RVing With Dogs

The absolute most important thing you can do for the health of your traveling dog is to always supply fresh, clean water. In fact, I would argue that traveling dogs should always receive bottled water. Now, before, you say.."Yea, in an ideal world, but it would cost a fortune!" You can buy five gallons of water for $1.25 out of those water vending machines. This is not true spring water, but it is water that has been filtered so that it doesn't have many impurities. We bought a water cooler for our RV, so we buy three of those 5-gallon containers and the dogs only drink that water.

Now, I happen to know a lot about water for two reasons; one is that Jack and I were in the water quality software business for a long time and the second is that we used to be big-time tropical fish keepers and underwater gardeners. So, water quality has been a big deal in our lives.

In dogs, using different water all the time or not cleaning their water bowl enough, can cause severe gastrointestinal upsets including diarrhea. So, please take the time and effort to provide your traveling dog with good, clean water at all times. This photo is one of those no-spill water bowls which we use whenever we are traveling.