if you're wondering how to keep your dog cool in summer when it's hot outside how
to help keep your dog comfortable and prevent heatstroke then I've got eleven
tips for you coming up Hi, I'm Dr alex from ourpetshealth.com helping
you and your dog to live a healthier happier life so make sure that you're
subscribed and let me know in the comments down below which tip your dog
enjoys the most make sure you watch right to the end as after I've run
through my eleven tips to keep your dog cool in summer I'll let you know an
essential summer dog care tip you might never have thought of so my first tip is
to make sure that your dog has access to plenty of water so at home and in the
garden this can just mean that you've got plenty of water bowls dotted around
the place making sure that they're regularly refreshed sometimes even
adding ice to them can help keep that water cool and that can encourage your
dog to to drink more water now if you're outside if you're on a walk somewhere
then actually making sure that you carry a water bottle not just for yourself but
for your dog is very important and we can help our dog drink this water in a
couple of different ways so the first is that we can carry a folding bowl that
you can just then pop out and pour the water in there to allow your dog to have
a drink or you can also get water bottles specifically for your dogs that have got a
fold-out drinking bowl attached to that so that you'll never forget that and
leave that behind I'll put some links in the description down below for those
products ok so tip number two is to use a fan now obviously when it's hot we
have a fan it helps blow the air over us it helps us lose heat better and your
dog is exactly the same so this can just be if you're at home normal just a
normal household fan directed over your dog's bed or the area that they like to
sit you can also get crate fans so they attach onto the side of the crate onto
the bars and that will blow the air through the crate and over your dogs so
that really can be useful actually if you're traveling in the car or even just
at home if that's the place that they like to sit or if you're away and that's
where you leave your dog in their crate so using a fan to help keep your dog
cool can really help okay so tip number three to keep your
dog cool in hot weather is actually use cooling ice packs or
cooling towels cooling mats so we can do this in a number of different ways you
can get cooling towels and mats that you just add a little bit of water to kind
of shake them out that starts if that great thing that water starts
evaporating and it cools those down and can actually be quite a big difference
between temperature of the towel and their outside temperature you can also
get other cooling aids and one of these is an ice pack or a cool pack that goes
around their neck so you pop that in the fridge and then when you need to cool
your dog down you just take it out and put it around their neck and it provides
some nice cooling but you can also get jackets that you put on very much like
cooling towels but they won't slip off so if your dogs out and about then you
just wet those jackets the water then evaporates that caused them down and
that can make a really big difference okay so tip number four to keep your dog
cool is to use cooling treats so we like ice creams or ice blocks and our dogs
are no different so what we can do is we can actually make up treats pop them in
in advance we can pop them in the freezer and then when it's hot we can
take those out and actually my next video is going through two really great
treats frozen treats that we can give to our dogs so make sure you check those
out okay tip number five to keep your dog cool and prevent injury is to
actually use some booties for their feet so this is especially important if you
live in the town in the city and you're walking on concrete or pavement a lot so
it's amazing how quickly that can heat up and I've actually done a video on
that which I'll link in the card up here but using booties on their feet and make
a really big difference it provides a layer of insulation so it will stop them
conducting heat from the ground into their body and it will also stop their
paws getting burnt so that can really help to certainly not only keep your dog
cool but prevent them from getting some quite serious injuries sometimes step
number six is to use a sprinkler or a paddling pool of some description in the
garden so that will allow your dog to get wet too and that will help cool them
off so that water will then evaporate and we can think of that almost as like
sweating for dogs so dogs they can't sweat they can't lose heat in the same
way that we can they can only but if they get wet then that water that
then evaporates actually takes a lot of heat with it and can keep your dog cool
so as long as there's no water restrictions having the sprinkler
running on low or having a paddling pool that you allow and encourage your dog to
use can make a really big difference in keeping them caught and help you to
prevent heatstroke tip number seven is to have shaded areas so if your dog is
outside if you keep them outside and they're not in the house then just make
sure that they've got somewhere shady and cooler for them to retreat to
there's nothing worse than seeing dogs in gardens where there's absolutely no
shade or you see them really tucked up against the this thin slither of shade
and the side of the fence and that's really the only place they can get out
of the beating Sun so just providing a nice shady spot can help keep your dog
cool so tip number eight might not be quite so obvious and that's weight loss
so a lot of our dogs unfortunately are overweight and I've got a whole video
series on obesity and the importance of losing weight and how to actually go
about losing weight that I'll link in the card up here and in the description
down below but losing weight can make a huge difference and then tip number nine
is to groom your dog so especially if they've got a long coat if they've got a
thick coat then actually clipping them out in the summer can make a big
difference in their temperature so just imagine a big heavy thick long coat is a
bit like wearing the big insulating jacket to remove that jacket so you just
need to clip all their hair so getting your dog regularly groomed and make a
big difference to keeping them cool in the summer
tip number ten is to only exercise or walk them in the cool of the day so the
best time is generally first thing in the morning before the sun's out and
it's full strength and before the temperatures started to really warm up
so targeting the cool of the day so morning is best late evening is another
option limiting their exercise actually in the middle of the day is also
important so even if you think that your dog wants to run if they want to chase a
ball just really not doing that for them not taking them out not playing with
them to exuberantly will help to prevent heatstroke because
overexertion actually is a really big cause of heat stroke if that exertion
takes place in the heat of the day and then my final tip tip number 11 is quite
simple never leave your dog in a parked car
so there's very little that's better at killing a
dog through heatstroke than leaving them in a parked car in warm weather it
doesn't even really need to be that hot outside and if you've got any doubts
about that if you're not sure about how quickly a car can get warm then I've got
a whole video about that that I'll link up here and I'd really encourage you to
watch that one and share that with your friends and family it's very important
because every year dogs do die in hot cars and it's so
avoidable and completely unnecessary so as promised I've got a bonus suncare tip
for you and that is to actually consider using sunscreen for your dog it's
something that we often don't think about but our dogs noses especially or
the tips of there is really susceptible to sunburn and sun damage and that
definitely can lead to some cancers which can be very aggressive and very
difficult to treat especially if they're not addressed straight away I would
recommend a specific pet sun cream so other sun creams can have harmful or
irritating ingredients so using a pet specific sun cream can just help prevent
skin irritation while at the same time preventing burns you can check out the
links to any of the items I've mentioned in this video in the description down
below let me know which tip helps your dog the best in the comments and make
sure that you check out my other hot weather dog cat videos linked in the
card over on the side here so until next time i'm dr. alex from our pets health
because they're family
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