Pewter Water Dish

We have a pewter wine bucket that we’ve started to use as a water bowl for our miniature schnauzers. Is there a concern about the metal leaching into the water and causing them harm?

- Steve

Dear Steve,

Pewter is comprised mostly of tin, which is relatively harmless, and other metals such as copper, antimony, bismuth or lead. These metals generally won’t leach from the bowl into your schnauzers’ water because they—particularly lead—require an acidic environment in order to decompose.

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