AIBU to be upset my parents walked the dog in this heat?

I don't think you're being unreasonable and have had similar conversations with my parents!
It's not like you're asking something different or inconvenient, and you know your dog best.

Try stopping a dog from running around. I’d really love to see you try. Ours lay in the sun yesterday with blissful looks on their faces with frequent recourse to the drinking bowl. I’d venture to suggest that dogs’ instincts are more reliable than humans’ theories.

There is a reason that fur coats aren't made from dog hair. It doesn't insulate in the way that you think.

I’ve also got a dog who refuses to poo in the back garden but we haven’t taken him out for a walk for a few days now because it’s too hot and guess what? He’s poo’d in the back garden.

Rather than random numbers do you not think the advice given is based on scientific evidence and dogs who have suffered?
The advice is just that. Advice. Based on evidence. Its not compulsory but its pretty dumb to ignore it

Saw a dog collapsed in a woods yesterday from heat. It does happen
Your ignorance is showing

The advice you link to outlines risks if dogs are exercised too vigorously or have underlying conditions. I’d not think twice about taking my dog out at 20-24 degrees, and your parents are doing you a favour caring for your dog. I couldn’t get worked up about unless it was closer to 30 when they took him out.

Dogs like people can walk in temperatures above 26 degrees.

Of course your friend sees dogs with heatstroke and burnt pads - her job is quite literally to deal with those things. But millions of other dogs manage to get through the summer without ever burning their feet or struggling to breathe.

That’s not to diminish how awful those things are, but they’re still very much a rarity and using them to scaremonger and bully people who still choose to walk their dogs when it’s above a randomly designated temperature is all kinds of fucked up.

WOW some dog owners are nutty. Your being over the top and quiet pedantic.

I wouldn’t walk my dogs on pavement at 26 degrees so I agree op. However I’d be more pissed off they ignored my request/instructions as that’s just rude.

Oh course I stop her running around, I’m not an idiot 🙄 , my point being that just because your dog lies around all day in the heat, not all have the same inclination.

Yes dogs pant to keep cool just as we sweat but it's not some miracle things that stops them getting overheated, heat stroke or even dying.

Geez there are some idiots on this thread

You should not let her run round when it is do hot. Dogs don't always do what is best for their health do they? Some dogs lie in hot sun and then get heat stroke.

A friend of mine is a vet nurse and every summer she sees dogs with burnt pads, dogs with heat stroke etc. Sadly some of the dogs with heat stroke die. All because of stupid owners

Geez in Australia we walk dogs at 26 degrees. Maybe 31 you might think twice. What an overreaction. Dogs can pant to keep themselves cool.

Oh come on… there is absolutely nothing wrong with going on holiday and leaving your dog with trusted carers.
DH and I are going away for 3 days without our kids today (they’re staying with grandparents). Doesn’t mean they’re not members of our family.

Can't get past "I wouldn’t expect them to be able to walk at 7or 8am as they are in their early seventies"!

MN The home of ageist crap.

Which part of the PP’s post are you referring to as ‘absolute rubbish’? Because her points about their coats and panting are perfectly accurate.
I have a 2 year old beagle. I wish she’d lain around all day in the heat! Instead she behaved exactly as she normally does… running round the garden with socks she’s stolen out of the laundry basket trying to get us to chase her and thinking it’s the best game ever, for example. Granted she took herself off to the shade to sleep rather than deliberately seeking out the sunniest part of the house and garden like she normally does, but otherwise there was no real change to her behaviour.

Surely the dog needed to go out first thing though? That's the bit that baffes me? Maybe you could have arranged a dog walker to do a 7 am walk if you didn't want to ask your parents.

Heat stroke kills elderly parents.

Where's your pretty infographic on this?

If they feel okay to go for a walk with a dog, the dog is more than likely going to be ok.

If they think it's too hot for them, their judgement on this is probably going to reflect similar thinking to the dog.

There was a health warning issued for high temperatures. This principally is a warning for older people and infants.

Yet your concern isn't for the well being of your elderly parents walking in high temperatures. I note you assume they are already so decrepit that they are unable to get up early in this context.

Instead your concern is for the dog and 'the lack of respect' they have shown towards you for ignoring your request about temperature.

Frankly do you want the dog walked or not? And do you give much of a shiny shit about your parents? They are doing you a favour after all.

You just sound ungrateful and unreasonable.

Absolute rubbish. A couple in their 70's may well love hot weather but I can guarantee a dog doesn't.

My dog, after being walked at 7am just lay around all day until walked at 11pm. He never normally just lays around. When he moved he only moved to different spots where he could feel the fan we had on.

Also, unless the 70 year old couple are walking barefoot, the dog should not be walked on hot pavements

There have been hot waves for years now, so technically dogs here should be acclimatised too. My dog is heading towards his 3rd summer, all of which had heat waves.