Does anyone else have a dog who cannot drink without making an awful mess?

My youngest cocker who is just over a year old drinks like I've never seen a dog drink before.  We always joke that he's 'a bit simple' but he seem to not be able to effectively lap!  With three dogs I use quite large water bowls (and always have done) and the technique he uses is to push his snout deep into the water then just lift it out when he's had enough bringing with him a few pints of water which he doesn't remove by a sweep of the tongue like the others do.  My kitchen floor is knee deep in water this morning.  I don't notice and it isn't a problem when he's in the kennel but with the hot weather they do drink more and if he drinks in the kitchen it really is unbelievable and the excess covers quite a large perimeter!  I've just used four sheets of Bounty kitchen roll which have been totally saturated!

I've watched the other two closely and they lap with their tongue rather than put their whole face in the water, then sweep around their mouth when they've finished and not a drop is spilt. 

Is this just confirmation that he really is mad, or are there others that do this? :-)

My boy does this.  Lennon (9 month old JSI) makes a hell of a mess when drinking, so much so that I have had to put the water bowl on a tea towel on the floor, or I'll end up on my ar*e in the wet :D.  He also has a water bowl in his crate and goes in there for a drink, coming out with half a mouthful of water which he then proceeds to leave on the carpet, or over me if I'm close - bless.  Good job I love him :D

It's a Spaniel thing - although I'm lucky, my current spaniel has a very 'dry' mouth and doesn't make too much of a mess.

Phew!  I feel happier now I know it's not just mine!!

Try having a golden retriever and a great dane then! our retriver his a big one, havent ever seen another retriever as huge as he is, his got a really droopy mouth and his banned from drinking inside during the day when its nice as he totally soaks the kitchen and frontroom in water and slobber being flicked everywhere, my little dane on the other hand is starting to copy and altho he has his inside and stands over his bowl so it all drips back in, he gets hanging slobber and decides to `have a shake` after his finished drinking! :D slobbery gits! lol

A couple of our GSPs do this. I keep a bath towel in the area where the bowl sits to absorb it. Half the time they are walking along with a mouthful of water dripping out all over the floor !

If i can, i too am on standby with a towl waiting!

Our springer is a very sloppy drinker and not only does she put her face in her water bowl she will if possible get her front feet in it to!
she will also come to tell you how much she loves you with a mouthful of water and soak you.

My dog also does this - and we have the added bonus of a long hairy beard that holds quite a large amount of water to be dripped everywhere for the next few minutes or so!!!

I love her most when she comes to lay her head in your lap in the summer - afer a drink - and while you have shorts on - quite a shock I can tell you!!!

Fiona

lol been there

I don't think this is a spaniel thing. My 15 week old rottie pup does this, its like she is trying to drown herself. There is more water on the floor than in her mouth.

Yes, my working cocker is the same.  When her head comes up from the bowl, water is just pouring out of her mouth!  She then spills it all over the floor and walks in it, leaving a trail of muddy pawprints if she has just come in from a walk!

My boy can effectively lap but he also likes to wash the kitchen floor while he is at it.....think it might be time to invest in a huge bowl with really high sides

Yep, my Bracco does this AND she has the jowls that flap around furiously after she's drunk.  She drinks for Scotland too - never away from the bowl.  I have a bath towel down inside the house now because of this but inevitably there will be some left which she sprays all over the walls on her travels through the dining room to the lounge. :d However, I can't complain as I was warned prior to getting her.  The alternative breed standard states:

HEAD:  "Noble dignified expression.  Certainly too good for what is going on around him.  Ears should be long enough to dangle in his dinner. Nose must be prominent with large nostrils to enable him to drink and blow water all over the kitchen floor simultaneously.  Head planes must diverge, though nobody seems to quite know where.  Mouth large enough to carry game and a sandwich at the same time."  :d

Annie

lol

LOL @ dogdeli1!!!!!! :D :D :D

sarah xxxx

Like the alternative breed standard!

