Summer for Black Dogs

topic posted Sun, June 18, 2006 - 10:49 PM by  Mercutio
*Pant*

My fur is growing in so thick these days! I am so hot all the time I just wanna lay in the shade all day!
posted by:
Mercutio
Seattle
  • Re: Summer for Black Dogs

    Tue, June 20, 2006 - 2:14 AM

    Perhaps you could get your mom (-or dad-) to make you a frozen treat? If you have a bone that they could put some peanut butter in and put in the freezer, or they can make an ice treat for you by using a disposable dish and putting water and some crumbled treats or boullion (soup flavor) in and freeze it. I do that for Paladin. He loves crunching the ice to get to the 'cookie' parts. I sometimes even put a rawhide twist stick or two in, with them sticking part way out, so he can have something to hold onto.
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      Re: Summer for Black Dogs

      Tue, June 20, 2006 - 3:03 PM
      my kids now get excited when I pull the citronella collars out.....
      cause they know that means PUPSICKLES!! I take thier kongs, fill them with yougart and various nibbles then freeze them.... sometimes we do peanut butter also...
      the kong website has a bunch of recipes.

      now they're happy to see mom go to work!!! it also keeps them out of trouble for an hour or two...
      and ofcourse they also have a puppy pool...
      My big girl is now 14... its extra nice to know she has the means to cool down if she needs to...
      • Re: Summer for Black Dogs

        Mon, June 26, 2006 - 4:35 PM
        I have a double double whammie with black dogs and summer heat. Like today, it's hmmm, I have to look @ farinheight... k, it's 58. My 2 not so heat-smart pooches are black (zoos and lily), and border collie and collie/sheppherd. They run and run and run and run in the heat. I have to tell them to come and get a drink. Tried the pool thing. They don't want to go near it. I even tried to put in right in the path that they've made (a ditch, really, all along the horse fence, made from 8 years of Lily's running back and forth, keeping them thar horses in the coral) but they just run around it. When I run the hose they hide. They love being wet, just not GETTING wet. What to do?

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