Thought youd enjoy, undersatand and sympathise with this pic! We went for a short outing today, had to be short because of the heat, humidity and lack of breeze! We stay in Dundee, how do you cope in hooter climates I do not know!The boys had water on the walk, drank when they came home but are not eating too well during the day, prefering to eat in the evening when a little cooler! My hubby calls me a slater because I hide in the shade!!!Your pale scottish friend, Gillx

Sorry, meant hotter climates! My brain has melted! Gx

Great photo Gill!My hounds are suffering too,Megan worste of all,she's refusing to eat,it's so frustrating.It's taken 7mths to get her coat back and weight on from having her pups,I don't want her to go backover,but she'll do her own thing,bless her.

My Ben is sleeping all day, mainly on the ceramic tiles in the kitchen, pretty hard but cool. I have all the windows open to circulate air around the house for him and also run a fan to help.

I take him out at about 8pm when its as cool as its going to get, he lays down in the local stream to cool down, wish I had a stream in the garden for him. I feed him late just before bed time and he seems to eat well at that time.

I've got myself a spray from the chemist that I can spray on me to cool down. I'd like to use it on Ben but dare not unless I know its harmless to him.

Anyone with any knowledge of the substance? Ingredients are: Aqua, Alcohol denat, Polysorbate, PEG-40 hydrogenated castor oil, menthyl lactate, 2-brono-2-nitropropane-1, 3-diol sodium bicarbonate, tocopherol.

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Maybe just to be on the safe side I wouldn't use that spray but perhaps instead have some water in a spray bottle instead if Ben would tolerate that.

For general info here's a link cani-cross.co.uk/summer_months.shtml to some useful information from the Canix people re heatstroke in dogs.

I've been working out in Abu Dhabi recently which was a bit of a shock to the system leaving pretty much straight after the rain at the border union show to 40 plus degrees centigrade. But I'm just back now and was amazed to see how much it had warmed up in the UK.

Ours have been suffering in the heat as well. They are not eating very well even though
we are feeding them later in the evening. I know what you mean about trying to keep weight
on though Elvee. Mallie is not the fattest by any stretch of the imagination and she is
a poor eater but she is living on virtually fresh air at the moment. It is very frustrating
watching her pick a few morsels out of her dish and then walk away and leave the rest.

Our first show, since the puppies, will be the Hound Show the first week in August and I
very much doubt she will have put weight on by then

I gather you must be having a bit of a heat wave in the UK, don't panic out dogs all cope very well with the heat here. So long as they have plenty of shade and water and a nice cool surface to lay on they will be OK. We have AC here because our summers are so long and hot' but you probably don't need it. Our dogs are very savvy, when it gets to 30+ they sit and look at the AC unit on the wall and say "turn it on", which of course I do.

Pam

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Thanks for that Elise, I wouldn't use the spray on Ben unless I'm certain its ok. Anyway it doesn't really seem that good for me. There's some good advise on the cani-cross, a hosepipe's a great idea although Ben absolutely hates it and runs a mile whenever I get it out.

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Ooh, I wish I could stop eating when it was hot, imagine how skinny I'd be!!!
Murphy eats well late, about 9.30-10pm, but he eats the lot, we go out late too.

Did anyone see the RSPCA patrol programme the other night, really horrific, they went to a dog show and walked round the car parks for dogs left in cards, they found a couple and poked a thermometer through the window to see what the temperature was like inside the vehicle, nearly 50 degrees. They got 2 out and put them in their air conditioned van, then the worst was to come, they got a call about a whippett left on the back seat of a BMW, poor little thing had died and was found curled up on the rear footwell, I cried, the RSPCA officer had a lump in her throat.
How about the news this week, a Police officer left 2 Alsations inside his car, OUTSIDE THE POLICE STATION, both died. He should never ever work with animals or keep an animal again. If he was a fire arms officer and left his gun in the car, no doubt he would be in alot of trouble, this officer left his 2 'tools of the trade' in his with such terrible consequences.
DON'T LEAVE THEM IN CARS, even with windows open, the metal attracts the heat, it breaks my heart when you read/see stories like this.

Helen what a tragic story. You are all welcome to ship your hounds here as it is freezing. We will be having snow this week and the weather is bleak and miserable

Fantastic offer but whos gonna pay?!Hahahah! Gx