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[wipartimer]

This may be a dumb ? but here goes_ How do you water your dog while hunting? My lab can't figure out how to drink if I puor water from a bottle slowly so it just goes to waste. I'm thinkin if someone made a little collapseable bowl I could fill it, let him drink, and pour whatever was left back in the bottle (gotta remember wich is dogs and wich is my water), then there would'nt as much wasted and I would'nt have to carry as much extra. What do you guys do?

[Don Fischer]

I've used an empty dish soap bottle with that pull out nozzle, the dog learns. I've also used the top of a hat. If your dog gets really overheated, drinking won't help a lot. Then you need deeper water to submerge him in. Over heated dogs need body heat brought down and that means you need to get water on their chest and under the front legs. Pouring it on the back helps but not much. Anyway, just use a squeze bottle and keep squeezing water at him, he'll get it. Come to think, early on I had your problem and just poured water slowly into my cupped hand and let the dogs drink that way. Probally a lot more ways too!!

[wipartimer]

Thanks Don, good point about overheating too; I'll  remember that.

[Dave H20 Fowl]

Collapsible bowls are available, however I use sour cream or cottage cheese tubs as bowls.  They're light plastic and get squished a little, but there is always a new one in the fridge.  My dog will drink from my hand but she bites at squirted water like she is trying to catch it.  I have never claimed that she is smart.

[LEO]

There are probably other sources but canine outfitters offers a good collapsable bowl that folds up to nothing, it is made of waterproof nylon.  However, my K-9 has learned to drink water sprayed from my camelbak, this is quicker for on the go type stuff, for longer breaks I will get out the folding dish, and get a water bottle out of my pack.  A big mistake many people make is they don't give their dogs enough water or water often enough, if the tounge is out the side of the mouth and flat, it is time for a water break but it would have been better to have taken a break sooner.  Dogs dehydrate just like we do and remember they don't sweat, they pant to cool themselves and this causes them to loose a lot of water also.

[curdog]

some great ideas i never think about, we are always hunting by rivers or in creek and swamp bottoms, good info

[Ray Ford]

I'm not sure what this has to do with the question raised, but the first Doberman that I owned--I was 15--was a German-bred dog.  He had numerous champions and international champions in a 4-generation pedigree.  He had never been trained, but he was never off guard.  He would do without water before he would put his head down into a bucket or other container that he could not see over the top of while he was drinking.  How he liked to drink was this way: I would turn on the faucet and he would lap from the stream of water as it fell from the faucet--always alert and watching his surroundings.  Subsequent Dobes that I owned, after a few generations of pet/show breeding, were not even in the same class with this dog.

My point is that dogs can, and do, learn to drink from a falling stream of water.

And dogs can die from heat and dehydration in the field.

Tracker, my AKC Lab, sure does like to find a pond or creek when we are out roaming around.  But then, so does Stretch, a dog that I believe to be a Pit/Italian Grayhound cross.  (When my niece found her as a tiny, nearly frozen-to-death pup in a parking lot, she didn't have a pedigree with her.)  Interestingly, Tracker and Stretch both go through identical antics when they find a pool of water: they have a way of dipping their heads under the surface.

[creekfreak]

Some might say my pits not a bright dog, but shes bright enough to lap water from my cupped hand as it trickles out of a water bottle.

bowls....we dont need no stinking bowl.

[Tom H.]

It didn't take too long to get my Wirehair to drink from a bike squeeze bottle.  From a regualr bottle he looses too much, but with the bike bottle I just call him over and point the bottle down and it stays in his mouth.
And people tell me I baby my dog
He overheats if the temp is over 60 and I can get about an hour and a half in that weather.  If it looks like I'll be out longer I put some refills in my pockets.
He also knows that if he's bad, he is going to get a shot in the head 

Tom

[oso45-70]

Gentlemen.

I have my wife make a pouch that goes over my shooting vest, It becomes part of the vest and in this pouch i put a hot water bottle full of ice and water and clip the hose to my front pants pocket. In the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona it gets pretty hot even during Quail and dove season. I fill the hot water bag from a 20gal. cooler.

Tom H.  What do you mean he is going to get a shot in the head, Just curious.

He also knows that if he's bad, he is going to get a shot in the head .

[Tom H.]

OSO, Oh god, not like that!

If he does something out of line or "smart aleky" Out comes the water bottle...
This was more of a puppy thing as now when he's bad he stays out of range because he knows

Tom

[oso45-70]

Tom.

I figured thats what you ment, The way you put it down sounded like he was going to get shot. Its hard to hunt with a shot dog. Have a great day Tom .......Joe.......

[lucky guy]

Just tuck a sandwich bag in the case with the water bottle )or right in the bottle if its a wide mouth (and mark 'em ),  and you can use it to pour the water back in the bottle.  No mess and no waste.

[WesinND]

My drahthaar drinks out of a sports bottle.  I usually carry it in the game pouch or fron pocket of my vest.  Wes

[prairiedog555]

When I hunted chuckar in the high desert of Nevada I carried a large canteen with a small metal drinking cup attached.  You need to water your dog for two reasons, first, for its health, second so it can smell better.
And if you have a black dog it is really important.  Once while chucker hunting we came upon a poor man who was carrying a black lab that was about done in. And he was crying because his other lab had died earlier.  And this was a cool oct. day about 55-60 degres out.  I guess the high desert sun really gets to black dogs.  And if I remember, he said they were both around 3-4 years old.

[wipartimer]

I found a chaep canteen made by Pet Zone that has a plastic bowl that snaps to/over the canteen part at Farm and Fleet. cost around $ 10 but My dog (and the other dogs in our group) sure does appreciate it. Strangly enough, when we went to S. Dak. pheasant hunting this past fall; I was the only one who hadn't pheastant hunted outside of a preserve before, but I was also the only one that bothered to carry water for the dog. It was colder than a well diggers ankle all week, but between my dog and the other two, I carried two liters of water a day and still ran out/ had to refill. I am SO glad I asked you guys before the trip! I carry that canteen no matter how short the hunt or how cold the weather now, Thanks Guys!