It’s Pet Hydration Month! Do you know if your dog is drinking enough water? How can you help make sure your dog does drink enough water? Mom is big on drinking water herself, and she takes care to make sure all us furry ones stay hydrated as well!
At our house, we have five different bowls of water around the house. Mom says having water readily available helps ensure we dogs drink enough. This silver bowl is the main indoor water bowl. It gets washed and filled at least once per day. It sits in our laundry room which is a central location in the house. We drink water straight from the tap in this bowl. My mom only drinks tap water at home, so she says it is fine for us too!
The most popular water bowl is in our home office where we spend most of our time during the day. Mom has our small Torus bowl serving us tasty filtered water in the office. Because of the popular location, it is not uncommon for it to be refilled and washed out, four to five times or more every day. The filtered water is tasty too!
In our back office, we have our large Torus bowl. This one is probably used the least of all, but is still refilled at least once a week and is washed with every refill. If you are wondering how to test your dog for dehydration, simply lift some skin and it should snap right back. If it is very slow to snap back, your dog my be dehydrated. Pushing on the gums is another way to test. They should return to a healthy pink within a second or so.
Upstairs we have our beloved water fountain. Initially, Mom got it for the cats, but it turns out, we dogs love the filtered running water! We will make the journey all the way upstairs just to get a drink! This fountain needs to be plugged in, and Mom wants it on a tile floor, so the upstairs bathroom is really the only good spot to keep it. Did you know a dog’s body is 80% water? This is another reason to make sure your dog has fresh, clean water at all times.
Lastly, we have our outdoor water bowl. This bowl is washed and filled at least once a day. It’s super important to change outdoor water at least daily to keep bacteria and diseases from growing in the bowl in the summer. Mosquitoes love old water too, and no one wants to attract those pests! Don’t use metal bowls outdoors as the summer heat makes them super hot, and in the winter, freezing is a danger to your dog!
What do you think? Does your pup drink enough water? Do you have any tips to make sure your dog stays hydrated?
Slurp, slurp, slurp! We have just one centrally located water dish in our kitchen. It is a big metal bowl. WE polish it off about every 3 days. Lyla and I both love our water. XOXO, Sparkle
We all love water too. Mom drinks tons of water, but she likes hers in a bottle…so weird!
the mama marked my bowl to see if I drink enough… butt her smart plan failed, because the water whats no longer inside of the bowl is not always inside of the weimaraner… it’s mostly on the floor ;o)
We get a lot on the floor with our beards.
We have several fountains here plus bowls. We even have a big water bowl that belonged to the doggies who live here a long time ago and it is a favorite of ours!
Mom gave up on kitty only water bowls ages ago. They prefer to share with us doggies!
Ha! Mom put a bowl upstairs for the first time
just about two months ago. I love it! Mom laughs because I will go upstairs to drink! She says its the same downstairs in the kitchen, but I really like it upstairs– and my little sister doesn’t really drink from it! Its mine!! Great post Emma! We love these kind of reminders. and now mom will definitely keep that bowl upstairs! Yay! your doodle friend Dash
Humans are the same way…if it is right there, you drink more. Upstairs is awesome!
Mom checks me for good hydration by pulling on my skin once in a while. I rarely drink water, so she adds water to my food in the morning and at dinner. She also adds fruits and veggies to my kibbles.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Katie was never a big drinker which always bugged Mom, but we love water.
Since our new house is one level, we only have two water bowls for the dogs now (and Sam has her own fountain), one at each end of the house. Oh, and one outside too. We have a Torus in the kitchen, and then just a regular water dish outside and in the master bathroom. I’d like to get another fountain some day too though, since Luke loved the one we used to have. But having to plug it in is an issue as to where to put it.
Both dogs are really good about drinking water, and even drink out of the pool when they’re in there too!
We all love to drink lots of water. The fountain is awesome but the plug in part does limit things.
The boys love their water and drink a lot of it. I fill their bowl up several times each day.
Mom says keeping out water bowls clean and filled up is almost a full time job!
My crew loves my cats’ fountain too! Except they can drain it at one sitting.
We get it about half way down on the water level, but then Mom refills it. Our slobber and stuff we leave in it means it also has to be cleaned a lot more often.
I’ve got to get one of these water fountains for the Boys.
They have more sturdy dog ones. This one works for us fine, but it was originally intended just for the cats.
Half inside and half on the floor. Good thing we have 2 bowls…no wait, that means twice as much on the floor! 🙂
Even with all the bowls, we sometimes have to wait because we all want the same bowl!
Great posts, I have water buckets all over the place.
If water is available, we usually drink.
Excellent post!
Our darling furry friends have it especially bad during these summer months. I always make sure that I take at least one bottle of water for my JRT Kala wherever we go, no matter how long or short the trip.
We always have water in the car just in case.
Our water bowl is NEVER full, because someone will drink it all. But we do have fresh water as they need it. Sampson concerns me sometimes, so I have my Nupro trick of making a gravy for his ‘dessert.’ That way, I make sure he does get some liquid in him.
We are all good at drinking plenty of water. Katie never drank much and that always bothered Mom, but it didn’t hurt her either.