July 19, 2025 • 26 mins
Dog Days of Summer!! A Gracie weightloss update! Courtney and Lorin discuss Hot weather saftey tips for your pup!! How to recognize your dog is dehydrated and safe ways to keep them cool in the summer heat!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hi, Hello everyone, and welcome to the next episode of Down.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
With Dog, Yes and Lauren, What's up? It is a
very exciting episode. But before we get to our episode,
which is Dog Days of Summer, we need to check
in because last time we talked, it was hot Dog
Summer and hot Summer, and it was you were putting
Gracie on a die because Gracie needed to lose weight.
(00:28):
It's been a week. Has she lost weight?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
She has not.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Did you do a Wayne, You're supposed to do a
weigh in this morning? Okay? And how did the wigne
go this morning? She's still eighteen pounds, so she hasn't
lost anything.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
No, she hasn't gained anything.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Cheers to that, because this morning I gained a couple pounds,
did I? And I didn't care? Boom. Here's to Gracie
not gaining weight. But so what are you going to
do going forward? She needs to lose weight?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I want to give it the opportunity to kick
it too, you know, like when we're trying to lose weight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So like overnight we're gonna wake up and be like,
I didn't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But but it's been okay yesterday, it's been seven days.
What have you done?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, I went back to her one third of a
cup of food.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But what do you mean back to You had increased
it for what reason?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Because I'm generous with food and I show my life.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, okay, So she was on a less kibble, yes,
and then you increase the.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Kibble, right, and now she's back to her normal, which
is what's recommended is one third of a cup.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Twice a day.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And so but what are you doing for like treats
or like? Did you cut down on our treats?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We did, We've cut back on our treats.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We have spent a lot of time outside playing bringing
the ball outside, she runs after it. So she's getting
tons of exercise.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
All right, So should you cut down on the treats
again or the food again to get her like in
the right direction?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I'm gonna stick with one. Do I cut
down significantly on the treats? Like they were getting treats.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Okay? All right, so now they're not getting it more
than eight days or whatever, it's been seven days.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right, she'll slim down, she will.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
She's such a meatball. She's so cute and she's meaty.
But you know what, I love fat animals. Remember the time,
Oh my god, you were with me. I wanted a cat, which,
by the way, shout out to all the cat moms
and dads out there, but they're not for me. I
you and I went to the SBCA Society, which either
way same thing. I went to the Humane Society. I said,
(02:38):
I want the fattest cat you have. We walked around
the entire clinic. I found a cat named Zoe that
couldn't even fit in the cage. She was so fat.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And what happened to her? She died.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
She had a heart attack on my kitchen floor from
being fat. Literally two months before after I got her.
It was like two months that two months after I
got her.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It was pretty quickly after you got her she died.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So I know we all want fat animals, like that
was my thing. I wanted the fattest cat you have.
Well guess what. Her organs were shutting down and she
had a heart attack. So well, it's gread for everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Very active, So I'm not if she was just like
laying around and like I opened the slider to go
outside and she was like eh, but she goes bolting
out there and she's running and jumping and she jumps
at her food every day, so she's still able to
be very active.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So I just want to keep her in that same place.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
She also has little tiny legs, and so if you've
got little tiny legs and you're carrying all that weight,
it's probably a lot. I know when I had a
great day, and they always told me, with you with
the Great Dame, because of the hip dysplasia and the
everything that can happen with the knees and the hips,
keep them thin, keep them on the thin side. And
he actually was a little chunky, chunky monkey for a
little while, but he ended up losing weight. Anyway, I think.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Racie will lose the weight. I'm just going to stay
on top of it. I have I weighed all of them.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Charlie is twenty eight pounds, which.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Is hey, but he looks good. He's look good okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And Ollie is up to fourteen. So I have literally
doubled his way since I brought him home.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, when he looks strut, he looks great. By Jackson update,
you know, he has got IBD. He started the new food.
He's doing great on it. But because the new food
contains corn. We now have a little bit of an
ear and an anal gland issue. But I'll take that
over vomiting and diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I would take that over.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
We're good that I can control that. I'm a master
at so no worries. So today's episode is called dog
Days of Summer Days of Summer hot weather protocol for
you and your pop. And I see it all the
time and all the groups that I'm on on Facebook
and Instagram and all of that on TikTok, everyone's like,
how do you know when it's too hot to walk
(04:44):
your dog? Look, if it's too hot for you to
walk on the pavement bear feet without sweating and sweating,
don't take your dog out right? How is that? The
other day was like ninety five degrees out it was
so hot. I saw people walking their dogs. I'm like,
where are you going? Like, literally, where are you going
in this heat with your dog?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Correct? I absolutely agree.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, even though my dogs love being outside in
the backyard where there's grass.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm like, we're gonna stay out for ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's too hot. I have fresh water for them waiting inside.
I not, it's just it's too hot when I'm out
there and I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't stand
up die.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's too hot for them too. Them a for conon
and I know that they.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Have their own regulatory system for heat, but still it's
still too hot.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They really do. But if you're not providing them places
to cool off, then it's on you. They know to
go into a shaded place, correct. So if you're gonna
have your dog outside, provide them with some cooling areas.
They need a place with shade, they need fresh water.
