OK you lot - we all know you're grand masters when it comes to coming up with solutions to things so here's a question for you all :d

Gideon (14 week old puppy) is a delight to live with in every way :d BUT his drinking habits have to be seen to be believed!  Our kitchen (which shall henceforth be known as the 'swimming pool') is suffering at the moment.  The cushion flooring is starting to bubble and I think I'm in danger of taking the pattern off with the amount of mopping I do every day.  I've never had a dog make things so wet!  It's not  the amount he drinks - it's the amount that's on the floor AFTER he's had a drink!  The water bowl is on a stand - tried it without the stand - even worse!  I'm going to get a spaniel bowl at Crufts because his ears are in danger of turning into gills they've spent that much time in the water!  But that won't stop him taking a few laps of water, then lifting his head (still with a mouthful of water) and letting it dribble out slowly as he stands there with a big grin on his face.  I've tried putting a towel underneath the bowl - I'm the best ever Mum for inventing the "let's drag the towel, complete with water, into the lounge" game :d  He's now started dunking his whole head in the bowl I think he does it purely to see the look on my Husband's face LOL.  Asked his breeder if she had any ideas - when she'd stopped laughing :rolleyes: she said "Debs, mate, why do you think mine are in kennels?"  :d

So, what's the answer?  Is there anything I can put on the floor that he's not going to try and cart off?  I'd love to be able to go back to the days when we didn't have to wear full scuba gear just to make a cup of tea :d

Debs

Our water bowl sits in a tray but there is always some spillage about the place.  I am a bit surprised about your cushion flooring that should be able to take any amount of water spillage.  Is it quite old?  I give my vinyl tiles a going over with a Marley finish now and again which I think has kept it better proofed over the years but that is tiles I am surprised to hear about a one piece floor behaving like this.

I think the water must have gone down the edge of it next to the cupboards.  I've asked hubby to put some sealing gumph along the edges but I may as well ask the cat to do it :rolleyes:  I could try and do it myself but me and DIY tend not to mix too well :d

Debs

ROFL Welcome to my world Debs :)
With 3 leonbergers that do this I totally know how you feel.
I'm lucky that I have a kinda 'porch' outside the back door which is closed in so that they are not actually 'out' but this is where I banished the water bucket to ;) so whether the weather is hot or cold they go outside to drink (and eat)
Not much help to you I know, but when the bowl is in the kitchen - say if I go out - then the vet beds that are down stop the tiled floor getting drenched :rolleyes:

Our GR also tends to shower in his water bowl rather than politely lap at it :D

PAH sell a rubber mat that has a lip on it all the way round which helps to contain some of the water that is sloshed around. He also seems to fill his chops up and then walk away and deposit the whole lot on the floor - have you seen the helicopters in Australia dropping water on forest fires - Harley could get a job with them :)

If  you come across a really good solution I would love to know as we are all developing webbed feet :D

A little off the wall (pardon my pun) but how about a crate water bottle?

Or a large area of duck boards big enough for him to drip on. :-D

My house is constantly flooded too. My lot don't just spill there water all over the floor they then walk into the living room with slobber dangling and then shake giving us a shower with all the water that they'd been saving in their mouths to do the job!!! :-D

No advice I'm afraid....just so you know you are definately not alone!!!

he he he - we also have a swimming pool around our water bowl courtesy of our 11 month old pup Charlie....he has been the same since 8 weeks and you can tell where he is as there is always a trail of water from the water bowl to wherever he may be! I would also be very interested on a remedy to this which doesnt involve me and a mop every time he has a drink.....dont you just love them????

Chrissy

I have my Dobes's water bowl in a v.large cat litter tray! Sounds a bit odd I know, but it does the trick wonderfully. I did try the rubber mats that someone above suggested but they're very bendy and I would spill the majority of the contents trying to make my way to the kitchen sink :rolleyes:

My two Goldens are exactly the same Debs :D.  What I've done is to put a large waterproof mat under the bowl area and as the bowl is raised on a little stool, I've also put a litter tray (just empty, no litter :)) underneath two of the stool legs in the direction where they generally move their heads after drinking! :P :P  It doesn't look very attractive and they still manage to make a mess dribbling down the hall but I think it saves quite a bit from going on the carpet.

Snap Zarah! :)

OK I'm going to go down the litter tray route and see what happens.  I'll try anything once!

Just get smaller, better behaved, non-slobbery dogs

Been there done that - at least I have one that's not doing the wall of death round the living room like Pharaoh puppies do! LOL

Oh but have you seen his pic - he is soooooo sweet you would forgive him anything

So true! He gets away with murder with that cute look.  I swear he stays awake at nights practicing it :d

Thanks guys :d knew you'd come up with something.  Let's just hope it works!

