reverse osmosis

[hotrod351]

is it ok to only give my pug reverse osmosis for her drinking water. we are on really bad water where i live, area is on well water. i do have a prylox iron filter plus a water softener but figured reverse osmosis would be the best. just wondered if she would be missing something by not drinking regular water.

[sugarskullz]

Interesting question! I'd like to hear the answer to that as well as that's all I give my dogs for their drinking water.

[Tinker's mom]

I only give Tinker Deer park bottled water because we have well water also.It should be fine.

[CSollers]

No expert here, but I cannot think of any ill effects. The only knock I know of with RO water is that it taste funny because we're used to all the other stuff usually in our drinking water.

[CountryPug]

We are on well water too and have an RO unit, I have wondered about this myself. I know that they are supposed to remove everything, including all the good minerals as well as the bad stuff. I would think if they are on a good diet, then it would be okay, I don't really know for sure what the long term effect would be

[hotrod351]

thought it might explain why she like to eat rocks, when she can find them. believe me i spent and lot of money, and a lot of work, to make her outside territory free from anything she can get her mouth latched onto.

[Estrella_Luna]

I give Phoebe RO water. She has chronic UTI's so it was recommended that I give her distilled as the minerals in regular water can sometimes help/lead to struvite crystal formation whihc she has had before. She has never had a problem with it but I do feed her a high quality raw diet so I think she gets everything she needs from there.

[hotrod351]

ok. im sure now that RO water has no negative effects, which is good because of the water quality here.

[hotrod351]

well i just talked to some two people, they live side by side in houses, and they both swear by this = ani-minerals by pet friends. its a mineral additive you put a few drops in your dogs water. they both claim there dogs dug and chewed rocks and stopped right after using this stuff. any one heard of it.