How to help dog with heat?

[HelgatheHairy]

My golden is a year old and doesn't like heat. Wasn't a problem last summer but we are having the most beautiful day (I'm in south west Ireland) and the forecast for the week is more of the same!

His regular morning walk is 1 hour on lead in woodland but I had to wait in for a delivery so we did 30 mins off lead through fields. He's now panned out on the floor (and I'm not much better - 31 weeks pregnant)

Apart from making sure he has water and shade is there anything else I should be doing? (Half thinking of getting a paddling pool and I could sit with my feet in it!)

I only do morning and evening walks when it is hot. During the heat of the day my JRT will find a cool place in the house to snooze in and he'll not show any signs of wanting a walk until early evening. I'd definitely advise a paddling pool though. Just the thing for you too!

I do an early morning walk, it adds on to the school run, and then a late evening walk if he wants to go. My dog isn't great in the heat, and tends to lay flat out on the tiles in the kitchen sleeping most of the day. I add ice cubes to his water bowl which he likes fishing out, and refresh his bowl a few times a day with cold water. On his walks, I tend to go by a pond so he can have a dip and cool down. I'm also not averse to hosing down very warm dogs if necessary. Strangely, the older dog seems to struggle more than the pup, yet the pup is the one with the thick black coat (older dog is red).

Paddling pool is a great idea, dogs love them! Only thing is you need to make sure the dog knows which is his and which is the dcs.

I second ice cubes in the water bowl or even better have a second bowl and put it in the water, so it freezes and slowly defrosts - my boy likes the odd home made ice lolly too and even some frozen natural yoghurt!

You can buy all sorts of cooling beds and jackets like this if you Google, but not sure how effective they are.

We tend to do early and late walks in the summer as well, but it's not unknown for my boy to let me know he'd rather not go if it's too hot and that's fine.

That said, it's actually freezing in the front of our house even on really hot days, which is something we all appreciate if we get any hot weather.

Thanks all. I actually have been putting ice cubes in his water bowl.

Good to know the paddling pool isn't a stupid idea!! No DC as yet so no probs with training the dog which one is his!

The garden has pretty much no shade but the house is nice and cool so Bailey is currently wandering between the hall (stone tiles and no windows so nice and cool) and the garden.

chickens Bailey didn't seem to have any probs with the heat last summer (I know it was a washout but there must have been one or two good days!) it's just this year that I've noticed it.

My dog has a paddling pool for hot days , but he spends more time in his sand pit .

You can freeze treats and toys into water or dog friendly gravy in an ice cream tub and turn it out to make a doggy lolly smile

Liking the doggy lolly idea!

I make doggy ice pops too!
My two love em. Old yog pots and a few biccies thrown in to freeze