1. You’re giving your travel agent one less chaos agent Flying or driving, holiday travel is never straightforward. Especially this year. But with your pooch running free at The Watering Bowl, that’s one less chaos agent to throw your plans out of whack. 2. You know they’re with the good boys and girls We don’t…

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Back in July, St. Louis was hit by once-in-a-century flooding. Thanks to the quick thinking of our team, no doggies were hurt. The same cannot be said for our Hanley location. But like the courageous canines we model ourselves after, we dusted ourselves off, demolished most of the interior and embarked on a glow up…

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UPGRADE EDITION Okay, we’ll admit it: Your dog probably won’t notice most of our improvements. But we hope everything we’re doing will make drop-off and pick-up quicker and easier for you so your pooch can spend even more time running, chasing and nuzzling their friends. PARK & PLAY We just completed a re-work of the…

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The Watering Bowl's 11th Anniversary

This month, The Watering Bowl celebrates its 11th anniversary. And frankly, we find it hard to believe it’s only been that long. Because these last 12 months have felt more like 11 years. Of course, it’s safe to say we aged a bit more than usual, and maybe even did a decade’s worth of stress…

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Good news! Christmas is coming early. Of course, some might say it’s coming late, but that’s just not how we see things. Why so much philosophy in a blog post, you ask? Because it’s the first ever Pet Toy Drive for the APA—an idea so cute, so simple, that it really needs no further explanation.…

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If you felt a little lost in 2020, or if you’re carrying some of that feeling into the new year, you’re not alone. In fact, we know a group just like that—the homeless animals of St. Louis. And if there’s one truth we’ve learned over the years, it’s that helping others is a surefire way…

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At The Watering Bowl, we live by a set of principles, or dogma. And chief among those beliefs is to love, honor and obey your hangovers. And if you already broke out the dictionary for “dogma,” then you can close it for “hangovers.” Because that term means something a little different around here. To us,…

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Dogs need plenty of room for sniffing, prancing and playing to their heart’s content. It’s all part of our cage-free ideology. And to that end, we’ve invested not just in gigantic, rubber-floored playrooms — the equivalent of a doggy City Museum if ever there were one — but in a combined 14,000 square feet of…

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The Watering Bowl Agility Training

In our ongoing effort to extend our cage-free canine community beyond our walls, we are cordially inviting you to attend an open house hosted at our Dog Grove location on April 18th.

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