A Hot Weather Warning To Dog Owners

[naomi24]

Dog owners are being warned to protect their dogs’ paws from hot pavements, after Blue Cross vets treated a dog for burns. The advice is only to walk your dog first thing in the morning, or last thing at night.

https://www.bluecross.org.uk/hot-weather-warning-after-dog-burns-paws-pavement

Poor little boy.

[naomi24]

Khandro, there's plenty of similar advice on the internet. I don't know about where you live but in the past few days the tarmac on the roads and pavements has been melting around here. I wouldn't want to walk on it with bare feet.

[hereIam]

What does :0) mean ??

[Khandro]

n. //the tarmac on the roads and pavements has been melting around here. I wouldn't want to walk on it with bare feet.//
I always knew you were very sensible !

[hereIam]

Any sign of another dog for you yet naomi, or is it too soon ?

[Baldric]

I'm sure Khandro meant well, after all his information comes Breitbart and Stonegate, who are as well known for Pet Care as they are for anything else.

[Khandro]

P.P. I was thinking more of places they lick than scratch.

naomi; When I was in Rangoon (ahhh!) I visited the great, golden, Shwedagon Pagoda, the temperature must have been about 40 and you have to be barefoot, in the open forecourts the floors are tiled with black and white marble in a chessboard pattern and I discovered that stepping on the black ones was cooler than stepping of the white.

I pass this on in case you go out on barefoot experiments - and maybe your dog could bear it in mind too.

[naomi24]

Thank you, Khandro. :o)

HereIam, Every time I meet a nice dog I’m tempted, but there’s a lot of freedom to be had in a pet-free life. That said, I do miss him dreadfully. The house is spotless without him – I don’t have half the garden dragged in every five minutes - but it’s awfully quiet. His ashes were sent home in a lovely little carved wooden box with a little brass nameplate attached to it, and tied with a cream satin ribbon under which a cream rose was tucked. So pretty. It really upset us when we saw it. I couldn’t bear to open it and ask my husband to bury its contents in the garden – so I’ve put it on the brick hearth by the fire. He liked sitting in front of the fire – so that’s where he’s sitting. Daft or what?! :o)

[naomi24]

Khando at 17:22, bet the dogs were lying in the shade! That's what dogs do in all the hot countries I've visited.

[Khandro]

naomi; r.i.p. your 'Fido'. When our much loved miniature poodle died a year ago last January, we said "no more". My wife gave away every basket, rug, lead and possession belonging to him, we said we are now free to jump on planes and go to all sorts of places we couldn't go before. We tried that and found flying was to be treated like cattle, and we don't really want to do that, much preferring to travel, as always, by car.

After 8 months we found that we had a hole in our life without a dog and finally went to several dog's homes and came across a beautiful mini border-collie, a refugee from Hungary, it was a coup de foudre she is the 'best dog in the world' and we are very happy and can't imagine a dog-less existence. When I fell and broke a rib 3 weeks ago and lay groaning on the bed waiting for the ambulance, she brought me, perhaps the best present of my life, ... a dog biscuit! What more could I want?

[Baldric]

I remember that

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Question1556787.html

///Ambulanced to local hospital, x-rayed and ultra sounded, rib displaced but not broken///

[Khandro]

Baldric; //I'm sure Khandro meant well, after all his information comes Breitbart and Stonegate,//

I don't know what 'Breitbart' is and I've never knowingly taken information from it. I do know however know what Gatestone is, -I assume that is to whom you refer- It is an organization dedicated to the support of Israel and opposed to the Islamification of Europe, two causes to which I wholeheartedly agree. Do you have a problem with that?

[hereIam]

naomi - I know what you mean about being tied with a dog, I always put Jill first now when deciding whether or not to go out and often don't go as I know she wouldn't want to be alone!! Ah well. There's no way in this world that I would think you are daft because of where you put your beloved dog's ashes. If it makes you feel better it's all to the good. I have my last lovely dog's ashes, also in a beautiful box with a flower on it, on a little side table with a photograph of him and I light a candle by it at night time. Anything to get us through their loss eh naomi ..... I hope you do get another dog one day, there'll definitely be one out there that needs you and will bring half the garden into the house again !! x

[naomi24]

HereIam, this is the first time we've ever been without pets - and it takes some getting used to. I'll leave it for a while and see how I feel. Thanks for your kind words though. It's good to know there are people just as daft as me out there. :o)