• My oh my!! Don't ya know, water in a glass tastes much better than water in a bowl??

    I had to give up my bedside water glass 2 years ago (too much dog spit and kibble floaties), and had to graduate to water bottles. Of course that didn't work at first either, ie…grab the bottle and run away fast to unscrew the top and dump the water somewhere else in the house.(They really have thumbs, they just hide them from us) Those plastic bottles make such GREAT noises!!

    I had received a 1 pint stainless bowl as a puppy gift many years before. I introduced it bed side, and haven't had a problem since. Guests sometimes comment----"what's that next to your book and in between the alarm clock and your water?" Of course all are dog lovers, and most understand the Basenji so the explanation is well received.


  • Jack doesn't try to drink coffee, but he has been known to try and sneak some of my husbands kahlua and milk!:eek:


  • Very funny to read all these - thought our Jack was just odd in the coffee thing. There are only a few things that he'll really bug me to try to get to when I am eating or drinking, but coffee is one of them. Few months ago we noticed he had these spots all over his white chest and were tearing the house apart trying to find what he got into. A little while later I look out back and notice my dh coffee cup from the morning (long forgotten) tipped over on the patio table and ahhhh…that's where those brown spots came from. Pleased though that he did not break the cup, just tipped it over enough to drink the mess. :rolleyes:


  • Mine are totally after Wine… they love it.....


  • Jack wants wine too.

    And appletinis.

    I'm noticing a pattern.


  • Beegin does have a taste for wine too. And coffee obviously and also Hagen Daas icecream. I think the pattern is he has all the same vices as me! 🙂


  • We have coffee addict too. Zip couldn't care less about coffee but Riley goes nuts over it. Liz has come back to the room to find Riley with his nose in her coffee mug. He then just looks up with that innocent face of his and pretends that he's just checking to make sure her drink wasn't poisoned.

    But both Zip and Riley go nuts over watermelon. Once Riley smells it he immediately starts whining and making such a fuss that you'd think we haven't fed him in weeks. He will do ANYTHING to get at the watermelon. He's even managed to fit all four legs on liz's bedside table to try to reach it. He's such a foodie. Oh, and he does the same with Orange juice. He's actually managed to lap up a good bit of liz's OJ whenever she turns her back on him. This is probably why we call him trouble on 4 paws.

    Edit: This was Liz's first post on the forum! Yay!


  • Sugar and Damisi are wine hounds. Although Sugar gets sick if she drinks it, she really likes it-especially black cherry. Damisi was running around the hotel room in Dallas (we had the wine glasses on the end table between the beds) playing and all of a sudden she jumped to the end table, drove her nose into the wine glass, spilling the wine all over and tried to slurp it down! Needless to say, after that she was watched-really closely! Neither likes coffee, nor does Shadow-he doesn't like anything other than milk.


  • Sahara will get at my coffee if I leave it unattended,or leave any in the cup when I am done with it and it has cooled down. She also loves watermelon, really loves it. It is so funny seeing her hold her head back while muching on cold watermelon.


  • @youngandtired:

    Sahara will get at my coffee if I leave it unattended,or leave any in the cup when I am done with it and it has cooled down. She also loves watermelon, really loves it. It is so funny seeing her hold her head back while muching on cold watermelon.

    So funny, my pups are melon hounds as well. Oh and Cabbage… they ADORE cabbage.


  • My Girls love Starbuck's Nonfat Cha Tea Latte!!!!!


  • There must be something in the smell of these kinds of things as well. Beegin has climbed shelves in my pantry to get a box of chai tea (the dried in the tea bag stuff) and he tore like every single tea bag apart and even carried some into his crate for later. I found soggy chewed on chai tea bags stashed under his blankets!


  • This is too funny…Sultan and I share my morning coffee..or my night coffee...he's also been known on occasion to find a bag of beans and take them outside to his hiding place...not sure he's actually eaten them, but the bag's been ripped opened. He likes to lick the beer bottles as well, but he didn't seem to enjoy my red wine, which is fine with me


  • rocky will sneak up and drink beer outta the bottle. well try.. he sticks his tongue down the neck haha

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