[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by DBlain

my last yorkie went through a period where out of the blue he was afraid of his water bowl. He would stalk it, splash the water out of it, jump back suddenly from it, never figured out why other than he liked licking the water up from the floor after he splashed it out. It drove me crazy since I always had a puddle of water on my wood floor, then he started tipping the bowl over and dragging it around at that point I started doing everything to keep him from being able to move or splash it, I went through about 5 water dishes and several place mats until I came up with a combo that worked. I bought a heavy ceramic dish set that was raised in a metal stand, then I found a rubber place mat with a lip that sort of suctioned to the floor, so he could not drag the place mat around or pull the metal stand off the placemat, and since the rack was placed in the middle of the placemat it made it hard for him to splash the water out, because he would have had to stand half on the placement, eventually he gave up and drank from the bowl like normal. He also went through a period where he would not eat his food out of a bowl or a dish, he was thin and picky on what he ate, so he had to have wet food each day and what a PITA to have to keep putting that on the floor, someone suggested a piece of saran wrap which worked but then he pulled that all over the house, then I would cut a small paper plate to be the same size as the food and eventually I kept letting more of the plate show until I no longer had to trim it, that quirky behavior lasted over 6 months. LOL this is one of the reasons I wound up getting a yorkie mix this time, some of these purebreds sure have some high strung behaviors.

Interesting, I'll have to experiment like that. I'm the OP on this thread of THREE YEARS AGO, and I'm amazed it's common enough that the thread is still going strong!

Surprisingly enough, Eddie stopped being afraid of his water bowl after about six months, then went a couple years with no problems. Suddenly, just recently, he started doing it again! He will bark when he's thirsty and won't drink until I go there and encourage him.

Then, when he drinks, he just slips his tongue in along the corner of the ball and takes a few slurps, then backs away before he goes again.

Drives me bananas that I can't figure it out. Maybe a raised bowl will work.