You need either a cooling bed or you need a
raised bed. I had a cooling bed cool I had
(05:55):
a cooling bed too. Guess who used it me? My
dog couldn't stand the cooling bed, which they do have
them out there, so you can get a cooling bed.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I put it on my bed.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Ladies with hot flashes, get a dog cooling bed. Put
it on your mattress.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sleep on it. You will not have a hot flash.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I wish I had kept the Chillo that you gave
me years ago, because I could have used that fab fabulous.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Here's the thing with the doggy cooling beds that I
found out because my dog didn't like his, so I
was sleeping on it. I did my research because I'm
a helicopter mom. The gel in the cooling beds can
make you really sick.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Are you drinking it or are you la?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But if there's got a hole in it and you
get the gel on you, it's cancer causing. So if
you're going to get a cooling bed, just make sure
this's got no like like holes in it and nothing's
leaking out. I know it's weird, but be careful. I
would suggest a raised bed, which my dog has outside
so they can get airflow underneath it. But also you
shouldn't be out that long anyway, right.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I think that's really what the general takeaway for like
looking at like July and August in particular, because we
get some really hot, humid days that we just want
to make sure that we're putting our pops first and
foremost and saying like, Okay, it's too hot, you guys
need to go inside. I mean, we can cool ourselves down,
and even if they have a shaded area, it might
(07:11):
still be a little bit too hot for them. So
ten fifteen minutes outside and then fifteen twenty minutes inside
and then come in and out and out.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You were talking.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Somebody was talking to Oh, a friend of mine was
telling me how she has the the screens.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Sounded out, oh, oh no, yes, I know what you
know about.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, the mash that hass.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Okay, that's not cooling though. What did she do.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Because the dogs can come in and out of the house.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And she leaves the mesh on the house.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, it attaches to your slider, I know.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But how is the house stay cool if it's only mesh?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I mean you can like now it's now it's
I never.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do that because then all my cool air and my
house is going outside.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Even if you don't have your air conditioning on the
inside of your house is going to be cooler in
the outside.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Not this house, I am sorry, not my house. My
house isn't.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Anyway then twenty four seven point.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But you can put those mesh screens up and the
dogs can go in and out, and when they get overheated,
they'll go in.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I know my dogs will stand right at the door
and I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
About just leave your dog inside when it's really hot,
just you let them go out poop and pee.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
If you're gonna walk your dog or your dog has
to walk in order to poop like mine early morning
and evenings and evenings you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Don't go dog.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, And then you can provide them with cooling treats.
And my favorite thing is making uh like watermelon. I
think I did this for our dogs once on a
hot summer day. Yeah, take watermelon, not the ride and
not the seeds because those can be poisonous. Take the watermelon.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It is. I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Take the watermelon and you put it in like in
your blender, with a little bit of honey, add maybe
a little water if you want, put in an ice
cube tray. But if you're giving your dog ice cubes,
I always hold the ice cube because if they swallow
it and they choke, you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To put hot water down their mouth. Yes, yes, I
don't give my dog's ice cubes. I just don't.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've always been I guess somewhere I must have read
at some point point somewhere that if you give your
dogs ice cubes, it messes up their regulatory system, so it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Brings their brings it down too fast.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Their own internal cooling system.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, they sleep with their paws up if they're hot, right,
hunting is when they're it's not when they're hot. They
don't pant, but the panting isn't necessarily indicative of being hot.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Here's the thing. If you're gonna give your dog an
ice cube because you think they're too hot, take the
ice cube and rub it on their paws and in
their ears. That'll cool them down quicker than them licking
the ice cube or giving it to them. You take
the ice cube literally and rub it on their paws
or rub it in their ears.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We used to do that when I worked at summer
camp three hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Wait, you did it to each other, like here, give
me your foot.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If the kids, the littles were getting overheated, you you
would do that's what you would. Put the ice packs
on their wrists, on the back of their neck, same
with the doll them down.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So it's the same as a dog.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Now, my dogs, be grudging would go in the pool,
which that would cool them down so they could stay
out for a little bit longer because they were.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wet, right right right, Still, it's not enough.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Here's the thing though, how about and I know you
don't do this, but I'm a big believer in the
summer cut. A lot of people say dogs with long fur,
that's how they keep themselves cool because the air filters.
So I don't buy that because I have a labradoodle,
and let me tell you, he needs a summer cut.
When the summer's coming, I gotta clip him down, give
him a nice short cut, and he's much cooler than.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Having all that hair, all that fur. Gracie's the only
one that has that really kind of.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Thick thick but she's like she literally but they're not out.
You don't leave him outside the heat anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I don't, And she'll come out if I'm sitting on
the deck or whatever and the dogs are with me.
The second Gracie's overheated, she's at the door. She's like, man,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
My dog doesn't know better. So he needs a summer cut.
He needs a cooling bed. He needs My dog will
literally like Charlie and your other dog, Allie will sit
in the sun like I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Should just said that. Your other dog like she doesn't
know her.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
She's got too many but the blazing sun. I noticed.
Allie and Charlie and my dog Jack will lie in
the oh, the sun shining right there. That's why I'm
gonna lie down.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, Charlie does that fry.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He'll find one spot of sunshine and just lay in
that one spot of sunshine, And I'm like, how do
you find that?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I would say summer cut. I'm just a big believer
in summer cut. Some people don't. But give your dog
a summer cut for sure. And then if you must
walk your dog and this heat wear boot.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Put a little booty on your I mean I got
a booties.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Galore, which my dog doesn't like any of them, so
most dogs don't like it. I mean, I have got
booties galore. This is a box of boots that I've
tried on my dog. He doesn't like any of them.
Here's a boot with a little sock on it. Sock
on the end, rubber on the bottom. You can walk
on the pave and if you want, I still wouldn't
do it. This is his winter boot. So if it's
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snow ice, he's got a giant winter Booty's got four
of those boots. I mean, the boot selection goes on
and on. This is like a little half boot that
you could wear whether it's like snow or ice. But
there's booties and there's so many booties to choose from.
My dogs don't do booties. I know you had a
dog that did booties. Well, she didn't do it my choice,
(12:20):
I mean, but she walked with them on them. She
was good.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Did that was Riley when she got diagnosed with degenerative
hyelopathy her she couldn't walk on my hardwood floors, so
they look like balloons and I only had to put
them on her back paws and it just it helped
her legs not slide out from underneath her.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And of course I had carpets all over the house too,
so that.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But she was good with those.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
She was pretty good. She was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, so put booties on. If you've got to take
your dog out and it's like the heat of the
day because you're working and you can't get them out
early in the morning or at night, I would definitely
put booties on him. It's too hot, the pavement is
too hot, or walk on grass, or walk on grass.
Dogs do get dehydration, by the way, I think Jack
was dehydrated at one point, and that's when I did
the whole ice cube hold it, let them lick it
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type of thing. Like whatever you got to do to
get fluids into your dog. But there are signs of
dehydration and those are loss of energy, dry nose, or gums.
Like if your dog is a dry nose, it always
makes me nervous whether they have a temperature.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I always check their nose, or.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
They're dehydrated, panting, loss of appetite. And then another good
one is pulling the skin, which you've probably done before.
