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How to stop my puppy from standing in and knocking over her water bowl?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Siberian Husky | Female | unspayed | 2 months and 9 days old | 15 lbs

So my puppy River loves to stand in her water bowl when she drinks and also loves to purposely dump it over. We have a very large water bowl because we have four dogs so when she knocks it over it basically floods my kitchen. What can I do or use to keep her from standing in or knocking her water bowl over?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

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Published on April 26th, 2018

Find a tire into which the bowl fits, so she cannot turn it over, or get a really big bowl and put a large stone into it. Ultimately you can also have their drinking water in the shower where it does not matter if the bowl gets turned over.

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    Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

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    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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