Natural Water Supply for Dogs when Hiking

Video Transcript

"We've talked about bringing water with you to make sure that your dog will have something to drink while your walking, your lucky when the place where your walking in woods will actually have water of it's own. So right here we've come across a beautiful little stream and I'm going to invite the dog to go take a drink of water. Ursa go get a drink of water. This is one of Ursa's favorite streams actually and more likely to not she's going to take a little nap there in the water, there she goes lays right down. Great way for your dog to cool off, today is very pleasant temperature, sometimes it can be very hot and this breed of dog is a long shaggy coat so it's important that they get to cool down. One thing you want to be careful about with water when your walking if it's very, very hot and the dog has been doing a lot of running around you don't want them to drink to much water. So you can here Ursa's gagging a little bit because she's drunk a little bit to much water. But she hasn't been running around and it's not that hot so I'm not worried about it, but having your dog feel comfortable going into a stream like this is great way for them to cool down, refresh, something you want to start again when your puppies young expose them water, expose them to streams but do be aware of your walking in winter and the water level is gone up (hey pumpkin what you see, good girl) be aware how fast that the water current is moving just so that your dog isn't becoming risk if goes into a fast moving body of water. This is a very pleasant little stream really no risk at all to the dog, dog can certainly go in there and enjoy herself and she can even go fishing for cookies. Hey Ursa, here you want to go find a cookie, go get it. "