So you take the skin on the back of the
dog's neck just I mean, don't like, you don't need
to scruff them like you're their mommy. Do a little
pull up and then let it go and it should
go back into place in three seconds. If it takes
longer than three seconds to go into place, then your
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dog needs hydration.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I I know that panting is something that it
is something to look for, but dogs pant.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, that's how they cool themselves. If your dog is
excessively panting and drooling and you've got all these other signs,
give them an ice cube, give them some water. It's
a sign that they're dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I always have a big bowl of water outside
on my deck. If I'm sitting out there and the
dogs are out there, with me, I've got water.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Here's another thing, though, I was wondering this because I've
had horses my whole life, and you would definitely not
after you rode your horse, let them drink water until
they were cooled off, and you would not like I
would never let my horse drink ice cold water. Is
it the same for dogs? Like if your dog is
out running around and playing and panting, do you give
them water right away? Or can they get bloat? Can
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they get a stomach ache like a horse?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I mean, I would should google it. I would imagine
they could.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I don't see why you don't want them getting overheated
and then just lapping up ice cold water.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I feel like that would be bad for them. I
think it is.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You know, I'm gonna look into that because I always
wonder that, But I never looked into it because I
knew like you got to walk your horse, cool your
horse down, wait till they're not like huffing and puffing,
then let them drink some water. And I would always
let my horse drink water slow, like slow and not
ice cold water. But I never checked to see if
that would because my dog is.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
A mall dog.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
He's not running around and then like I'm sprinting around
for ten hours and then I'm drinking water that's not
my dog. Yeah, so I never like looked into it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I never give my dogs ice cold water.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what, Jack loves ice cold water. If he
knows I'm going to the refrigerator to get water out
of the fridge, he will stand there and then I'll
trick him. I'll fill up his dish half fall of
the ice cold water, and then I put he's not
hard to trick, and then I just put like a
little like room temperature water in because I'm like, you
were not drinking this ice cold water. I feel like
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it would make your stomach cramp up.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so we are in the dog days of summer.
I don't know what other you have any other Well,
we're kIPS and tricks. We're keeping your dog pool.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well yeah, as I was saying, my dogs go in
my pool.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, but not everybody is a pool, no, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But for those dog dog dads out there that have
a pool, I have.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Life fests.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did you bring a life fest you were? Did you?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You said you're gonna have the best I've got lifefest
for my dogs my dog as well. Yeah, but so
but but your pool, they don't need a life fest in.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I don't know. Gracie likes it because they're.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
In a kitty a doggy kitty pool. If you're in
like a deep pool, or you take your dog to
a pond, a reservoir or the ocean, yeah, you got
to throw on a life fest. And I would suggest
getting a life fest with a handle on the back.
I've had life fest before with my dog and it's
literally a vest. But then there's no way to grab
your dog. And if your dog jumps off the side
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of a boat, you're grabbing them from a leash or
a collar. So you want to choke your dog, do it?
That's what's gonna happen. Get the life fest with a
handle on the back. You can pull them up from anything.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And Gracie's so cute because I'll put her in it
and she'll just kind of float around, like her legs
move a little a little bit. So that's a very cooling,
soothing thing for her to But then when I pick
her up, she's paddling.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Now your pool, now I don't have to worry about
it for her, But I would think you would. Though,
still I feel like, is it over their head?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I I have sacrificed my larger size.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
She's got an adult kiddie pool that her and I
sit in. It's like perfect, It's like a kiddi pool
for adults with cup holders.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's really cool.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I sit in it. But I feel like your dogs
are so small that it's probably over their heads.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Racy and Charlie have not been in it. Okay, that's
been in there is Ali. Ali loves it. He's a
water dog. He loves to float around, all right. But
I don't have any other like hot weather tips.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Say, oh wait, can we just talk about leaving your
dog in the damn car?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't just do it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I mean, and if you have to do it, leave
the car running with the air conditioner on.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't think there's How is that?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
How is that that people actually think, Oh, it's eighty
degrees out, I'm gonna take my dog and The'm gonna
leave them in the car and go to the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Your dog needs to stay home? Like? What does dog?
Bring your dog in the car?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Unless you're taking your dog to the that there's no
reason for your dog. If you want to take your
dog for a ride because they like rides in the car,
that's fine, but don't stop and pick up weird milk
or something.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It literally takes minute.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How does it happen?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I mean, you see it all the time every summer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You see it, people their kids in the car.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I don't I know, but the dog is different. You
just don't leave the dog in the car. I'm saying,
don't put the dog in a hot car.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No and no, And you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If you're going to do that, then the car needs
to be on the air conditioning needs to be on,
and it needs to be a quick like I need
to grab some teeto.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And and you better leave a sign in the window
saying my dog is with the air conditioner listening to
some kid rock. Otherwise I'm gonna call the cops on you.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm gonna smash the window.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna smash the window. I'm gonna get your
dog out of there, because there's just no way dogs
should be.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm gonna find the air and I'm gonna smash the window.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You dog, No, And then I don't know. I wish
you know what Jack's taking a nap, and I don't
want to put him to work. But when it's really
really hot hot when he was younger, he's eleven now,
But when it was really when it's really hot out
or really cold out and there's like a snowstorm, I
do have a treadmill in the basement, and I taught
him how to run on the treadmill. I mean, if
you got a dog that likes a treadmill, and your
dog needs exercise and he's driving you crazy, put him
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on the treadmill. But I would watch a few YouTube
videos first, because you don't net your dog to get
hurt on the treadmill.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
My dogs would not.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They just go, oh, Jack, you're right, You're absolutely right.
I had to start really slow with Jack and he
had to be on a leash and I had to
stand there with him.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, but they would not like that all Jack.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Nope, Jack liked the treadmill. It was his time. It
was his time to shine. It was a snowstorm, and
he'd be on the treadmill running around.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, I'm a firm believer of if it is a snowstorm,
I am snuggling on the couch.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
With my fur baby.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
She's bed rotting with her baby.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That's right, and none of us need any exercise.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, I know, but I feel bad for people that have,
like well, Jack was like that. He wouldn't snuggle with me.
He needed to get on the treadmill. Or if you
get a cattle dog or a working dog and they're
stuck in the house for days, yep, oh my god,
you got to find some for them to do. Well.
