hi i leave fresh water kept outside for my dog 24 hours,which he has access to through a door flap.only reason i dont keep the water inside he always drops all over the floor.the probelm i have is lately its been very cold and water gets frozen,anyway of makig water not frozen.advise pls.
                                                     thank u

Just keep on changing it - we have the same situation if our dogs are in the outside runs - so it is a case of making sure that they have fresh clean water all the time by changing it, every couple of hours!  If your dog is inside, and the trouble is with him spilling the water over, try getting one of the bowls with a suction cap on the bottom - it might work.

Margot

Anti-freeze will stop the water freezing, however I wouldn't recommend you let your dog drink it.  Why don't you empty the dish each evening before you go to bed and then refill each morning!

>Anti-freeze will stop the water freezing, however I wouldn't recommend you let your dog drink it.

Certainly not! It's poisonous!

NEVER EVER EVER PUT ANTI-FREEZE IN YOUR DOG'S WATER BOWL!!!

IT IS EXTREMELY POISIONOUS!

Thats not my Willis who's posted BTW!!  :D :D

I thought he was more intelligent than that! :D

ROFL! :D :D

>Anti-freeze will stop the water freezing, however I wouldn't recommend you let your dog drink it.

God I hope this was meant as a joke!!!!  :-(

Oh come on!
Who in their right mind would say that and it not be ment as a joke?

There may be some very stupid people out there but if this person actually did do that they wouldn't be on this forum talking about their dogs, they wouldnt have any dogs to talk about.

Thedark, you'd be surprised how many people don't realise that anti-freeze is a poison, so it may well have been meant in seriousness. After all, some years ago they put antifreeze in Austrian wine to sweeten it before people started being very ill.

It's always worth pointing out dangers which people may not be aware of.

Friend of a friend lost two dogs last year because they drank anti-freeze in a puddle  on the pavement :( Took them several days to die :(

Daisy

I think that has to rate amongst the most stupid things ever to have been posted on this board!!!!!! :-(

Anti-Freeze is extremly poisonous to dogs and unfortunately they love the taste of it.  I hope to goodness no-one takes this suggestion seriously.

Trying leaving two or three tennis balls floating on the water bowl, that is if the dog will leave them there :-D  Thats what stops ponds freezing over.

Erm hello I'm sure I did say that I wouldn't recommend letting your dog drink it, not let your dog have a good old slurp!! Believe me I've seen what anti-freeze can do to animals, my neighbours cat kept insisting on tresspassing on my property and using my rockery as a toilet so I kept leaving it a cocktail of anti-freeze and milk.  I can tell you now it does work!! RIP :(

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<and using my rockery as a toilet so I kept leaving it a cocktail of anti-freeze and milk.  I can tell you now it does work!! RIP  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Now if the owner had proof of that you would be done with Animal cruelty and quite rightly so. If it was me you would have a tatse of your own medicine.
Do you really think that is something to brag about??????? If so you are one Sad person. VERY SAD, SICKJ and a Sadictic ************
GO BACK TO YOUR PLAYPEN.

Willis you are sick and need help

You're disgusting.

I wonder if Admin can trace your ISP details and pass that confession on to the relevant authorities. I've known it be done before.

that was a nasty sick thing to do I hope you never ever have to suffer like that poor wee cat did

Willis I was about to remind everyone of what you said and how it's worded, but after the next comment you made I think I'd rather poor anti-freeze on your food!

Willis, what sort of a person are you?

:O :O Aww guys chill out man.  Like I'd hurt any animal let alone poisen one, I couldn't even put my hamster out of it's misery when its brother started to chew it's leg off.  I was only trying to spice the board up.  Don't some of you people not get bored of slating vistors posts each time some poor inexperienced person asks a simple question which only requires direction.  I just thought I'd let you have a go at attacking me for a change and I enjoyed the experience, thanx :) :)

Willis I think you should grow up. You are obviously to immature to be on a public board. And your mother should bar you from the computer as you obviously have a lower mental age than my 6 year old. Nope I retract that, even my 6 year old has a higher mental age than you and would never even say things like that if the thought had been put his head.
Grow up, get a life and P!&& off back to your playpen.

Willis, for some strange and perverse reason you find that some poor inexperienced person was boring you, in which case read the post and move on.  Eveyone is entitled to their inexperience, we have all been there, we were not born experts. Some of us never will be. 

Your reply to this post was not only sad, sick and downright disgusting, you were also replying to a possibly inexperienced person who may have take your advice as gospel. You are one very dangerous person.

Is this really how you get your kicks,    >>>>>>I just thought I'd let you have a go at attacking me for a change and I enjoyed the experience, thanx <<<<<<<   Sorry, to dissappoint you, I am not attacking you, I feel sorry for you, you plainly need help. 

Willis

Bye Bye as I doubt we will be listening to you for much longer

Perhaps in time you will learn to grow up ;)

Guest we have the same set up and we replace the water day and night but also have a bowl inside when we know it is going to be particularly cold :)

Lucy
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Just out of curiousity, would a stand, keeping the bowl off the ground maybe slow the freezing process down a little.

Nope :)

We have two bowls on a stand and they get frozen :)

The one thing that is a pain is the blumin hosepipe freezing :rolleyes:

We hose down and disinfect once a day and usually in the morning.Over the last few days has been impossible due to the temps !

Lucy
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Oh yes frozen hose pipes are a right pain Lucy!!!!! I hose down each morning as well messes the day up when I can`t!!!!

Christine, Spain.

But isn't it a right old pain having to put the hose pipe away in the garden shed each night and getting it back out on a morning?? I wish this snow and freezing conditions would go away.  My garden is in a right old sorry state.  The dogs have got it looking like a muddy football pitch, I'm not sure if I'll be able to resurrect it in the spring :(

Wouldnt it be easier to use a pressure washer???
I use one and it halves the cleaning out time, the pipe doesnt freeze and its less packing away.

Kim, can you explain why you have registered twice and what is wrong with your 'other' username? Please use your original name above. I have removed this one

Sorry to sound daft,but who's kim??

No idea

One of the poster's real names-look at profiles!  I wonder who the other alias is??  Another Troll in our midst perhaps?! ;)

Hi guest, we had the same problem with the water going all over the floor so what we did was buy a lid for a storage box from the pound shop and put it under the bowl. With the sides being about 2cm high it keeps all the spills off the floor and all we do is empty it into the bowl when it gets too much then change it straight away. Stops the floor geting wet and its also inside.

This site sells heated water bowls.
http://www.partipoodlepetsupplies.com/hewafobo.html
When my dad was in iceland during the war he said they used cabbage water in radiators of the vehicles as it didn't freeze.Don't know if he was kidding us.
Dog