- Hi, I'm Parris,
and I realize it's been a while since I've done a video
with our dog Pierre,
so I looked for the latest as seen on TV pet products,
and I found a perfect one for the dog days of summer.
It is the Frosty Pet Bowl.
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- Who wants to drink 110-degree water?
But of course, when it's so hot outside
and the water in the bowl gets to that temperature,
that's most when your pet needs to be drinking more water.
This as seen on TV pet bowl from Pet Parade goes
in the refrigerator for a few hours.
I'm gonna try it overnight so it'll get nice and cold,
and then you can fill it with water
in this removable liner portion.
Holds 16 ounces of water,
and it's supposed to keep your pet's drinking water cool
for hours.
Well, how long is hours?
I'm gonna test it out tomorrow in our 100-degree heat here
in Austin with my infrared thermometer
and see exactly how long this can keep the water cooler
than water sitting in a regular pet bowl.
The Frosty Pet Bowl goes for just over $12.
I found it over at our local Fry's.
You can find out more about it at the link down
below this video.
Now, I don't think there's a lot to the Frosty Pet Bowl
other than the liner portion that goes in the refrigerator
and the outer portion that keeps it from sliding around.
I'm missing a leg here, I think,
to keep it from sliding around.
One of the little rubber feet that sit
in these three holes has gone missing from my bowl,
and it is nowhere to be found here,
so it's not gonna be quite as stable and secure.
This is very lightweight plastic.
I guess you don't need to use the ring
if you want to just use the bowl.
This is, by comparison, very heavy and dense feeling.
It almost looks like Orbeez inside.
It's not a solid gel under this plastic cover.
It's like little green balls,
which reminds me of these Orbeez toys,
little pellets that when you soak them
in the water they absorb and become the size
of a small marble.
It looks a lot like that, and the rest
of the bowl doesn't have any special insulating properties,
which has me wondering how long this will last.
I would think there would possibly be some kind
of aluminum reflective portion back here or something
with a little insulation to keep the heat
from coming into the bowl all the way around here.
There's not much you can do about this
while leaving it open for the animal to drink,
but you could do something for the back of the bowl.
This outer ring
of the Pet Parade Frosty Pet Bowl is pretty flimsy,
but I think it does a job of holding the bowl up higher.
For some dogs,
that's important to have it a little bit higher
for them to drink comfortably.
Our dog's pretty much on the short side,
so I think I could probably use it like this,
but I'm gonna go put this in the refrigerator now
and leave it in all night
so it will have a good 10, 12 hours to get
to maximum coldness.
They don't want you to freeze this.
You're only supposed to put it in the refrigerator,
and then tomorrow morning, I will fill it up with water,
and I will take Pierre's regular water bowl,
fill it up with water, put them both outside,
and go through, checking every couple hours
during the morning and afternoon
and see how long this keeps the water cold.
All right, it's the next day.
The Frosty Pet Bowl has been in the refrigerator all night.
It's 92 degrees outside right now.
It's lunchtime, and it's supposed to get up to 98.
Here in the house, it's 77.
This is Pierre's original water bowl.
Let's take a look at the temperature.
It's showing up at room temperature of 77 degrees
and the Frosty Pet Bowl 47.
Seems to be pretty uniformly 47 degrees.
Using a measuring cup, I added 10 ounces
of room temperature water to each bowl.
I would say it feels like 92 degrees out.
What does the ground temperature show?
95, okay.
This water is already showing 80,
and this is almost 77, strangely.
It is 77.
Well, that's only 3 degrees cooler,
but the bowl that it's in is 30 degrees cooler.
Maybe it takes a little time for it to take effect.
Pick a water, Pierre.
(dog slurping)
So you do want the one that's a little cooler, okay.
One hour later, it's about 94 degrees out.
Let's see the temperature of the regular bowl.
90 and the ground 98
and the Frosty Bowl 82.
I was thinking this was gonna be like 60-degree water most
of the day, but it is definitely cooler
than the other bowl of water.
It is another hour later.
Let's see how the regular bowl of water is doing.
92 1/2.
The ground is over 100 now,
and the Frosty Pet Bowl 87.
Well, relatively cool by comparison.
If I put the little dot of the infrared thermometer up
on the edge of the bowl, it's 103 there
but in the water around 88 degrees.
It is about three hours later.
It's 4:30 in the afternoon now,
about the hottest part of the day.
It's about 97 degrees.
Let's see what the ground's at here.
The ground is almost 102 degrees,
Pierre's water bowl 93,
and the Frosty Pet Bowl has warmed up some, 89, 88.
Pierre is gonna try out the water here,
and now he's going for the warm one.
(dog slurping)
The other one's cooler, Pierre, really.
Maybe with the leaves that have fallen
in the water it's turned into a kind of tea.
How about this one?
6:30, and the temperature is starting to drop a little.
It's 97 degrees out.
Pierre's water is showing 86, 85, 86 degrees.
The ground's down to 96.
Oh, 85 degrees.
So that's about five hours
that it kept the water a little bit cooler.
I don't feel that the surface
of this is any cooler than the water now,
and feeling around the edges, yeah,
I think all the cold has gone out of this,
so it did last about five hours.
All right, Pierre, you're used to this bowl,
and today we tried out the Frosty Pet Bowl.
No, there's no more water left in them.
What'd you think of the two of them?
The Frosty Pet Bowl was able to keep the water...
Yes.
Was able to keep the water cooler
than his standard aluminum pet bowl
by about eight degrees there for a while,
then after three, four hours,
it was down to four degrees cooler,
and at five hours, the temperatures were about the same,
and that's on a pretty hot day.
It did get up to 98 degrees today.
Now, if you're gonna put the Frosty Pet Bowl out about eight
in the morning and figure,
"Oh, it'll still be keeping the water cool by five
in the afternoon," especially on a hot day,
that's not the case,
but even keeping the bowl
in the refrigerator the entire night before,
there's only so much coldness that it can hold onto,
and that'll only last so long on a warm day.
(dog panting) Yeah.
But Pierre doesn't spend much time outside
when it gets this hot, so I think if I put it out
with him when he goes out for an hour or two
and then if he's back out again
in the evening put it outside,
I think it might help some there.
If you'd like to find out more about the Frosty Pet Bowl,
there's a link.
Yeah, it's right there.
There's no treats there, however,
down below this video.
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Pierre's very excited about that.
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