Debs

Just get smaller, better behaved, non-slobbery dogs :D :D :D :D :D

Daisy (ducking under the table and preparing for shrapnel :D :D )

Oh but have you seen his pic - he is soooooo sweet you would forgive him anything. :D

Our gordon is the same - she snorkels in the water then gathers up lots in her lips and drips it everywhere, however she has improved slightly since she was a puppy. Personally I would go the tray route - a nice deep one! :D

I've got non-slobbery little dogs, but my kitchen is always flooded too - my bichon is always digging in the water bowl, sending water flying everywhere including all over himself ( he thinks its great fun :rolleyes:)
Ya gotta love em' :D :D

*fetchs the mop. Again.*

I have just found this with our collie pup, couldn't understand why my floor was constantly wet, never had it before until I caught her digging quite merrily in it.

How about those putting those big plastic bibs on them with the trough at the bottom? :D :D

Oh thank the lord all mine lap politely.  Only time I get spills is if someone accidentally runs into the bowl, or I spill it when putting it down.  I do use a large gallon size stainless steel bowl.  I noticed my Friends dobes and another Friends golden retriever have this annoying habit.  My Groenendael used to dig at the water dish when she was a pup, but no bad water habits with any of the Elkhounds yet she says with fingers crossed,a d my Lexi was my first ever Vet Bed chewer..

Oh Debs

you had me rolling around on the floor regarding this matter, its my GSD bitch to a 'T'. :-)
the water i dont really mind, its when they have been out in the garden playing in the dirt, then comes into my lovely clean kitchen, and she decides she wants to turn the kitchen into a swamp , she looks at me as if to say 'well mum, the kitchens got a bit of dirt on it now so lets add some water, we got our own mudbath'

Mine don't drip much because as soon as they've had a drink they come and dry their beards - on me! :)

No advice, but had a good giggle at your post....sorry ;-)

I bought some nice pet mats from betterware which supposedly soak it all up, put them in front of the boys stands so after a drink they should just drip onto the mat, and they work, but unfortunately the dogs move too quick so it goes on the mat then trails out of their room, into the living room and then gets wiped on the furniture :rolleyes:

We kinda solved this problem by having the water in a great cauldron shaped thing that OH bought at a car boot "just the job for the girls water" he said.... they shun it!! and line up by the door to be let out to drink from the fish pond, in all but the very worst weather they prefer to use the fish pond and I for one do not discourage them...much dryer that way.
Treacle has a most peculiar drinking action as she bites the water and sort of throws it back into her mouth!!!! strange hound!  I think you are in the majority as we all have messy drinkers by the sound of things?

No advice but if you click on Surannons link and look at the photo it actually looks like he is driblbing water (it's only the chair in the background)  Very funny.  He is beautuful.

My 2 gordons love to drip water everywhere, but thankfully they have taken to drinking from a bowl just outside the back door.  i like the idea of the litter tray, however with 2 cats I can envisage a little "tasty treat" for the Gordons being left in it or otherwise my youngest gordon running off with it to chew the tray!  

the joys of dogs!!

Coming in late here. I've not found ANYTHING to work with mine! It got to the stage where I now no longer keep water in the house for the big dogs. Instead they get offered a drink after each meal and also have metal buckets full of water outside -and of course are let outside very frequently. (It very rarely goes longer than 1 ½ hour.) However I got a new pup 10 days ago and she isn't big enough to drink from a bucket -a Malinois aged 8-9 weeks usually is, but not a Golden. I started to worry about her not getting enough to drink even though she gets water after each feed and has a bowl outside -but the bowl tends to get picked up and carried off -she IS a Golden, after all...... :rolleyes: So I thought I had a BRILLIANT idea today and put one of the non tip/non spill bowls in the kitchen. You know the ones you can get at shows, with a big lip. We use them at shows and in the car. 5 minutes later I walked in to the kitchen and found it totally FLOODED; one very wet but very happy Golden puppy carrying the bowl around. How did all that water fit into such a small bowl?? And what about non spill?!! I'll just have to go back to offering water frequently and then removing the bowl again....... Heavy bowls are no use because they will just be used for swimming or paddling!

Molly drinks so loudly, my Mum can hear drinking when I'm on the phone to her. She also has water falling out of her mouth afterwards as she walks around the kitchen. I think because she has a long muzzel being an EBT, she takes her last gulp, swallows, but there's some left in that long beak of her which just falls out!

I know the feeling too, I now have buckets, usually the ones that milk comes in or puppy porridge and fill those.My youngest loves to empty them by splashing, brilliant fun !!!! Have found that putting a dirt trapper mat underneath helps to soak up the water, take it out once a day and scrape it dry with zoom broom xxx

a good pair of wellies and a 'oh well' attitude worked for me.

with a leonberger and a beardie i've had to drop my standards .

my family just make sure they wear shoes in the kitchen so their socks dont get wet. :rolleyes:

great discription tho'.

I'm always at the ready with the kitchen roll! I go through a roll almost every day!

Hayley