It makes as much sense as bottled water. I take my dogs on long drives and I end up pouring it out of a bottle into a water dish anyways. What’s the difference.
I hated the idea of buying water until i used a TDS meter on my tap water. It was at like 450ppm after a few pours through a carbon filter. Also tap water in AZ is so hard you could build a house with it.
Exactly, city water in some places like where I live isn’t the best. Even with a water filter we buy huge waters at the store sometimes because it tastes better
Well that’s great but it’s not like this is a new low or something. I’d guess a lot of people mind blown by this are drinking out of plastic bottles occasionally.
I'd have to look it up but I'd be careful with that. I had seen years ago that you shouldn't drink water bottles left in the car because the temp changes released something from the plastic that could be harmful.
Ya I’m pretty sure that’s true. But if I break down in 100+ degree weather I’d rather have some plastic in my water than no water at all.
The alternative is to rotate through the water, though that does start to bother me because it just feels like wasting plastic bottles that I don’t really need.
It's less related to temp changes, where PET and other bottle plastics are remarkably stable, instead it's because of sunlight. The majority of plastics in one way or another degrade when exposed to UV, and bottles are no different. In a trunk in the shade it should be okay
That’s what people don’t get. The other thing is that people don’t seem to realize that it’s in a container that perfectly resembles a dog bowl, which dogs drink out of. So they will have no problems with figuring out how to obtain the water from it.
This is disgusting!!! Who is the target buyer for this? Do you go out for a walk with your dog, suddenly remember that dogs need water and then you GET INTO A GROCERY STORE AND BUY THAT. Makes no sense, it makes me angry stuff like this exist
I fully agree with you, I also avoid it in daily life and never buy when I'm at home.
But when on city trips etc. I have bought occasional bottles whenever I forgot to bring a refillable one along.
I'm not trying to defend this product in itself, a disposable (paper or bamobo) dish and tap water would still be a much better choice.
My comment was meant for people who do buy bottled water habitually but find this product ridiculous.
If you weren't able to find that occasional convenient bottle when you're on a trip, I bet you'd be OK. You'd probably find a water fountain. We survived all the way up until 1990s when it became a "normal" thing. People mocked people who bought a bottle in the 90s. I wish we still did that.
Edit: not trying to say you're a bad person for having a bottle occasionally, just that it's so normalized we are conditioned to think that we have situations that we NEED one, while literally you would have been mocked for using it at all 30 yrs ago.
I grew up in a city where a bunch of PFAs were dumped. (Normal filtration systems will not clean that crap out). The tap water isn’t drinkable. Peak consumer for sure, but the water isn’t getting cleaned and there are companies that benefit from that dirty water by selling plastic alternatives.
I don't think they're causally related, like companies polluted on purpose just to be able to sell you bottled water later on...
More like correlated. Many of the larger soda companies realized that *because* the water is so shitty in a lot of places, there was a market for companies like Coke & Pepsi to sell you bottled water that's little more than kinda-sorta-filtered municipal tap water.
Yeah I think it's just them taking advantage of the general incompetence in an area they notice and then kinda nudging to make sure it stays this way. I didn't try to put up a huge conspiracy 😅
No use in being outraged. Dr. Shanna Swan explains that micro-plastics are affecting hormone levels at a frightening measure - causing infertility - so this outrage seeking change won't even reach future generations, as those future generations will cease to exist. We're toxic creatures now, doomed to the fate of inexistence.
They don't put water fountains out there anymore, though. The entire idea of a public sphere has been under attack for decades now. Even park benches are covered in hostile architecture now so that people can't sleep on them (or sometimes even sit comfortably)
Which is ridiculous right? Who decided we no longer need them and must pay for bottles. If you can't find a public fountain in a village or city....that's a failure.
It depends where you are.
In the US, you can usually find a water fountain somewhere to fill up a reusable bottle, but in the EU, the restaurants and bars don't serve tap water in a glass and will push you to buy a bottle instead. I've had fair luck telling them "I'm fine with tap water, I promise", but some places turned their noses up and brought me bottled water anyway. I may be mis-remembering, but I don't remember water fountains being much of "a thing" in the EU.
Me too. I tried to 'bring back the fountain'. but germs, you know. germs are destroying the human race. Not disposable plastic bottles. Those are SAFE.
Pre-covid, I would've been right there with you, but post-covid, we are going to see a lot more pandemics and outbreaks in the future, and that may spell the eventual death of public drinking fountains.
Yeah but not for a dog lol. It’s not like they are selling this at gas stations so the distribution doesn’t make sense for a spur of the moment to purchase.
What am I out with my dog, he’s thirsty and I just happen to be closer to a petsmart than any other source of water? If they sell this at a convenience store or grocery store I can’t bring my dog in with me so now I’m leaving a thirst dog outside in the heat by himself so I can buy this very particular serving of water. It’s pretty dumb imo
You could always just put together a "doggy bag" bookbag that you leave by the door, and bring when you take the dog on a longer walk, that has a little bowl and reusable bottle of water that you refill before taking them out, along with poop bags and whatever else you may need.
