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Hot Weather and Dogs. Information on how to care for a dog during heat and hot weather. Learn how to take care of your dog during heat.
How to Care for Your Dog During Hot Weather Every provision should be made during the heated season to protect the dogs, especially suckling puppies. Whereas a dry cellar is convenient, it is a good plan during the extreme heat of the day to make arrangements for their comfort in this cool retreat.
Particular attention should be paid to providing cool and frequent changes of drinking water. Water placed in porous earthenware pots will be found to keep cooler and sweeter than in metal vessels, and these should be washed out thoroughly every day. The intelligent kennel manager will always provide arti- ficial shade in kennel yards when Nature has not done so, and it is well to have awnings over kennel windows and doors. Exercise only during the early morning hours and in the evening, the rest of the day let the dogs lie quietly. In arrang- ing kennels it is always a good plan to build the kennel floor two or three feet from the ground. This space makes an admirable retreat in hot weather and, admitting of a free current of air at all times, provided the kennels are built on a malural drainage slope, there is no fear of a damp kennel floor in winter, which, for obvious reasons, is a serious defect in kennel architecture. During very hot weather it would be well to remove all bedding from under litters of very young puppies. Place them on the floor so the air can circulate around them. During this trying season young puppies must be kept as cool as possible or they will go under. A big lump of ice placed in the shade of the window-sill will help cool the atmosphere in the kennels.
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