Recently in drinking water Category

Here's a worthwhile and interesting post on a new blog I discovered a few weeks ago (called Raise a Green Dog) about the importance providing lots of water -- and high quality water -- to your dog. Water, the post says, is "the most important nutrient for a dog's healthy life."

I tried buying bottled water for my dogs for a while -- those big jugs -- during my super-perfect-dog-owner phase.

But eventually it became too logistically difficult and expensive to maintain, so we've gone back to tap water. The author of this blog, as you might guess, takes issue with serving tap water to your dogs. Here's this from the post: 

"Since water is so important to our quality of life, the quality of our water needs to be of great concern. With reports of fluoride and chlorine in tap water, Giardia in standing puddles, salts, and lawn and farming chemicals in rivers and ponds, how do you know if your water is safe?"

The post goes on to provide some resource articles. There also are some pretty good suggestions, even if you don't use bottled water (like never reusing plastic water bottles for your dog's supply).

Any opinions or experiences any of our South Bay dog owners would like to share on this topic? 

An online search turned up several specialty bottled waters for dogs that are now on the market, including one called FortiFido with vitamins and minerals designed for the canine crowd. "Dog Whisperer" Cesar Millan also has launched a bottled water product as part of his new line of pet supplies carried at PetCo stores. But at about $2.50 for just a 2-liter bottle, it seems like few of us could afford it on a full-time basis. 

Now for some fun. Check out this thirsty dog video sent to us by our reader & dog park friend, Indi's Mom :)