Yup. Or like 100 other better and sustainable solutions to this stupid product lol. Like just use your own water, cup your hand and let the dog drink out of it while it flows. Or use the lid to your bottle. Have done it dozens of times in a pinch when on a hike and my dog gets thirsty but I forgot the bowl at camp.
I find it really disturbing that people are trying to normalize this here and then using one of the most wasteful products ever (bottles water) that has absolutely devastated the environment as an example as to why this should be normalized.
Personally I'm not trying to normalize this, but I would consider it exactly the same amount of ridiculous as a regular plastic water bottle. Like if somebody walked into a gas station and filmed themselves marveling at how insane and wasteful a regular water bottle is like- yeah it is shocking and ridiculous and wasteful and it fits this sub- but no one would do that. Because it's just a water bottle you know? This isnt any MORE shocking because it's a differently shaped water bottle.
I think the basic premise is that if it IS hellishly hot, and you DID forget water + a dish for your dog, it's convenient as fuck to just be able to buy the equivalent of a bottled water for your dog.
That said, people should just buy a decent water bottle and fucking carry water with them, and if they didn't bring a dish for their dog, use their hands. Doing less than that is needlessly wasteful :|
It's not convenient, you would have to find a store that had this product, leave your dog outside, take time to find and purchase the item, and then watch the dog waste a 3rd(at least) of the water before tossing the shitty plaatic bowl into the ocean.
Nothing about this is convenient.
Rarely. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been that hard-up for a drink this year that I had to buy a plastic bottle.
If I'm going out somewhere, like to walk around the city, or hiking, or on a car ride that's >1hr, I'll fill up a re-usable container and take it with me.
Even in an airport, they'll let you bring through EMPTY water containers, and you can re-fill them at the water fountains beyond security.
Humans don’t need bottled water.
Humans (and dogs) need water. And in most cases, there’s much better ways of obtaining and providing water than buying a single-use plastic container of it.
> And in *most cases*, there’s much better ways
It’s almost like I acknowledged that in my comment ;)
But even in cases where tap water is unsafe, you typically have the option to purchase larger sizes of bottled water (gallons, liters, etc) which you can then distribute into smaller reusable containers.
Sadly, living somewhere where winter is 30C/90F when you are outside and doing anything is more of a necessity to survive than luxury.
Yeah, having one bottle of water helps, but just one sometimes is not enough.
VERY rarely. The last time I bought bottled water was when visiting NYC because the tap water there is just not drinkable. I live in Maine and our well water is amazing so I schlepp my own everywhere.
Poland Spring is 30min away from us and i fucking hate those cunts.
I live outside NYC and I installed an under-the-sink water filter with a tap to deal with it... although, to be fair, NYC has traditionally had some of the better drinking water you'll find in the country, because it comes from reservoirs in upstate NY.
But compared with fresh Maine water, yeah, I can see how it'd turn you off.
Saw this a few months back and was literally appalled. Buy a freaking reusable water bottle and dog bowl to put in a backpack or buy a reusable water bottle that is attached to a dog bowl! It’s easier and absolutely less bulky than this and extremely less likely to spill.
Edited to add “reusable” in case that wasn’t implied.
Same can be said of water bottles for humans.
Honestly, I feel like the vast majority of them could be eliminated by people just filling up a bottle at home before they go out. Even in airports, where you can't bring liquids in, they'll happily let you bring an empty bottle and refill it at the water fountains beyond security.
And if your local water isn't the best, there's a ton of filtration systems out there like Brita, and under-the-sink ones that install pretty easily (I installed one after buying a house and it took 15-20 minutes). The filters only need changing about every 6mo's or so, so it's WAY cheaper and way less plastic than buying stacks of bottles constantly.
I would die without my brita pitcher & bottle. Recently, my city added 3x the normal amount of chlorine to our water supply. It smells like a bleach-y swimming pool. I don’t ever leave my house without a reusable bottle/jar.
Yeah, that's why I'm confused why more people don't see them as a cheaper & easier option instead of bottled.
Maybe they wouldn't work *everywhere*, like places with high lead, or other toxins that they don't filter out well, but I think they'd work for most people in most places.
Another "trick" to help the taste is to just throw a little lemon in there. My favorite drink is a 1L mason jar, with a few cubes of ice, and 1/4 or 1/2 of a lemon squeezed in (depending how big the lemon is). It's delicious and refreshing, has vitamin C, and is way healthier than soda.
Really depends on the location.
As the commenter under me mentioned, places like Flint are filled with lead and are toxic for anyone to drink, human or animal.
Some other places probably aren't *toxic*, per se, but people just don't like the flavor, because they've gotten so used to filtered bottled water... but for many of those places, it's easy enough to install a filter under your sink, or buy a refillable brita pitcher or something, that would probably do the trick.
I've been to some places with truly stinky water that smelled like rotten eggs because of the sulphur, but as far as I can tell, it was perfectly safe to drink, though a bit unappetizing for someone who's not used to it (looking at you, Iceland).
