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It's nice to see a dog owner taking so much care over their four legged friends.

You see so many people who just aren't bothered. There's a house near us and they have a New Foundland. They were letting him run round in the 30 degree heat yesterday, him barking and clearly getting stressed.

We have a Flatcoated Retriever (a desendant of New Foundlands) and we have to be really carefull that he doesn't over heat. He normally goes for a swim and then gets in the shade. We always make sure he has plenty of fresh water that hasn't been stood in the sun all day.

There's not much else you can do, other than taking them for walks in the evening when it's cooler and letting them snooze all day in the shade.

Hope yu all have a great time.

   our lot have very short coats but if they starts runnig around in this heat its bad news for them so hubbys been getting up at 3 am so they can have a walk but even then its been on lead only as there still daft and would over do it if we didnt watch them thats the trouble with whippet and greyhounds there to hot all summer and to cold all winter think this lot have more coats jumpers jammys than I have  each of them. I just sent a load off to the rsuce that thay dont were now as there cupboard was overflowing lol.  I think if I had a long coated dog I would searioly think about getting it cliped every sumer if this heats going to start being a reguler thing each summer

someone need to inverts a thing like a wind break that aculay give you shade but still lets the breeze pass though.

 were we camp theres never any electic hook ups but we can use gennys so hubbys hoping to get ours looked at as its playing up so we can run a fan aswell.

Quote: Originally posted by ukwoody on 05/7/2009

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I do like the look of you dogs though. They look as soft as muck, haha

woody

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   what do you mean soft if you came here and they actuly botherd to get up they would give you a serious licking lol.

   My frends given me an idea of making white towling jackets i can put on wet if there getting to hot probaly the 2 little vblack girls might do best with them as they get a lot warmer quicker with there colouring.

  they have beach sheltters simlare to thatthey doss in when there on there ground spikes outside. but there leads are that long they all just end up dossing on our air bed anyway lol.

 any there allways someone with them eather me hubby or my dauter  we have spent the day all dayt at a dog show today and the ones we took have been fine allthough it is cooler now but most people came away looking like lobsters so was quite hot and the younger ones were fine. there the ones i was most concerned about as it there fisrt trip the oldre ones know he score and have senes to stay out of the sun and not get over excited but the young ones get silly but they were fined today. infcat they suprised me as i only took my namule wheelchair a=so had to tye them eather side of the chair there were loads of dogs about and they stayed by me realy well so they may be carming donw just a bit lol