Summer Pet Tips – Keeping Pets Cool and Comfortable

Summer time is best time to do all outdoor fun and activities, especially for dogs and pets. To ensure your pet’s safety and convenience on every activity during this hot season, it is essential to keep pets always feel fresh, cool and comfortable. Here are few tips and guide by PetStreetMall.com to keep pets protected from exhausting heat and enjoy fun under the sun.

New Hairdo, Shedding and TrimmingMost fur animals especially dogs and cats shed during hot season to change coat and cool off. Long haired and heavily/double coated animals are advisable to get good trim or new haircut. For shedding dogs or cats, help them shed faster and safer while you can control the loosen fur with aid of shedding tools or combs. Combing your pet not only helps on shedding and preventing the fur to stick on sofa, carpet, etc. but a great bonding/petting time too.

Access to Basic Cooling NeedsDogs and cats usually relieve body heat through panting, shedding and through their sweet glands on their paws. But most basic needs for them to cool off are:

a. To have access to plenty of fresh water, few innovative products that rotate water and keep it cool which are especially made for animals are recommended.

b. Cool and shaded spots such as digging soil, well shaded cool pavement or floor are the most ideal. Best alternative is to treat them with cooling pet beds or dog beds that are soft and very comforting. Your dog will surely love it and would rest for hours especially when came from a day of outdoor fun and activities. More economical are the chilling small beds that can be embedded or added to your pet’s regular bed to make it an instant cooling bed.

c. Yummy and cooling treats such as frozen meaty bones, frozen kong toy, and many other tasty and chewy products that are cool enough and would keep them busy for hours. This is advisable when leaving dogs alone in the house for hours.

Portable Cooling StuffThere are many new innovative cooling stuff made to keep pets, especially dogs even when performing or doing activities under the sun. These portable dog accessories are fitted perfectly whatever the dog such as running, jumping or chasing and still alleviate most body heat out of their body.

a. Cooling Bandana. It might be small and looks regular but it is a very effective bandana made with crystals which absorb water. Dogs cannot dissipate heat as we do through sweating. Dogs release heat mainly through heat dissipation when they pant. This reusable and washable bandana acts as a reverse heat pump which helps to remove the heat from the dog, and then dissipates it into the surrounding.

b. Dog Cooling Jacket. This jacket works through concept of thermo-regulating technology where its cross-linked polymers sewn into supplex fabric can absorb cool water. Then the jacket can fitted just right to the dog’s body and it will constantly absorb body heat at all time.

c. Goggles and Sun Ray ProtectionA specialized goggle made for dogs called “Doggle” is a revolutionary shades for dogs that are designed perfectly to fit on their face without annoying them while protecting their eyes from harmful UV rays and debris. There is also a special lotion for dog’s nose and feet serving as sunscreen lotion especially made for canines.

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