Gel Cooling Pads
I'm thinking not only for home, but for traveling. Benson has the whole back of the Jeep to herself, but the drive train tends to make the floor pretty warm. We have a quilt down for insulation, but it only helps so far. I thought a cooling pad might improve her comfort in the summer. |
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| I had the kind that have water inside - it is pretty similar, as the outside is dry. It also had some kind of absorbent filling in it - that soaked up the water when you filled it...but not sure if it was a gel, or what. It worked great - until our lab Biscuit chewed the cap off of it when he was a puppy (husband error - put a lab pup in a crate with the pad,....grrr.) They didn't sell replacement caps, so it was a total loss. I loved it for taking to shows, etc. It was heavy, but cooled really nice. BUT - it would not work in your vehicle. It absorbs the heat from the drive train and gets hot. I used it like that once in the RV we were taking to dog shows out of state - and it got very warm. VERY warm.  It was fine to use on the ground, in a crate,etc, but not in a vehicle where the floor gets hot. |
| The upper floor of our split-level home is all laminate flooring so the dogs lay on that. However, on really hot days, they 'share' the A/C vent in the front room as it's under the big front window that has a very low window sill. Every now and again, we'll leave the gate open to the lower floor, (we keep it gated off so the cats have a place to not be bothered) and we'll soon find both girls laying on the landing at the front door where the landing is ceramic tile. This got me thinking that I should take some of the old tile that I have in the garage and make a couple 'tile beds'. By this, I'd lay tile on a piece of plywood on a 2x4 frame and let the girls have one each. I'm thinking this would be a great addition to our bedroom as they tend to get up and move several times a night. We're lucky and have a large master bedroom so we'd have the floor space for two 'beds'. Vance |
We need one too! I just subscribed to this topic in hopes of an answer. Our rescue Mickey is not doing so well in the heat. We shaved him down which is helpful but he LOVES to be outside and he just can't in this heatwave. |
| At home - mine avoid carpet (unless Bond decides to be intimate with his little fan)...lol This was him yesterday -  We have a painted cement porch floor both OES prefer. 2nd choice is the linoleum in the bathroom. They always avoid furniture, or other warm surfaces. We have AC at home - but it's just a window one and doesn't cool the house like central AC does. They do adjust - and they need to do that. We do lots of outdoor activities, but every summer we have the adjustment period. This year was slow, as our spring was very cold. In the vehicles I point AC vents right at them, and I dress accordingly. Motel rooms for shows too - I crank the AC and dress warmer. |
| I thought about the heat transfer with the water-cooled pads, too. This particular cooling pad http://thegreenpetshop.com/cool-pet-pad.html says it's weight-activated, so I thought the heat transfer might be a bit different. We don't have AC. It's a 200-year old farmhouse in Central NY, and when they moved it 100 years ago, they made sure to situate it perfectly so with the windows open we catch a lot of cross-breeze. (Besides, CNY isn't nearly as hot and humid as Delaware.) As for the Jeep, it's a Wrangler convertible, so the "AC" is the top-down, 60-mph kind. This is her first full-coated summer, and she's doing really well. I keep her belly shaved, so she can catch that extra coolness. If she's not in the bathroom or hardwood floor, she's either on the cement mudroom floor, or right here:  |
| LOL - Bond is jealous of her fan!!! I may have to upgrade him.  Our farmhouse is old too - over 180 yrs...so I know what you mean about old. We have nice big windows and are on top of a hill, out on the prairie - so we have wind all the time. But we do get nasty humidity...ugh. I'm guessing that pad would work great at home, but I think it would do the same as mine did in your vehicle - get too warm. Mine actually got hotter than the RV floor was...not good! It didn't do any permanent damage, I used it the rest of the 3 day weekend in his crate at the show site. |
| Ceiling fans. While not the most stylist room accessory, it really does help with keeping the air moving. We have AC, but the vents are in the ceiling, so the pets have nothing to lay on. And it does help circulate warm air in the winter. All of the living areas and bedrooms have them. Even one of the bathrooms at the lake has one. We had swamp coolers in Albuquerque. Because it is a dry climate, they worked amazingly well. The only people I knew with AC there were businesses. |
Pre-ducted days without A/C. in the summer and we can get to well over 40C in our summer. Having full coated puppers, Fan was great they lied on the tile floor, the other thing I put down on the tiles or wood floor, was a damp towel, they would lay on that on a scorcher of a day with the fan going over them. It worked a treat  to keep them comfortable in the heat or humidity. |
| I love the dogs in front of the fans. We live in a 100 year old home with no a/c. We use that large portable unit which works somewhat and we placed one of the larger window fans on the floor for the dogs but they have not sat in front of it like the smarties above. The humidity in central Jersey has been killer so far. It was still high 80s at midnight last night. We went out and bought a baby pool for them. Pics to come. |
| I bought a gel cooling pad for Ginny a couple weeks ago when it started getting really hot here. I have it in her crate at night as my room gets warm and she seems to really like it. I tried laying on it and it definitely is nice and cool to lay on, my Frenchie likes it as well. |
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