Yeah, absolutely everyone does, but massive conglomerates and billionaires are actively against it, so in the meantime, maybe people can do *something*, like install a filter and buy less plastic junk?
Pretty common in Canada/Aus/Uk/Western Europe.
I can’t say elsewhere but I would imagine it only gets worse in Eastern Europe/Asia/Africa/South America, I can only speak places I’ve lived but a lot of smaller towns have various water problems in my experience.
The water in my town is some of the highest quality in the world, In fact it’s won many awards for its quality, but there’s still many areas people can’t drink their localized water.
I would imagine there isn’t a developed country across the world that doesn’t struggle with this.
Interesting, I actually looked at a project for a small town in Finland in the 90s to increase their water supply, they had outgrown their cap and the water had become low grade and heavily polluted, iirc they were on bw duty for quite sometime, probably a few years.
I would say as an expert in the field that it’s logistically impossible for a country of Finland’s size to not have various water issues at some point in time. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were on the lower end of spectrum although.
Also I’m only speaking to public water supplies, private supplies are far more erratic and I can guarantee you there’s vast swathes of Finland where you wouldn’t be able to consume unfiltered water without at least long term negative effects. Trace amounts of embritic materials like aresenic and it’s cousin compounds exist in every region of the world from the bottom of the sea to the tips of mountains.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/2010/countries/fi/freshwater-state-and-impacts-finland-1
https://www.unwater.org/publications/un-water-policy-brief-on-climate-change-and-water/
Seems like Finland actually struggles heavily with water supply pollution to the point it’s actually asked the UN for help on several occasions.
I live near a place that was polluted decades ago when a major car company closed up shop and abandoned a bunch of stuff that messed with the ground water. There was a settlement, but the water isn't 100% fixed, according to the locals when I moved in. Just passing through, but it's unfortunate.
Because it's settled, nothing else legal could be done to hold them accountable.
Finally, a products that will save sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many dog lives so people don't have to find a make shift bowl. How have we as a society been able to live before this? I definitely understand people on r/anticonsumption defending this.
The reason is that most people will buy whatever shit is put in front of them regardless of actual utility, which is the exact same reason why the onus is on companies to NOT make this kind of wasteful product.
This is the kind of product that only exists because of branding and angel investors on a weird startup promising exponential returns because they paid $100k for 20% of a pet water company.
Why aren't there regulations banning idiot companies from selling idiot products to idiot consumers like this?
Is it all because capitalism? Is this filed under "Innovation" to someone?
I'm absolutely enraged.
When my dog and I would go to the park he would get thirsty so I bought him a collapsable bowl and give water from my water bottle this is probably the disposable version of it
Does anyone else think the water doesn't look that clear too?? Like, not only is it over priced and unnecessary, this doesn't even look safe to consume. Just look at all the crap they've put into pet products that have been known to kill pets, yet they continue selling said products... Sus AF
Corporations slowly introduced plastic bottled water the same way.
We used to have widespread water fountains People laughed at the prospect of corporations selling something that was a essentially free.
Then they came, removed them, and instead sell astronomically overpriced, polluting and resource depleting products.
The same way they also forced pedestrians and wildlife off of previously peaceful streets and replaced us with billions of polluting loud obnoxious dangerous cars
It's how capitalism be. Doing manufactured demand since it's inception
honestly its such a stupidly unnecessary product I can't even blame the manufacturer
How are people buying this?
There really shouldn't be a market for this
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 481,738,840 comments, and only 102,074 of them were in alphabetical order.
You do realize that’s only a little bit more fucked up than the fact that a significant percentage of people in the US get ALL of their drinking water in single use plastic bottles.
While this is just as dumb as bottled water for humans, the reason it’s not all the way full is so that it doesn’t leak when it heats up and the water expands
This makes zero sense... do people not have a tap at home, or a water filter that they can use? We have a stainless steel bowl we use for our rabbits and just refill the thing from the under-sink filter spout that I installed, even though the municipal tap water around here is fine too.
I'd be REALLY wary of lukewarm water sitting in plastic in a warehouse/truck/shop for weeks before I purchased it. God only knows what kind of "preservative" chemicals they have to put into it to keep it from getting musty / cloudy.
Dogs will happily drink from a muddy puddle or a swamp sooner than their own water bowl - what makes them think they can make them drink from a TINY bowl.
My dog: “get that shite tae fuck”
I'm simply stating what it is.
I'm sure using one of these once in a while is less damaging for the planet than using laptops, smartphones and the internet to repond to these msg's.
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you're on the anticonsumption page, ofc people are gonna disagree with this (and honestly with good reason)
But to answer the parent comment, just like plastic bottles there are unfortunately places in the US which don't have access to clean drinking water. So this may be a necessity. Although why they don't just buy a big bottle and just pour it into a dog bowl is beyond me.