I do a little maize, maize, a little run around,
a little running.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Her dogs are this big in the snow. I go
out and oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's almost like like a motor cross track.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Okay, do you do uh? Do you snow blow a
track for your dogs?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I just walk through with my feet, okay, because I
just have to make it deep enough.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, but if there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Snow, you can't do that. In New England there's a
lot of snow. You might have to like, would you
snow All right, here's a better question, would you snow
blow a track for your dogs?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I have?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, me too. I snow blow the backyard every winter.
I snow blow the backyard for the dog.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I got the big yeah snow blower, and I go
through and I do a track for them when it's
really deep.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Same, so why I don't have to shovel, I don't
care tear my lawn.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, they got to get out and they have to
get exercise, all right, So hot dog summer, that's all
I have. I mean, make sure your dog is cool.
I would say for me, a good indication of when
you should take your dog, I wouldn't go out when
it's like eighty to eighty two degrees. I think anything
over eighty your chance in it. Go out in the morning,
go out at night. If it's over that, just stay
(21:15):
in the house.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And I think one really good test is to go
out and put your hand on the pavement or your
bare foot on the pavement, and if it is hurting you,
it is going to hurt your dog's pause and you
should really consider not doing it. I know Courtney, you
do this and I've done this in the past. Is
if you're going to walk your dog and you have
(21:36):
a trail or grasp, make sure you bring like a
portable water container, a bowl, like a bottle of water. Yes,
you want to make sure you have water to give
your dog, and yes, just to make sure that they're
they're safe, they're hydrated just like us.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's not that much different.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And they're not going to tell you, Oh my god,
I think I'm kind of thirsty and dizzy. Yeah, you
got to fit figure it out yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
When I would take Gracie for a walk around the
neighborhood and I go around the block once and I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like, oh, she's still great. We'll go around a second time.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
We'll keep going, and she's down in some random yard
and I have to carry her the rest of I
walked Jack this morning.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was probably eight o'clock this morning, but it was
like getting kind of warm out, and I thought, oh
my god, I shouldn't go much further because I am
not carrying him home. He weighs, you know, like fifty pounds. Yeah, like,
I'm not carrying this dog home.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I carried Gracie home multiple time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah. Sometimes they're just like they give up, they're done.
They're like, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I'm out all right.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So to recap, put booties on if you have to
go out, if your dog is near a body of
water that's over its head, make sure they got a life. Yes,
you can make them some nice cooling trees. With just
taking watermelon and honey and water put it in ice
cube trays.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Leaps and Bones High ladies have awesome in house homemade
ice cream cups.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
They do, yeah, and they the dogs go crazy for Yeah.
You can check them out if you're in the Connecticut area.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That is they also do.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
They do ship. I don't know how far they ship,
but Leaps and Bones Evergreen walk right here in Connecticut.
Check them out. They're fabulous. They do a lot of
all natural stuff and you're right, they've got their own
ice cream, which is amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And you can also make your own ice cream too
in the house, with like yogurt and banana or whatever
your dog likes, pumpkin apple.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I used to do that. But if you're like.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Me and you're not someone who likes to spend a
lot of time making.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Cooking, cooking, that's not cooking. That's like throwing yogurt in
a on an ice cube trade.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But okay, yeah, I'm sure no matter where you are,
whether it's Connecticut and you go to Leaps and Bones
or they have these places, I'm sure someplace else you
can get some really good, all natural ice cream to
have in your freezer on those really.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Hard yeah, and then a pinch. Just get puppy cups
at the supermarket.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Jack loves the puppy cups. I looked at the ingredients
once and I was like, oh, I don't look that's
his cheat day. That's his cheat day. I don't like
the ingredients. He doesn't get them off in but it's
a cheat day like you and I would have a day.
You can grab a puppy cup. All right, So our
next week are we gonna check on Gracie. That'll be
two weeks. I need to give you a goal. I
(24:09):
don't feel like you're taking this seriously. Gracie needs to
lose weight. For day seven, she hasn't lost an ounce,
So you've got another week. Can we do one pound?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I think one pound is a lot. I would say
half a pound.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Half a pound in two weeks for a dog, and
she's a small dog. Okay, she needs to lose a
half a pound by next time we record next week.
And what are you going to do to do that?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know. I'll do some research.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think you just cut down her food, keep the
treats up because she likes her treats. Just take a
just take a little little bit of her kibble out
of her dish.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm not giving her that much to begin with.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Okay, mom, a cup is yeah, I do know what
a third a cup is? How many times a day? Then,
how many treats are you giving her that she's overweight? Well,
have you had her thyroid checked? Have you had her
thyroid check?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
All right, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
If you're really not giving her that much food, I
was when I was working. All right, So we're gonna
do another week. Yes, You're not gonna change anything on
your end.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm just not giving her as many treats. Okay, there's
not And when I leave the house, they get one
little So.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You're gonna cut down on the treats, ye, but not
the food going forward, I know. And you're gonna cut
down on the treats for the next following week.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I've cut down there. I think it's gonna take time.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Okay, we'll do one more week and we're gonna do
a way. No, we're gonna do away in. We're gonna
do away in next week and then if she hasn't
lost a half a pound, then we just cut down
on the treats and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I've already cut dorwn on the treats. I don't give
them any unless I'm leaving the house. I don't get
any treats.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And she leaves the house thirty five times a day.
So there, I don't leave the house thirty five times.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's summer. Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
All new episode drops every single Saturday. And then episode
coming up is dog etiquette. Do you go to dog parks?
How about doggy daycare? Both of those things are nightmares
to me.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
They're nightmares to me too.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
We're gonna talk about dog parks and doggy daycare and
doggy daycare next week. And in the meantime, keep your
puppies cool.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
During the dog days of that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
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Speaker 1 (26:22):
We're on TikTok too. Bye.
Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Hi, Hello everyone, and welcome to the next episode of Down.
Speaker 3 (00:06):
With Dog, Yes and Lauren, What's up? It is a
very exciting episode. But before we get to our episode,
which is Dog Days of Summer, we need to check
in because last time we talked, it was hot Dog
Summer and hot Summer, and it was you were putting
Gracie on a die because Gracie needed to lose weight.
