Video Shows Dog Closing Tap With Its Snout After Drinking Water, Twitter Reacts

The video of a dog opening a tap with its snout to quench its thirst, and promptly closing it after has awed the netizens. The viral clip of a black Labrador was shared on Twitter by an Indian Police Officer, Dipanshu Kabra.

The internet is well furnished with plenty of dog and cat videos that often find the users in utter amazement and admiration. This particular video had users on Twitter lauding the dog's actions as a smart and intelligent move, reported India Today.

Reacting to the video, many users urged fellow human beings to follow suit, and close the taps after using them to save water, just like the lab did.

The police officer posted the video with a caption in Hindi, which translates to, “Every drop is precious. Even the dog understood, when will we humans understand?”

Kabra, who works as the Commissioner of Public Relations and Commissioner of Transport for the North Indian State of Chattisgarh, is passionate about the environment and often posts pictures of animals in their natural element.

The 12-second long clip has received over 35,000 views and numerous reactions on Twitter, at the time of writing. The responsible canine amazed many with its effortless and mindful thinking.

A user replied to the tweet with a video of a few school children drinking muddy water in an Indian village. “Here in the Government Upgraded Middle School, Powadiri campus, the faucet has been bad for a month,” he wrote, “The question is of pure water for children.”

Another user felt that humans lack the emotions that the animals were blessed with. “The emotions that God has given to humans, they are on the verge of extinction, they are themselves becoming the reason for the destruction of their earth, he wrote, “And spending billions of dollars in space, exploring the possibility of life.”

As per a UN report, climate change, rising demand and contaminated reservoirs might cause water shortages for more than 5 billion people by 2050.

India is the world's second-most populous country, with a population of 1.38 billion people. More than 6% of this population does not have access to clean drinking water, while over 15% of India's population practices open defecation, as per Water.org. Water-borne infections, malnutrition, and death are all exacerbated by a lack of domestic water connections and toilets.