I'm just curious if anyone has tried the newest products on the market designed to keep your pets cool. I know this maybe early in the year for most of you but down in the south we are having temps near 80 already. Every summer I try to figure out ways to keep my pets cool while training. Here it doesn't matter how early you get up it's always HOT and HUMID! So how do you keep your pets cool while working them outside. Has anyone tried cooling vests or jackets(not sure I could muster up the nerve to put one on my dog during training maybe on walks lol.
When it gets really hot my dog doesn't even want to drink water. He just pants heavy and gets lethargic. I think about moving north alot!
Jennifer Marshal Webboard User Reg: 08-02-2007
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Patty, in Wisconsin I only worked the dogs very early in the morning or in the evening or at night when it was cooler, if cool enough. I don't tolerate humidity very well so I couldn't work in the heat either way.
Here it is dry heat in the summer. If there is shade there is relief.I also use misters, I have a special hose I have poked hundreds of tiny holes in that I will lay out in the yard and it sprays up tons of tiny streams of water that mists out and the dogs often run through it or stand in it.
I haven't tried any specific product so it will be interesting to see what people have to say. I've always been one to work based on weather.
Same here, when we train during the summer months, we start at 6 am. Usually done by 10ish. During the cooler months, we start at 9 - 10 am and finish by 1ish.
Saffron K. Hall Webboard User Reg: 01-24-2003
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Here is Austin during the summer it is hot and humid even very early in the morning......the only thing I have found is to work the dogs with a hose in the back yard. They love biting the water and will chase it and leap up for it till they drop......which I don't let them go that long. They get drenched in the process and then we shake off and run back into the ac.
wonder if this is why my house smells perennially of wet dog?????
Mary Velazquez Webboard User Reg: 12-24-2007
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Ive tried the bandana that is jell filled...It works ok but has a tendency to slip down and since its only velcro its not good in heavy excersise with leashes.
frankly, with the kind of heat we have here (we only have two months of cool weather in Jan and Feb, the rest it hits above 90 almost every day and if we're lucky it wont be humid) a bandana or jacket just doesnt cut it. I just use the old soak em method. I do have alot of trouble keeping my dogs in shape in the summer though, since it starts getting dark at 9 pm and i have to exersise them after 11. If anybody has any ideas, Im open! (PS no significant water sources here so I cant have them swim, unless its in the canals...)
These vests look interesting. Does anyone have any experience with them? If they work I definitly would like to give them a try! Our heat in Texas is too intense for the bandannas.
Carol Boche Webboard User Reg: 10-30-2005
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I have tried these and though they seem to work, IMHO, they are bulky and I did not like the way my dogs worked in them.
My dogs seemed slower and somewhat distracted by them, and they do wear mesh vests when working and do not pay attention to them at all.
For a walk or going jogging or something they are probably fine though.
I carry a frozen camel pack that thaws as I go, and I also carry bottle water in the same pack. I make sure to break my dogs when I know they need it, as they will go forever. I water them a bit and also soak their chest and belly if I feel they need that as well.
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Carol I have found that dogs can get use to anything if they wear it for a long enough period of time. I live is South Louisiana and have used them in tracking obedience and protection work without a problem. Norman
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