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Dog water - its no joke.
LewieP's Mummy
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So, today, Lewie and I were in the Trafford Centre (shopping mall about a mile from our house), and we saw adverts for dog water. There was a stall selling tetrabriks of water, just for dogs, with green tea extract and stuff in it. Water for dogs! We have photos, which I'll upload when Lewie's phone has recharged.
4,000 children died each day in 2005 directly because of a lack of access to safe water.
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of the abysmal sanitation conditions endured by some 2.6 billion people globally. That adds up to an unconscionable 1.5 million young lives cut short by a cause we know well how to prevent.
I despair. Discuss, if you'd like to.
4,000 children died each day in 2005 directly because of a lack of access to safe water.
Every 20 seconds, a child dies as a result of the abysmal sanitation conditions endured by some 2.6 billion people globally. That adds up to an unconscionable 1.5 million young lives cut short by a cause we know well how to prevent.
I despair. Discuss, if you'd like to.
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What's insane is that this is water that is packaged (waste in landfills) and transported (fuel costs, CO2), to be drunk by dogs. The water packaged and transported for humans is bad enough already.
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We've become such pussies.
Tap water is filtered. Depending on where you live it has also been corrupted by communist elements to fluoridate your precious bodily fluids and remove the purity of your essence.
K9 Water Co.
This is why the terrorists hate us.
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But really, I don't see a huge market for this. Could the water be better used by people in other places? Absolutely. Couldn't that be said for just about any luxury or convenience item that you happen to have access to? Most likely. It's kind of sad, but it makes life easier if you're not thinking about stuff like how the plastic used in fake dog balls could be used to produce something useful in developing countries.
By filter manufactuerers, yes.
Some people are insane about dogs. They'll buy.
It all comes from the same source, and it's all potable. Very few buildings have operable greywater systems because nobody gave a fuck about preserving water back then. Hell, people still don't and parts of the country are in years long droughts that are visibly impacting reservoirs. But their lawns sure look great.
another reason why people don't have greywater systems would be because kids like to drink out of and spray eachother with, for instance, garden hoses.
The water really couldn't, though. Local wells and irrigation from nearby sources is way more efficient and sustainable than shipping in bottles from Fiji. It also makes developing nations less reliant on the charity of outside sources which would seem like one of the criteria for being considered a developed nation.
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No but it shows some misplaced priorities I think.
Not necessarily, but I don't care to argue the point.
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They liked doing that a century ago as well, and yet a lot of old homes have cisterns.
I've read somewhere that drinking Houston tap water enlarges male genitalia, gives you an instant five o'clock shadow, and causes skin to emit a pleasing, musky scent.
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Pretty much this.
But then again, a lot of people have more money than sense.
Totally false, it has green tea extract! That limescale aftertaste is clearly just the green tea extract and special doggy nutrients playing with your taste buds
Ever since I was a kid and had a dog, they got tap water from the day we brought them home, until they died, and each of them lived a nice full life. Anything outside of tap water for pets is really unnecessary.
I mean c'mon....they lick each others asses and occasionally eat their own poop. Tap water can't be THAT dirty.
The water in your toilet is the same as the water from your tap. It's most likely cleaner, actually.
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You tasted it? You're my kind of guy. You know that Beggin' Strips really don't taste like bacon?
Yes, I've eaten dog biscuits. Don't judge me too harshly.
Electrolytes. It's what dogs crave.
In all seriousness, my old vet told me that Gatorade is actually a good way to rehydrate a dog after they've been treated for a bladder or kidney infection, but otherwise no they really don't.
Ragga: I wouldn't feed an animal any food I wouldn't be willing to at least eat myself. Unless that animal is coprophagous; they can eat their own damn poops.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
I thought green tea was one of the forms which doesn't have caffeine. Black tea does, and all of its blends. Don't know about woo long or some of that crazy stuff.
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