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I did the experiment yesterday, and I put down 2 identical bowls of water, one with just tap water and one with distilled water with a few grains of moist grey Celtic Sea Salt .
My dog would never drink much of distilled as I would notice by the evening the bowl would be almost full as opposed to almost empty or on empty with tap water, so I always gave him tap water with him drinking his small bowl empty most days. Monica asked me if I ever tried adding some natural salt into the distilled, and I couldn't remember trying it. I said I would do the experiment and let the curious know what he chose.
My dog has been eating a carnivorous raw food diet for many years, he's 8 yrs. old now, with no known health problems except perhaps a little closing of esophagus when he's barking too much and over-excited. I started adding 1 drop of Iodine to his water 1-2x a week, but just this month. He likes that. For the experiment, I did not add anything except the Sea Salt to the distilled water.
He chose the distilled water with the few grains of Sea Salt over the tap water! It's a clear choice, and I watched him pick and drink from the salted distilled water bowl. I took him for an afternoon walk, and he came home and chose the salted distilled water over the tap water. He only drank about an oz. of the tap water for the whole day (allowing for some evaporation), but drank more than half of his salted distilled water bowl.
So, now what? I don't know if I should give him the salted distilled water daily, or alternating days, or what? I'm going to put down the 2 bowls today again, one with just tap water and one with just the distilled without the salt. Then on the 3rd day, I'm going to put down the tap water with 1 drop of Iodine, and the salted distilled..this could get a little lengthy! I'll do it for my own curiosity and his health, if anyone wants to know about the continued experiments you can let me know, and I can email them to you. I hate to post off topic here, or I can just add it to this particular thread as I go along.
I was surprised by his choice.
Prism
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- Re: O/T Dog Water Experiment, Salted... freya
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This is a reply to # 1,030,641Prism, thank you so much for posting this. It's really interesting.
These little ones, they are so wise!...
So, he preferred the tap over the distilled, but only drank a little. And as soon as you added salt to the distilled, he preferred it over the tap, is that correct?
If you do different things, make sure you take notes. (I must, otherwise I forget!)
I will feed Jesse The Turtle in distilled water this week, with his usual 2 drops of idodine, and I'll keep you posted. It's more difficult to tell, since he hardly makes any sounds, it's all about body language with him.
Thank you! :-)
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- Re: O/T Dog Water Experiment, Salted... Prism
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,030,745He would drink a lot of tap water, till his bowl would be empty in the eve., but for the experiment he preferred the distilled with the celtic Sea Salt and drank his fill since he had his choice, over the plain tap water yesterday.
I plan on keeping notes, or else I'll forget and that would be frustrating!
Prism
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This is a reply to # 1,030,641I have a salt shaker pretty much LIKE THIS ONE(but with a few more holes that appear a little larger than in this picture and I always put down two bowls of water.
I have two 35-pound dogs, so each bowl holds a quart of water.
Now, the tap water I use is already purified by reverse/osmosis, but minerals are removed! IT is the water I use for both bowls.
However, I put two good shakes of this salt AND 1 drop of this iodine into the other bowl every single time I refill it. Every single time.
My dogs have been getting this since February or March. They RARELY drink out of the plain one, but since they do every so often, I still provide it.
The unknown thing in all this, is are they getting ENOUGH salt and iodine? I do know they've both shown "backed up" issues. Every once in a great while one or the other looks like they don't feel well, and seem to have constipation issues. Or my one mixed breed has had what I believe are kidney issues. She's a bit constipated, and literally tries to stretch but can't, so I believe her kidneys are getting too backed up.
It's when this happens that I'm learning to add a bit more salt to her water, even though I broke down and bought a mineral salt lick for the dogs for the back yard. (It's out of my view and I really don't know if they actually lick from it or not but they do spend a lot of time near where I lay it).
I'm also learning, at these times, to add a few more drops of the iodine.
They still choose the salted and iodinated water!
I also now put a T of olive oil in their food every day...they each get a Tablespoon.
They both are so wonderfully healthy, with bright eyes and beautiful shiny coats that gleam.
Very happy dogs.
- Re: Hallejuah...thanks for reporting... monica999
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This is a reply to # 1,030,826Thanks so much for this experiment Prism. Its just what I expected actually :)
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- Re:O/T Dog Water Experiment/continue... Prism
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This is a reply to # 1,030,641Ok, I've continued with my little daily experiments of what my dog prefers in drinking water..so here's the latest.
Day 1. Plain tap water vs a few grains of moist grey Celtic Sea Salt in distilled: He clearly preferred the salted distilled water.
Day 2. Plain tap vs plain distilled: He drank from both bowls, but he drank twice as much of the distilled water.
Day 3. A few grains of moist grey Celtic Sea Salt in tap water vs plain distilled: He has drank almost his whole bowl of salted tap water. It's almost gone, with nothing gone from the plain distilled water.
Day 4. A few grains of moist grey celtic Sea Salt in both tap water and distilled water. He clearly chose the salted tap water, and just about drank all the water gone. I took him for a nice walk this evening and he came back and had his fill of the salted tap water and has left the salted distilled alone.
I'm concluding this, as it could go on for a long time. Draw your own conclusions or guesses.
I guess for me, I'm going to go with distilled again, which I'll start buying tomorrow. For my dog, he's going to get 1-2 drops of Iodine in his distilled water 1-2 x a week, and a bit of sea salt on occasion. I'm also going to place out a bowl of plain tap water and a bowl of plain distilled water. So, he'll have 3 bowls and I'll be checking on those too just for my own curiosity.
I just like distilled better, tastes smoother and Trapper is posting away about the dangers of drinking anything but distilled and the killer chlorine is!
Prism
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