So cute and thank you for sharing!
My doggie got home from his 4-hour mountain hike yesterday, and plonked himself right in front of his water bowl, which I'd filled up with ice cubes, in advance of his return. He dunked his *whole head* into his water bowl, then sipped some of the water before grabbing a bunch of ice cubes with his mouth - which he happily chomped on.
He fell asleep - on the cool tiles in the kitchen - with a couple of ice cubes tucked under his chin. The cubes melted, creating creeping mini-puddles across the kitchen floor. Snoring and snuffling, paws twitching - some kind of doggie dream. Glossy hair turning into embarrassing girly-curls because of the water.
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Meanwhile, it is ridiculously hot throughout most of the US - I was looking up various almanacs and weather reports from previous years, and it's a good 10-20 degrees warmer this year than the norm, and this is true for fall, winter, spring and now summer.
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Just for fun - another thing my dog likes in the hot weather? A cheap $10 plastic kids pool that I picked up at the grocery store. I fill it up with cold water from the hose each evening, and Gus *loves* lying down in it and rolling around. All the water spills out onto the patio when he gets into it, because the kiddie-pool isn't quite big enough for him (he's about 100 pounds), but he *loves* that thing.
After dunking himself in this childish-looking blue plastic pool with multi-coloured fish printed all over it - he leaps around the back yard like he's a new man. Grabs all of his toys and tosses them up into the air and runs all over the place like some sort of crazed maniac.
After a few minutes of this, he then plunges back into the plastic kiddie pool and starts the whole thing over again. Best $10 I ever spent, getting that stupid plastic kid's pool with the dorky-looking pink, purple, green, yellow fish printed all over it.
Highly recommended - go get your doggie a cheap plastic kiddie pool from the local grocery or discount store. Fill up with cool water via the hose, nightly - see doggie plunge himself into said pool and then leap around like a maniac around the yard. Worth the $10, worth filling the thing up every single night (doggie doesn't like leftover sun-warmed water ...has to be new, ultra-cold water from the tap every evening).
Hope everyone's keeping cool
