[gracielove]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

If you have lots of minerals in your water, it might help to use distilled water. Distillation takes out the minerals, and this is sometimes called “purified” water. You can often find this in the baby department, and its water meant to be mixed with formula. Sometimes they have added a few minerals back and this is okay too, it’s just the abundance of minerals that seem to bother some dogs. Long term use of distilled water is not recommended, and I found this helped Joey when he was a puppy, but by the time he was one, I was able to switch back to tap water. Teething can cause tearing. Some regular bottled waters may or may not work, they might have fewer minerals than your tap water, but most of them are just “filtered” water and don’t remove minerals. Minerals actually are good for us and make the water taste better.

If the hair is staining, it may indicate there’s a yeast infection, does it smell funny? Yeast infections can develop if the hair is wet too long, and so it helps to eliminate the cause of the tears.

There are many minerals that our bodies need and are very good for us. The type of mineral in most waters are not of any nutritional value. They are contaminates like the stuff that some people have to scrub off their bath tub walls. We need water to live but it's nutritional value is zero.