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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Yes, bottled water can have as many minerals as local tap water. Bottled water is usually just filtered water and filtered water just takes out "contaminants" such as pesticides and other things like fluoride and chorine. It doesn’t remove minerals. Water that is purified through distillation or reverse osmosis has the minerals removed. Some companies put a few minerals back for taste. I would test Joey monthly on tap water and around the age of 1 year I was able to use regular tap water without any tearing. He hadn't had any tearing until we did a food switch and that affected his eyes really bad. We switched back, and his eyes are good again. Some people swear by the distilled water for older dogs as well, I guess it just depends on the dog and your local water. |
Thanks for the info! I've been giving them filtered ion alkaline water which has a pH of 7.5, so I've switched to bottled water which is 7. Since dogs need a slightly acidic pH of 5-6.5, I figured 7 would be better & also since 2 of mine had struvite crystals, I needed to lower their pH which was high @ 8. Now they're all back to normal pH & so is Turbo's who doesn't have any crystals but his pH was also high @ 8. Which made his vet scratch her head & give this expression
loll. It does say on the bottled water that it has added minerals for taste, so I wasn't sure if that was ok. I'm going to get the Gerber distilled water today & test the pH bc I'm a nerd like that. Sawwie OP for hijacking your thread!
