- Nehmo –
Normally, in the gooseneck of the toilet bowl, the bottom of the
bowl,
there is water from the last flush, and people *think* this water is
automatically replenished. But it’s not. If there is water pressure
in
the line, the toilet _tank_ will be automatically filled. The tank
does
not automatically fill the gooseneck of the bowl.

Doug Miller
I believe I said very clearly that it is not auto-filling.

- Nehmo –
Yes, you did. But if you’re serious about that suggestion, there are
other problems with it. The toilet bowl doesn’t get manually refilled if
the humans are gone; and the water isn’t exactly clean. Even though dogs
are immune to many pathogens that attack people, dogs lick people and
are in close contact in other ways.

- Nehmo –
In certain situations, like when the dog(s) is locked in the home and
the humans don’t return for a time, like in NY around the WTC right
after 9-11, or perhaps when the humans get killed in a traffic
accident,
the dogs will drink empty the water in the gooseneck of the toilet
bowl.

- Doug Miller -
True enough - but in such situations, the dog will soon run out of
food as
well. An automatically replenished water source will only prolong the
inevitable.

- Nehmo –
A mammal can survive a long time with water but without food, and maybe
before death form starvation someone would come to the rescue. So it's
much more likely Fluffy would survive if his water supply were more
certain.

But philologically, *every* effort for survival merely postpones the
inevitable.

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