To think people walking dogs in this heat are twats?

[Wombat100]

Just that really. It totally blows my mind. If you’re one of those people who has been walking your dog during the height of the heat in the last few days - I’m
genuinely interested to know why?

I saw a man on a mobility scooter earlier today (about 2ish) walking his dog on the pavement. Poor thing was struggling to keep up.

Ours has been having one walk just morning well before 8. It hasn't been getting cooler by much later on in the evening and by that time he's snoozing on the sofa.
I walked back from the afternoon school run last week and passed a couple walking a very fluffy cockapoo type dog. It was absolutely boiling. I did want to say something but hate confrontation.
We also had a village event last weekend and quite a few had dogs with them. It was blisteringly hot on on a field with zero shade. We only stayed a couple if hours as we were too hot ourselves. Ours doesn't left to be left at home for long but I'd rather leave him at home lying on the cool kitchen tiles than take him out in this heat

Well I have driven past a greyhound racing track today and they were having races today, absolutely disgusting

Flabbergasted that just over 20% of the people who have responded to this think I’m being unreasonable. Dumbfounded actually. Must be the 20% walking their dogs when it’s 30 degrees in the midday sun 🤦‍♀️

My mom was saying there should be a fine for people who walk their dogs in this heat.

Well I have driven past a greyhound racing track today and they were having races today, absolutely disgusting
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Not sure I agree with this...In hot weather we have our doors open so our dog can wander around and choose where she is most comfortable.

Sometimes that's in the shade outside. Then something upsets her and she barks because she's a (loveable) dickhead.

She can come in whenever she likes, has access to water inside and out and gets hosed down every so often to cool her off in the hottest parts of the day.

Unless you can see the dog is actually shut outside then you can't assume anything from barking...

I'm not sure I understand this. I live in a place where it is regularly more than 30 degrees for months on end. Lots people here have dogs and they can't just not be walked for half the year. They are the same breeds of dog you find in the uk.

You can only walk them very early in the morning and late at night in the heat - presumably that’s what people in hot countries do (if they’re sensible). I’m in Florida at the moment and have seen a few working dogs about during the day - they have little shoes and sun goggles on.

My dog will not toilet in the garden. Like another poster I pop mine in the air conditioned car, drive him to the woods during the day so he can have a 10 minute toilet break once during the day because he can’t go all day without a toilet break. He wears a cooling jacket, even though the woods are significantly cooler than my garden

people will say oh that’s ok, but the problem with threads like this is they encourage people to get into a “you’re scum of the earth and deserve to have your head kicked in, I’m going to have a word” frame of mind. I have had people be really nasty to me and it’s just not on. And quite frankly I have a job to do, I want to get my dog toiletted, and go home not have to spend time justifying to strangers that we are only here for 10minutes, my car is just there, I’ve driven to avoid walking my dog down the drive and Road that will put him in the sun for an extra 5 minutes, he won’t go in the garden, yes if I leave him all day he might eventually get desperate enough to wet himself in the garden, but he’ll then get upset and have been uncomfortable for hours. I just want to get my dog in and out as quickly as possible

In my last boys brain he was a proper sun baby who worshipped the sun. In real life he was a black dog with two different coats (mixed breed) who couldn't even tolerate the heating on at lot of the time for the last 2 years of his life (so it was only on in short bursts for that period to take the edge off the cold house and keep it aired).

I don't understand the mindset of people who have dogs but don't use their brains and actually care for them. I agree with the poster before who said that those sort of owners should be forced to walk barefoot with thick (faux) fur coats on/ be locked inside greenhouses in the height of the sun to realise just what it's like.

In the part of the world where I live, we can go several weeks at a time without temperatures dropping below 28 degrees c, even overnight. Dogs survive and thrive in hot climates. With a bit of common sense, selecting times of day with lots of shade and providing plenty of cool, fresh water, dogs can be safely walked and cared for in hot temperatures.

That said, some short snouted breeds should never be kept in places that regularly have high temperatures.

Morning and at night here in any weather . But, my dog actively chooses the sun and shuns her shady spot!

@BenCooperSuperTrouper that's why I explicitly said in the UK because our dogs aren't acclimatised.

