"Should puppies have water at night?"

[dogatemysalad]

My puppies have always had access to water at night because they sleep in the indoor yard under the care of an older dog. No dogs ever go upstairs, except if worried by fireworks or a thunder storm.
It always seemed that the mature dogs make better puppy sitters than humans, which is why they aren't put in locked crates at night. It works for us.

 

[Goldenstar]

Not letting dogs drink from public bowls is just normal management.
Even though mine had her face in several puddles last night

No it’s good management ,people often pick up the bowl from beside their table and offer it to me when they leave where we are eating it completely freaks me out .
The RSPCA have a bowl outside their shop I always am tempted to put up a sign saying infect your dog here .

 

[dogatemysalad]

No it’s good management ,people often pick up the bowl from beside their table and offer it to me when they leave where we are eating it completely freaks me out .
The RSPCA have a bowl outside their shop I always am tempted to put up a sign saying infect your dog here .

My vets do this too. I've always wondered why. Surely, dogs at a vets are more likely to be very young, old or ill. It doesn't make sense.

 

[Goldenstar]

My puppies have always had access to water at night because they sleep in the indoor yard under the care of an older dog. No dogs ever go upstairs, except if worried by fireworks or a thunder storm.
It always seemed that the mature dogs make better puppy sitters than humans, which is why they aren't put in locked crates at night. It works for us.

I think calm well adjusted adults make for calm well adjusted new additions .
Dogs defiantly learn from other dogs and you have to have to just watch that they are learning commands not just copying .
Pearl would watch Dram on a recall and come back because he did .
A little work one to one fixes it .

Crates and play pens are excellent tools particularly if you have very old dogs who need peace when you are not there if the oldies find the pup to much it’s risky to leave them together .
Mrs Lurcher was very very old when Pearl arrived she did not much like other bitches or pups so we used a play pen .

 

[Barton Bounty]

I think Yogi has decided

 

[skinnydipper]

It's a shame that the puppy's owner wasn't able to try any of the suggestions for non spill water containers that people bothered to post.

Ho-hum.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I dont know if she has? She has been banned from the thread

I just thought this was amusing

 

[Bellaboo18]

He spends so long in that crate, he's going to destroy things.

 

[Barton Bounty]

He only goes in at night, he is out doing stuff all day

 

[Bellaboo18]

He only goes in at night, he is out doing stuff all day

Not true
'Very happy to see the boys getting on so well
I feel so bad every time I have to leave him in his crate to go to work'

 

[Barton Bounty]

Not true
'Very happy to see the boys getting on so well
I feel so bad every time I have to leave him in his crate to go to work'

Shes not the only person in the household!!!
Facts, my dear, facts

 

[Barton Bounty]

Honest to god.. theres just a few of you lurking and waiting to tear posts to shreds wow how exciting…

 

[Bellaboo18]

Honest to god.. theres just a few of you lurking and waiting to tear posts to shreds wow how exciting…

I just feel sorry for the puppy. I'm sure you'd raise your concerns if you felt the same.

 

[Bellaboo18]

Shes not the only person in the household!!!
Facts, my dear, facts

She's angrily pm'd me, I have the facts. I just still don't agree with her. We'll never all agree, it doesn't mean I've read anything incorrectly.

 

[Barton Bounty]

I just feel sorry for the puppy. I'm sure you'd raise your concerns if you felt the same.

You dont need to feel sorry for him .. he is more than adequately cared for I can promise you that as is Bear

 

[Bellaboo18]

You dont need to feel sorry for him .. he is more than adequately cared for I can promise you that as is Bear

We could go on all night....I don't agree but happy to agree to disagree

 

[Barton Bounty]

Thats right , we dont need to agree @Bellaboo18 but here you were quoting my posts and trawling the thread looking for something?

I only posted it as it was funny how he has spilled it!!

It is broad daylight outside too

We dont need to agree but we dont need to fight

 

[Ditchjumper2]

As I am deemed a bad person already by some I thought I'd chuck this in too. Just back from obedience training with my pup. Was interesting that one of the dogs was really distracted and unfocussed. Apparently quite common for dogs that are in "doggy day care" all day as they become over stimulated and bad habits are unable to be nipped in the bud. Quiet crate time has its advantages apparently

 

[Bellaboo18]

Thats right , we dont need to agree @Bellaboo18 but here you were quoting my posts and trawling the thread looking for something?

I only posted it as it was funny how he has spilled it!!

