This may be hard to believe since dogs are such messy drinkers, however similar to cats, our canine friends bend the tip of their tongue and lift liquid in a column up to their mouths, however cats’ tongues come into contact with just the surface of the liquid, dogs’ tongues plunge in, breaking the surface.
This action not only creates a mess, it also pools liquid on the back side of the tongue as the animal draws it up, almost as if it were forming a cup