I agree op.

I've just been out with mine but it was half an hour rather than the full walk, even at 5am it's still hot

It’s 17 here so we’re going out in a minute for an hour. It’s meant to get above 22 by lunchtime so it will be games inside the house and a quick wee in the garden (she avoids toileting in the garden but will go if she has to).

She tried to lie on the flags in the full sun yesterday afternoon but we brought her in, daft dog.
She’s avoiding her cool mat so I might have to make it her Base with treat training like she has at the vet’s . I think she’s wise enough to seek it out as a cool spot if it gets hotter later.

Saw someone outside Tesco yesterday at 2pm with their dog, dog was a retriever, was sat on the pavement while she sat on a bench chatting away, dog was panting and trying to climb under the bench seating ☹️ I'm not even a dog owner and I know she shouldn't of been out at that time, it was 24 degrees. People are twats

It's forecast 27 here later today and 30 tomorrow, though having got up to do an early walk it has started raining a bit on our way back and it's overcast and about 14 at the moment.
It was hotter through the week and there were so many people dragging their dogs around with them on their day out in our little seaside town, I work somewhere dog friendly and I think I spent as much time filling the dog water bowls as I did serving people.
I don't think that's fair on a dog, out wandering around in those temperatures because they don't want to leave the dog at home but also don't want to miss a nice day out.
These are usually the type horrified if a dog is left alone for more than half an hour, but are quite happy to have them out in the heat of the day, walking on pavements so they're not.
Most of the regulars that bring their dogs for coffee or lunch were not around those days either.

But, as is always explained on these threads, dogs in hot countries are generally used to the heat whereas in the UK, they're not and that's what makes it dangerous.

If we had hot weather constantly from, say, May to October, it wouldn't be as much of a risk as the dogs would be able to acclimatise to the heat - but where I am this week it's going from 28 degrees to 18 in a day and then it's likely to stay around 18 for several weeks. The 28 degree weather just doesn't last so the dogs never get used to it.

Yes, you can be sensible in hot weather and walk your dogs in shade, by streams etc. but these threads are about people walking their dogs at midday on tarmac roads and pavements. I've never seen anyone in a hot country do that!

Yes! I went to the park to eat lunch when it was 30C last week, and I spotted a man running with a collie leashed to his waist, and a woman playing ball in full sun in the middle of a field with a heavily rasping French bulldog.

But guess we know most bulldog owners are idiots anyway (excusing people who have rehomed the poor things of course).

We are lucky to own a tract of thick dark deciduous woodland with a stream at the bottom. Because we are rural, the house doors are open most of the day and the dog can come and go as he pleases.
Yet he inevitably chooses to try to cook himself by lying on the hot patio in full sun. Much like DH.

No, these threads and Facebook messages are about virtual signaling. You have no idea of the owners abs dog circumstances. No idea.

I walked my dog at noon on Friday. Shock horror. I can imagine if you'd passed me! The reith is that 80% of it is in the shade. I touched the pavement a number of times in the sun and it was never very hot just a bit warm.

We go to a park with plenty of shade and a lot of fresh air off the coast. I can assure you that he was perfectly fine and very happy. No heat stroke. There was good reasons why it couldn't be earlier. I love my dog like my kids and would never do anything g to harm him. I won't even eave him more than a hour at home.

Of course there are idiots who will do harm to their do through pure idioticity and selfishness, but please don't assume any dog out during the day is being abused and keep out of it unless you see a dog in genuine distress.

My absolute twat of a neighbour not only never walks her beautiful Frenchie (openly boasted it was bought for the Instagram puppy pics) but like last night regularly buggers off for 24 hours leaving the lovely girl on her own.

Selfish twat

Towcester are selling tickets to grey hound racing for Tuesday. Absolute madness

most Sensible post here. People getting themselves in an absolute frothing rage when they don’t know other people’s circumstances. Calling for people to have their heads kicked in, honestly. Yes dogs shouldn’t be dragged round pavements for an hour in 30 degree heat but you just see a snapshot of their walk and you don’t know that that is what is happening.

And before anyone assumes that I’m a bad dog owner yes my dog was walked at half 6 this morning.