Water Your GeoDogs

Whether we are geocaching or not, our dogs spend a lot of time outdoors with us on the trail. Lizzie the GeoAussie is always looking for water. Her thick coat and warmish body temp makes her search for water understandable.

GeoBeagle Phineas is much closer to a camel on the trail. That isn't always a good thing. He's very active and loves to celebrate his hikes by baying loudly and often. He's also usually too distracted by the most recent smell to worry about water. We need to make certain he drinks water so he stays hydrated.

His Penn State pearls are a natural since his mom is a Penn State grad. The pearls clash with this red and orange dog collars, but he has no fashion fear.

We recently needed a new dog bowl for the trail. The Kurgo Zippy Bowl seemed perfect, at least for us. The design zipped into a nice compact triangle which was perfect for hanging on a backpack.

The deep bowl also accepted most of a bottle of spring water.

The bowl was okay with the dogs, but not the winner we thought it could be. Ali decided to try the round version of the Kurgo Mash and Stash bowl.

In the mashed configuration, the bowl clips to a backpack and rides easily.

In the Smashed configuration it has a deep, tapered wall to again hold most of a bottle of water for the thirsty geodogs. Phin really seems happier with the tapered wall bowl.

Liz and Phin will visit a stream when there's a choice, but we always keep the water bowl and a bottle (or two or three) for those days when there is no choice.

After all, they do find most of the caches. ;)

Now if Lizzie can just convince Ali that we need a Go Stuff It Dog Treat Bag for the trail, she will be truly happy.