Meat-flavored bottled water on offer to "bored" Aussie dogs

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2003

SYDNEY, (AFP) — An Australian inventor who thinks dogs "deserve variety" just like anyone else began marketing meat and vegetable flavored bottled water to canine connoisseurs.

Dog Plus K-9 Water went on sale across Australia in flavors ranging from bacon and beef to liver, chicken and corn.

Inventor Andrew Larkey hopes to release other doggie flavors like roasted chicken and even a line of water for cats early next year.

"It's like a sports drink for dogs. Dogs get bored with plain water -- they deserve variety just as much as people," Larkey told the Australian Associated Press.

Larkey said he developed the water as an alternative for owners who worried about their dogs drinking from muddy puddles, dirty lakes or other dubious sources.

He...