Eric Sacks wrote 09/28/2008 01:21 AM Puppy drinking from swimming pool #210977 - 09/28/2008 01:21 AM
Eric Sacks Webboard User Reg: 06-18-2008 Posts: 230 Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii Offline	My 6 m/o Presa puppy, Cleo, would rather drink from our (regular, chlorinated) swimming pool than from her water dish. I swim her everyday as her main form of exercise. In addition to those sessions, every chance she gets, she jumps in the pool and plays around (swimming here and there and chasing a leaf, or her tail in the pool). She drinks and swallows during play a bunch of pool water everyday. I maintain my own pool, and use choline tablets, pool shock (also chlorine based) with the occasional anti-algae and water clarifier treatment. Does anyone know if there is any long term risk associated with drinking pool water? http://web.mac.com/spacecadet808/Site/Cleos_Page.html
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leih merigian wrote 09/28/2008 07:15 AM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Eric Sacks ] #210980 - 09/28/2008 07:15 AM
leih merigian Webboard User Reg: 06-16-2008 Posts: 915 Loc: Central Virginia Offline	Quote: Eric Sacks My 6 m/o Presa puppy, Cleo, would rather drink from our (regular, chlorinated) swimming pool than from her water dish... Does anyone know if there is any long term risk associated with drinking pool water? Eric, Stop by http://www.mercola.com and do a search on chlorine + drinking water. Or just chlorine. It's pretty scary. While his site is geared towards human health, the way I look at things like this is, if it's that bad for me, it's gotta be bad for my dog. You sure can't avoid your dog consuming a certain amount of pool water when swimming, but to allow it to drink the pool water for general hydration doesn't seem prudent. When my GSD consumes too much pool water, she gets the runs. She has always had a rather delicate digestive tract, and perhaps Cleo has a very sturdy one, but still... leih
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Connie Sutherland wrote 09/28/2008 10:53 AM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: leih merigian ] #210991 - 09/28/2008 10:53 AM
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005 Posts: 31571 Loc: North-Central coast of California Offline	You might want to keep a large bowl of clean water by the pool and encourage drinking before swimming and then lead her out to drink during swimming, rewarding and praising for it.
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Diane Joslin wrote 09/28/2008 11:32 AM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Eric Sacks ] #210995 - 09/28/2008 11:32 AM
Diane Joslin Webboard User Reg: 01-09-2007 Posts: 368 Loc: Las Vegas, NV Offline	Eric, Our dog Buster always drank exclusively from our well-maintained swimming pool. We always had fresh tap water available for him in a large bowl, but he preferred to drink from the pool. Who knows if his health problems stemmed from this practice? We had him before we had ever heard of this web site so he was fed what we later learned was crappy food - Iams, Science Diet, etc. We had him for 10 years when he died - not sure how old he was since we adopted him as a stray when he was probably a year or two old. He had lots of skin problems including hemangiosarcoma. This cancer was confined to just his skin for about two years but eventually suddenly showed up in internal organs & he developed a ruptured spleen with internal bleeding. It was a very very sad day when we had him put to sleep!
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Connie Sutherland wrote 09/28/2008 01:17 PM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Diane Joslin ] #211001 - 09/28/2008 01:17 PM
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005 Posts: 31571 Loc: North-Central coast of California Offline	Having done a little research for a thread here where someone had given a chlorine-based "cure," I think that I would work on training the dog not to drink from the pool. I'd do it in an upbeat way with rewards for coming out to use the bowl.
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Eric Sacks wrote 09/28/2008 05:19 PM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Connie Sutherland ] #211015 - 09/28/2008 05:19 PM
Eric Sacks Webboard User Reg: 06-18-2008 Posts: 230 Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii Offline	Thanks guys. You have confirmed my concerns. I do have several big bowls of fresh water both inside and outside. She prefers the pool She loves to eat ice. So, what I have been doing is, before a swim session, I give her a big bowl of ice cubes and water. She'll eat a bunch of ice and lap up some water. Of course, I praise her. Then we swim. After swimming, more ice & water. She is never outside, unattended. When she does jump in the pool on her own, I immediately call her out and give her the ice/water combo. Then she can go back in the pool. I would love it if she drank the fresh tap water we have available for her, and will keep working towards that. What I hope to do in the meantime is, at least, dilute the pool water she drinks with the ice/water combo. I just don't think I can keep her from drinking from the pool altogether. Connie, I didn't get what you meant by the chlorine "cure". http://web.mac.com/spacecadet808/Site/Cleos_Page.html
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Andrew Hess wrote 09/28/2008 06:15 PM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Eric Sacks ] #211020 - 09/28/2008 06:15 PM
Andrew Hess Webboard User Reg: 09-22-2008 Posts: 16 Loc: Offline	Eric: I suggest you use your chlorine pool tester to test your tap water at home. I live in east central Florida. The chlorine in the tap water is off the scale yellow in my pool tester and smells strongly of chlorine. It actualy may be a form or chlorine but it smells like strong pool water. So, its possile there is less chlorine in your pool than in your drinking water. To fill an aquarium here you must let the water stand until the chlorine evaporates (at least 24 hours). Maybe your dogs on to something.
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Eric Sacks wrote 09/28/2008 06:48 PM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Andrew Hess ] #211024 - 09/28/2008 06:48 PM
Eric Sacks Webboard User Reg: 06-18-2008 Posts: 230 Loc: Honolulu, Hawaii Offline	Wow, Andrew, that sounds horrible. Luckily, here in Hawaii we have excellent water. There are no additives like chlorine or flouride in our water. Our tap water quality is better than most bottled waters. I think Cleo just loves the pool and drinks the water in conjunction with her water play. She's not a big water drinker to begin with, but does so in the pool when she's splashing around on hot days (frequent here in Hawaii). http://web.mac.com/spacecadet808/Site/Cleos_Page.html
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Andrew Hess wrote 09/29/2008 06:50 AM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Eric Sacks ] #211045 - 09/29/2008 06:50 AM
Andrew Hess Webboard User Reg: 09-22-2008 Posts: 16 Loc: Offline	Hi Eric: Good drinking water is obviously one of the important issues for our dogs. I lived on a Polynesian island, Tutuila, American Samoa for 10 years and know quite a bit about water on Pacific islands and Hawaii and Samoa are very nearly identical geographies. What I know is that the concept of pure water is often illusionary. I know our water here in central Florida and it has problems. Hawaii has problems too based on reports at http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/sdw_form_v2.create_page?state_abbr=HI. My ten year experience with island water says that culturally acceptable free ranging hogs and dogs contaminate a lot of the water sources. Now does this really matter to our dogs? Probably not very much and I would assume as Ed has described healthy dog stool as "logs". I'm looking for logs myself. And so far I'm finding them. It would be interesting to know if containments such as Fecal Coliform found in both Florida and Hawaiian water(based on the EPA tests)actual manifest themselves in any way. Tofa Soifua,
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Connie Sutherland wrote 09/29/2008 10:25 AM Re: Puppy drinking from swimming pool [Re: Andrew Hess ] #211060 - 09/29/2008 10:25 AM
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005 Posts: 31571 Loc: North-Central coast of California Offline	Quote: Andrew Hess It would be interesting to know if containments such as Fecal Coliform found in both Florida and Hawaiian water(based on the EPA tests)actual manifest themselves in any way. Maybe another thread? Eric, I'd let the drinking water stand for the chlorine to dissipate if it too smells of chlorine.
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