keeping your doggies cool

with a jet black collie, i cant! lol
He is currently sprawled out on the laminate floor chilling out.
he hgets hosed off in the garden with the spaniels at uni.... not willingly mind you!

I know some people keep small paddling pools filled with cold water in the garden....
 
got up at 5.15
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. out with dogs by 5.30

all to stop the aussie getting too hot

then he p***** off after a hare fully aware that he was too early for me to yell after him
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having seen the forecast for theis week, i reckon there i going to be a lot of muted swearing
 
Our lunchtime walk was around the lake today... so now Henry is cool but smells like Swamp Thing
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Air con on full blast in the car and we won't be going out again until later tonight now!
 
My old GSD had her own paddling pool, this picture was taken a couple of months before she was put to sleep in 2006.

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Sorry tried to crop it but hasn't worked
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Leah refuses to go in water, so I mostly just try to walk her in the evening when it's cooler. If she looks really hot I might spray her with the hose, but since she's absolutely convinced that's the most heinous form of Animal Cruelty I don't do it too often! We were out in town today in the heat (getting her used to people - she's been really wimpy lately and I'm taking her to a show on Sunday so I can't have her cowering behind me all day!) so I just kept her in the shade as much as possible, made her drink loads and fed her an ice lolly.
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We give Chloe icecubes!!! Our fridge makes them and we just put them on the kitchen floor - she loves eating them, rubbing her nose over them, putting her paws on them...other than that just give them loooads of water, and shade, and they'll pretty much sort themselves out!

Hannah xxx
 
ye some dogs like ice cubes,
Beau likes vanilla ice cream...... (only as a treat if hes good at the end of a walk)

kt arent you dogs spaniel crosses?! surely getting them a bit wet shouldnt a be problem!?
 
I never walk them in the heat, my house has laminate and slate floors for indoor dogs and I have a huge fan in the doggi room, and the doggi room opens out onto the garage, which is completely in the shade as under huge trees, so I open the garage door and all the cool air rushes into the doggy room and the fan circulates it.
If the dogs choose to be idiots and stay in the heat, I will sometimes hose them down.
 
What do you do with frenetic dogs in the heat
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Mine obviously miss me when I am at work, so run around like idiots from the time I get home to the time I get back from the yard and sit down to eat
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In situation where we have to walk in the heat, I usually don't let them go over board, so literally put them on leads to allow them to calm down, more so staff, boxer breeds that I walk, all the bad breathing types, I don't wrry to much about the lurchers, whipps, but I would hose them down or take them to water when out, for a swim
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LOL - I did hose them down when we went to Milton Keynes eventing on Saturday, you should have seen their faces - I was trying to kill them
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Perhaps it is a case of them staying on the lead then!
 
I walk mine early and late but even at 5.30pm it was too hot for Indie and when we got back she was cooked so I rung out a towel in cold water and layed it over her. It's a tip I got from my mum who's dog gets heatstroke.
 
lol only half spaniel!! I know what its like with a black dog, Tess was all black and had the thickest coat ever! we spray them with the hose but now they sort of attack the head of the hose and try to eat the water instead! the girlie loves paddling in the stream but the other is a bit wary of all the water monsters that live in it lol. We also fill their water bowl with lots of ice and water and girlie (again!) goes ice bobbing and blows bubbles in it with her nose. We have started walking them in the evening as well when its cooler. Was just wondering if were any tricks Id missed
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I walk mine early and late but even at 5.30pm it was too hot for Indie and when we got back she was cooked so I rung out a towel in cold water and layed it over her. It's a tip I got from my mum who's dog gets heatstroke.

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A friend told me never to put a wet towel over a dog ( cant remember why) but she said to make the dog lie on the wet towel as they cool from the stomach upwards, which is why they lie on wood or stone floors to keep cool.
 
For the same reason you shouldn't put a wet towel over a hot horse's neck, even though that used to be standard practice - the air between the towel and the skin heats up almost immediately and actually interferes with the evaporation that releases heat. So you're effectively insulating the heat IN the dog/horse. A frequent light misting or sloshing on coolish (not cold) water and a towel or scrape off is much better.
 
Stella hops in and out of the paddling pool at the dog park, but is still more than happy to run around and play when the temperatures are in the 80s. This is normal for a NY summer and she's used to it, but when the heat gets to the 90s and higher, we walk first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Oh, and our apartment has central air conditioning so she's always lovely and cool when indoors.
 
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