If you market it well... they will buy it

[cheerful_deviant]

Sales of bottled water for dogs (with prices similar to that for people) are growing, according to a March Wall Street Journal report, spurred not only by sudden concern about vitamin deficiency but apparent certainty among some owners that their pets find tap water disagreeable and thus are dangerously at risk of dehydration. Of course, veterinarians cited by the Journal are puzzled by this recent rejection of municipal water and suggest it might be a food-bowl-smell problem rather than a new dog generation's preference for fine beverages. (Also, some vets believe dogs prefer the cooler temperature of, say, toilet-bowl water to that of food-bowl water.) [Wall Street Journal, 3-11-05]

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I'm still waiting for "Low Carb" Alpo to make it to the market.

"New Alpo Edge! All the flavor with only a tenth of the carbs and it's Atkins approved!"

 

[rgraham666]

A sucker etc.

 

[Guest]

Where does the law, police, etc. fits in to this marketting?

 

[cantdog]

It's sad. One more black mark against us, I think, as a society of profligates. There were so many such things to explain to Jelina's mother, when the Haitian girl came up here for the surgery. Things she had no reason to credit just kept happening. Well, that's for people's cats, actually. Yes, she lives all by herself in that house, with no children. The WTC was run into by Atta and those guys then, too. It's as much an eye-opener for a third-world person to see how we live here as for one of us to see how they live in Haiti.

Imagine trying to explain the dog condoms!

 

[Quiet_Cool]

I'm still waiting for "Low Carb" Alpo to make it to the market.

"New Alpo Edge! All the flavor with only a tenth of the carbs and it's Atkins approved!"

I'm pretty sure low-carb dog and catfoods are out there, which is sad given what low-cab actually is. It isn't healthy for people, so let's push it on our animals.

Why not just light Fido up a stogie and tell him to dig his own hole.

Q_C

 

[Goldie Munro]

... and many people have no access to any kind of water at all...

 

[hydrex]

While some tap water is very terrible, I don't think an animal that licks it's own nuts, and smells other dogs asses really minds.

 

[Dar~]

http://www.petrefresh.com/


These are what killsme Pet water purifiers.

http://www.petsmart.com/global/prod...older_id=2534374302033465&bmUID=1112033027840

http://www.petsmart.com/global/prod...older_id=2534374302033465&bmUID=1112033027842

 

[carsonshepherd]

My dog drinks toilet water even if you forget to flush.

My other dog got intestinal parasites from drinking out of a puddle during a rainy season last summer.

I don't think they need bottled water, but nobody would sell it if people didn't buy it.

 

[carsonshepherd]

ALso: Kids are getting more and more tooth decay these days because they drink so much bottled water over tap water, and bottled water contains no fluoride.

 

[Dar~]

ALso: Kids are getting more and more tooth decay these days because they drink so much bottled water over tap water, and bottled water contains no fluoride.

Where I live here is so much Flouride in the tap water it leaves brownish marks on the teeth.
We have to drink filtered or bottled water. But you can be damned sure that my cat drinks tap water.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Hmm, my cat gets tap water, but from the Brita pitcher in the fridge.

 

[elsol]

HEY -- I RESEMBLE THAT REMARK!

Anyway... I buy yuppie-puppy food and treats, but water is pointless. Like Carson wrote, the dog will drink anything wet. My dog is still trying to figure out how to drink from a sewage drain in a nearby park without falling in.

ps. All pet food should be low-carb... see any wolves growing wheat?

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[dr_mabeuse]

A vet told me that dogs will eat anything but are fussy about their water, while cats are just the opposite. It's pretty true in my experience. Carson's bowl-licker aside, the water that fills a toilet is the same as the water that comes out of a tap, and it's probably fresher and cleaner than what's been sitting in his plastic bowl all day long.

People get terribly attached to their pets. I'm one of them. I wouldn't buy bottled water for my dog, but I do buy him an awful lot of treats and crap like that.

And let's face it, does it make any more sense to spend $1.25 for a bottle of filtered tap water for yourself than it does to just throw it away on your dog? I forget the brand of water, but it's a popular brand and a couple of years ago it was revealed that it comes from the municipal water service in Miami. In other words, you're paying for bottled Miami tap water in a pretty plastic bottle.

Perrier was tested a while ago and found to contain benzene.