Drippin' flippin' water bottle!! Aaargh!!

Thumper has a free standing water bottle for when she is out and about - which does the occasional drip - this I can handle.

She has another one attached to the side of her cage (it came with the cage) - this one is like a slow running tap.... It's driving me spare

Does anyone have a clue how to stop it? Is it just knackered?

There's a bowl under it to catch the water, which she drinks from there, but still... it's bugging my happiness

Yours faithfully,
Miss P.S.D Off

I've given up with bottles they just leak and make their cages wet mine have bows now

Mine have carpet upstairs in their hutch and i couldnt stand dripping water bottles

Luckily both mine drink out of bowels so ive permanently got rid of the bottles

Sometimes it is the bottle. Some bottles drip and others don't! Sometimes if the bottle is full it will be OK, but once it gets below a certain level, off it goes constantly. Also, temperature can have an effect too.

Unfortunately thumper likes to paddle so you end up with EVERYTHING in the bowls. And her feet soak up most of the water!! So I need to have a bottle too

Flippin thing is driving me mad!!!

She's a lucky rabbit to have lived so long when you think about what a madam she is!

NickieM wrote:Sometimes it is the bottle. Some bottles drip and others don't! Sometimes if the bottle is full it will be OK, but once it gets below a certain level, off it goes constantly. Also, temperature can have an effect too.

Hmm... Think you might be on to something here with the level and/or temperature because it's fine some days and a complete pain others!!

I tend not to fill the bottles right up because she drinks bottled water and most of it is poured out because she's not a big drinker.

Thanks, I'll give it some thought

NickieM wrote:She's a lucky rabbit to have lived so long when you think about what a madam she is!

Indeed! I feel like I'm looking after a child some days

Josie wrote:Mine have carpet upstairs in their hutch and i couldnt stand dripping water bottles

Luckily both mine drink out of bowels so ive permanently got rid of the bottles

I'm sorry I know it was a typo (i'm so childish) but it really made me giggle

Velvet.Tears wrote:

Josie wrote:Mine have carpet upstairs in their hutch and i couldnt stand dripping water bottles

Luckily both mine drink out of bowels so ive permanently got rid of the bottles

I'm sorry I know it was a typo (i'm so childish) but it really made me giggle

Read this twice and still didnt spot it

Am now sat

I did mean bowls not bowels, i'm tired and its late...... thats my excuse

I have gone through god knows how many bottles and filled them at different levels but mine always dripped

VT - am double checking my posts for mistakes now

Cant have bunnies drinking from bowels

I agree on the temperature link. I always think they leak more on days where the temperature varies a lot over the 24hour period.

Thumper2001 wrote:Thumper has a free standing water bottle for when she is out and about - which does the occasional drip - this I can handle.

She has another one attached to the side of her cage (it came with the cage) - this one is like a slow running tap.... It's driving me spare

Does anyone have a clue how to stop it? Is it just knackered?

There's a bowl under it to catch the water, which she drinks from there, but still... it's bugging my happiness

Yours faithfully,
Miss P.S.D Off

We use Ezi-filla bottles besides dishes as they are non drip and fantastic and we have used them for years with no problems. We buy in bulk though with having lots of buns.

http://www.johnhopewell.co.uk/default.asp?template=productlist.page.xml&CategoryId=1

Thanks for that Maysie

I may need to invest in one of those

Then again i could just put a cup in now as Flopsy can get his head in one no problem

when i put my water bottles back,i always just tap the ball in the water spout a few times,this always works for me

Bravo me, I double posted just editing this so it's not the same as the one below lol

I'll have to have a look at those Maysie!

I've been through 6 water bottles I think and every single one has dripped. The best ones I've had are the glass supa-pet ones, they drip a little initially or after drinking but I've got a bowl under it. If your clumsy like me they smash easy though, I'm on my third, oops.
I've got a giant clear plastic one on the hutch too (with the red screw top where the spout is) and that drips like mad, the wood underneath is going pretty mank so I'm going to have to do something with it.

I have to have both bottles and bowls, Tigger drinks from both but Jeeves is a bottle boy.

I took charlies bottle away, couldnt attatch it to anythign so he has a bowl, he seems to prefer the bowl, gets his drink much quicker took him ages to get a small drink out the damn bottle and click clicky was all you heard him going at it for 20 mins hardly getting any. He has a nice drink and then runs off to play.

[b]My little rat bags were forever pulling the end of the bottles off so got them a bowl to which they turned it over they have a big pot dog bowl now but I can see them trying to work out how to turn it over

Perhaps she would like a paddling pool LOL!!

Hugs

Jo xx

Velvet.Tears wrote:

Josie wrote:Mine have carpet upstairs in their hutch and i couldnt stand dripping water bottles

Luckily both mine drink out of bowels so ive permanently got rid of the bottles

I'm sorry I know it was a typo (i'm so childish) but it really made me giggle

The 3 of us didn't do very well here! VT, you wrote "bows", Josie, you wrote "bowels" and I wrote that thumper drinks tap water when I actually meant bottled water.

People must have wondered what I was going on about, it made no sense at all!

jolovesbunnies wrote:Perhaps she would like a paddling pool LOL!!

Hugs

Jo xx

Jo, she would! She is terrible! I'm sure her thought process is:
1. Find water bowl
2. Insert front legs
3. Splash about and soak everything in the room
4. Start washing your front paws in the bowl
5. Walk around the room leaving wet foot prints everywhere



Maysie, thank you, I will look them up

God we must have all been tired whilst posting

Strange how we still understood though

Mine was no error they drink out of bows

Well i hope mine dont drink straight from their bowels that would be something