Dirty toilet water

[abaris]

Dogs are usually told by their owners that they're bad for drinking out of the toilet. I've never understood this. If the dog's drinking from the toilet, that's a clue that the water in his bowl is either gone or just not very nice any longer. He's drinking the freshest water available to him in the house.

Dogs drink and eat all kinds of stuff. It's in their nature and their organism is built to sustain stuff that either would make us sick or outright kill us. As you say, it should tell us something when the dog makes a beeline for the toilet.

But clean up as you will. You won't get all the bacteria left by numerous number twos hitting the bowl. And drinking a turd cocktail isn't a recipe for a healthy life.