(00:28):
It's been a week. Has she lost weight?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
She has not.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Did you do a Wayne, You're supposed to do a
weigh in this morning? Okay? And how did the wigne
go this morning? She's still eighteen pounds, so she hasn't
lost anything.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
No, she hasn't gained anything.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Cheers to that, because this morning I gained a couple pounds,
did I? And I didn't care? Boom. Here's to Gracie
not gaining weight. But so what are you going to
do going forward? She needs to lose weight?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, I want to give it the opportunity to kick
it too, you know, like when we're trying to lose weight.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
So like overnight we're gonna wake up and be like,
I didn't eat anything.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
But but it's been okay yesterday, it's been seven days.
What have you done?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Well, I went back to her one third of a
cup of food.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
But what do you mean back to You had increased
it for what reason?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Because I'm generous with food and I show my life.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, okay, So she was on a less kibble, yes,
and then you increase the.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Kibble, right, and now she's back to her normal, which
is what's recommended is one third of a cup.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Twice a day.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And so but what are you doing for like treats
or like? Did you cut down on our treats?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
We did, We've cut back on our treats.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
We have spent a lot of time outside playing bringing
the ball outside, she runs after it. So she's getting
tons of exercise.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
All right, So should you cut down on the treats
again or the food again to get her like in
the right direction?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I think I'm gonna stick with one. Do I cut
down significantly on the treats? Like they were getting treats.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
All the time?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Okay? All right, so now they're not getting it more
than eight days or whatever, it's been seven days.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Right, she'll slim down, she will.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
She's such a meatball. She's so cute and she's meaty.
But you know what, I love fat animals. Remember the time,
Oh my god, you were with me. I wanted a cat, which,
by the way, shout out to all the cat moms
and dads out there, but they're not for me. I
you and I went to the SBCA Society, which either
way same thing. I went to the Humane Society. I said,
(02:38):
I want the fattest cat you have. We walked around
the entire clinic. I found a cat named Zoe that
couldn't even fit in the cage. She was so fat.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
And what happened to her? She died.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
She had a heart attack on my kitchen floor from
being fat. Literally two months before after I got her.
It was like two months that two months after I
got her.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
It was pretty quickly after you got her she died.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
So I know we all want fat animals, like that
was my thing. I wanted the fattest cat you have.
Well guess what. Her organs were shutting down and she
had a heart attack. So well, it's gread for everybody.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Very active, So I'm not if she was just like
laying around and like I opened the slider to go
outside and she was like eh, but she goes bolting
out there and she's running and jumping and she jumps
at her food every day, so she's still able to
be very active.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So I just want to keep her in that same place.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
She also has little tiny legs, and so if you've
got little tiny legs and you're carrying all that weight,
it's probably a lot. I know when I had a
great day, and they always told me, with you with
the Great Dame, because of the hip dysplasia and the
everything that can happen with the knees and the hips,
keep them thin, keep them on the thin side. And
he actually was a little chunky, chunky monkey for a
little while, but he ended up losing weight. Anyway, I think.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Racie will lose the weight. I'm just going to stay
on top of it. I have I weighed all of them.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Charlie is twenty eight pounds, which.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Is hey, but he looks good. He's look good okay.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
And Ollie is up to fourteen. So I have literally
doubled his way since I brought him home.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Okay, when he looks strut, he looks great. By Jackson update,
you know, he has got IBD. He started the new food.
He's doing great on it. But because the new food
contains corn. We now have a little bit of an
ear and an anal gland issue. But I'll take that
over vomiting and diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I would take that over.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
We're good that I can control that. I'm a master
at so no worries. So today's episode is called dog
Days of Summer Days of Summer hot weather protocol for
you and your pop. And I see it all the
time and all the groups that I'm on on Facebook
and Instagram and all of that on TikTok, everyone's like,
how do you know when it's too hot to walk
(04:44):
your dog? Look, if it's too hot for you to
walk on the pavement bear feet without sweating and sweating,
don't take your dog out right? How is that? The
other day was like ninety five degrees out it was
so hot. I saw people walking their dogs. I'm like,
where are you going? Like, literally, where are you going
in this heat with your dog?
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Correct? I absolutely agree.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, even though my dogs love being outside in
the backyard where there's grass.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
I'm like, we're gonna stay out for ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It's too hot. I have fresh water for them waiting inside.
I not, it's just it's too hot when I'm out
there and I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't stand
up die.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It's too hot for them too. Them a for conon
and I know that they.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Have their own regulatory system for heat, but still it's
still too hot.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
They really do. But if you're not providing them places
to cool off, then it's on you. They know to
go into a shaded place, correct. So if you're gonna
have your dog outside, provide them with some cooling areas.
They need a place with shade, they need fresh water.
You need either a cooling bed or you need a
raised bed. I had a cooling bed cool I had
(05:55):
a cooling bed too. Guess who used it me? My
dog couldn't stand the cooling bed, which they do have
them out there, so you can get a cooling bed.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I put it on my bed.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Ladies with hot flashes, get a dog cooling bed. Put
it on your mattress.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Sleep on it. You will not have a hot flash.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I wish I had kept the Chillo that you gave
me years ago, because I could have used that fab fabulous.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Here's the thing with the doggy cooling beds that I
found out because my dog didn't like his, so I
was sleeping on it. I did my research because I'm
a helicopter mom. The gel in the cooling beds can
make you really sick.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Are you drinking it or are you la?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
But if there's got a hole in it and you
get the gel on you, it's cancer causing. So if
you're going to get a cooling bed, just make sure
this's got no like like holes in it and nothing's
leaking out. I know it's weird, but be careful. I
would suggest a raised bed, which my dog has outside
so they can get airflow underneath it. But also you
shouldn't be out that long anyway, right.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
I think that's really what the general takeaway for like
looking at like July and August in particular, because we
get some really hot, humid days that we just want
to make sure that we're putting our pops first and
foremost and saying like, Okay, it's too hot, you guys
need to go inside. I mean, we can cool ourselves down,
and even if they have a shaded area, it might
(07:11):
still be a little bit too hot for them. So
ten fifteen minutes outside and then fifteen twenty minutes inside
and then come in and out and out.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
You were talking.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Somebody was talking to Oh, a friend of mine was
telling me how she has the the screens.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Sounded out, oh, oh no, yes, I know what you
know about.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Yeah, the mash that hass.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Okay, that's not cooling though. What did she do.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Because the dogs can come in and out of the house.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And she leaves the mesh on the house.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, it attaches to your slider, I know.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
But how is the house stay cool if it's only mesh?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, I mean you can like now it's now it's
I never.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Do that because then all my cool air and my
house is going outside.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Even if you don't have your air conditioning on the
inside of your house is going to be cooler in
the outside.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Not this house, I am sorry, not my house. My
house isn't.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Anyway then twenty four seven point.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
But you can put those mesh screens up and the
dogs can go in and out, and when they get overheated,
they'll go in.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I know my dogs will stand right at the door
and I want to go in.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
About just leave your dog inside when it's really hot,
just you let them go out poop and pee.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
If you're gonna walk your dog or your dog has
to walk in order to poop like mine early morning
and evenings and evenings you.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Don't go dog.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, And then you can provide them with cooling treats.
