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Tips & Advice

'Keeping Your Pets Cool This Summer'

- as seen in Westside News & South-West News

Your pet gets as hot as you do in our hot Queensland summer months!

Here are some great tips to assist you in keeping your pet cool!  A lot of this is general common sense, easy and very cost effective – keep your pets cool, take action now for our hot summer months!

• If you are going on holidays and you don’t know what kind of shade or facilities that will be available to your pet, leave your pet at home and let Pony & Pooch Petcare keep your pet cool while you are away

• Ensure shade is readily available in the yard during all times of the day or make shade available by setting up a shade cloth etc.  Better to plant some trees – provide shade for you as well – nice and cool spot for pets to lie under trees in the dirt

• Heaps of water available – 2 bowls in case one gets knocked over

• Place water bowls in the shade, and best in terracotta dishes not metal bowls as they tend to get very hot and heat up the water

• Don’t leave dogs in the cars under any circumstances (or children!)

• Report any such incidents to the RSPCA immediately

• Careful where your dog walks on the hot ground – eg the bitumen gets very hot and can burn their feet – even walking from the car park to the beach – carry or run them across such surfaces

• Take dogs swimming in the morning or afternoon – not in the middle of the day as this is the hottest part of the day and they can suffer heat stroke too

• Give them a drink during and after walk/swim – always carry water with you to beach or on walks

• Hose/bucket pets down during hot days

• Watch for signs of heat exhaustion – pets suffer from this as well as humans!

Watch this page for more tips and advice to help you care the best way possible for your pet!......