Our Collie - Messy drinker

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by Diana Holbrook

Our dogs drink outside… No inside water bowl, unless you count the toilet, which we frown upon .

This wouldn't work too well for months out of the year here. IMHO, listening to a dog desperately banging the bowl around trying to gnaw ice out of it or crunching up the chunks is even more annoying than mopping up slobber .

[Diana Holbrook]

It is true that we have only occasional ice in a bowl on the porch.

We used to have dog bowls in the house, we had a nice big stainless steel bowl that held about a gallon. But our LGD (Livestock Guardian Dog - 100+ pounds) likes to pick up bowls and pack them proudly around the house, no matter what is/was in them, so we stopped having large quantities of water in anything that is not bolted to the floor.

Our corgis had to adapt to this.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Teach your collie to use a straw. This should reduce spillage.

All dogs do this, as pups, so they can do it.

[NYTom]

Not to change the subject, but don't buy those stainless steel bowls in the pet store, they're not cheap.

Instead I buy the three pack stainless steel mixing bowls in Costco for $10, they even come with rubber bottoms. They're perfect.

For those who have Costco memberships...

[SnazzyB]

Originally Posted by Bette

Our Collie is now 8 and he's been a great dog.

Yes, he chewed our wooden blinds and ate our leather couch but we still love him.

We are in the process of renovating our home and the issue of his water bowls (2) came up. We have the bowls elevated but he just makes a total mess.

Anyone have a good idea to deal with this?

How about putting a snood on him?

[Parnassia]

Originally Posted by NYTom

Not to change the subject, but don't buy those stainless steel bowls in the pet store, they're not cheap.

Instead I buy the three pack stainless steel mixing bowls in Costco for $10, they even come with rubber bottoms. They're perfect.

For those who have Costco memberships...

When I adopted my first rescue 30+ years ago I bought some basic dog-accessories from the shelter's fundraiser store. Including non-tippable stainless steel food and water bowls. They're still going strong multiple dogs later.

[NORTY FLATZ]

Originally Posted by NYTom

Not to change the subject, but don't buy those stainless steel bowls in the pet store, they're not cheap.

Instead I buy the three pack stainless steel mixing bowls in Costco for $10, they even come with rubber bottoms. They're perfect.

For those who have Costco memberships...

$38 here....



https://www.costco.com/tramontina-14...100750236.html

edit~ Didn't see a 3-pack...