Water bowl flipping.

[buttercup132]

I think water bowls are much easier to fill and with my experience they break often , like the spring gets stuck or messed up some how. They are just a pain. Its much easier to just fill a bowl and put it in rather then having to put the bottle in and having it drip while you put it back on the cage , not to mention they dont stay up very well.Guinea pigs and rats are much smaller so its easier because the bottles dont weight as much but with the bigger ones it weighs them down making them not stay upright. Just my experience. Also if he has been drinking from a bowl all his life he wont know the water is in there or how to use it.

[wolf_Q]

Uh I have a big water bottle on the side of Nebo's crate and I've never had a problem. All it took was a dab of peanut butter on the end for Nebo to figure out water comes out when he licks it. And yes he drinks out of a bowl all other times, but he'd just flip a bowl of water if I left it in his crate with him. He's a dog of course but I don't see why it couldn't work for a rabbit.

[buttercup132]

Uh I have a big water bottle on the side of Nebo's crate and I've never had a problem. All it took was a dab of peanut butter on the end for Nebo to figure out water comes out when he licks it. And yes he drinks out of a bowl all other times, but he'd just flip a bowl of water if I left it in his crate with him. He's a dog of course but I don't see why it couldn't work for a rabbit.

They cant have peanut butter and being a picky type of animal they probly wouldnt eat it.

[wolf_Q]

They cant have peanut butter and being a picky type of animal they probly wouldnt eat it.

I didn't mean the peanut butter, I just meant the water bottle in general.

[dab_20]

For Daisy and Hershey I use ceramic bowls. Daisy loves to flip over her food and water bottles, too, but ceramic bowls are too heavy for her to flip over.

[CathyBogart]

I would go for a slightly oversized ceramic bowl. Easy to clean, too heavy to be easily tipped.