PT understands, right?

[dukedogsmom]

Of course we understand! We're lucky our tapwater tastes good here.

[Freedom]

My first cat, Amber, refused to drink our tap water. I mentioned it to my vet He said the chlorine is very high in our city's water, and pets can smell it and won't drink it. So I bought bottled water for him.

As my pets increased, I also invested in a Brita. Just to make life a little easier for me. Even Amber approved!

We never use our tap water directly for consumpion. It goes into a Brita pitcher which is in the fridge and always full.

[Taz_Zoee]

I use to live in an icky little town here in Cali and I had to use bottled water for Taz, otherwise it made his dish all slimy.
Luckily here the tap water is not so bad.
There is nothing wrong with what you did. Non-PT people just don't understand.

[lute]

Of course we understand My dogs don't have a problem with our tap water. Both them and I drink it. When we travel I fill up old cat litter jugs with our water.

[critter crazy]

Of course we understand, however i feel it is pointless in my home since the dogs love the occassional drink from the Toilet!

[ramanth]

Of course we understand, however i feel it is pointless in my home since the dogs love the occassional drink from the Toilet!

LOL! Same here. Kia also drinks the scuzziest looking water from ponds and puddles in the summer.

We have a Pur filter hooked to the faucet, but use it only occasionally. I don't mind the taste of tap water. Grew up on well water and we never filtered it.

[Anita Cholaine]

Our tap water is pretty good, so we all drink it and Anita doesn't have any problem with it. Anyways, she still prefers to get into the bathtub and drink the little water that is left there after someone gets a shower

[cyber-sibes]

We have a well with a drinking water purifier tank for us. I use it for the dogs in the winter, but in all honesty they prefer the unfiltered water right from the well, here at home. They especially love the water at the dogpark, also from a well. They line up for it!

[pitc9]

Grew up on well water and we never filtered it.

Same here!
But now I go back to my parents house (where I grew up) and I gag when I smell the water and I can't believe I used to drink it!!

My dogs drink tap water and also get bottled water when the hubby leaves half bottles of water in the fridge I empty them in their water bowl.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Jenny gets taowater. It's pretty clean here... I'd give her fridge, filtered water, but she drinks SOOOOOOO much and the fridge takes FOREVER to get water out. (literally, about 10 minutes to fill up a 200 ml glass. ) She'd be emptying it faster than I'd fill it!

[Canis-Lupess]

Here in Yorkshire, UK, our water is as soft as it gets. Don't have to filter or boil our water before drinking it. We are so lucky.
We can drink from the tap and the dogs can too......although my dogs always like drinking out of puddles as well. Never hurt them.

I've read a lot of bad things about bottled water in general. Nothing to do with dogs but I read up that bottled water often has more bacteria in it than tap water because the conditions the water is kept in is ideal for bacteria growth. Secondly, bottled water has a massive impact on the environment because of it's weight and the cost of shipping it about the globe and the means of shipping it about the globe causing more pollution etc etc...

I also read up that it is no better than tap water.

[slleipnir]

Here in Yorkshire, UK, our water is as soft as it gets. Don't have to filter or boil our water before drinking it. We are so lucky.
We can drink from the tap and the dogs can too......although my dogs always like drinking out of puddles as well. Never hurt them.

I've read a lot of bad things about bottled water in general. Nothing to do with dogs but I read up that bottled water often has more bacteria in it than tap water because the conditions the water is kept in is ideal for bacteria growth. Secondly, bottled water has a massive impact on the environment because of it's weight and the cost of shipping it about the globe and the means of shipping it about the globe causing more pollution etc etc...

I also read up that it is no better than tap water.

We can drink our tap water too without boiling it...but it takes sorta like chlorine-y. I personally don't like the taste. The animals, minus Zeke, don't seem to care....

[borzoimom]

When I lived in town in a townhome, Hottie would flat out refuse to drink anything but bottled water. lol. I even bought a cooler for this reason. lol..