Pottery Chatroom Board

Gordon,

Interesting post regarding lapping. I thought perhaps dogs down under used a reverse process, as I'd learned that dogs and cats curl their tongues under to bring up water. This slow motion video supports that:

http://thestarryeye.typepad.com/pets/2009/08/has-does-dogs-tongue-lap-up-water.html

But I also read online that researchers had used x-ray slow motion photography with barium laced cream and showed dogs formed the upper surface into a cup. Perhaps it's just different strokes for different dogs - some use the top of tongue cup and some the under the tongue cup method.