And my favorite thing is making uh like watermelon. I
think I did this for our dogs once on a
hot summer day. Yeah, take watermelon, not the ride and
not the seeds because those can be poisonous. Take the watermelon.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
It is. I'm not arguing with you.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Take the watermelon and you put it in like in
your blender, with a little bit of honey, add maybe
a little water if you want, put in an ice
cube tray. But if you're giving your dog ice cubes,
I always hold the ice cube because if they swallow
it and they choke, you're gonna have.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
To put hot water down their mouth. Yes, yes, I
don't give my dog's ice cubes. I just don't.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
I've always been I guess somewhere I must have read
at some point point somewhere that if you give your
dogs ice cubes, it messes up their regulatory system, so it.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Brings their brings it down too fast.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Their own internal cooling system.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
You know, they sleep with their paws up if they're hot, right,
hunting is when they're it's not when they're hot. They
don't pant, but the panting isn't necessarily indicative of being hot.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Here's the thing. If you're gonna give your dog an
ice cube because you think they're too hot, take the
ice cube and rub it on their paws and in
their ears. That'll cool them down quicker than them licking
the ice cube or giving it to them. You take
the ice cube literally and rub it on their paws
or rub it in their ears.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Well, that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
We used to do that when I worked at summer
camp three hundred years ago.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Wait, you did it to each other, like here, give
me your foot.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If the kids, the littles were getting overheated, you you
would do that's what you would. Put the ice packs
on their wrists, on the back of their neck, same
with the doll them down.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
So it's the same as a dog.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Now, my dogs, be grudging would go in the pool,
which that would cool them down so they could stay
out for a little bit longer because they were.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Wet, right right right, Still, it's not enough.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Here's the thing though, how about and I know you
don't do this, but I'm a big believer in the
summer cut. A lot of people say dogs with long fur,
that's how they keep themselves cool because the air filters.
So I don't buy that because I have a labradoodle,
and let me tell you, he needs a summer cut.
When the summer's coming, I gotta clip him down, give
him a nice short cut, and he's much cooler than.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Having all that hair, all that fur. Gracie's the only
one that has that really kind of.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Thick thick but she's like she literally but they're not out.
You don't leave him outside the heat anyway.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
I don't, And she'll come out if I'm sitting on
the deck or whatever and the dogs are with me.
The second Gracie's overheated, she's at the door. She's like, man,
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
My dog doesn't know better. So he needs a summer cut.
He needs a cooling bed. He needs My dog will
literally like Charlie and your other dog, Allie will sit
in the sun like I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Should just said that. Your other dog like she doesn't
know her.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
She's got too many but the blazing sun. I noticed.
Allie and Charlie and my dog Jack will lie in
the oh, the sun shining right there. That's why I'm
gonna lie down.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah, Charlie does that fry.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He'll find one spot of sunshine and just lay in
that one spot of sunshine, And I'm like, how do
you find that?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
I would say summer cut. I'm just a big believer
in summer cut. Some people don't. But give your dog
a summer cut for sure. And then if you must
walk your dog and this heat wear boot.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Put a little booty on your I mean I got
a booties.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Galore, which my dog doesn't like any of them, so
most dogs don't like it. I mean, I have got
booties galore. This is a box of boots that I've
tried on my dog. He doesn't like any of them.
Here's a boot with a little sock on it. Sock
on the end, rubber on the bottom. You can walk
on the pave and if you want, I still wouldn't
do it. This is his winter boot. So if it's
(11:59):
snow ice, he's got a giant winter Booty's got four
of those boots. I mean, the boot selection goes on
and on. This is like a little half boot that
you could wear whether it's like snow or ice. But
there's booties and there's so many booties to choose from.
My dogs don't do booties. I know you had a
dog that did booties. Well, she didn't do it my choice,
(12:20):
I mean, but she walked with them on them. She
was good.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Did that was Riley when she got diagnosed with degenerative
hyelopathy her she couldn't walk on my hardwood floors, so
they look like balloons and I only had to put
them on her back paws and it just it helped
her legs not slide out from underneath her.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
And of course I had carpets all over the house too,
so that.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
But she was good with those.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
She was pretty good. She was pretty good.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, so put booties on. If you've got to take
your dog out and it's like the heat of the
day because you're working and you can't get them out
early in the morning or at night, I would definitely
put booties on him. It's too hot, the pavement is
too hot, or walk on grass, or walk on grass.
Dogs do get dehydration, by the way, I think Jack
was dehydrated at one point, and that's when I did
the whole ice cube hold it, let them lick it
(13:08):
type of thing. Like whatever you got to do to
get fluids into your dog. But there are signs of
dehydration and those are loss of energy, dry nose, or gums.
Like if your dog is a dry nose, it always
makes me nervous whether they have a temperature.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I always check their nose, or.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
They're dehydrated, panting, loss of appetite. And then another good
one is pulling the skin, which you've probably done before.
