a combination of convenience and cost.
We are on a well, so we have a whole-house filter system. But our fridge still came with a filter for its built-in tap.
I like the thought of American drinking condensed water from fridge. Maybe they have some AC water too every now and then.
Some fancy ones have a tube that hooks up to a water supply, which can be used to make ice, or routed to dispense slightly cooler water than you’d get from the tap. Typically, you would want that filtered, and pretty much all new fridges with a water hookup are filtered.
Very convenient in a lot of ways, but I’m not a fan personally. Most people don’t change the filters often enough, and there’s really no way to clean things enough for my satisfaction.
But it is very, very convenient to have an ice dispenser and cool water in one place.
There’s really nothing to clean outside the filters though, it’s just a water line that’s being regularly flushed.
My mom always recommended against them because she heard they were the first thing to break but the one on our rented fridge has been running continuously for 10 years now and I don’t think I can go back to not having an ice maker.
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There’s a subtext here, Alex .
Well, not to be that guy, but my cats drink from fountains. Plural.
My cats each drink from their own recreation of the Fountain of the Four Rivers, completed by Bernini himself back when his cats used them.
They won’t settle for anything less.
Isn’t this what everyone should do? There are heavy metals and other contaminants in the tap water in most places.
Yes, animals can’t process those as well as we can!
And your fridge can filter heavy metals?
\m/
Wait, what kind of heavy metal are we talking about?
No, I buy water carboys in my country. I don’t know what type of filter system a fridge is supposed to have but I imagine it’s better than straight tap water.
