BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- After one vandalism act after another, dog owners at a popular Southwest Bakersfield dog park say whoever's responsible is barking up the wrong tree, and now they want their park back.

Dog owners said the problem begins with the placement of the dog's water supply. There is only one spigot at the park, and it sits outside the park's fence.

Because it is difficult to access, a few dog owners have taken it upon themselves to bring in their own buckets of water inside the park.

Five weeks ago, those buckets started to disappear.

"People bring their own buckets, like cat litter buckets, and they seem to disappear on almost a nightly basis," said Tricia Boen, a dog owner.

So to make the bucket more permanent, a park goer chained it to the fence. The next day it was gone, somebody had cut it off with bolt cutters.

Dog owners were not going to back down. That's when they bolted a bowl into the ground, only to find it smashed the next day.

On Sunday, dog owners found somebody cut off the water supply completely. They found the head of the spigot gone and a padlock attached to it.

The city had to come out to cut it off.

"We were just kind of flabbergasted, it's kind of ridiculous that somebody would go to all that trouble because there doesn't seem to be a reward for the vandalism going on, it's not that exciting," said Steve Hatton, a dog owner.

As dogs play in the park built for them, park goers said they have had enough of the pranks.

"I hope this gets some police interest and get somebody to at least pay attention that the dogs do need water and maybe the ultimate result would be that we have a permanent source of water that can't be vandalized," said Laura Jackson, a dog owner.

The Bakersfield Police Department said they will be making extra patrols of the area.

As for solving the water problem? Dianne Hoover, of the city of Bakersfield Recreation and Parks, said they will be working with concerned dog owners, and if they pitch in some money, they will install a dog drinking fountain inside the park.