HAPPY THURSDAY EVERYONE
We have another Heatwave this weekend here in the UK, its heading for 33°, now going abroad and holidaying in this high a tempreture is pretty easy but living in the UK whee we don't have Air Con and our homes are carpeted instead of having tiled floors you can imagine our houses are pretty hot, theres something about the heat in the UK that people who are visiting us have said its unbearable. You have to carry a fan every where we go plus have a fan going in the living room and bedrooms. Another thing the heat is bad for is animals, its not just the feeling hot its the boiling hot paths and roads that are burning our babies paws. We are told to take them out first thing in the morning then late thing at night but that's OK if your dog is healthy. Our oldest dog Mika is 14, she can't get around as well as she could plus needs to pee a lot more than usual most of the time just reaching the path outside the front door.
I don't get out as much as I would like, hubby said sometimes that's a good thing because the amount of times we see people taking there pups for walks and runs around the middle of the day is thoughtless, you can see the dog is struggling and with me being the lovely quiet old lady.... I would end up saying something, You can feel the heat, you are wearing the bare minimum sipping on a nice cold drink whilst your pup is panting in its thick coat, bare paws with nothing to help, come on people think before taking your pups out, oh and don't get me started on the one's that think it's OK for them to be left in the car, you might aswell put your pup in the oven, people really do silly things.
I've been trying to find cold spots in the house for my pups only letting them out into our garden when the Sun has moved around to our front garden giving the back garden enough time to cool down. Another thing I've done is buy a dog cooling mat, I've bought a big one so both pups can chill on it, Mika loves it but Luna seems to like the heat. Here's Mika chilling on it on the Sofa, she's relaxed and stopped panting.

I am going to place this on the bottom of our bed where Mika sleeps, this should cool her down through the night hopefully enough not to have the fan running all night. You will find Luna under the quilt. I bought might from Tiktok costing £13, I have no complaints so far. I'm thinking about buying an extra large one for me to lie on, heat and menopause so not go together nicely.
Please think about your animals, heat can kill a pup very easily.
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