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Posted by CatherineAnn

Grandma Rosie had a good post about this:
http://www.homesteadblogger.com/TexasRose/65770/In+the+good+old+summertime%3F%3F%3F%3F%3F.html

Blessings,
Catherine

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Posted by CedarCityMom

I orginally hail from Henderson, NV. There it gets 115 plus. I grew up with horses, dogs & cats. I remember my father always tried to "paster" the horses for the summer some were cooler. However, there were many years he couldn't do so. In those years I remember him putting out salt blocks for hydration, along with filling a huge water trough daily. We always had dirt for them to roll & keep cool in. Also, we never put them in a barn. We had a big covered section for them though, to keep cool yet not stuffy. Our dogs were always allowed in and so with our cats. However we always made sure they all had plenty of water, shade, and airconitioning to relax in. Unless we had to we tried to never put them out during the heat of the day. My dad's rule of thumb was, if it's too hot for you then it's to hot for the animals.

Warning: never keep your animal in a car, even with cracked windows in the summer time. It gets much, much hotter in your vehical then outside. Example: outside temp is 115 degrees, inside your car it's approximately 140 degrees. Just remember all of the times you get into your car after leaving it in a parking lot and it feelsd like an oven.

Blessings!
Jessica

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Posted by imspecl

Try taking a soda bottle (liter for larger animals and the pint size for smaller animals) or water bottles, fill 3/4 of the way with water, freeze then lay in cages. The animals lay either on them or right up next to them As the ice melts you'll have nice fresh cold water for them as well. I saw folks at the fair do this. Interesting trick. They also used milk bottles of vary sizes too.

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Posted by albaymom

Our dog LOVES water so we put him in the pool with us and then let him paddle around when he gets done, he runs around to dry off and then he goes into the house into the a/c with us. We also put ice into his water and he chases the ice cubes around in his bowl. When we had rabbits we used the frozen water bottles too and they worked great but ours also loved ice cubes in his water bowl that he shared with the dogs when they were outside.
We keep our dog in the house with us because like someone else said if it is too hot out for you, it is too hot for the animals too. For our friendly squirrels, I make sure they have fresh water in the birdbath twice a day, when it si really hot they (the squirrels)will lay in the birdbath to cool down.

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