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how much water does a dog drink per day?
"BethInAK" wrote in message ... I'm working on a disaster preparedness planning project for a member of ours - trying to build a supply spreadsheet. They want to know how much per day they'd need of certain things and have considered that the families who come will bring their animals. so how much water per day does a dog drink, on average. Obviously it varies -so we will estimate on the high side. But how much? Generally, the larger the animal, the more efficient it is in terms of food and water requirements. A 100 lb dog will not need 100 times as much food (or water) than a 1 lb mouse. It is probably more proportional to the surface area of the animal than weight. I found an on-line calculator: http://www.mycockerspaniel.com/h2o.htm The formula they use is: dogs requirement of water (ml/day) = (70 * (body weight in kg)^0.75) * 1.6 It's a simple Javascript. Muttley, at 75 lb, would require 1580 ml or 6 cups, 5 oz. I would have guessed about 1-2 quarts. A little 15 lb dog needs 473 ml, or 1 cup 8 oz. Paul and Muttley |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
"Paul E. Schoen" wrote in message ... "BethInAK" wrote in message ... I'm working on a disaster preparedness planning project for a member of ours - trying to build a supply spreadsheet. They want to know how much per day they'd need of certain things and have considered that the families who come will bring their animals. so how much water per day does a dog drink, on average. Obviously it varies -so we will estimate on the high side. But how much? Generally, the larger the animal, the more efficient it is in terms of food and water requirements. A 100 lb dog will not need 100 times as much food (or water) than a 1 lb mouse. It is probably more proportional to the surface area of the animal than weight. I found an on-line calculator: http://www.mycockerspaniel.com/h2o.htm The formula they use is: dogs requirement of water (ml/day) = (70 * (body weight in kg)^0.75) * 1.6 It's a simple Javascript. Muttley, at 75 lb, would require 1580 ml or 6 cups, 5 oz. I would have guessed about 1-2 quarts. A little 15 lb dog needs 473 ml, or 1 cup 8 oz. ooh, cool! I'm integrating that formula somehow! |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
"Paul E. Schoen" spoke these words of wisdom in
: "BethInAK" wrote in message ... I'm working on a disaster preparedness planning project for a member of ours - trying to build a supply spreadsheet. They want to know how much per day they'd need of certain things and have considered that the families who come will bring their animals. so how much water per day does a dog drink, on average. Obviously it varies -so we will estimate on the high side. But how much? Generally, the larger the animal, the more efficient it is in terms of food and water requirements. A 100 lb dog will not need 100 times as much food (or water) than a 1 lb mouse. It is probably more proportional to the surface area of the animal than weight. I found an on-line calculator: http://www.mycockerspaniel.com/h2o.htm The formula they use is: dogs requirement of water (ml/day) = (70 * (body weight in kg)^0.75) * 1.6 It's a simple Javascript. Muttley, at 75 lb, would require 1580 ml or 6 cups, 5 oz. I would have guessed about 1-2 quarts. A little 15 lb dog needs 473 ml, or 1 cup 8 oz. Paul and Muttley According to my dog's weights the three of them individually add up to needing 9 cups of water total daily.or 1.25 gallons. I Fill a 1 quart bucket for them daily. They always leave 2-3 inches n the bottom of the bucket by the next morning. They consume no where near 1.25 gallons daily. |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:39:13 -0800, "Beth In Alaska"
wrote: [...] dogs requirement of water (ml/day) = (70 * (body weight in kg)^0.75) * 1.6 It's a simple Javascript. Muttley, at 75 lb, would require 1580 ml or 6 cups, 5 oz. I would have guessed about 1-2 quarts. A little 15 lb dog needs 473 ml, or 1 cup 8 oz. ooh, cool! I'm integrating that formula somehow! If you'll note, they also say: "Veterinarian, Janet Tobiassen Crosby recommends dogs and cats should have 30 ml of water per pound of body weight which comes close to the formula on this page." 30ml =~ 1 oz. So that would be approximately one ounce per pound of body weight per day. Not very cool, but... -- Handsome Jack Morrison What Made Chavez Possible? http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=092407A Pathetic. http://corner.nationalreview.com/pos...djYzRmNjFhYzE= "Idiots are now convinced that Dubya doesn’t know Nelson Mandela is still alive" "What has in fact died, and what a miserable, stinking death it was, is real intellectual rigor on the idiot left." http://timblair.net/ee/index.php/web...he_television/ "At Ahmadinejad's speech, every vicious anti-Western civilization remark was cheered wildly. It was like watching an episode of HBO's 'Real Time With Bill Maher.'" http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=22596 Columbia’s Squalid Mistake - Academia's Ugly Blindness. http://www.nypost.com/seven/09252007...id_mistake.htm "Al Qaeda Lost" http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/001519.html Israel captured nuke materials in Syria! http://littlegreenfootballs.com/webl..._in_Syria&only George Soros: The man behind the "reality-based" community. http://www.investors.com/editorial/e...75181103776079 The Soros Threat To Democracy http://www.investors.com/editorial/e...75526219598836 |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
