kashtin's kin
July 1st, 2008, 07:37 PM
So, I know it's the tail of a long w'end (Happy Canada Day), and a lot of people aren't on the BB right now, BUT...does anyone with big, :dog: sweet, slobbery dogs have tips on dealing with the um, LAKE, created when said BIG dogs slake their thirst!?
I grew up with a female lab who was app. 55 lbs., and our present 'big' :rolleyes: dog is about the same size; both these gals were/are pretty neat around the ol' watering hole/bowl! Okay, so the lab would leap into any disgusting body of water (we lived on a farm, so off-leash) at the drop of a hat, but NO excessive slobber with the water BOWL.
Roy-the-Dawg is, as we pretty much expected, a big goofy :laughing: lug of a boy-lab; no special training, but very amiable and quick to figure out what we'd like him to do. (I'll put up some pics, and more details on the Feral :cat: Cat Capture thread tomorrow.)
So far, the biggest challenge for us is dealing with his ability to flood the entire kitchen floor while he slurps his water...and subsequently drips a bunch as he walks away. It's not like he needs a drool bib; in between trips to the bowl, he's fine!
We've already replaced our usual kitchen water bowl (a fairly large and deep white pyrex affair) with a shallower bowl that he had been using in his former home; I also placed this bowl inside an even shallower 'outer' bowl hoping to catch some overflow...which it has, just not nearly enough :shrug:!
When I took Roy for a long walk today, I left a big water bowl outside, so he could water the lawn!, which he did, before coming inside to create another tidal wave! Aside from being app. 110 lbs. of happy young lab, Roy is not out of control or unaware of his surroundings.
It's just this deluge of water that has me a bit stymied for now...any suggestions, other than giving him a pony water trough??!! (But that wouldn't eliminate the dripping apres drinking issue!) If this is the worst of Roy's habits, it's obviously NOT a terrible thing, but if would be nice not to have to don a lifejacket in the kitchen :eek:!
I grew up with a female lab who was app. 55 lbs., and our present 'big' :rolleyes: dog is about the same size; both these gals were/are pretty neat around the ol' watering hole/bowl! Okay, so the lab would leap into any disgusting body of water (we lived on a farm, so off-leash) at the drop of a hat, but NO excessive slobber with the water BOWL.
Roy-the-Dawg is, as we pretty much expected, a big goofy :laughing: lug of a boy-lab; no special training, but very amiable and quick to figure out what we'd like him to do. (I'll put up some pics, and more details on the Feral :cat: Cat Capture thread tomorrow.)
So far, the biggest challenge for us is dealing with his ability to flood the entire kitchen floor while he slurps his water...and subsequently drips a bunch as he walks away. It's not like he needs a drool bib; in between trips to the bowl, he's fine!
We've already replaced our usual kitchen water bowl (a fairly large and deep white pyrex affair) with a shallower bowl that he had been using in his former home; I also placed this bowl inside an even shallower 'outer' bowl hoping to catch some overflow...which it has, just not nearly enough :shrug:!
When I took Roy for a long walk today, I left a big water bowl outside, so he could water the lawn!, which he did, before coming inside to create another tidal wave! Aside from being app. 110 lbs. of happy young lab, Roy is not out of control or unaware of his surroundings.
It's just this deluge of water that has me a bit stymied for now...any suggestions, other than giving him a pony water trough??!! (But that wouldn't eliminate the dripping apres drinking issue!) If this is the worst of Roy's habits, it's obviously NOT a terrible thing, but if would be nice not to have to don a lifejacket in the kitchen :eek:!