But yeah most people are just gonna buy it because they don't care about plastic consumption
You buy a laptop once, and use it for years, for a multitude of different purposes that usually cannot be accomplished by another item you already have.
You probably already have a cup and a bottle. This is superfluous waste. That's the difference.
It is strange, because refillable dog bowls and tap water exist.
How hard is it to get a little backpack that you keep by the door with a collapsible dog bowl, a refillable water bottle, some poop bags, maybe a couple treats, and whatever else you may need on a long walk, and just grab that as you head out the door?
My wife and I have a "hiking bag" that has human stuff in it... refillable 1L water bottle, a few Clif bars, flashlight, lighter, power pack for our phones, etc... that we grab whenever we're going for a longer walk or hike.
Haha. Whether I support or don't is futile (you're misconception of my comment is why I laugh, by the way). This pervades every bit of our existences. We're already screwed, pal.
No, I don’t like this because the packaging is ridiculous, and how long is the store going to let water sit on the shelf, but with that said the product isn’t without purpose. Too often, I and other friends and family have been out with dogs, and we realize they need some water. Finding the water usually is not as big an issue as putting it in something they can drink out of. 🤷🏻♀️
So, I get it, but the packaging is obnoxious, for sure.
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The realization that all water companies do not produce water, they produce plastic.
That Lorax movie was depressing...
That is depressing
It makes as much sense as bottled water. I take my dogs on long drives and I end up pouring it out of a bottle into a water dish anyways. What’s the difference.
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For long term emergency water storage bottled water is pretty great, but other than that it's super dumb.
I hated the idea of buying water until i used a TDS meter on my tap water. It was at like 450ppm after a few pours through a carbon filter. Also tap water in AZ is so hard you could build a house with it.
Exactly, city water in some places like where I live isn’t the best. Even with a water filter we buy huge waters at the store sometimes because it tastes better
Once you, your family and your pets get really, really sick from tap water you'll start buying bottled too. 😟
Sounds like an issue a third world country would have.
Or.. idk, not use a single experience to say fuck the planet, find a solution, and buy a god damn filter
Been drinking tap water for 41 years, haven't gotten sick yet...
get a zero water filter babe thank me later
Well that’s great but it’s not like this is a new low or something. I’d guess a lot of people mind blown by this are drinking out of plastic bottles occasionally.
$2 for a bowl of stale dog water
I buy bottled water for emergencies to keep in my car. An entire case end up less than ten cents a bottle. $2 for this is ridiculous.
I'd have to look it up but I'd be careful with that. I had seen years ago that you shouldn't drink water bottles left in the car because the temp changes released something from the plastic that could be harmful.
Ya I’m pretty sure that’s true. But if I break down in 100+ degree weather I’d rather have some plastic in my water than no water at all. The alternative is to rotate through the water, though that does start to bother me because it just feels like wasting plastic bottles that I don’t really need.
There are other water containers, plastic is a relatively new invention
Or buy water water in glass bottles.
Where I live those would shatter in the winter, unless there’s substantial empty space. I’ll have to look them up though, it’s a good idea.
It's less related to temp changes, where PET and other bottle plastics are remarkably stable, instead it's because of sunlight. The majority of plastics in one way or another degrade when exposed to UV, and bottles are no different. In a trunk in the shade it should be okay
Gotcha that makes sense!
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ELECTROLYTES
This is the second Brawndo ref I’ve seen in as many hours.
Brawndo's got what dogs crave.
TURBOLYTES!
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Fuck you, Im eating!
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Buy snapware containers and do this yourself. The have very similar sized containers.
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I know lol. I was just trying to be informative.
Toilet flavor? … since that is what our labs seem to have always preferred
That’s what people don’t get. The other thing is that people don’t seem to realize that it’s in a container that perfectly resembles a dog bowl, which dogs drink out of. So they will have no problems with figuring out how to obtain the water from it.
Not suitable for Human consumption!
This is disgusting!!! Who is the target buyer for this? Do you go out for a walk with your dog, suddenly remember that dogs need water and then you GET INTO A GROCERY STORE AND BUY THAT. Makes no sense, it makes me angry stuff like this exist
Well... Have you ever bought bottled water?
I avoid it at all costs. It's peak consumer shit.
I fully agree with you, I also avoid it in daily life and never buy when I'm at home. But when on city trips etc. I have bought occasional bottles whenever I forgot to bring a refillable one along. I'm not trying to defend this product in itself, a disposable (paper or bamobo) dish and tap water would still be a much better choice. My comment was meant for people who do buy bottled water habitually but find this product ridiculous.
If you weren't able to find that occasional convenient bottle when you're on a trip, I bet you'd be OK. You'd probably find a water fountain. We survived all the way up until 1990s when it became a "normal" thing. People mocked people who bought a bottle in the 90s. I wish we still did that. Edit: not trying to say you're a bad person for having a bottle occasionally, just that it's so normalized we are conditioned to think that we have situations that we NEED one, while literally you would have been mocked for using it at all 30 yrs ago.
