taking dogs out in the heat

[Dee Sa]

why do people do this ? if they were to take their shoes off for one minute and put their bare foot down on the pavement it would make them realise how hot it is for a dog's paw to be on that pavement.Please keep your dogs home in this weather, take them out early morning on late evenings please.

[Bambiagain]

My dog is perfectly happy to stick her feet practically in the fire in the winter and it doesn't seem to bother her. We go out in the heat, but hardly ever on the roads. The main thing is making sure she has enough water.

[237SJ]

I doubt the nerve endings in their feet are the same as ours. There are plenty of dogs running around the streets of places like India and Sri Lanka. The hot pavements don`t seem to do them any harm.

[woofgang]

I take mine out at 04.30. They get a good run around in the cool and then we spend the day indoors with all the doors and windows open. Its not so much the paws as the fact that dogs only sweat through their paws and noses and have fur coats. I agree, i hate to see dogs trailing around in the streets panting and looking miserable.

[mrsmaveric]

as long as they dont get distressed its nice to walk with your dogs in the sun...

[NOX]

My dogs tend to go where I go, to no ill effect yet. I don't leave dogs at home all day, I don't leave them in hot cars, they come with me and if they can't I tend not to bother going. Dogs are remarkably robust things and as long as you take sensible precautions there's no reason your dogs can't go out with you on a nice day.

[spotit3]

My dog would go mad if I didn't take her out in the daytime. I find the heat more difficult to bear than she does. She also gets out in the morning and the evening. Quite often when there is a grass verge she chooses to walk on the pavement so obviously the heat doesn't bother her feet.

[Buenchico]

I've just spent 12 hours sitting in a park, interviewing people about their use of the Darent Valley Path, from 7am to 7pm. A large number of the people I've spoken to were accompanied by their dogs, at all times of the day (with temperatures up to about 30C at times). Not one of them appeared to be in any form of distress at all.

[welshlibranr]

I take Callie out 3 times a day whatever the weather, and honestly, she doesn't seem to mind whether it's hot or cold or wet or dry, just as long as we go!..............

[askyourgran]

I hate to see these fitness fanactics running with the dog on the lead. Today of all days very humid, the poor dog's tongue was hanging out.

[firewatch]

our lab is only on the pavement ten minutes then onto an open grass field. If h gets to hot during the day i rub hand sanitiser on his feet helps cool him quicker

[Brinjal]

When I was in Rio I saw a lot of people walking their dogs on the hot pavement along the beach. They all had little doggy boots on. So cute and kind to the dogs paws.

[woofgang]

Bw careful with the hand sanitiser, it is not good for dogs if they lick it off.