Avoid hot dogs: New legal analysis highlights owners’ duty to protect dogs from over-heating

Petalpoos said:
You’d have hoped it would all be common sense, but obviously not. Probably particularly not in the case of people who buy certain breeds on the basis of how cute their deformities look. Sigh.
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In the newish French form you have to sign before you can adopt or buy a dog, it states that dogs need clean water to drink. I feel if you've got to the stage where you are seriously wanting to get a dog and don't know that, you're probably a lost cause.

I also get a leaflet through my letter box every year explaining how to avoid humans overheating. None of the information is new or groundbreaking and like so many other public service announcements, it becomes background noise that at most deserves an eye roll.
 
Keith_Beef said:
There are posters on the walls in stations and audible announcements to remind us poor brainless passengers that were need to ensure that we drink water regularly.
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They'd be better off putting in easy access free water fountains. It'd definitely encourage people to drink more water than the price of bottled water in stations and on the train.
 
Will they do the information in a format my terrier will understand and stop lying in the midday sun, despite have cool flagstones in the house to lie on!
 
I have been very disheartened to see the number of people that take their dogs shopping in town centres or to festivals in the hottest part of the day. I can't see how the dog gets much, if anything, out of the activity and most were looking pretty uncomfortable, especially in the heatwaves.
 
CorvusCorax said:
To be fair, heatwaves kill a lot of people too and it's only going to get more common.
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True, but I think that it would save more lives if rules on working conditions at building sites were more strictly enforces.

Building companies are supposed to stop work at sites when temperatures go above a certain threshold; are supposed to provide ample drinking water, shade and toilet facilities. But from what I've heard on the wireless these rules are rarely respected and the fact that many of the workers on them are clandestine immigrants paid cash-in-hand by the day makes them reluctant to denounce their employers (if they are even aware of the rules).
 
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