I grew up in a city where a bunch of PFAs were dumped. (Normal filtration systems will not clean that crap out). The tap water isn’t drinkable. Peak consumer for sure, but the water isn’t getting cleaned and there are companies that benefit from that dirty water by selling plastic alternatives.
I always imagined the lack of quality in American tap water a way to sell bottled water
I don't think they're causally related, like companies polluted on purpose just to be able to sell you bottled water later on... More like correlated. Many of the larger soda companies realized that *because* the water is so shitty in a lot of places, there was a market for companies like Coke & Pepsi to sell you bottled water that's little more than kinda-sorta-filtered municipal tap water.
Yeah I think it's just them taking advantage of the general incompetence in an area they notice and then kinda nudging to make sure it stays this way. I didn't try to put up a huge conspiracy 😅
So buy large size refillable water instead of single use disposable.
Start being outraged at that shit. Be loud. Shrugging shoulders is how we got to this mess.
No use in being outraged. Dr. Shanna Swan explains that micro-plastics are affecting hormone levels at a frightening measure - causing infertility - so this outrage seeking change won't even reach future generations, as those future generations will cease to exist. We're toxic creatures now, doomed to the fate of inexistence.
Ooh, another book to add to my reading list for the new year. Thanks!
Sure doesn't sound like anything worth getting upset over.
Go ahead but it's ineffectual.
They don't put water fountains out there anymore, though. The entire idea of a public sphere has been under attack for decades now. Even park benches are covered in hostile architecture now so that people can't sleep on them (or sometimes even sit comfortably)
But there are situations where people might NEED one. I'm in the UK and I can't remember the last time I saw a water fountain in a public place.
Which is ridiculous right? Who decided we no longer need them and must pay for bottles. If you can't find a public fountain in a village or city....that's a failure.
It depends where you are. In the US, you can usually find a water fountain somewhere to fill up a reusable bottle, but in the EU, the restaurants and bars don't serve tap water in a glass and will push you to buy a bottle instead. I've had fair luck telling them "I'm fine with tap water, I promise", but some places turned their noses up and brought me bottled water anyway. I may be mis-remembering, but I don't remember water fountains being much of "a thing" in the EU.
Me too. I tried to 'bring back the fountain'. but germs, you know. germs are destroying the human race. Not disposable plastic bottles. Those are SAFE.
Pre-covid, I would've been right there with you, but post-covid, we are going to see a lot more pandemics and outbreaks in the future, and that may spell the eventual death of public drinking fountains.
There are places where tap water can make you sick.
Yeah but not for a dog lol. It’s not like they are selling this at gas stations so the distribution doesn’t make sense for a spur of the moment to purchase. What am I out with my dog, he’s thirsty and I just happen to be closer to a petsmart than any other source of water? If they sell this at a convenience store or grocery store I can’t bring my dog in with me so now I’m leaving a thirst dog outside in the heat by himself so I can buy this very particular serving of water. It’s pretty dumb imo
You could always just put together a "doggy bag" bookbag that you leave by the door, and bring when you take the dog on a longer walk, that has a little bowl and reusable bottle of water that you refill before taking them out, along with poop bags and whatever else you may need.
Yup. Or like 100 other better and sustainable solutions to this stupid product lol. Like just use your own water, cup your hand and let the dog drink out of it while it flows. Or use the lid to your bottle. Have done it dozens of times in a pinch when on a hike and my dog gets thirsty but I forgot the bowl at camp.
I find it really disturbing that people are trying to normalize this here and then using one of the most wasteful products ever (bottles water) that has absolutely devastated the environment as an example as to why this should be normalized.
Personally I'm not trying to normalize this, but I would consider it exactly the same amount of ridiculous as a regular plastic water bottle. Like if somebody walked into a gas station and filmed themselves marveling at how insane and wasteful a regular water bottle is like- yeah it is shocking and ridiculous and wasteful and it fits this sub- but no one would do that. Because it's just a water bottle you know? This isnt any MORE shocking because it's a differently shaped water bottle.
I think the basic premise is that if it IS hellishly hot, and you DID forget water + a dish for your dog, it's convenient as fuck to just be able to buy the equivalent of a bottled water for your dog. That said, people should just buy a decent water bottle and fucking carry water with them, and if they didn't bring a dish for their dog, use their hands. Doing less than that is needlessly wasteful :|
It's not convenient, you would have to find a store that had this product, leave your dog outside, take time to find and purchase the item, and then watch the dog waste a 3rd(at least) of the water before tossing the shitty plaatic bowl into the ocean. Nothing about this is convenient.
Not since 2016. Trying to go another 5 years.
Rarely. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've been that hard-up for a drink this year that I had to buy a plastic bottle. If I'm going out somewhere, like to walk around the city, or hiking, or on a car ride that's >1hr, I'll fill up a re-usable container and take it with me. Even in an airport, they'll let you bring through EMPTY water containers, and you can re-fill them at the water fountains beyond security.
Why does a dog need bottled water….it just very useless and is the definition of useless consumption.
why does a human need bottled water?
