#sophiefromromania why do you insist on drinking from muddy puddles when you’ve got finest tap water waiting for you at home?
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Extra flavour!
jul 22, 2025, 7:22 am • 1 0 • view
I think they genuinely prefer the taste of untreated water. Try collecting some rainwater and see if she prefers that? 🤷🏻♂️
jul 22, 2025, 7:16 am • 2 0 • view
Our cats would only drink from the old watering can outside, a few winters ago we brought it into the kitchen so the water wouldn’t freeze, needless to say it’s been there ever since…
jul 22, 2025, 7:37 am • 10 0 • view
Think most dogs do this but why I don't know
jul 22, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
Ours would do the same, and make clean water in woodland streams dirty before drinking it 🤣
jul 22, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
Our dog pees in a puddle and then drinks from it.
jul 22, 2025, 7:10 am • 5 0 • view
🤣🤣🤣 your dog wins the internet!
jul 22, 2025, 8:07 am • 5 0 • view
My dog drink fron the foutains and then pisses on them
jul 22, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
They are attempting to shame us by convincing anyone walking by that they are neglected at home 😂
jul 22, 2025, 9:22 am • 7 0 • view
NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, connoisseur, said when interviewed “l’eau de puddle can be très tasty. Les chiens, moi en particulier, have refined palates, moi thinks that les gens are plus simple in their tastes. Moi asked mon père to at least try l’eau de puddle, mais he said ‘non merci’”.
jul 22, 2025, 3:13 pm • 39 0 • view
NEWS: Miss S Coyle Cellan-Jones, responsible citizen, said when interviewed “moi would like to clarify, moi likes l’eau de puddle, mais moi lives à Londres, et moi would never drink from une rivière, moi watches BBC News, les rivières are plein de merdy merdy et that can make you très vommy vommy”.
jul 22, 2025, 6:09 pm • 28 0 • view
Merdy Merdy and Vommy Vommy 😂😂😂 bang on El !! Thank you, as ever on point !! 👍🐾🥰
jul 22, 2025, 8:55 pm • 7 0 • view
Thank you fullerem. I try to tell the truth as does Sophie. Her parents discourage her from suspect water but she likes puddles but won’t drink from rivers. Wow Thames Water, shame on you.
jul 22, 2025, 9:07 pm • 7 0 • view
Always truthful El 👍 and an honest advocate for Sophie 🙏🐾 South west water are equally 'merdy merdy' !
jul 22, 2025, 9:11 pm • 5 0 • view
We have the same problem - Willow would rather drink from manky water in the garden TUS the regularly topped up bowl just for her inside!
jul 22, 2025, 8:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Getting dirty is the emblem of having fun.
jul 25, 2025, 11:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Finest tap water at home? In London?
jul 22, 2025, 8:07 am • 1 0 • view
My dogs preference : stagnant pools>fast flowing streams>tap water
jul 22, 2025, 8:01 am • 1 0 • view
We get tap water here which is from the same headwaters as those that supply Evian (yes, them). My dog, pictured here as a pup, would much rather drink from a puddle or muddy stream.
jul 22, 2025, 7:00 am • 19 1 • view
She knows all about Thames Water then!
jul 22, 2025, 7:09 am • 22 0 • view
I’m not even British but I laughed at this so hard.
jul 23, 2025, 11:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I give you one of our cats with our daughter's glass last night, when they have a fabulous water fountain a couple of feet away...
jul 22, 2025, 6:56 am • 10 0 • view
My cat does the same, even just outside the door when there's a bowl of lovely clean water just inside. 🙄
jul 22, 2025, 6:57 am • 4 0 • view
😂 Scoot’s the same. I wonder if all the leaves & petals add something? A dog probiotic? 😂 Our water probably smells of the treatment chemicals to them!
jul 22, 2025, 7:18 am • 6 0 • view
Let me know when you find out. It is probably the same reason for our dog....
jul 22, 2025, 6:56 am • 8 0 • view
Go figure.
jul 22, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Tap water tastes too clean
jul 22, 2025, 8:24 am • 1 0 • view
Taste!
jul 22, 2025, 8:01 am • 2 0 • view
It's all about the terroir!
jul 22, 2025, 8:05 am • 2 0 • view
"Because it's tastier dad...."
jul 22, 2025, 7:07 am • 1 0 • view
Dogs are muddy puddle connoisseurs - muddy puddle surrounding fountain over fountain any day
jul 22, 2025, 10:49 am • 1 0 • view
What's more, why do they always paddle in the puddle they're drinking from?
jul 22, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
My pooch does the same!!!
jul 22, 2025, 7:08 am • 1 0 • view
My cat demands fresh tap water in his bowl inside but will drink out of flower pot saucers in the garden.
jul 22, 2025, 9:35 am • 3 0 • view
They all do it. I think as someone said earlier, they probably prefer it to treated tap water. As Sophie says, they have very fine palates!
jul 23, 2025, 5:14 am • 0 0 • view
It's the bouquet.... .
jul 22, 2025, 7:18 am • 1 0 • view
Dogs are fundamental eco-conscious and are doing their bit for the hosepipe ban?
jul 22, 2025, 8:08 am • 9 0 • view
Same!
jul 22, 2025, 1:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Am genuinely interested in why they do this
jul 22, 2025, 6:58 am • 2 0 • view
My cats will find the skankiest water in the garden to drink and they have two water fountains to drink from inside. It's an animal thing. ❤️
jul 22, 2025, 8:24 am • 3 0 • view
Cos dogs are oddballs 🤭
jul 22, 2025, 10:15 am • 1 0 • view
Cai will drink from our pond of eau de tadpole avec rotting frog in preference to his bowl of tap water inside. So he has a bowl of tap water outside too, which he will drink. Maybe the ambience?
jul 22, 2025, 7:06 am • 2 0 • view
The importance of terroir in the nuanced search for perfection?
jul 22, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Ah, it's the terroir; the terroir makes all the difference!
jul 22, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Perhaps it's because they understand the quality of the tap water
jul 22, 2025, 7:46 am • 3 0 • view
More flavourful obviously😉
jul 22, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Our rescue Jordy also prefers stale water from the saucers beneath plant pots to fresh clean tap water. Eeeeuw......
jul 22, 2025, 7:20 am • 1 0 • view
Perhaps for the same reason that Edmund Hillary drank from muddy puddles. Because it’s there.
jul 22, 2025, 7:00 am • 13 0 • view
Rain water is best!! Sweeter! My dogs drink the rain water I put out for the birds 🦅
jul 22, 2025, 7:21 am • 3 0 • view
Maybe she did that in Romania when a pup?
jul 22, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
Tastes better
jul 22, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
A few possibilities: An attempt at public embarrassment of you (“see what my humans make me drink?”) It was handy. It had color so exploring that. Just pure curiosity. “Hmmm how does this taste?” My guess that last thing.
jul 23, 2025, 11:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Always tastier 😹😹
jul 22, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view