How Do Your Pets Handle the Summer Heat?

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It's 93° F in Chicago today. It was just as warm yesterday.

Once the summer heat hits we almost never see my cat. She finds the hottest room in the house and stays there! She sleeps most of the day and only wakes up to eat and such. In contrast, during the cooler months she is all over the house, follows you around, and makes a lot of noise.

[sakabatou]

1. My dog lays on the cool wood floors and doesn't move much

[gollygee]

2. Our cat hangs out in the basement

where it's cool.

[distantearlywarning]

3. We shaved our long-haired cat.

She was getting mats and looked so uncomfortable. Ever since the shaving, she's been a new cat - playing and not looking so miserable all the time. During the heat of the day, though, she lays on the floor upside down with her legs all splayed and her tummy exposed.

[Left Is Write]

4. This is our first summer with Dino (our cat).

He has shed enough hair around the house to knit a couple more cats with, so I guess that's how he handles it. The house is pretty temperate, though. Right now he's under the chair in the office.

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8. Ha!

I know how that is.

[texanwitch]

5. They don't. All they do is sleep by the AC unit.

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. Vicki, our short-haired hound mix, gets cold very easily, so she goes

outside to warm up. However, when it gets really hot, like it's starting to now, she goes out less frequently. She crawls under the bed and stays there. She started doing this when she was a tiny puppy, but she's three now and has a tight squeeze to fit under the bed. Hubby keeps that one side of the bed propped up on a wood block while she's under there. She's gotten stuck before, and when that happens, we hear a little whine and have to let her out. Propping it up means she can come and go as she pleases. :D

Casey, our Lab/Doberman mix, gets a shave around the beginning of May and again some time in July. That keeps her from frying, because she's miserable with too much fur during the summer. She finds the cool tile kitchen floor and stretches her legs out completely so she gets maximum coolness on her tummy. :D

[seemunkee]

7. Our pup loves it

She goes out and lies in the sun. She has really short fur so we need to watch that she doesn't get sunburn.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. They turn into floppy Dali cats.

Imagine cats instead of watches:




Right now they are lying in fur puddles on the tile floor.

[bigwillq]

10. My doggie seems to like it.

She's still running all around the house. I've noticed she is drinking more water though. This is her first summer with us so it'll be interesting to see how she reacts during a constant heat wave. We've had like three days in a row here in CT of very warm weather but I'm sure this is nothing compared to what it will be like in July-August.

[RevCheesehead]

11. They mrowl until I turn on the A/C.

Seriously. If it's too damned humid, I hear about it.

[scarlet_owl]

12. The ferrets never even know it's summer out.

I have the air conditioning on.