Dumping water bowl! Argh!

[SoapySophie]

Fellow lab lovers, I'm in need of some advice! Sophie, the little darling, is dumping her water bowl when unattended in her room during the day. We've been using the metal type with the rubber ring around it, and she paws at it so that the water splashes everywhere (onto the laminate floor ) and eventually manages to get the ring off so she can chew it into 30 pieces.

Anyone have any suggestions? Our floor can't take much more of this.

Please and thanks in advance.

[Labradorks]

If she is pawing and splashing, you can get her a no-splash bowl. Just google it. Sounds like she might be bored? Does she need to be crated without water? What's your set-up?

[Tanya]

i don't leave water when I crate so one easy fix is to not leave a water bowl in her room during the day (just make sure she has access before/after.

[Jeff]

Pet Supplies : Loving Pets Standard No-Tip Dog Bowl, 32-Ounce : Raised Pet Bowls : Amazon.com

No tip dog bowl and remove the rubber ring from them. Hemi did this and still will if given another bowl. He like to tip the bowl over then play with the bowl and smack it around the sound like a kid playing on pots and pans. It's not because he is bored he just like sit. I can take him for a 5 mile hikle come home, fix him fresh water in ragular bowl and after he has drank his fill it gets dumped and you hear clang, bang, blang. So I eventually switch to all No tip bowls. He still does this when he goes to my sisters house though. Luckily she has gotten wise and the only place she has non tip bowls is outside on the deck.

I do agree with other though, if she is doing this while your away then crate with no water. 4-5 hours without water is totally fine.

[SoapySophie]

That's exactly the bowl we have - she removes the rubber ring and then slides the bowl across the floor, sometimes flipping it over.

Right now (while she's young) I go home at lunch to take her out for a washroom break and a short loop through the park across the street from our house, so maybe I just don't need to keep a water bowl in the room with her at all when I'm gone. She can drink when I'm there.

Of course, any other suggestions are welcome. Thanks!

[ChoppersDad]

I use the Kong bowls. They are pretty much indestructible. It does not slide around very easy either.

KONG

[smartrock]

It's probably something she'll outgrow. Both mine did that as puppies and now neither of them ever do it. I kind of miss it!

I've read on here that some people use heavy ceramic bowls that seem harder to tip. If she gets a mid day break and can have water then, maybe she won't need any in her area, as you pointed out. Here's Lark at about 4 months of age:

[barry581]

Bruce is a water bowl tipper too. I use a bowl similar to the one in the link above, and he hasn't figured out how to tip it yet. I can't put a bowl in the crate with him, he will spill it almost immediately. I've tried several of the kind that mount to the crate, and he's figured out how to dump everyone of them. I took the bowl from the crate about 5-6 months ago, and just this week tried a clip in bowl again. No dice, he knocks it out, and water is all over the place.

If you do figure out how to stop it, let me know!

[Snowshoe]

Yeah, Oban got the rubber ring off that bowl in about 15 minutes after I first set it down. I use it for food.

For water I found a really big, heavy ceramic bowl (thrift store old mix-master bowl) filled only about a third full worked. When he got to about one year old I was able to fill it right up again and have been doing so ever since.
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[SoapySophie]

It's probably something she'll outgrow. Both mine did that as puppies and now neither of them ever do it. I kind of miss it!

I've read on here that some people use heavy ceramic bowls that seem harder to tip. If she gets a mid day break and can have water then, maybe she won't need any in her area, as you pointed out. Here's Lark at about 4 months of age:

Oh man...I LOL'd. I can see how you'd miss that! That's what Sophie does to an empty bowl to tell us it's empty! What a racket!