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How to stop my puppy from knocking over her water bowl after drinking?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 3 months and 29 days old

Everytime brownie finishes drinking water she drops the bowl of water and she mean it. How can i teach her to stop doing it?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on June 8th, 2018

The best way would be to put the bowl into a heavy square holder, so she cannot pick it up and turn it over. You need to fix the bowl in such a way that she cannot pick it up. At this age it is hard to teach her not to turn it over, as puppies are playful and cannot understand that this kind of play is not play. So you basically have to keep Brownie from being able to turn the bowl over. Eventually she will figure out the bowl cannot be turned and lose interest in doing so.

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