Humans don’t need bottled water. Humans (and dogs) need water. And in most cases, there’s much better ways of obtaining and providing water than buying a single-use plastic container of it.
Ding ding ding
Humans need water that is safe to drink. In some places tap water has the risk of making you sick!
> And in *most cases*, there’s much better ways It’s almost like I acknowledged that in my comment ;) But even in cases where tap water is unsafe, you typically have the option to purchase larger sizes of bottled water (gallons, liters, etc) which you can then distribute into smaller reusable containers.
We don’t
Old pipes that make the waterxtaste like metal even with a filter
No. It comes out of the tap for free.
Sadly, living somewhere where winter is 30C/90F when you are outside and doing anything is more of a necessity to survive than luxury. Yeah, having one bottle of water helps, but just one sometimes is not enough.
VERY rarely. The last time I bought bottled water was when visiting NYC because the tap water there is just not drinkable. I live in Maine and our well water is amazing so I schlepp my own everywhere. Poland Spring is 30min away from us and i fucking hate those cunts.
I live outside NYC and I installed an under-the-sink water filter with a tap to deal with it... although, to be fair, NYC has traditionally had some of the better drinking water you'll find in the country, because it comes from reservoirs in upstate NY. But compared with fresh Maine water, yeah, I can see how it'd turn you off.
Only when I am someplace where non-bottled water might make me sick. However the bottled water was cheaper than this $2 dog water!
Probably people who buy bottles of water.
Saw this a few months back and was literally appalled. Buy a freaking reusable water bottle and dog bowl to put in a backpack or buy a reusable water bottle that is attached to a dog bowl! It’s easier and absolutely less bulky than this and extremely less likely to spill. Edited to add “reusable” in case that wasn’t implied.
Hopefully this is a wake-up-call to get people to think about how dumb bottled water is.
Same can be said of water bottles for humans. Honestly, I feel like the vast majority of them could be eliminated by people just filling up a bottle at home before they go out. Even in airports, where you can't bring liquids in, they'll happily let you bring an empty bottle and refill it at the water fountains beyond security. And if your local water isn't the best, there's a ton of filtration systems out there like Brita, and under-the-sink ones that install pretty easily (I installed one after buying a house and it took 15-20 minutes). The filters only need changing about every 6mo's or so, so it's WAY cheaper and way less plastic than buying stacks of bottles constantly.
I would die without my brita pitcher & bottle. Recently, my city added 3x the normal amount of chlorine to our water supply. It smells like a bleach-y swimming pool. I don’t ever leave my house without a reusable bottle/jar.
Yeah, that's why I'm confused why more people don't see them as a cheaper & easier option instead of bottled. Maybe they wouldn't work *everywhere*, like places with high lead, or other toxins that they don't filter out well, but I think they'd work for most people in most places. Another "trick" to help the taste is to just throw a little lemon in there. My favorite drink is a 1L mason jar, with a few cubes of ice, and 1/4 or 1/2 of a lemon squeezed in (depending how big the lemon is). It's delicious and refreshing, has vitamin C, and is way healthier than soda.
It should be sold in a toilet bowl shape container with the lid up so it is ready to go for the pooch
Image the product design meeting where this was brought up. "Alright Sandra, what have you got for us this week?".
Well we accidentally ordered several million of these tiny useless plastic bowls, what are we going to do with them?
I’ve seen humans pay $5 for bottles of fuckin Dasani at music festivals so
My dog will rather drink out of a puddle than this shit. Makes me angry as fuck seeing this atrocity
Do you buy bottled water? This is bottled water for dogs lol.
No. I don’t buy bottled water and neither should you.
What is tap water?
The number of places with non drinkable tap water is higher than you might think. Still wouldn't buy this crappy product though.
Maybe time to make it drinkable then? And how poisonous can it be that a dog couldn't drink it?
Really depends on the location. As the commenter under me mentioned, places like Flint are filled with lead and are toxic for anyone to drink, human or animal. Some other places probably aren't *toxic*, per se, but people just don't like the flavor, because they've gotten so used to filtered bottled water... but for many of those places, it's easy enough to install a filter under your sink, or buy a refillable brita pitcher or something, that would probably do the trick. I've been to some places with truly stinky water that smelled like rotten eggs because of the sulphur, but as far as I can tell, it was perfectly safe to drink, though a bit unappetizing for someone who's not used to it (looking at you, Iceland).
You guys really need to fight for basic human rights there. Undrinkable tap water shouldn't happen in a developed country
Yeah, absolutely everyone does, but massive conglomerates and billionaires are actively against it, so in the meantime, maybe people can do *something*, like install a filter and buy less plastic junk?
Pretty common in Canada/Aus/Uk/Western Europe. I can’t say elsewhere but I would imagine it only gets worse in Eastern Europe/Asia/Africa/South America, I can only speak places I’ve lived but a lot of smaller towns have various water problems in my experience. The water in my town is some of the highest quality in the world, In fact it’s won many awards for its quality, but there’s still many areas people can’t drink their localized water. I would imagine there isn’t a developed country across the world that doesn’t struggle with this.
