I know that with a dog they should have water available at all times, and with my two dogs, i do, but we have a new lab puppy and anytime theres water she inhales it!! he belly gets sooo wide and she lays down and starts whining and needs to be brought out about 3 times in the next twenty minutes. then she'll do it all over again!! should i just be only giving her a certain amount each day?

I'm not an expert, but I think I would try giving limited amounts, say half a cup at a time and see what happens. Maybe it just isn't recognizing the signal that says 'I'm not thirsty anymore'. What would happen if you gave it half a cup or so, then after it had wandered off, put the dish back down?

not sure, i'll try it :).

We have usually left the water down all the time. If the puppy wasn't making it over night by 10 weeks, we would start taking it up at 7 PM. There have been a few cases where a puppy at first drank, and drank, until we took the water up.

Dogs can bloat from drinking to much water rapidly. I would limit her amount.