montana wildhack wrote:
On 2007-09-28 03:52:42 -0400, diddy none said: According to my dog's weights the three of them individually add up to needing 9 cups of water total daily.or 1.25 gallons. I Fill a 1 quart bucket for them daily. They always leave 2-3 inches n the bottom of the bucket by the next morning. They consume no where near 1.25 gallons daily. Our two consume just under a gallon a day. I have no idea how much my dogs drink. There are two water dishes in the house which are refilled by whoever notices they're getting low (me or my daughter, usually), plus they drink from their cooling tank out in the yard. Zane especially. He herds his basketballs around the yard until he gets too hot then he'll run up to the patio, throw himself into the tank and have a nice long drink of his own bathwater. I empty and scrub the tank out every other day or so so at least there's nothing much growing in there, but it still gets pretty murky pretty quickly. He ignores water bowls with nice clean water placed nearby, preferring the one-stop-shopping option. |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
I just wanted to comment in this thread that it is a good idea to
know about how much _your_ dogs normally drink in a day - and be aware if their behavior changes. (I know this is difficult with multiple dogs). Oppie began increasing his water intake sometime last fall. At first we thought it was because he had just started on a thyroid supplement, and didn't give it too much thought. But pretty soon we noticed that we were filling his water bowl at least twice a day (as opposed to once with water left over). At that point we mentioned it to the vet, who asked for urine sample. The specific gravity of his urine was extremely low (it was very dilute), so they did a bunch more tests, including complete blood and thyroid panels and abdominal ultrasound, which turned up nothing. And he kept on drinking 12-13 cups a day, when his norm had been about 5-7. He was even "leaking" in his sleep. Meanwhile, we decided to go ahead with LP surgery, which meant a change in diet, so in early March we took him off the Iams and Nutro kibble that he'd been eating (are you seeing what is coming?), to get him used to eating moist food before the surgery. By the time we did the surgery, March 21, his water consumption was lower, though not back to normal. It normalized within a few weeks. Oh - and he developed hypertension and went blind in one eye - something that was noticed in his presurgical testing. His blood pressure has normalized; the eye won't ever recover. The vet. ophtalmologist thinks it was due to hypertension. At the end of March we read about the melamine/etc. contamination; Iams and Nutro kibbles were affected, although we didn't have the bags so we couldn't check the lot numbers. Can we prove that the excessive water consumption, hypertension and blindness was caused by melamine contamination? No. But our vets won't rule it out, either. And melamine has been recognized as a diuretic for more than 50 years. So - it's always a good idea to know what your dogs' norms are. I think if we had been monitoring his water more closely, we would have noticed the problem sooner... in this case, we would not have had the necessary information to correct it (no one suggested changing his diet, and we didn't think of doing so), but in other folks' cases, it might make a difference. FurPaw BethInAK wrote: so how much water per day does a dog drink, on average. Obviously it varies -so we will estimate on the high side. But how much? -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower To reply, unleash the dog. |
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how much water does a dog drink per day?
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:05:56 -0800, "BethInAK"
wrote: one of those clinics, here in anchorage, has become one fo the congregate care locations in the disaster plan of the city. In an emergency, they are prepared to take on 250 humans and their 60 dogs and 65 cats. They have asked me to help figure out how much in the way of supplies they should have on hand for consumables, including water and food for the dogs and cats. Its a pretty "guesstimate" kind of thing, I know. Maybe I should just call my vets office for a recommendation. You could still do the same general thing, just not with your records. Call your vet's office and ask them if they could keep a chart by the weighing equipment and jot down the weights of dogs and cats who come in during a day, or a week if they don't weigh that many animals in a day. Take the chart and figure out the average weight of dogs and of cats, then do the math to get the number of dogs and number of cats you want to be prepared for. I would think that the vet's office would be willing to take the extra minute or so to jot down the weight on a separate list as well as on the patient's chart if it's for a good cause like making sure you have food and shelter for their animals as well as human disaster victims. Look what happened with pets in New Orleans. -- Paula "Anyway, other people are weird, but sometimes they have candy, so it's best to try to get along with them." Joe Bay |
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