How to cool down your dog???

[Tara and Sam]

I do the same  have a clam shell with  cool water under the pergola area  and  when  it gets  hot like  we had I put her in there and  slosh  water  around her , she  not  really happy  in the pool as such as just stands there  ,  and if that  hot I  also  hop in with her  lol

[mareeanne]

We are in Australia, and have had very hot summers in the last few years.  My 17 year old toy poodle really struggled as we did not have airconditioning back then.  She would throw herself directly in front of the electric fan which did not help much.  One day she was so distressed, I took her to sit in the vet' waiting room, which was air conditioned.  They said, if it happened again, to stand her in a tub of cool water.   Fortunately we never had that sort of temperature again, before she passed, and we now have airconditioning