Thirsty Pig Thursday
With the weather slowly starting to warm up whee want to remind hoomans about something furry impawtent. Water and the impawtence of checking your pets water bottles or access to water. This is why whee came up with FULL – Fill, Upend, Leak, Look
Fill – Is it full to the maximum line allowed for the bottle? Some have limits. Making sure you provide them with the most water you can is extremely important, especially when it is hotter and they are drinking more.
Upend – Tipping the bottle up as it would hang on the cage will allow you to check it is working properly.
Leaks – Is the bottle leaking from anywhere?
Look – Is there any discolouration to the water or any green algae type build up. If there is you need to clean it.
Please remember to check your pet’s water bottle regularly. If they break it can easily become quite serious in hot weather with dehydration and heatstroke very real dangers. For more information please check out our guide to Heat Stroke.
Hope everyone is having a great Thursday
Basil
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Posted on May 12, 2016, in Piggy Blogs and tagged cavies, cavy, cute, dehydration, dehydration in pets, guinea pig, guinea pig blog, guinea pig blogger, guinea pig dehydration, guinea pigs, pet, pet blog, pet blogger, pets, water bottles. Bookmark the permalink. 20 Comments.
Good advice for everyone – staying hydrated is SOOOOO impawtant in the warm weather and ALWAYS.
Hugs, Sammy
Thank you, whee just thought it was a good time for a reminder! 🙂
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It is! We’re waiting for warm weather to come back but when it does, we hope people remember to stop and drink plenty of water and make sure their anipals do too!
Hugs, sammy
Great advice guys!
Thank you 🙂
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Great tips! Mom never thinks I drink enough, so she mixes some water with my food, just in case. The vet tells her to leave me alone. I will drink when I’m thirsty.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
Mummy gives us extra veggies with a high water content when it’s really hot because she worries too
Whee think worrying is something hoomans do a lot!
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I agree that’s very important… a dry summer is not good for the plants and a dry bowl is dangerous for pets :o)
Couldn’t have put it better ourselves Easy!
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Very important advice to share, thank you!
Thank you, whee know it seems obvious but whee think it’s really impawtent to remind people to check sometimes! 🙂
Hope you’re having a great day
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dood…thiz iz veree good add vice……a grate ree minder……we put out extree water bowlz in de hot monthz….even tho we R indoor catz…….just in case……
we iz off line til monday… sew heerz two a collared carpetshark… kinda week oh end ♥♥♥
Whee think it’s always worth reminding people to check. Our Mummy is putting out bowls of water for the kitties who visit our garden in hot weather 🙂
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You have a bottle, I have a water bowl.
Mummy did try us with a bowl once but Noah pooped in his and Buddy tipped his all over himself and the cage so that was the end of that plan!!
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Great Tips Basil,I don’t have a bottle ,I have a bowl which mummy refills several times a day with fresh water,xx Speedy
Mummy tried us with bowls but we kept tipping them over! Oops! 🙂
Mee-you grate tipss there Gee Piggiess…mee has 2 water bowlss what are changed twice a day!!!! Mee has LadyMum trained good!
~~head rubsss~~ Siddhartha Henry~~
You have trained that hooman well! What’s your secret?!
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It sorta happened bye accident Gee Piggiess! When mee came to live with LadyMum shee had a bowl of water bye thee rad inn thee bedroom beetween mee carrier an mee pedestal bed!….so mee started drinkin out of there an sumtimess frum thee bowl inn kitchen. LadyMum just cott on an there are all ways 2 bowlss of water…..
Mee fink shee came pree-trained 😉