so it's the middle of the summer suns shining beautiful weather just going for
a quick walk around the block stretch the old legs you've had a lie in starting
to get a little bit warm outside think again though might not be ideal for your
dog they might even get burnt feet and if
you don't think that's likely well let's have a look at the temperatures I've got
the thermometer here and let's see that says in the shade we're at 26 degrees
okay so in the shade we've got 26 degrees now you know that's a nice day
it's nice shorts and t-shirt weather doesn't seem particularly hot certainly
here it can get up into the 30 degrees low 30s so you know there's potential
room for for things to get a little bit hotter but if it's 26 degrees in the
shade how hot is it in the Sun and how hot is the pavement because pavement
beating down the sun's beating down on it all day it's also darker it's
black so it's absorbing all of that heat so just how hot is that pavement getting
and is it actually hot enough to burn your dog's feet I'm just going to move
that into the Sun now and we'll see what that comes up with you know 26 it's
really nice shorts and t-shirt not too hot but you know pull that into the Sun
and let's see what happens that's gone from about 26 degrees and we're now
about 36 37 degrees and that's just on the table so let's move it over I'm just
gonna walk over here to some concrete and we're gonna put it on the ground
and see how hot the ground is so lets have a look
okay so we're up at about 43 44 degrees on the ground so that's pretty hot compared
to the 26 degrees that it is in the shade OK so 43 degrees on the
pavement but just how hot is that you know it's a number how do we visualize
that well I'm gonna just see how long it's gonna take me to get really
uncomfortable when I take my shoes off and just go barefoot onto the ground
okay let's have a little look
okay so it feels within a couple of seconds it's feeling pretty hot not so
bad on my heels but the balls of my feet which are a bit more sensitive it's
getting really hot now so I know I'm not moving that wouldn't mean it I'd be able
to to stand it a little bit more but that's getting really hot now that's
getting really hot so imagine your dog tied up outside a shop for five minutes
yep so starting to really be quite sore on the balls of my feet and I say
actually that's it's getting getting close to the limit it's getting really
hot so yep and I think that's me done
yes I don't know then how long that was 30 seconds 45 seconds a minute not very
long though so imagine you know you've gone to the shops gone to buy some milk
whatever it is you tie your dog in the Sun well that pavements pretty hot and
it's not going to take them very long for things to get pretty uncomfortable
and although they might hop from foot to foot just to make things a little bit
more bearable it's going to get pretty uncomfortable and it's definitely be hot enough to burn their pads now I did wonder is
that actually hot enough to fry an egg not sure it is been doing a little bit
of googling and I think about 55 degrees that's what's needed to to fry an egg
but I thought we'd have a little look and see just to prove a point that
that's really hot and it's actually often we see our dogs come in with
really sore feet they're lame you wonder why and yeah it's actually because
they've got burnt feet from walking on the pavement so just imagine that and
think about that next time it's a really hot day outside and you're wanting to
walk down the pavement go to the shops with your dog it's really hot maybe
stick to the first thing in the morning stick to the evening cool of the day
we'll walk on the grass or something like that which doesn't get nearly so
hot okay so here goes we've got the egg let's see what happens
oh well, broke the yolk there we go I'm not used to cracking an egg on the
concrete so let's just see what happens well as I suspected unfortunately it's not
hot enough to to fry an egg which would have just proven the point that it's
incredibly hot and definitely hot enough to burn your dog's feet but well
regardless 43 44 degrees when it's 26 degrees in the shade so 26 degrees you
know some nice summer's day certainly gets hotter depending on where it is
which part of the world that you live but 26 degrees in the shade going up to
43 degrees on the pavement if you've got a new new road laid if it's a bit
blacker it'll probably be even hotter again and I reckon if I probably put the
egg on the car bonnet it would definitely be hot enough to to fry the
egg but it's definitely hot enough to burn your dog's feet so stick to the
cool weather stick to the early morning to the late evening if you're taking
your dog just for a walk around the block you don't want to overdo things
anyway when it's really hot especially if they're kind of a short nose
brachycephalic breed really prone to overheating
remember our dogs can't sweat they can only pant that's the only way that they
can lose heat and if they're panting their breathing is compromised in any
way so our dogs that have got the shorter noses the airways are often much
smaller and they're really prone to overheating so our Bulldogs our pugs you
know that kind of breed so just have a think in the summer be really aware that
not only do we risk overheating and that can cause kinds of horrible problems but
we risk something simple as burning their feet and I can imagine that
something that not many of us would always think about so yeah enjoy the
summer enjoy the hot weather but just think about your companion ok so I hope
you found today interesting probably a bit unexpected I wonder if it's
something that you've ever thought about before I'd love to hear below if your
dogs ever had any problems in the hot weather if they have ever burnt
their feet just to let people know that it really is a real risk if you've got
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