So you take the skin on the back of the
dog's neck just I mean, don't like, you don't need
to scruff them like you're their mommy. Do a little
pull up and then let it go and it should
go back into place in three seconds. If it takes
longer than three seconds to go into place, then your
(13:43):
dog needs hydration.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, I I know that panting is something that it
is something to look for, but dogs pant.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Yeah, that's how they cool themselves. If your dog is
excessively panting and drooling and you've got all these other signs,
give them an ice cube, give them some water. It's
a sign that they're dehydrated.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
So I always have a big bowl of water outside
on my deck. If I'm sitting out there and the
dogs are out there, with me, I've got water.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Here's another thing, though, I was wondering this because I've
had horses my whole life, and you would definitely not
after you rode your horse, let them drink water until
they were cooled off, and you would not like I
would never let my horse drink ice cold water. Is
it the same for dogs? Like if your dog is
out running around and playing and panting, do you give
them water right away? Or can they get bloat? Can
(14:34):
they get a stomach ache like a horse?
Speaker 1 (14:36):
I mean, I would should google it. I would imagine
they could.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I don't see why you don't want them getting overheated
and then just lapping up ice cold water.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I feel like that would be bad for them. I
think it is.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
You know, I'm gonna look into that because I always
wonder that, But I never looked into it because I
knew like you got to walk your horse, cool your
horse down, wait till they're not like huffing and puffing,
then let them drink some water. And I would always
let my horse drink water slow, like slow and not
ice cold water. But I never checked to see if
that would because my dog is.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
A mall dog.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
He's not running around and then like I'm sprinting around
for ten hours and then I'm drinking water that's not
my dog. Yeah, so I never like looked into it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
I never give my dogs ice cold water.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
You know what, Jack loves ice cold water. If he
knows I'm going to the refrigerator to get water out
of the fridge, he will stand there and then I'll
trick him. I'll fill up his dish half fall of
the ice cold water, and then I put he's not
hard to trick, and then I just put like a
little like room temperature water in because I'm like, you
were not drinking this ice cold water. I feel like
(15:39):
it would make your stomach cramp up.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Yeah, so we are in the dog days of summer.
I don't know what other you have any other Well,
we're kIPS and tricks. We're keeping your dog pool.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Well yeah, as I was saying, my dogs go in
my pool.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, but not everybody is a pool, no, I know.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
But for those dog dog dads out there that have
a pool, I have.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Life fests.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Did you bring a life fest you were? Did you?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
You said you're gonna have the best I've got lifefest
for my dogs my dog as well. Yeah, but so
but but your pool, they don't need a life fest in.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I don't know. Gracie likes it because they're.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
In a kitty a doggy kitty pool. If you're in
like a deep pool, or you take your dog to
a pond, a reservoir or the ocean, yeah, you got
to throw on a life fest. And I would suggest
getting a life fest with a handle on the back.
I've had life fest before with my dog and it's
literally a vest. But then there's no way to grab
your dog. And if your dog jumps off the side
(16:41):
of a boat, you're grabbing them from a leash or
a collar. So you want to choke your dog, do it?
That's what's gonna happen. Get the life fest with a
handle on the back. You can pull them up from anything.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And Gracie's so cute because I'll put her in it
and she'll just kind of float around, like her legs
move a little a little bit. So that's a very cooling,
soothing thing for her to But then when I pick
her up, she's paddling.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Now your pool, now I don't have to worry about
it for her, But I would think you would. Though,
still I feel like, is it over their head?
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
I I have sacrificed my larger size.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
She's got an adult kiddie pool that her and I
sit in. It's like perfect, It's like a kiddi pool
for adults with cup holders.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
It's really cool.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I sit in it. But I feel like your dogs
are so small that it's probably over their heads.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Racy and Charlie have not been in it. Okay, that's
been in there is Ali. Ali loves it. He's a
water dog. He loves to float around, all right. But
I don't have any other like hot weather tips.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Say, oh wait, can we just talk about leaving your
dog in the damn car?
Speaker 1 (17:39):
I don't just do it.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
I mean, and if you have to do it, leave
the car running with the air conditioner on.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't think there's How is that?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
How is that that people actually think, Oh, it's eighty
degrees out, I'm gonna take my dog and The'm gonna
leave them in the car and go to the grocery store.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
What is that?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Your dog needs to stay home? Like? What does dog?
Bring your dog in the car?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Unless you're taking your dog to the that there's no
reason for your dog. If you want to take your
dog for a ride because they like rides in the car,
that's fine, but don't stop and pick up weird milk
or something.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
It literally takes minute.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
How does it happen?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
How?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
I mean, you see it all the time every summer.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
You see it, people their kids in the car.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I don't I know, but the dog is different. You
just don't leave the dog in the car. I'm saying,
don't put the dog in a hot car.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
No and no, And you're right.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
If you're going to do that, then the car needs
to be on the air conditioning needs to be on,
and it needs to be a quick like I need
to grab some teeto.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
And and you better leave a sign in the window
saying my dog is with the air conditioner listening to
some kid rock. Otherwise I'm gonna call the cops on you.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
I'm gonna smash the window.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna smash the window. I'm gonna get your
dog out of there, because there's just no way dogs
should be.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I'm gonna find the air and I'm gonna smash the window.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
You dog, No, And then I don't know. I wish
you know what Jack's taking a nap, and I don't
want to put him to work. But when it's really
really hot hot when he was younger, he's eleven now,
But when it was really when it's really hot out
or really cold out and there's like a snowstorm, I
do have a treadmill in the basement, and I taught
him how to run on the treadmill. I mean, if
you got a dog that likes a treadmill, and your
dog needs exercise and he's driving you crazy, put him
(19:16):
on the treadmill. But I would watch a few YouTube
videos first, because you don't net your dog to get
hurt on the treadmill.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
My dogs would not.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
They just go, oh, Jack, you're right, You're absolutely right.
I had to start really slow with Jack and he
had to be on a leash and I had to
stand there with him.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Yeah, but they would not like that all Jack.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Nope, Jack liked the treadmill. It was his time. It
was his time to shine. It was a snowstorm, and
he'd be on the treadmill running around.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Well, I'm a firm believer of if it is a snowstorm,
I am snuggling on the couch.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
With my fur baby.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
She's bed rotting with her baby.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
That's right, and none of us need any exercise.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, I know, but I feel bad for people that have,
like well, Jack was like that. He wouldn't snuggle with me.
He needed to get on the treadmill. Or if you
get a cattle dog or a working dog and they're
stuck in the house for days, yep, oh my god,
you got to find some for them to do. Well.