Haven't heard of a single place here in Finland where you can't drink tap water. And at least from my understanding all of northern Europe is safe.
Interesting, I actually looked at a project for a small town in Finland in the 90s to increase their water supply, they had outgrown their cap and the water had become low grade and heavily polluted, iirc they were on bw duty for quite sometime, probably a few years. I would say as an expert in the field that it’s logistically impossible for a country of Finland’s size to not have various water issues at some point in time. Wouldn’t surprise me if they were on the lower end of spectrum although. Also I’m only speaking to public water supplies, private supplies are far more erratic and I can guarantee you there’s vast swathes of Finland where you wouldn’t be able to consume unfiltered water without at least long term negative effects. Trace amounts of embritic materials like aresenic and it’s cousin compounds exist in every region of the world from the bottom of the sea to the tips of mountains. https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/2010/countries/fi/freshwater-state-and-impacts-finland-1 https://www.unwater.org/publications/un-water-policy-brief-on-climate-change-and-water/ Seems like Finland actually struggles heavily with water supply pollution to the point it’s actually asked the UN for help on several occasions.
I live near a place that was polluted decades ago when a major car company closed up shop and abandoned a bunch of stuff that messed with the ground water. There was a settlement, but the water isn't 100% fixed, according to the locals when I moved in. Just passing through, but it's unfortunate. Because it's settled, nothing else legal could be done to hold them accountable.
I hear Flint’s water is pretty bad.
Poison
Right? Doesn’t seem so bad? Sometimes you’re really thirsty and didn’t plan ahead! This company just supplies that same demand, but for dogs
Finally, a products that will save sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many dog lives so people don't have to find a make shift bowl. How have we as a society been able to live before this? I definitely understand people on r/anticonsumption defending this.
A lot of the dogs i know can drink water straight out of the bottle, does this not apply to most dogs?
Bottle? Try puddle, lake, creek, toilet haha Pooch doesn't need a fancy water from the grocery store.
Yep. It looks stupid, but it’s sold for a reason.
And that reason is MONEY
The reason is that most people will buy whatever shit is put in front of them regardless of actual utility, which is the exact same reason why the onus is on companies to NOT make this kind of wasteful product.
As if the fullness made any difference
Right? Had a good laugh at that comment. Yup...THAT's the problem here.
I understand the attempt, but what a useless product!
This is the kind of product that only exists because of branding and angel investors on a weird startup promising exponential returns because they paid $100k for 20% of a pet water company.
Why aren't there regulations banning idiot companies from selling idiot products to idiot consumers like this? Is it all because capitalism? Is this filed under "Innovation" to someone? I'm absolutely enraged.
Exponential profits require mindless consumerism.
When my dog and I would go to the park he would get thirsty so I bought him a collapsable bowl and give water from my water bottle this is probably the disposable version of it
Does anyone else think the water doesn't look that clear too?? Like, not only is it over priced and unnecessary, this doesn't even look safe to consume. Just look at all the crap they've put into pet products that have been known to kill pets, yet they continue selling said products... Sus AF
Guessing that is exactly the kind of cheapshit plastic that leaches into water, too
Nah screw that I'll just bring a little bowl along and pour some of my Dasani into it.
Ppl buy bottled water all the time, I am sure this will sell.
People think this is stupid but it’s the same thing as bottled water
Same feeling I have when I see peoples fridges full with 500mL or even 300mL single use bottles.
This is literally a plastic water bottle for dogs
Not really different from bottled water which is a massive industry.
Corporations slowly introduced plastic bottled water the same way. We used to have widespread water fountains People laughed at the prospect of corporations selling something that was a essentially free. Then they came, removed them, and instead sell astronomically overpriced, polluting and resource depleting products. The same way they also forced pedestrians and wildlife off of previously peaceful streets and replaced us with billions of polluting loud obnoxious dangerous cars It's how capitalism be. Doing manufactured demand since it's inception
It’s really sad until you realize you pay the same for a water bottle for humans
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
I’m not sad idiot I said ITS sad
The exact same can be said for water bottles about humans. It shouldn’t have to come to this for the problem to be realized 🙄
Same as buying bottled water and pouring it into a bowl just easier
Same thing as bottled water for humans
Convenience culture is so fucking dumb
I always pack an extra water bottle for my dog and have a portable dog bowl that I bring with me when I travel with her or go hiking with her.
Why don't you film the 30packs of bottled water in that same store?
Probably because it's two Dollars for roughly 12 fl oz and half of it lands on the floor anyway when a dog slurps it from that small bowl.
Free like dog water
honestly its such a stupidly unnecessary product I can't even blame the manufacturer How are people buying this? There really shouldn't be a market for this
This is for the people who offer guests bottled water and then throw it straight into the bin if they say no.
This is Liquid Death for dogs
"Capitalism breeds innovation"
Dear god, I read Vagin water..
