Hey guys, so we have a male and female bonded couple, Gorie and Alfie (and another girl in the other room that we’re waiting to bond). They live in an air conditioned room, and it’s always super comfortable in there.

They have both water bowls and water bottles, because I’m serious about hydration. But Alfie always goes under one of the bottles that drips, and sits right under it. He’s a big sitter, less active than Gorie, and so in the process he gets soaking wet from the dripping. I tried moving the water bottle, thinking he was just defiant about the spot he wanted to sit in, but he just moved his spot and sat right under it again. So it’s really that he likes the water dripping on his backside… 

Now, Alfie has always been a little bit of a strange bird and sometimes his behaviors aren’t totally understandable (we think he may have been hit in the head or traumatized during Hurricane Sandy because that’s when he was abandoned before we adopted him), but I’m just getting concerned that he’s trying to correct something in his little bunny way that I’m not seeing. I don’t see anything in his fur and I don’t feel any bumps on him, and the last time we went to the vet she said he was perfect but I didn’t think to mention the water thing. I don’t know what this dripping water will do to his skin over time, and I don’t know if I should just take the bottle away because it’s also his main source of water while Gorie prefers the bowl. 

One point is that he does have an incurably leaky eye, it tears constantly. We’ve taken him to two vets, and there’s nothing we can do about it. I don’t know if that’s a clue to this mystery, or if Alfie is just doing another weird thing. Has anyone seen this before?