[Doodle bug7]

Good morning. It is going to be in the eighty's here again today. The grass is plush with green. As the temperature rises, sometimes up to 100, by August the green turns to brown and straw color from the continually burning sun. If you are not swimming, the only alternative is to stay inside where the air conditioner will keep you cool. Our pets and animals need to be kept in the air or have a source of water to get wet. The no.1 thing to remember is that animals cool off by drinking water. Not water that has been sitting in the sun
for hours. I have seven dogs, from a great dane to an Italian Greyhound, and
you bet they are inside when the temp goes 85+. I know there are those that don't care and keep fido chained up next to a dog house way out back.
It is a simple act of kindness.
Blessings, Doodle bug 7

[Dejibo]

My kitty is upset with the AC, she tucks herself behind the curtain, and faces the sun. I leave that blind open for her to sunbathe.

It is very important to keep yourself and your animals hydrated. thanks for the reminder.

[braingonebad]

Thanks for the post!

It's important to keep an eye on pets and see what they need. my little parrot requires frequent baths, but will only use extremely cold water - you'd think it would kill him, but he loves it.

With my birds, I feel their feet and beaks - if they're too warm, I spray the birds or bathe them to cool them off.

With dogs, ask your vet for signs of heat stress, but some include no appetite and loss of energy.


When I had my *big dog*, he wanted no part of inside the house. His call, not ours. We'd try, bitter winter, scaulding hot summer days. No thanks, he'd say.

so we'd torque up a Kero-sun in the garage by his dog house - insulated, you know - when it got down to zero. Where was ol' Lucky? Out rolling in the snow, waiting for us to turn the heat down and the garage to get down under thirty degrees again.



We'd fill his wading pool - the blow up, 3 ring kind you get for toddlers - and put a bag of ice in his 5 gallon water bucket. He also got a steady supply of regular ice pops and fudge sickles. He loved summer.

Oh, he went in our pool too. Was quite the surfer. Not bad for an old blind guy.


Another simple act of kindness is to keep dogs protected from fleas and ticks with drops, like Advantix.

[Doodle bug7]

You are so right, very attentive of their needs. Two years ago our blind golden retrievers somehow got off the front porch. Phoenix is usually the rowdy boy and somehow he got the gate open. I was in the kitchen working away and I heard a dog barking. Then I thought it sounded Like Luke but it was coming from the wrong direction.I dropped everything and went toward Luke's barking. His brother Phoenix' had collapsed on the ground. I got some ice to put on him. I called our vet and told them that Phoenix was down and wouldn't respond. I could not get him inside because he is so big. The vet office said they would come and get him for me. Anyway they came with a stretcher and took him in. We live way out so it is a good 30 minutes away. He had been in that hot sun too long and Luke's barking for his brother made me really proud of him. Phoenix had an I.V. going for awhile for dehydration. He came home later that day.
This had a good ending. Bless, Doodle bug7

[karousel]

Even our little guinea pig needs cool, fresh water put in her bottle every day when the temperatures are getting up there. Something I stress to my daughter so she understands how important it is.

[braingonebad]

Originally Posted by karousel

Even our little guinea pig needs cool, fresh water put in her bottle every day when the temperatures are getting up there. Something I stress to my daughter so she understands how important it is.

My dd (20) has two of them. She treats them like her babies.