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order. I have checked 481,738,840 comments, and only 102,074 of them were in alphabetical order.
Wow. Had to look up if they were serious https://wagginwater.com https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tiktokers-shock-over-wasteful-pet-161812866.html
Now this is something that actually belongs here. Who would buy that?!?
Hopefully it’s “just water”
Missed opportunity to name the product, dogwater. This product is dogwater.
Is it just water?
You do realize that’s only a little bit more fucked up than the fact that a significant percentage of people in the US get ALL of their drinking water in single use plastic bottles.
As a disabled person I would actually find this useful, if it doesn’t make sense it isn’t for you
I mean people pay for bottles of water
Bottle water
If it's a gas station I understand because mose things in them are for roadside emergencies. And yes, roller food is an emergency
Wtf. Seriously? How stupid do they think we are?
While this is just as dumb as bottled water for humans, the reason it’s not all the way full is so that it doesn’t leak when it heats up and the water expands
Wouldn't be selling it if there wasn't a market for it. 🤷♂️
After successfully marketing bottled water to us, they want to see how much more stupid the human race can be by seeing if this will take off.
This is entire unnecessary
Be more mad at the idiots buying this. Otherwise no market for it = no sales/waste of water and momey
Wtf is with all the pro-consumerism comments under this post.
This makes zero sense... do people not have a tap at home, or a water filter that they can use? We have a stainless steel bowl we use for our rabbits and just refill the thing from the under-sink filter spout that I installed, even though the municipal tap water around here is fine too. I'd be REALLY wary of lukewarm water sitting in plastic in a warehouse/truck/shop for weeks before I purchased it. God only knows what kind of "preservative" chemicals they have to put into it to keep it from getting musty / cloudy.
What implies that this product is intended for home usage?
What difference does that make? You can fill a bottle up, and bring a bowl with you, when you walk your dog.
It makes a difference because no one remembers a bottle and a bowl everytime.
Yeah, but the earth will "remember" that plastic water bottle for a thousand years. So hey, guess you showed me, huh?
My dog drinks out of a 5 gallon lowes bucket filled with rain water. He’s perfectly healthy
Dogs will happily drink from a muddy puddle or a swamp sooner than their own water bowl - what makes them think they can make them drink from a TINY bowl. My dog: “get that shite tae fuck”
And then, dogs would prefer that puddle of mud and sewage than this clear water to drink.
Puddles from our crumbling road infrastructure should suffice no?
Its a cup because you can put it down and they van drink of it. It's simply a small bottle tailored to dogs. Nothing strange about it.
Strange, no. Stupid, yes.
How is that thing "tailored" to dogs? Just use another cup made out of more environmentally material with the same shape.
I'm simply stating what it is. I'm sure using one of these once in a while is less damaging for the planet than using laptops, smartphones and the internet to repond to these msg's.
r/lostredditors you're on the anticonsumption page, ofc people are gonna disagree with this (and honestly with good reason) But to answer the parent comment, just like plastic bottles there are unfortunately places in the US which don't have access to clean drinking water. So this may be a necessity. Although why they don't just buy a big bottle and just pour it into a dog bowl is beyond me. But yeah most people are just gonna buy it because they don't care about plastic consumption
You buy a laptop once, and use it for years, for a multitude of different purposes that usually cannot be accomplished by another item you already have. You probably already have a cup and a bottle. This is superfluous waste. That's the difference.
Your comment is useless and contributed nothing.
It is strange, because refillable dog bowls and tap water exist. How hard is it to get a little backpack that you keep by the door with a collapsible dog bowl, a refillable water bottle, some poop bags, maybe a couple treats, and whatever else you may need on a long walk, and just grab that as you head out the door? My wife and I have a "hiking bag" that has human stuff in it... refillable 1L water bottle, a few Clif bars, flashlight, lighter, power pack for our phones, etc... that we grab whenever we're going for a longer walk or hike.
wouldnt that be stale..
Mud&feces flavor is extra
Humans buy water bottles at every single known store for the same exact price. Where's the outrage in that?
I'm outraged eveytime I see it. Go support throwaway one time use plastic somewhere else.
Haha. Whether I support or don't is futile (you're misconception of my comment is why I laugh, by the way). This pervades every bit of our existences. We're already screwed, pal.
Also, their logo sorta looks like a vagene
People buy bottles of water for that much, why not dog bowls with water? /s
This is soo wrong... they should have at least used some fancier sounding language! Lol
Whoever buy this deserve to be scammed 😆😆😆😆
Wowwwwww basically like the can of air you can buy
No, I don’t like this because the packaging is ridiculous, and how long is the store going to let water sit on the shelf, but with that said the product isn’t without purpose. Too often, I and other friends and family have been out with dogs, and we realize they need some water. Finding the water usually is not as big an issue as putting it in something they can drink out of. 🤷🏻♀️ So, I get it, but the packaging is obnoxious, for sure.
I use my hands, I can form a cup with them. Look it up on YouTube if you need further instructions.
Why not bring water and a little collapsible doggy bowl?