We have a Newfie pup. My entire life is now wet :rolleyes: :D

>>She drinks for Scotland too  -   LOL :D

But I think that mine can compete with your Bracco, Annie, go on, lets have a drinking competition........please! (dogs that is, not us ) :P Their water bowl looks like a trough, and my god, when they decide they're thirsty............... :rolleyes:

2 whole kitchen rolls don't even come close to clearing up the flood that occurs everytime mine decide to drink

We also have a kingsize bathtowel, it still ends up soaked and it's really lovely when they both decide to come and find you in the bedroom or bathroom, normally when I'm naked and give you a kiss. lovely long very wet beards, moustaches, chests, ears, fringes.........you name it :P :D

Water bowl in kitchen is now complete with old towel underneath!  Why didn't I think of that before?

Thanks Guys!! :-)

old towel underneath  :rolleyes:

pssst

ever seen the magic table cloth trick ..........

Teri :P

Never seen that one yet Teri!!  No doubt she will discover it at some point in the future!!

Annie

Hi Hairypooch

I've never had a dog before that slobbers and when I first got Ruby I thought "my god this is awful".  It's funny how you get used to things isn't it. :d  AND, yes she does the same coming to find me when I'm still in bed.  One good thing though, I don't have the beard and whiskers to contend with.  That must be a nightmare and a very rude awakening in the morning.  :d :d

Annie

We are lucky  I suppose as we have the three water bowls outside as they have the dog flap :D

Lucy
xx

I have water bowl inside a large plastic container any spills or drips go into the container and then I empty it.......works a treat...

Roni

Willis is a nightmare water drinker...he carries a load a few feet away fom his bowl then opens the flaps and drops it all over the floor.

Even worse - he absolutely has to come into the downstairs loo with me - I swear he thinks there is another door in there that I might go through without him. Trouble is, he insists on drinking out the tap whilst I am in there, and then proceeds to dribble water all over my trousers when he's finished. So I look like I've wet myself. Nice. THEN he opens the door himself and if my trousers aren't up in time the farmer in the next field gets an eyeful :D :D

lol men eh! no concideration! :D

LOL imagining the farmer's face.  :d :d

Annie

LOL My Labs do somehting similar. When its hot they get mouthfulls of water and drop it on the floor then lie in it (I have at least trained them to stay in the kitchen). When suitably wet they go and lie on the sofa to warm up again <rolleyes>

Have any of you come across a flooring for kitchens that isnt slippy when wet or should I just get a drain put in the floor?

BTW mine insist on comming to the toilet, not normally too much of a problem, but I was by myself with a dog at the game fair this weekend and ended up having to use the disabled toilet as we couldnt both get in a standard one! 

Yep my goldie does this, submerges his  nose straight in it, sloppy water everywhere so now got a bowl stand by the back door, and not as much mess....:)

Oh Bluebell I am envious.  This is the first game fair weekend I have missed in seven years!  Was it OK?  Did the weather hold out?  It wasn't it's usual blazing temperature was it?

I must live in a house of similar design to Chloe as I keep asking my dogs which secret door they think I am slipping out of when I enter the bathroom!  "Have you ever known me not come out?"!!! 

yep my 2 labs and spaniel are exactly the same water everywhere, so to solve the problem they have a bucket outside for their water, funny thing is ive never seen the concrete round the bucket as wet as the kitchen floor

tanya

Game fair was OK. Usual queue to get in on Friday, I only took an hour becasue Im impatient and after 10 minutes on the A1 and only having moved 3 car lengths I decided to carry on up to the next junction. A friend who was a bit behind me spent an hour in that queue only to be told to do exactly what I had done.

Weather was probably just right for dogs, not too hot and not wet.  Everyone I have spoken to has said that they think the gamefair is loosing out because people are getting greedy though. £17 per person to get in makes it a very expensive day out with a light lunch and traveling. Traders did not appear to have the bargains that they usually do and many were complaining that they were not doing as much trade.

Its very expensive, isn't it?  We usually camp and stay for the full three days, so for my two boys and me it works out as a tidy sum although they aren't too fussy on the ages of children at the gate so my 20yr old has never had an adult ticket!!  (He looks young!)  I doubt the same will apply next year, but then he's old enough to buy his own now.

I shall have to go to the Midland this year to get my game fair fix and a new pair of neoprene wellies.

I have nine & 7 of them drink by submerging their heads :(  Simple answer...no indoor bowls anymore...all their water is now outside :)