He won't drink water from his bowl .

[TheDork]

He just won't drink from any of his bowls. I keep them clean and change the water daily. I've swapped the stainless steel ones for plastic, swapped the plastic for a pottery bowl but nope. He eats from exactly the same type of bowl with no problem. I'm now giving him ice cubes to keep him hydrated. Totally different story when we go on a walk and he ses a puddle. He'll drink those in a heartbeat.
So I don't know what else to do! Any advice please?

Our cats are the same. I think tap water must smell of fluoride or chlorine etc. They drink rain water from the bowls we keep outside. Have tried rain water indoors but they don't trust that.

It's probably the tap water taste, or remnants of washing up liquid on the bowls. I had a dog who would only drink water from the garden hose weirdly. Try cooled boiled water or bottles of water.

You'd think, but mine would drink tap water in a washed bowl if it was outside.

The only outside water I've seen him steadfastly refuse was once when we were walking by a stream in the Lake District. The water was crystal clear but in the pools it was distinctly blue ... evidence of copper contamination from the old mining in the area. Only when we'd walked upstream to a point where there were plants growing in the water and it was colourless would he drink.

My dearly departed dog NEVER drank out of his bowl. He would drink out of any manky puddle, stream etc, lick rainwater off the grass, even the patio furniture. He'd take a swipe at a cup of tea if he got the opportunity though. I just left some Tupperware outside and filled up from the hose. He was happy with that.

Mine will only drink out of his water bowl when he's really thirsty as he doesn't like the taste of tap water. I have a couple of frost-proof plant pot saucers or small bird bath dishes that live outside the door - there's enough rain where I live that they usually refill pretty quickly after he's had a drink. Other than that it's puddles, streams, lochs... I give him ice cubes when it's hot if I'm worried he needs more.

Bingo!!!!
@CentrifugalBumblePuppy @Meceme and everyone else who said put his bowl outside - it's worked!!.
Also to those whose Ddogs just seem to prefer the manky end of a muddy puddle - I'm not a failing dog owner after all and I didn't need to buy all those bloody extra water bowls either

its a well known fact that dogs prefer muddy dirty water or at best out of a toilet. they also like to eat things that are not really edible gross bones buried for a long time bugs an added extra! best of all anything that has been in a bin.
the real delight for dogs is rolling on things the more decomposed and stinking the better.
aren't dogs lovely!

We had an ex racing greyhound and he was reluctant to drink tap water but would drink from puddles or plant saucers in the garden.
I assumed it was chlorine etc in the tap water that affected the taste so I would just keep a few shallow bowls topped up in the garden.

Mine will only drink chilled water from the water filter straight out the fridge

Mine prefers toilet water 🤢 specifically when it’s being flushed (from clean). He’ll literally sit by the toilet politely and wait for a fresh flush and if the lid is down, he’ll try to flick it up with his nose 🤷‍♀️.

I never knew this was a common thing! I also tried metal, plastic, ceramic bowls etc but unless she's desperate not interested. Yet dirty puddle or rain water that's collected in a plant pot outside she's glugging it down! She does drink at my mum's house as her dogs get bottled water so it must be the hard water round here that she doesn't want.

The poster who makes a fake tea, my dog is also fooled by my son pretending to add salt and pepper to her food if she's not eating it