To not walk dog in this heat?!

[Nobhobs]

Just had a row with DH as he came home from work to take the dog for a walk around the village. It's 29 degrees and the concrete is red hot! I wouldn't let him take the dog and he huffed that everyone else is doing it and there's loads of dogs about and that I'm being a fuss pot, dog still needs walking in summer!

AIBU?! Yes dog needs walking but not in peak hours when it's this hot! His poor paws would burn to a crisp. I couldn't hold my hand on the concrete for 7 seconds without flinching and when I tried to prove it to him he stormed off and made a comment about me being hormonal and irrational. Sat here silently seething now with dog giving me sad eyes as DH has stormed into the house exclaiming WALKIES and now he's disappointed.

I'm with you on this. I've just taken my dog out, but I took him to the shaded woods near a river.

I wouldn't take him on concrete.

Yanbu, your husband’s being a twat. He can take the pup out when it’s cooler.

YANBU - if the pavement is that hot it will be bad for your dog, maybe your DH could walk the dog in a field, or early in the morning. Dogs paws help them cool down so apart from burning them they could easily overheat.

YANBU in the slightest. One thing that grinds my gears is good weather dog walkers that take their dogs on walks during the summer at peak sun time and don’t even have water for the dog to drink. Tell him to do the walk this evening if he’s that keen and take himself on a walk now instead!

I took my dog for a walk early this morning before it got too hot. My dog is really fluffy and couldn't handle a walk in this heat. Can't your DH walk the dog this evening when it cools down?

I've just been out on the patio with no shoes on - was too hot for my feet - you're not being unreasonable,it's cruel to make the poor dog go for a walk when it's like this.

Later on tonight will be much better for him. And you or you husband.

You're right and your dh knows it!! We walk ours sometime between 5&7 a.m. and after 7p.m. in summer - the dog might want to go but you know best 👍

You are right OP your dickhead husband can walk the dog in the evening when it cooler, I hate seeing dogs being walked in this hot weather it’s totall unnecessary, a dog can miss a few walks with no ill effects.

Thank you all! He's annoyed because he came home from work specifically to walk him I imagine but he should know it's too hot for the dog it's common bloody sense. Told him to put his hand on the concrete and see how it feels and he bent down, touched it then walked straight off back to work without saying a word so clearly realised I was right

Yanbu, my dog gets miserably hot in the day just lazing around at home, she loves parking herself right in front of the fan. I’d never take her out in the day in this heat, tomorrow will be worse!

He is being silly and those that are out doing it now are being reckless

www.bluecross.org.uk/pet-advice/how-keep-dogs-cool-summer-heat

Not sure how to link properly but show him this link from bluecross.

YANBU! I've been taking my dogs to the beach straight after school drop off & we're back home by 10.15am & it's already warming up!

Also DH has be taking them for a walk round the block at about 10pm & he said the pavements were still pretty warm.

Your DH is being an idiot. Tell him to spend 5 secs researching online or doing the hand test you did and he'll realise taking a dog for a walk in heat is cruel.

Yes dogs needs walking in the summer. Early mornings and late evenings. When it's not hot 🤦🏼‍♀️

It's not a good idea to walk out dogs in this high heat, just by observing a dog in the hot sun,will tell you that it is affecting them quite badly. If dogs are in the garden say,in hot sunshine,they will usually find a tree or shrub to lie under,much the same as cats, and they usually like a supply of water at all times. I have just got three cats, but have noticed that all the people with dogs in my village,go for walkies very early in the day, of after sundown at the moment.

I'm a professional dog walker. Normally I'd still be out walking at this time, but today we started three hours early and were finished by 12.30. And that was woodland 'off piste' walking. No dog ever died of not getting walked at exactly the same time every single day!

Vet here, and I say YANBU! People don't realise just how easy it is for dogs to get heatstroke, and it is horrible to treat (and often unsuccessful Dogs can't sweat, so if we are sweating it is too hot for them!

Show him this.

I rally wanted to walk my dog this afternoon but won't risk it so not everyone is. It hasn't been that hot these last couple of days but she's still been feeling it so priority is her wellbeing.

Your husband is a dickhead.

Think the hormonal comment was to do with the fact I'm 36 weeks pregnant and have been slightly irrational lately, but I'm not about this!! He's not normally an arsehole just doesn't like being proved wrong apparently

For his crack about hormonal, I think you should boot him squarely in the nuts when he gets in. Arsehole

If you touch the pavement with your hand and can’t leave it there for a while without it burning you, then you shouldn’t walk the dog. I suggest using your dh hand, hold it there for him.......

If you were going to a wood area with lots of shady trees it would be absolutely fine but not concrete

29 degrees must feel very different in your hemisphere.

The dogs in my country would never see the light of day, if it was too hot to walk them at that temperature. I suppose here you’d have a second thought about maybe making your walk outside of 11am-2pm hottest part of the day, but only over 35 degrees or so. Perhaps a shorter walk if you (or the dog) is heavily pregnant!

We have weeks over 40 degrees in the summer, but still no indoor doggie treadmills. More water, an ice block to play with, but otherwise business as usual. Not judging, just noting how different we all are depending on what we’re used to. The humans are different, but the dog breeds seem to be the same.

@Skittlesandbeer the difference being that the dogs in your country are used to the heat.

There is absolutely no way my dog would cope with a walk today. Way too hot for him. Years ago our neighbour's dog collapsed and died from heat stroke on a hot day. It was horrendous

TBH I would of normally been with your DH and say just don't go so far . There was a vet on a phone in on the radio yesterday on about this how easy dog paws can burn had no idea (don't have a dog) and how quick then can over heat and get into trouble .