We're having issues with our pup being more interested in eating snow, than drinking water. We were considering using a muzzle. Any suggestions?

Hi Cindy,

Were having issues with our pup being more interested in eating snow outside, than drinking water inside. When we had the melt last week, and also took him with us for the weekend about 6 hours south. He drank plenty of water that weekend, but now that were home he isn't drinking enough, and basically runs with his mouth open and shovels snow in.

We caught a UTI a few weeks ago, we're almost through a UTI treatment, our vet said likely it was caused by eating less then clean water or snow. We normally dump and refill his water 3 times a day inside, once a day outside. Before the snow he'd drain his bowl to 25% left 3-4 times a day. We were considering using a muzzle to keep him from eating snow.

Any suggestions?

PS - we did reiterate ground work as we discussed last year. With his maturity, and our hard work in obedience classes (kennel club not petsmart) were making headway.

Alex