Why ? IMO one of those things that is best left in a picture . I like a as they need it water source much better than that. Have you looked at the perpetual water bowl it is plumbed in and gives your dog fresh water all the time . The bowl is removeable for cleaning and honestly I wash my dogd water and food bowls usually 2 x a day since he eats 2 x day.

My Aussie greatly prefers "fresh" running water whenever she can get it. I'd be worried that she would have that faucet figured out in no time--with no concerns about shutting it off when she was done :)

That's been posted before. It's a cute idea that doesn't work in practice.

My dog's bowl has to be emptied and cleaned each day.

"My Aussie greatly prefers "fresh" running water whenever she can get it. I'd be worried that she would have that faucet figured out in no time--with no concerns about shutting it off when she was done :)"

Yes, an Aussie would definitely figure out how to turn on the water.

Even a lazy old basset hound would figure that out and flood the house. Why is it the eye catching but terrible ideas are the ones that everyone pins? Nothing has ruined more houses than social media pins on dumb ideas that look good for a 1 minute photo.

When I was a kid we had a Cairn terrier whose water bowl was outside, was filled when somebody walked by and noticed it was empty, and was washed by the rain. He lived.

Photo doggo would also be much happier if his bowl was higher, and his owner's back is not going to enjoy filling from that position, either.

When I was a kid, a snack pack of unopened creal tossed to the household pup was a fine dinner! JK. (OT: when we started in horses some 30 years ago, an 18 year old horse was considered close to death's door. Both of mine are well past that and still racing out to their spring pasture. I credit human advances in animal care.)

"Photo doggo would also be much happier if his bowl was higher"

You're kidding, right? Dogs walk along with their noses an inch from the ground to get a sniff everybody and everything has come before but would be "happier" with a higher water bowl? Doggo?

Our Dachshunds have a gravity fed water bowl with an appropriate size water reservoir. They go through it once a week; I wash and refill the bowl on Fridays. We used to do bowls but they ran out of it fast it was hard to keep up with. 

These come in a variety of sizes. I have one outside but it got gunky and of course I'd find a variety of bugs and occasionally a frog in it.

@Jen K (7b, 8a): "Our Dachshunds have a gravity fed water bowl...I wash and refill the bowl on Fridays."

Rational!

Weekly? Why not, say, daily?

I like the pot-filler concept for the dog bowl...but way too many potential problems as listed above.

@stax because it takes them that long to go through all that water. And because it's inside it doesn't need to be changed as frequently. My dogs eat bugs and lizards so worrying about changing the water every day is moot.

@Stax: "Weekly? Why not, say, daily?"

Well, maybe it's because dogs spend their lives sticking their noses into pee, poop, and other dog's butts; digging up and chewing on bones they buried a year ago; eating all sorts of junk they come across; and drinking from water dishes that 100 other dogs have drunk from at the local dog park. They don't need butlers to stay healthy.

If I thought you were serious, I'd say that was the most moronic post of the week.

But I'm sure your just funnin'.

BTW, did not early humans live similarly? Toilet paper, for example, is a 19th or early 20th century invention. Before fire was harnessed, what did "people" eat?

@Stax: "BTW, did not early humans live similarly? Toilet paper, for example..."

Uh-oh, it's a dogs-are-people person. An image just entered my mind: dog + toilet paper. Nah, can't be.

“Uh-oh, it's a dogs-are-people person”

There are a lot of us. Hell, I think my dogs are better than most people 🤷🏻‍♂️

I have two large dogs and was filling a 3 gallon gravity fed dispenser every few days, so I started looking into plumbed options. I got a Nelson automatic dog waterer (model 1200) and did a temporary install to make sure it worked well before I started my kitchen reno. I didn't want to build it in just to find out that it leaked or I hated it. (Pic is the very makeshift test support.) Well, I LOVE it so far and would highly recommend it! The stainless bowl comes off really easily so I can quickly clean it out. The dogs (and cat) love having fresh water all the time and I love it's always full and easy to clean. My only reservation was that it doesn't have an overflow, so I'm considering drilling a hole for drainage that will be sent to the waste line, but haven't decided yet. I haven't noticed any leaks and it would be easy to hear if the water was running constantly (similar to a toilet filling). Then I'll build a pretty enclosure for the back and bottom to make it look nicer.

Incredible!

Gosh, if we could just come up with a dog water bowl that we could flush and re-fill with the press of a lever... Hmmmmm, what could that be?

I had a dog when I was a kid. His water bowl was outside and we refilled it with a garden hose. He lived a long time.

@Jake The Wonderdog Ha!

@stacey c LOL Is that your pup?