I do a little maize, maize, a little run around,
a little running.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Her dogs are this big in the snow. I go
out and oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
It's almost like like a motor cross track.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Okay, do you do uh? Do you snow blow a
track for your dogs?
Speaker 2 (20:25):
I just walk through with my feet, okay, because I
just have to make it deep enough.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Yeah, but if there's a lot of.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Snow, you can't do that. In New England there's a
lot of snow. You might have to like, would you
snow All right, here's a better question, would you snow
blow a track for your dogs?
Speaker 1 (20:38):
I have?
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Yeah, me too. I snow blow the backyard every winter.
I snow blow the backyard for the dog.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I got the big yeah snow blower, and I go
through and I do a track for them when it's
really deep.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Same, so why I don't have to shovel, I don't
care tear my lawn.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Well, they got to get out and they have to
get exercise, all right, So hot dog summer, that's all
I have. I mean, make sure your dog is cool.
I would say for me, a good indication of when
you should take your dog, I wouldn't go out when
it's like eighty to eighty two degrees. I think anything
over eighty your chance in it. Go out in the morning,
go out at night. If it's over that, just stay
(21:15):
in the house.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
And I think one really good test is to go
out and put your hand on the pavement or your
bare foot on the pavement, and if it is hurting you,
it is going to hurt your dog's pause and you
should really consider not doing it. I know Courtney, you
do this and I've done this in the past. Is
if you're going to walk your dog and you have
(21:36):
a trail or grasp, make sure you bring like a
portable water container, a bowl, like a bottle of water. Yes,
you want to make sure you have water to give
your dog, and yes, just to make sure that they're
they're safe, they're hydrated just like us.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
It's not that much different.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
And they're not going to tell you, Oh my god,
I think I'm kind of thirsty and dizzy. Yeah, you
got to fit figure it out yourself.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
When I would take Gracie for a walk around the
neighborhood and I go around the block once and I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Like, oh, she's still great. We'll go around a second time.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
We'll keep going, and she's down in some random yard
and I have to carry her the rest of I
walked Jack this morning.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
It was probably eight o'clock this morning, but it was
like getting kind of warm out, and I thought, oh
my god, I shouldn't go much further because I am
not carrying him home. He weighs, you know, like fifty pounds. Yeah, like,
I'm not carrying this dog home.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I carried Gracie home multiple time. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Yeah. Sometimes they're just like they give up, they're done.
They're like, I'm done, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I'm out all right.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
So to recap, put booties on if you have to
go out, if your dog is near a body of
water that's over its head, make sure they got a life. Yes,
you can make them some nice cooling trees. With just
taking watermelon and honey and water put it in ice
cube trays.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Leaps and Bones High ladies have awesome in house homemade
ice cream cups.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
They do, yeah, and they the dogs go crazy for Yeah.
You can check them out if you're in the Connecticut area.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
That is they also do.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
They do ship. I don't know how far they ship,
but Leaps and Bones Evergreen walk right here in Connecticut.
Check them out. They're fabulous. They do a lot of
all natural stuff and you're right, they've got their own
ice cream, which is amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It is amazing.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
And you can also make your own ice cream too
in the house, with like yogurt and banana or whatever
your dog likes, pumpkin apple.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I used to do that. But if you're like.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Me and you're not someone who likes to spend a
lot of time making.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Cooking, cooking, that's not cooking. That's like throwing yogurt in
a on an ice cube trade.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
But okay, yeah, I'm sure no matter where you are,
whether it's Connecticut and you go to Leaps and Bones
or they have these places, I'm sure someplace else you
can get some really good, all natural ice cream to
have in your freezer on those really.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Hard yeah, and then a pinch. Just get puppy cups
at the supermarket.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yes, I have.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Jack loves the puppy cups. I looked at the ingredients
once and I was like, oh, I don't look that's
his cheat day. That's his cheat day. I don't like
the ingredients. He doesn't get them off in but it's
a cheat day like you and I would have a day.
You can grab a puppy cup. All right, So our
next week are we gonna check on Gracie. That'll be
two weeks. I need to give you a goal. I
(24:09):
don't feel like you're taking this seriously. Gracie needs to
lose weight. For day seven, she hasn't lost an ounce,
So you've got another week. Can we do one pound?
Speaker 1 (24:20):
I think one pound is a lot. I would say
half a pound.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Half a pound in two weeks for a dog, and
she's a small dog. Okay, she needs to lose a
half a pound by next time we record next week.
And what are you going to do to do that?
Speaker 1 (24:33):
I don't know. I'll do some research.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I think you just cut down her food, keep the
treats up because she likes her treats. Just take a
just take a little little bit of her kibble out
of her dish.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
I'm not giving her that much to begin with.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Okay, mom, a cup is yeah, I do know what
a third a cup is? How many times a day? Then,
how many treats are you giving her that she's overweight? Well,
have you had her thyroid checked? Have you had her
thyroid check?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
All right, I'm done.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
If you're really not giving her that much food, I
was when I was working. All right, So we're gonna
do another week. Yes, You're not gonna change anything on
your end.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
I'm just not giving her as many treats. Okay, there's
not And when I leave the house, they get one
little So.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
You're gonna cut down on the treats, ye, but not
the food going forward, I know. And you're gonna cut
down on the treats for the next following week.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
I've cut down there. I think it's gonna take time.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Okay, we'll do one more week and we're gonna do
a way. No, we're gonna do away in. We're gonna
do away in next week and then if she hasn't
lost a half a pound, then we just cut down
on the treats and see what happens.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I've already cut dorwn on the treats. I don't give
them any unless I'm leaving the house. I don't get
any treats.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
And she leaves the house thirty five times a day.
So there, I don't leave the house thirty five times.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's summer. Don't forget.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
All new episode drops every single Saturday. And then episode
coming up is dog etiquette. Do you go to dog parks?
How about doggy daycare? Both of those things are nightmares
to me.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
They're nightmares to me too.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
We're gonna talk about dog parks and doggy daycare and
doggy daycare next week. And in the meantime, keep your
puppies cool.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
During the dog days of that's right.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
Thanks for listening, Thank you, thanks for watching, share like comment,
I don't forget.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
We're on TikTok too. Bye.
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