Zeevah's Elite Doggie Swimming Pool / Water Bowl / Bird Bath

If your dog(s) like to swim in hot weather, this is the perfect combination swimming pool / water bowl for you! This is my father's project - we completed it between the two of us on Saturday in about half an hour.

Only my father would think of this....

For this instructable, you will need:

- A junk wheelbarrow (it's ok if the plastic is cracked as long as it's useable)
- Thick plastic sheeting (.6 mil or better) - OR - a shower curtain -OR- waterproof tarp
- A knife
- A hand trowel
- A shovel
- Optional: Blocks of wood, stone, or something heavy to line the edges of the barrow with

Step 1: Remove tub of wheelbarrow from all other hardware

Remove all the brackets and hardware that is attached to the plastic tub of your wheelbarrow. We're only interested in the tub itself.

Comments

[splatt1]

If you are going to use it as a bird bath, I'd recommend putting a rock in it near the shallow part so the birds have some place to land to take a bath. They'll drown otherwise.

[baggot]

Add mosquito nursery to the title.

[rsmaudsley]

You could throw a couple of drops of chlorine. Low levels are not harmful. Our pool chlorine level is maintain just above that of normal tap water because we let our dogs swim in it. As long as you change out the water like you would a typical water bowl, mosquitoes aren't an issue.

[caityjay]

You could add some dog-friendly soap to it to kill mosquito larvae. Wouldn't work as a drinking pond as well, but it would solve that problem. Or put some little fish in it!

[lebowski]

Very nice.

[Pkranger88]

Clever, cheap and reuses stuff that would otherwise go into the landfill. Good job. I may just have to do something like this for my Jack Russell.