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Originally Posted by sushi_78
You could try putting a bit of peanut butter on the water bottle spout. Hopefully she'll lick it off and in doing so learn that it produces water.
How old is Edwina? The pet shop should really have made sure she was drinking from the bottle before letting her go.
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You'd think, but I had the same thing with little Rollo. I found him in the petshop standing in his dry water bowl licking the bottom of it. He was three weeks old and came home with me there and then. He had no idea what a water bottle was so for the first ten days I supplied a shallow saucer and a bottle. I only removed the saucer when I saw him drinking successfully from the bottle.
Sadly animals are just a commodity to many pet shops, their welfare being of very minimal concern.