4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Lesley]

This is Jazz last week in the heatwave - she chose the best place to lie.....in front of the fan.......

 

 

Anyone else got any hotdog photos to add?

[Lesley]

I take the crown as 'threadkiller' then! - I can even kill my own threads

[Chickvic]

She does look cool! She was enjoying herself on Sunday

[Plum]

Bless her, hope she feels better now its cooler.

[stoice]

No pics but my dog loves munching on ice cubes to keep her cool. We pop them in her water and she blows bubbles through her nose as she tries to hoik them out! So funny to watch.

[Lesley]

We give Jazz ice cubes and watch them skitter all over the floor - never thought of putting them in her bowl of water

[Redwing]

I took this pic of my dog last week when it was very hot

 

He is normally crazy and bouncing off the walls

 

the heat defeated him

 

[Cooks]

You can freeze a bottle of water and give that to them and they might lay beside it, keeping them cool, my spaniel used to do this until she learned that the utility room floor is freezing so she goes in there and flattens her tummy to the ground

[Couperwife]

not a hot dog, but a hot cat

 

Piper kit decided to lay on the patio on her back , she looked like she had just flopped

 

I took a photo, ill try and find the cable to post it

 

cathy

x

[chelsea]

Gorgeous pics!

 

Bracken said she was far too sweaty looking to have her picture appear on a public forum!

[The Dogmother]

Rubes went with us to the Bloxham Steam Fair a couple of weeks back (remember that... when it was summer?)

 

Here's a photo of her finishing off my apple juice; apparently it tasted far better than her water

 

[Couperwife]

great pic clare

 

I can understand the juice being better than water

 

did she share? or did she drink it all?

 

cathy

x

[The Dogmother]

I had already drunk most of it and wasn't about to have any more after she'd had her mucky snout in it!

[Lesley]

Lovely photo!

 

Jazz prefers this to her bowl of water.....

[The Dogmother]

Don't they always prefer the manky green water?

[Seagazer]

Here's Cookie trying to chill out this afternoon. Its quite warm here this afternoon but there's a gentle breeze coming through the kitchen door. She really suffers in the heat as her fur is so thick.

 

 

She has a look of "why are you disturbing me?" on her face

[Lewis]

We saw a proper "hot dog" in America. We were in Hawaii for Halloween and someone dressed their dog up as a hot dog

 

I'll try and find a photo

[Lesley]

I didn't expect Cookie to have such a big fluffy tail!! - no wonder she's so hot!

[The Dogmother]

She looks just like a labradoodle at Ruby's dog classes

[teri]

this is chunk my staffie. he hates the heat.

last summer my hubby took him for a walk about half seven in the morning because it was a lot cooler for him. they walked up a local mound which takes about ten munites to climb and they have done it hundreds of times. when they got to the top chunk collapsed and had a fit. my hubby had to carry all 27kg's of dog back down. i met them at the bottom and rushed chunk to the vets. he had a temperature of 107! he was given oxygen and hosed down and made a full recovery. unfortunatley i don't think he has forgotten because every time the weather is hot chunk sits in our shower cubicle and trembles. he gets so worked up he pants like a steam train and nothing calms him down.

he loves it when i hose the garden off in the evening as he jumps through the sprey and gets completely soaked.

if your dog does become too heated the best action to take is as follows. soak a towel with cold water and drape it over your dog gently add more cold water to the towel. give you dog plenty to drink. the easiest way is to fill a squirty drinks bottle as you can direct it into your dogs mouth.

if your dog does not recover quite quicky contact your vet.

most dogs will keep themselves cool. so hopefully you will never need this advice.

[Couperwife]

great photos

 

I didnt realise that cookie what soo big I thought she was only a little thing

 

glad that chunk recovered well teri, he is a lovely looking doggle

 

cathy

x

[chooklady]

this is chunk my staffie. he hates the heat.

last summer my hubby took him for a walk about half seven in the morning because it was a lot cooler for him. they walked up a local mound which takes about ten munites to climb and they have done it hundreds of times. when they got to the top chunk collapsed and had a fit. my hubby had to carry all 27kg's of dog back down. i met them at the bottom and rushed chunk to the vets. he had a temperature of 107! he was given oxygen and hosed down and made a full recovery. unfortunatley i don't think he has forgotten because every time the weather is hot chunk sits in our shower cubicle and trembles. he gets so worked up he pants like a steam train and nothing calms him down.

he loves it when i hose the garden off in the evening as he jumps through the sprey and gets completely soaked.

if your dog does become too heated the best action to take is as follows. soak a towel with cold water and drape it over your dog gently add more cold water to the towel. give you dog plenty to drink. the easiest way is to fill a squirty drinks bottle as you can direct it into your dogs mouth.

if your dog does not recover quite quicky contact your vet.

most dogs will keep themselves cool. so hopefully you will never need this advice.

 

 

Poor Chunk I love his name

[teri]

chunk got his was given his name after my son, david, who was nicknamed our "chunky monkey" as a baby. we got chunk the day after davids 1st birthday and the two are never apart chunk just adopted the name and then grew to well and truley fit it!!!!

[teri]

great photos

 

I didnt realise that cookie what soo big I thought she was only a little thing

 

glad that chunk recovered well teri, he is a lovely looking doggle

 

cathy

x

thanks he is a beauty he is now six years old and is actually a stud with a pedigree a mile long unfortunatley because of his size we haven't had any luck finding a suitable girl friend for him which is a shame because he has such a lovely nature and would sire some wonderful puppies. one of which we would have to keep .. to give you an idea of just how wide he is we brough a leather staffie collar, the sort with studs and staffordshire knots on in brass it cost almost £40, unfortunatley when we went to put it on him it would not fit around his neck!! he is our big soft beastie!

[Seagazer]

Cookie is a little bit smaller than most standard poodles that we've seen but is a fairly big dog!

 

Her tail is normally curled up on her back. I think that lots of people think that its been cut into a pompom shape until she uncurls it. In the photo you can see that her tail is curled up.

 

Here's a photo I took last year on the sea wall at Dymchurch with OH and YS, you can see her size in it.

 

 

We love her to bits but she really does get too hot with all her fur.