Spencer takes a drink.....

Spencer takes a drink, hi-ho-the-merry-o Spencer takes a drink. Sort of a sidestep from the children's song, but you get the picture. It was one of the cutest things I've seen him do. I was just watching him do his usual, eating, chasing birds, dumping his seed bowl off its platform. But then, he scurried quickly over to the shed, where we have discovered Spencer has another "pinecone stash", in between the door of the shed and the detached porch of the shed. He nibbled on some of his stash, then without thought, sat up, posed himself with all feet touching the deck except his right front paw, in which it was off the deck and bent, kind of in the "I see something I want and I'm ready to charge" type pose and a gaze of seriousness in his eyes. I knew there was something very important or dangerous about. Then without an warning, he leapt to his feet, and ran so quickly to the front deck of our cabin, and went right for the drinking bowl, which usually is for the dogs to drink out of. I have seen dragon flies scoop down for a drink, like a helicopter filling up for a fire drop. I have seen bees, hover over the bowl for a drink, I have even seen little birds sit on the edge and drink from it, but today, Spencer ran over to the bowl, stood up and put his tiny little paws on the edge, and put his face over the bowl and began to take little drinks. Sip, sip, sip, catch his breath, sip, sip...then as quick as he came, he ran back under the shed, his underground stash of food and fun.