@Jen K (7b, 8a) It is! He beelines for the toilet any time someone leaves the seat up, so I made the decal using a pic of him. I use a bowl cleaner in the tank and don't want him drinking the water. He wasn't as amused by my decal as I was! lol

"When I was a kid we had a Cairn terrier whose water bowl was outside, was filled when somebody walked by and noticed it was empty, and was washed by the rain. He lived."..."I had a dog when I was a kid. His water bowl was outside and we refilled it with a garden hose. He lived a long time."

We had dogs when I was growing up also. They weren't spayed or neutered, got hit by cars, got heartworms, weren't vaccinated, got ticks and fleas, "went off to the woods to die someplace" and generally weren't well cared for - although we didn't see it that way at the time. It was par for the course in those days - particularly in poor families. I'm very glad that we have advanced in both veterinary science AND in what is broadly considered to be proper care. The "good old days" generally weren't.

A dog needs clean water available always. It doesn't matter whether it's filled with a garden hose or a by a butler with white gloves. It doesn't need an automatic water bowl, and I think some of that gets a bit silly. And if it's not automatic, then that means I have actually have to pay attention to the water bowl, at least twice a day when I feed the dog... which is probably a very good thing.

@Jen K (7b, 8a) - that photo of your pooch is great!

Great post!

"Dogs are people too!" -- @Jake The Wonderdog

@Jake The Wonderdog thanks for illustrating changing times and how dogs (as well as other pets) have installed themselves in our lives (or we've given them those positions). I don't believe that people - back then - didn't love their dogs for their utility but they were simply a resource. I appreciate the evolution of pets in our lives. They are 'our kids' as we have no human children and we recognize that they hold a different position than human kids (we couldn't go out for 2 hours like we did today to leave them to nap). We're the consumer that spends an inordinate amount on their pets - probably more than myself at times. LOL. I'm working on a living will for them: who they'll go to, funding allocation, and rehoming requirements for their Vet or rescue to follow. It's the least we can do for them.

@Jen K (7b, 8a): "I don't believe that people - back then - didn't love their dogs for their utility but they were simply a resource."

"Dogs were resources too! Wait, no, dogs need living wills!" -- @Jen K (7b, 8a)

I read it all , and I still don't believe it...............................

It's the only pot filler more USELESS than the one over the range

The biggest, fanciest house I've ever been in had a post in the family room with a spigot at the bottom for filling the dog bowl if they didn't feel like going into the kitchen. It also had an entire dog room. If you want it, go for it. I would use a regular tap though - my pot filler is too easy to turn on. Ravencrest I don't think any pictures actually show the dog spigot.

@JAN MOYER LOL, Exactly.

Note that the laundry faucets posted - at least one of them - was not for potable water. It's brass and doesn't meet the low lead requirements for potable water. The other one doesn't explicitly state that it's lead free.

Little boy forced outside -- in violation of child labor laws -- to offer water to dog deprived of living will and plumbed, inside-the-house, auto-fill, twice-daily-sanitized water bowl.

wdccruise, give it a rest, please. The only thing I've said is that dogs need clean water at all times. You are in serious danger of yelling at kids to get off your lawn.

@Stax - to channel my inner wdccruise - I chewed on lead solder when was a child and played with mercury and have lived a long time... minus just a few IQ points.

Lead is a neurotoxin and I have to assume lead isn't any better for Fido than it is for little Johnny. And my personal experience aside, it's particularly bad for kids. Acute lead poisoning is diagnosable in dogs (eating buckshot in an bird, for example). I don't know that there's been any way to study low-level chronic lead levels in dogs (from a water supply, for example).

My bigger point is that DIY's need to be hip to the lead issue because there are brass plumbing parts that are being sold "not for potable water" and worse, simply not marked (usually from China). My personal policy is to not purchase any plumbing that isn't marked as lead-free so I don't get it mixed up. I'm also very leery of off-brand faucets - particularly if they sold online only, are very inexpensive and/or from China.

Save Fido from the faucet!

I could fill my dogs water bowl 10 times a day, but she still doesn't drink from it. She goes into the bathroom and gets a drink from the sink every time I brush my teeth, wash my face or hands or the 5 other times of the day that she goes to the sink and sits and waits for me to turn it on. She prefers running water to standing water.

I would love to get her her own motion detection faucet with a small bowl that drains below. Have been looking for something that I can add to the kitchen/laundry when I remodel.

I also have plans set for my dog in the case that I die before she does. I know who she is going to (if they are still alive) and a secondary placement if they are not still alive. Whoever ends up with my dog will also get a fair amount of money to care for her each year that she survives beyond me.

If you don't plan for what happens to your pets when you die they often end up in a shelter and if they are not young, healthy pets either live out their days in a kennel at the shelter or they are euthanized. Not many end up in nice, loving homes.

I worked in a humane society and saw too many animals spend their last days in a kennel without the human interaction, love and care they deserve. It would break my heart if that happened to my girl.

Jake,

Delete your latter post about lead... retain your first (great) post.