Hot Dogs! How's the Weather Where You are?
'Twas 119 on the back porch yesterday. Friends living out in Sun City, where all the lawns are made of gravel, posted pictures of their back-porch thermometers stuck on 120 degrees.
Today was a little cooler here at the Funny Farm: down to a chilly 116. It's quarter to 9 p.m. now, and we're still hunkered in the dog-den, sheltering from the heat. The pavement outside is too hot for corgis to walk on, and probably will be until after about 11 p.m.
If we don't get out the door by 5 a.m., we're absolutely positively not going for a doggy-walk. By 6:00 it's too hot for Cassie and me, though Ruby would charge on if given a chance. Not for long, though. Problem is, if you want to get your 10 laps of the pool in, you need to be in the drink by 5:00 or 5:30, because you certainly don't want to be exposing your skin to the blast of that sun!
So we didn't make it out today. Well. I made it into the pool and managed to get the plants watered. The dogs supervised for awhile. Otherwise, we've spent the day cowering in the air-conditioning.This is when tile floors throughout the house really come in handy: they are nice and cool.
Apparently the weather is just as extreme in the opposite direction where many corgisti live: colder than a deep freeze in the winter. Once nice thing about heat: ya can't shovel it.
How do you and your sidekicks cope when the weather goes off the deep end?
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Permalink Reply by Anna Morelli on
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Have you considered a cooling vest for the dogs? It might help them be able to stay out a bit longer and give them a break from inside, or on your walk. I had one for my older dog.
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Permalink Reply by Vicky Hay on
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I'll have to look into that! I didn't even know there was such a thing. Uhm...wonder if they make cooling vests for old ladies, too?
When the weather's acting like this, you do have to be out very, very early in the morning or pretty late at night, because the sidewalks are so hot the dog's feet will burn. Under the blasting sun, the blacktop here can get up around 160 degrees.
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My Mini-Doxie Service Dog is quite vulnerable to the heat. Whenever I get out of a car, or walk her in the Summer on any man made surface, I routinely get down and place the palm of my hand on the ground to judge the temperature. It doesn't take much for dogs to overheat. My Alaskan Malamutes were working pack dogs and I could not work them in temperatures higher than 60 F. degrees.
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I usually carry them across the asphalt if I have to drive them somewhere, and then set them down in the shade once we reach a sidewalk. It's still awfully hot for them.
Cassie in particular seems sensitive to heat. Ruby doesn't seem to be as bothered by it...but maybe it's just that she doesn't have good sense yet.
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