How you keeping your dogs cool?

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For once no cooling breeze today.

We have the cool air blowing inside but it's still rather too warm.

The rest of the week looks more bearable thankfully, however do need to come up with a plan!

The dogs have a little paddling pool thing. Didn't think to fill it today as was feeling a bit off and brain wasn't in gear.
 
We have a loch just a couple of minutes walk from my cottage so I have taken the dogs swimming today rather than for walks. It is just too hot (even in Scotland).

If I didn't have water nearby I would definitely buy a paddling pool as my dogs love water.
 
I just let them choose where to lie. I walk them early-ish then keep them out of the sun. I won’t do lots of work with them on hot days, although Bear prefers to work, I have to make him have a sniff round. No problem with Zak who will lie in the shade if he’s had enough on a walk.

I don’t think my lot would get in a paddling pool, they’ve never tried to get in the pond.
 
Dog has a paddling pool but it is full of clean water which is completely unacceptable apparently.

She jumped in the old well which is now a lovely pool which is fine but it is full of tadpoles and loads of them were sloshed out into the stream which is drying up so I have spent ages fishing them out with a teacup and putting them back in the well.
 
Ta folks. Miss our old Edwardian house for keeping everybody cool!

Will definitely get the pool filled up tomorrow, and start the blower thing early rather than thinking it's just for summer... doh. Brain definitely wasn't in gear today ?
 
We can luckily walk straight into woodland, which is nice and shady, so that's as exciting as our walks get atm. I've also been popping carrots into the freezer for a bit and then giving to chew, he seems to enjoy them, whether it actually cools him down or not!
 
I limit outside time. The house is cool inside, so I insist that everybody comes in out of the sun, after no more than 20 mins max. The Rott has a 'cool coat' for hot days when we go out for the day under normal circumstances. The pups haven't got them yet but I do think the black one at least will need one next year. She will be fully grown then, so that will safe us a bit of money, as we won't need to buy her one this summer and then replace it.
 
Luckily, our house is very cool in summer, particularly the indoor yard which is where the cats and dogs sleep. Shady woodland and lakes are a few minutes walk away, but even so, we walk around 7 am and 10 pm when it's not too hot. Feeding times are 5am which is fine, but the afternoon feed gets pushed back to evening.
Our dogs like water but not the paddling pool or hose, but we do have a dove shower ( garden sprinkler) and the dogs lie near the doves on the wet grass. The birds love a shower, but the dogs just like wet grass.
 
A little paddling pool, where we throw the dog toys into, so when they retrieve they get a little damp - whether it helps/works I don't know, just makes me feel better!
They have got shade and go where they wish. Only minor trouble now is that the little whippety thing has come into season, meaning both she and spaniel are banned from all but the office/kitchen indoors. (She's ok with that, but the living room is the coolest room in the house.)
 
I've just spent 30 minutes shaving Jonna's entire belly. As she's gotten older, her coat doesn't keep out the warm temperatures the way it used to, this is the third year that I've shaved her belly when it's gotten warmer outside. But I try to stop before going so far up on the sides that you can see that she's partly shaved when she's standing up, that way I don't need to worry about putting on sun block on the shaved areas.

Paddling pools to cool them off is not much point. Blomma will bath voluntarily, but only in exchange for sausage or meat ball, so she would quickly get too fat, and Jonna, and Beata, have a strong belief in Lapphund eating sea monsters, and only baths if I'm already in the water, and even then it is reluctantly.
 
We walk very early and take shorter walks. I need to get a new pool for them since the old one bit the dust. They'll play in the hose spray and in the evenings we'll sit out in the shade. Training is done either indoors in the a/c or in short bursts during the cooler times of day.
 
Paddling pool, shade, tiled floors, frozen treats.
Also, we have a number of cool mats. Ours are only small, so the cooling mats that you can buy to slip in your pillow are perfect for them and usually cheaper than dog ones.
 
I don’t need to do anything. My JRT isn’t bothered in the slightest. She generally lays by the front door during the day, on the laminate floor, which is cool and I’ve yet to see her pant at all. We live near the sea so there’s always a breeze which is lovely. She’s still coming to the field in the morning so nothing different there.

My old dog had a paddling pool and a coolmat in summer and the fan on all day,
so I think some dogs are just more bothered than others.
 
Ta folks.

The long haired GSD doesn't seem too bothered, it's the 'Raptors (Rotties) who are getting too hot.

Will look for cool coats and mats. We had some but no idea where they ended up.

Will also find one of those wafty sprinkler things.

Today I've kept all curtains closed and put the cool air blower on early.
 
I don’t do that much differently!
Main exercise is morning before it’s got too hot. If I exercise during the heat of the day it’s just a short session throwing balls into the river.
Both my cottage and my office are old brick/stone buildings that stay cool.
 
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