Domestic Geek

Well, I'm up now because I'm stupid. You think I'd realize that a dog of 14 years of age can't learn new tricks. We've got one of those raised up food bowls and a separate water bowl that has one of those Deep Rock-like containers to hold water that sits on floor level in an old dough tray. We got this setup because of the old Malamute we used to have. She would slop her water everywhere when she drank and had a hard time getting to her food because of her arthritis. I've been noticing that he's having a problem getting to his water for a while now. I decided yesterday to start putting his water in the other side of his food bowl (since it's raised) to help the poor guy out. Well, he won't drink the water in there. Marcus just caught him drinking out of the toilet since he apparently hasn't had water since I changed it yesterday afternnon and Marcus forgot to close the bathrroom door after he brushed his teeth. I was awakened by the dog pacing in the bathroom because he couldn't get water out of the toilet. *sigh*