is bad to give dog tap water?

[BLowry]

I usually use bottled water and ad oxy fresh to it for there teeth...I have read alot of posts on here about giving distilled water to help with the watery yucky eyes...I asked my vet about the water that you buy in the baby section...she told me NOT to give them the one with fluoride...you can buy plain distilled water...this is what I am getting..

[ARB]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

eeeewwwwwwww.... I didn't think it was literally water from a well! LOL

LOL Ok, i am a total country girl so this makes me litterly laugh out loud! We live on a farm and have well water.... my dogs drink it but, we have a water softner. I drink it, was born and raised on well water.... city water is nasty if you ask me. You can taste all the chemicals in the water. Well water can smell if you have sulfer in you water. But that should not affect the taste of the water. (if you can get past the smell to try it) Anyhow... My dogs do get well water and do just fine.

[ArmaniMan]

Originally Posted by southernbelle04

We give Katie Scarlett the nursery water from Wal Mart. It's like 78 cents for a gallon. We buy like one of those every 3 weeks to a month. I had read on here where some said it helped with those eye boogies that Yorkies get. I think it really has helped Katie Scarlett. She had bad eye boogies every morning when we got her and since she started on the nursery water they are itty bitty every morning when we do our grooming.

Wow! your baby goes through very little water! We got through a jug a week here.

[jadabug]

Originally Posted by ArmaniMan

Wow! your baby goes through very little water! We got through a jug a week here.

My two drink a gallon a week too

[ArmaniMan]

Originally Posted by jadabug

My two drink a gallon a week too

we must have camel yorkies- a rare breed

[capt_noonie]

Hey I'm a Cali girl, born and raised here, and this is a desert! We aren't even supposed to get water here! LOL I think we steal it from up north or something. But still our tap doesn't taste very good. It tastes like Arrowhead LOL.

[Baily341o]

I don't drink tap water... I like my water cold. And before I go any further, let me say Bailey is one spoiled pooch! She has been drinking tap water since we got her(10 weeks) and we tried giving her tap water once because her bowl was almost empty. She refused to drink it!LOL. She took a sip, stood back, licked her chops and sat and waited for some REAL water to be poured in there. Pish posh.

[LaviniaHyacynth]

NYC is known for great tap water.

[R_Z]

Do you eat bagels or pizza? It's said NY water is what makes them the best in the states. If you drink it so can your dog.

[lovespandp]

Originally Posted by capt_noonie

Hey I'm a Cali girl, born and raised here, and this is a desert! We aren't even supposed to get water here! LOL I think we steal it from up north or something. But still our tap doesn't taste very good. It tastes like Arrowhead LOL.

Ew I hate Arrowhead! I love me some Dasani and Sparkletts

[capt_noonie]

Originally Posted by lovespandp

Ew I hate Arrowhead! I love me some Dasani and Sparkletts

Yeah Arrowhead's gross. I prefer Crystal geyser actually. But Dasni is great too.

[Kenlong]

I want to know if poland spring water is good for dog?

[Smokey2011]

I guess if you drink it, then it's okay for the dog. I remember tapwater being almost white, fizzy and tasting like bleach when I used to visit my Gramma in Brooklyn way back in the 60s. I got spoiled on well water in rural VT but having moved to the 'city', it's bleach again, so I had a filter installed.

[candigirl]

I've never drank tap it tastes awful and I can smell the chlorine. Lexie gets bottled, I tried distilled a while back but it made no difference since her eye boogies were from her hair poking her

[horsnaround]

Originally Posted by jadabug

Yep it is from a well dug deep into the ground and a pump brings it into the house through pipes. Actually our well water is good, but there use to be only a couple of houses near our farm. Now there are several and you just never know what people dump onto the ground and it can seep into the water table. That is why we don't drink it any longer.
Our farm has been in DH family for over 200 years and there is a hand dug well up at the barns that is about 50ft deep and is lined all the way up with river rock. IDK how in the world they dug that thing and lined it all those years ago, before there was machinery. It is fed from a natural spring underground and the water is ice cold and clear as a bell.

Well water can be very good are very bad. Growing up its all I drank. And it was very good but they did not use all the chemicals they do now. We are on rural water and my pups drink out of the tap.