It is broad daylight outside too

We dont need to agree but we dont need to fight

And you're quoting my posts I don't see your point.
You believe people should stay in their own lane, I believe in standing up for what i see as wrong.

I'm not fighting. I'm not trawling a thread..I was given an alert on a thread I've contributed on, so I've given my opinion.

 

[Barton Bounty]

And you're quoting my posts I don't see your point.
You believe people should stay in their own lane, I believe in standing up for what i see as wrong.

I'm not fighting. I'm not trawling a thread..I was given an alert on a thread I've contributed on, so I've given my opinion.

Okydoky

Brick wall

 

[Jenko109]

As I am deemed a bad person already by some I thought I'd chuck this in too. Just back from obedience training with my pup. Was interesting that one of the dogs was really distracted and unfocussed. Apparently quite common for dogs that are in "doggy day care" all day as they become over stimulated and bad habits are unable to be nipped in the bud. Quiet crate time has its advantages apparently

Regular day care can create reactive dogs and as a general rule, I don't agree with day care with lots of dogs.

Quiet crate time is fine to insist a puppy has a rest when he is over-tired or if you can't watch him while you're cooking. I am rather uneasy about the concept of having a puppy in a crate all night, to then put him back in the crate again to go to work though.

 

[Parrotperson]

Dogs that sleep with their owners in a bedroom, but who are free to toddle off downstairs to drink if they want to, aren't the ones having access to water restricted. If they want a drink they can go and have one.

I don't let my dogs drink from publicly available dog water bowls, either. That is basic hygiene and infection control.

Apart from the blip where she got alarmed by having us pour water over her on hot days, oops, this is what she is happy to drink from out and about, and we take it everywhere with us. Fill it up, sling it over your shoulder and off you go.



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see I have one of these but it leaks the entire time its slung over my shoulder and drives me a bit potty! Does yours leak at all Tiddlypom? Maybe I've just got a defective one.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Regular day care can create reactive dogs and as a general rule, I don't agree with day care with lots of dogs.

Quiet crate time is fine to insist a puppy has a rest when he is over-tired or if you can't watch him while you're cooking. I am rather uneasy about the concept of having a puppy in a crate all night, to then put him back in the crate again to go to work though.

All mine spend some periods in flight boxes or their car box. With a bowl attached to the door

 

[Jenko109]

All mine spend some periods in flight boxes or their car box. With a bowl attached to the door

Did you mean to quote me?

 

[Tiddlypom]

see I have one of these but it leaks the entire time its slung over my shoulder and drives me a bit potty! Does yours leak at all Tiddlypom? Maybe I've just got a defective one.

It's only leaked a couple of times when we've not screwed the lid on properly, lol, but usually it doesn't leak. We've had it a year or so.

Going back to a pup in the crate - if a pup keeps tipping a water bowl over then alternative ways of providing water in the crate need to be investigated.

I'm not anti crate training at all, but it should be the dogs safe happy place, not a prison.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Did you mean to quote me?

Yep, I was broadly agreeing with you, with an addendum.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

Re day care, I’m really glad none of the dog walkers I contacted wanted our occasional day deal. I saw one today with 5 on lead, 3 loose, heading into the woods with another walker who also had lots of dogs. Another one left a dog loose, thought it was lost in the carpark, another was taking her sweet time socialising with someone else, lots of other dogs in her van barking endlessly. Call me crazy, but I want my three walked on their own and not pointlessly stuck in a van, that would really upset me.

 

[CorvusCorax]

I think 'daycare' entails taking dogs to a premises and letting them tear-arse about with each other all day while the owner is at work, rather than in a van/group walks, which can at least offer some other forms of stimulation.

I know two people who operate their own daycare businesses and would not dream of letting their own dogs partake.

 

[Christmascinnamoncookie]

I think 'daycare' entails taking dogs to a premises and letting them tear-arse about with each other all day while the owner is at work, rather than in a van/group walks, which can at least offer some other forms of stimulation.

I know two people who operate their own daycare businesses and would not dream of letting their own dogs partake.

Depends, one walker I know walks them then her ‘daycare’ consists of putting them in small outdoor pens til she delivers them home at the end of the day. There is a guy locally who does exactly what you say, awful to consider.

 

[CorvusCorax]

Depends, one walker I know walks them then her ‘daycare’ consists of putting them in small outdoor pens til she delivers them home at the end of the day.

I'd prefer that, actually.