Posted on 12/29/2017 11:10:27 AM PST by Morgana
Cold weather affects them, just like it affects us
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – With the promise that the cold blast that has hit Valley will stick around through the weekend, it’s important to make sure your pets are protected.
Cold weather affects them, just like it affects us. They feel wind chill, too.
Boardman veterinarian Dr. Donald Allen says smaller dogs are affected more. He says if you want to know what your pet feels in cold weather, go outside without your jacket.
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That's why wolves, coyotes, sled dogs, lynx, mountain lions, panthers, etc., all put on their parkas when they go outside in the winter.
My two dachshunds are curled up under the wood stove as we speak. They don’t do cold well.
My girl kitty usually runs everywhere. If it’s cold outside and I open the door, she accordions into her nose and ends up looking like a concertina with ears and a tail. Most of the winter she won’t go outside unless it is sunny and relatively warm.
Wow! I wonder how wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, buffalo and all the other mammals which are indigenous to clod climates managed to survive before people came along to invite them in to their homes.
With that said, there is a big difference between chaining your dog to a porch rail where it cannot seek shelter from the wind or weather, and keeping an “outside” dog which you have provided with access to a dog-house (or other shelter)and an unfrozen source of water.
No, if you want to know how your pet feels in cold, go outside WITH your jacket. Dogs wear their jackets 24/7.
I am NOT, NOT letting the cows in.
Wayne depends on the dog. My Siberian is outside right now laughing at dobermann who gave him grief all summer long. Dobies have a very thin coat. Where Siberians have three! Some dogs like Lurkina.n.Learnin spoke of, dachshunds? What fur?
It depends on the animal, the breed, and the accommodations they have during summer and winter.
My Labrador Retriever for instance. He won’t go outside during the summer when it hits 100 during the day for weeks on end, unless I put a sprinkler or a kiddy pool out in the yard for him. During the winter, he likes being outside and rooting through the snow.
My hound dog is the exact opposite.
We have a neighbor who leaves her Great Pyrenees outside 24/7. Right now, here in the mountains it’s about 12 degrees. It’s outside whether it’s raining, snowing, icing, hot, or cold. It sits outside and barks pathetically all day and night. She pretty much ignores the thing except for a once every-two-month walk so she can post a picture on Facebook. We’ve been up many a night from it’s barking, and up every day early because of it, too.
She calls herself a dog lover.
She needs to be arrested for animal cruelty and the dog needs to be removed and put up for adoption.
Call the cops on her?
We always had dogs on the farm. Two collies, four beagles and a couple of mutts that took up residence.
No matter how cold or how much snow those doggies found themselves a place to shelter from the weather.
Four barns, three sheds, a garage and an abandoned chicken coop served as dog houses.
Those dogs took the coldest weather in stride.
We fed them well and they looked for their shelter when they needed it.
Maybe not all...
I think the article got it right. Going without your jacket is like going out with a shirt and an undershirt on, the equivalent of a dog’s fur. A jacket is just an extra layer.
They didn’t say to go out in the nude, which would be the equivalent of shaving your dogs fur off before they went out.
But my current rescue mutt has got some husky in him from the looks of his markings.
He grows a thick undercoat when the weather turns cool and then starts to shed it in the spring when it warms up. We comb tons of it out of his coat when it gets hot. Enough to stuff a pretty good size pillow with.
He loves the cold weather. He has his own winter coat he "wears".
We have a neighbor who leaves her Great Pyrenees outside 24/7. Right now, here in the mountains it’s about 12 degrees. It’s outside whether it’s raining, snowing, icing, hot, or cold. It sits outside and barks pathetically all day and night. She pretty much ignores the thing except for a once every-two-month walk so she can post a picture on Facebook. We’ve been up many a night from it’s barking, and up every day early because of it, too.
She calls herself a dog lover.
She needs to be arrested for animal cruelty and the dog needs to be removed and put up for adoption.
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I have relatives in a very rural area who would shoot a dog like that. They know the dog is innocent, but they figure the animal is having a bad life anyway and it’s not legal to shoot the owner. To them, any dog that takes away their rest or bothers their livestock is a threat to their own lives.
How absolutely ridiculous. This guy may have the brains of a chihuahua, but nothing else.
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