Extreme heat in most of the country, PLEASE don't forget your outdoor pets!

[karlrschneider]

It is 102 degrees here and not a trace of breeze. I'm checking on the doggies' water and putting ice in the bucket
every couple hours and set a fan out under a big shade tree. It is BRUTAL, keep your furry friends safe!
http://www.wunderground.com/US/Region/US/Temperature.html

[karlrschneider]

1. Kick for the hot pups

:D

[emilyg]

11. and hot kitties

[karlrschneider]

13. Yes, absolutely! We let Spot come in, though. The doggies aren't allowed

we used to let them inside for a while but we decided it's better to let them acclimate. But they get plenty of cool water and such. :D

[tularetom]

2. Made my own swamp cooler

Couple of burlap sacks soaked with water and stretched out in front of a fan at the end of the horse barn. Gotta go re soak them every couple hours.

Dogs are sleeping in there also.

[karlrschneider]

3. Good for ya. I also put out one of those 'misting' gadgets for them.

It helps a LOT.
:hi:

[shireen]

4. K&R

thank you!!!

[tandot]

5. Thanks, Karl. With heat indexes it will be 105 - 110.

My sister lives near OKC and is probably frying. I never could stand the heat and humidity when I was living in OK.

Oh Boy:

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http://newsok.com/article/3101753

An upper level ridge of high pressure continues to dominate across Oklahoma and northern Texas. There will be humid conditions, with heat indexes, a combination of temperature and humidity, between 105 and 110.

Counties in the heat advisory, which is not as serious at the heat warning, are Woods, Alfalfa, Grant, Kay, Major, Garfield, Noble, Blaine, Kingfisher, Logan, Payne, Caddo, Canadian, Oklahoma, Lincoln, Grady, McClain, Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Seminole, Hughes, Comanche, Stephens, Garvin and Pontotoc.

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I'll be visiting her from 9/7 to 9/10 and hope it will have cooled down by then.

:hi:

[karlrschneider]

7. It normally would start to cool off by then but I think it will still be really warm.

The seasons have kinda 'slipped' about a month here.
:hi:

[Bonobo]

6. In Western Mass, it is 67 degrees. Freaky, freaky, freaky.

[karlrschneider]

8. Wow...that sounds like heaven just now.

Bottle up some and Fedex it down here!
:D

[Bonobo]

9. Sorry, pal. wish I could. Wish I could.

[karlrschneider]

18. Could you maybe dig up a really big FAN?

:D

[JanMichael]

10. We try to "temper" Scout to this kind of weather by leaving her

in a car with the windows rolled up for an hour or so.

It really seems to help; she acts like nothing bothers her after that.

(Joking aside--kicked and recommended)

[karlrschneider]

12. Too big to fit in the oven, huh?

:evilgrin:

[BrotherBuzz]

15. We tried that with our border collie, Sally, with disastrous results

Damn, if we didn't leave the keys in the ignition, and she decided to take off for a joy ride. The reports are mixed, but the best we can figure is she was doing real good at driving until she passed a band of sheep when her instincts kicked into overdrive. She rounded up 2000 sheep and took out three hundred feet of 'bob' wire in the process. The rancher was impressed and offered to hire her on the spot if she could string wire, too.

[Seedersandleechers]

14. Why can't the animals

just stay inside where you are. Seems like that would be much cooler.

[wryter2000]

16. My outdoor cat

It's not really my cat, but it came to live in my yard. It's tame enough to come into the house, but it could never coexist with my pet snakes. (These are animals I made a conscious decision to get, and I owe then my first concern.)

Cats get fascinated with snakes and terrify them by sitting on top of their cages. They also claw through the screens to get at the snakes. If the snake survives an attack, it disappears in the house.

Plus, that cat is a flea magnet. I've given it flea collars with no luck. If I get fleas in the house, I have to find the snakes someplace else to live while I fumigate. The cat cannot come into the house.

Luckily, the weather's fine here, but we had some bad heat last year. I checked the cat to make sure it seemed okay and made sure it had lots of water. Someone later told me a trick. I should have done this for the snakes, too.

Freeze bottles of water and then place them where the animal can get as close as it wants. Keep several freezing so that you can replace the ones that thaw.

[karlrschneider]

17. They're large (three of them) and very rambunctious. They break stuff.

;-)

They're fine outside as long as they have shade and plenty of water. Some people tie their doggies in the sun, that's the kind of thing I'm crusading against.

[XOKCowboy]

19. I feel for ya Karl. I remember the BRUTAL humidity in OK

That was the main reason I moved to Colorado 20+ yrs ago (well the religious fundies and the Oil Bust helped influence my decision also.B-))

Good point about the animals. They can't sweat to cool off like we can.

[karlrschneider]

20. Actually, it could be (and often is) worse, the dew point is 65 so it's

not -quite- a steam bath...more like a sauna; in any case it's miserable. :-)

[cui bono]

21. Damn... we had our hot summer lst year here in Los Angeles.

This year it's so far so good.