Dreaming zzzzz

Too funny, rox

The cat follows his indoor routine.

But I’m reminded of an ice cream shop I visited in Arizona. Large, medium, small, kiddie cup, doggie cup. ”What’s a doggie cup?” I asked. ”Same as the kiddie cup, but no spoon.” says the scooper guy.

Petalique, my horses have been gone for two years now but we keep the horse waterer working year round. -40 c. to +40 c. the deer and birds and anything else have fresh water.

(I saw on the other thread that you provide water for them as well) 🙂

My 2 cats like the heat. They spent the morning laying in sun beams. Aspen likes the sun coming in the window, sitting in his cat tree. They "love" laying on the hood of a car in the garage, that's had the engine running. I took Aspen for a walk, he stayed close, laying under my legs when I sat on the steps....for the shade. So I guess it can be too much...if you have black fur.

My three indoor cats don't know how miserably hot it is. They live in comfort 365 days a year. I have ten birdbaths in my yard and they are always being used by the gazillion birds in my yard as well as chippies and squirrels including my albino one.

I don't know if true or not but I once heard a tale that birdbaths were developed in Italy many centuries ago as a means of attracting small birds that could be easily caught and used for a food source.

One of our resident eastern cottontails. She comes running when we open the kitchen door. Sunflower seeds. I never see the rabbits drinking from the fresh water in the dog’s dish. They have gobbled down a large pot of pink petunias. They like scallions and love dandelions (not a single one around).

One summer during a heat wave, I looked out the window to see a beautiful Green Heron at the edge of the garden. I sensed immediately that if I put out a 10 Pyrex pie plate filled with col water, the heron would welcome it. He did indeed! He stood for several minutes in the center of that water-filled glass pie plate. I got some good photos of him. Later, I saw him in the front garden capturing and quickly swallowing a garter snake. It was fascinating to see the profile of the snake as it slid down the heron’s long throat.

That heron let me get very close to him and snap away (analog 35 mm camera with its clicking sounds). The green heron is an absolutely beautiful bird.

mine spend pretty much all day inside where it's cool. they have a dog door and go out to potty but come right back in. we are so ready for cooler temps!

frank spends most of his time upside down. they both LOVE ice cubes so they get them several times a day.

even on the hottest days, they love to lay in the sun. go figure!

Chopper hard at work.

He does not understand why he cannot go on a walk except for very early and very late.

New water bottle.

Beautiful family members.

Nina, you have your couches color coordinated with your danes. When dogs or cats lounge in a pool of sunlight, they are at the ”beach.”

Sherry, what sort of dog is Chopper and how did you happen to give him that name? He looked very mellow.

I love dogs and cats.

We have one cat who likes to stand in front of a register when the AC is on, with his face right in the cold air. I don't think he's cooling off, but have no idea his other motivation. We feed two feral cats and I always make sure there is cold water on the porch but there isn't much more I can do for them. I'm sure they find cooler, dark spots in the various flower patches or nearby woods. One year I put a fan on the porch there but all it did was scare them off.😹

Moved.

He is a genuine mutt. Supposed to be Min Pin mix. Maybe, looks to have some Chihuahua. Thinks he is a Rotie. Chopper was his name at the rescue. We had a Harley and thought it was cute. We did not realize it was descriptive. He chewed everything as a puppy. Lamp cords, that was unconnected thank goodness, corners of all the furniture, fingers, etc.

Like Ninapearl's charges, mine like to lay in the sunshine - but with the ac blasting on them when it's hot out. This sliding glass door faces south so gets lots of sunshine, and then the ac vent is just outside of this picture and provides a nice cooling breeze.

Yes, they DO have a hard life. LOL.

Only going to get up to 86 today. Too bad the humidity is currently 76%, Yesterday was nice and cool in the late morning and evening. We got some showers off and on. Chewie has been doing most of his laying on the cooler flooring rather than the rugs or his bed.

My daughter's dogs have been over the last couple of days and they're coming again today. They live in an apartment and go on walks and spend time at dog parks but they love my backyard, despite the heat they've been running and exploring out back multiple times a day. In and out, in and out. Sometimes Chewie goes with them, sometimes he just looks at me and them like we're crazy.

Posey goes flat a lot.

Nina, you have your couches color coordinated with your danes.

purely by accident. lol! i've been searching high and low for a couch cover but so far, have had no luck.

pippin often comes back inside and lays in front of the floor fan.

Nellie loves lying in the sun.

We've had a heatwave going on here in Seattle, with upper 90's.

This is the new rescue, Willy I found in April.

Poppy relaxing in the AC.

splooting

Another Westie baking in the hot sun. I have to watch him and make him move after a short while.

Our 2 Aussies are their usual shredding hair selves. We have about half of our acre of property fenced so they can roam free, but in this hot weather they come to the bakc door and bark to come back in pretty soon after we let them out. Our electric bill is going to be breathtaking this month...

i don't have them anymore but when i had pot belly pigs, they had their own pools made just for piggies. since it's all sand out here, i also used to haul dirt in to make mud wallows for them. this is arnold ziffel. :)

”Aw, c’mon! we can hear the ac, ya know”

Not hot here, actually, but ( not new) cute pic., I thought. Our pups and dd’s viisiting.

Great idea for a thread, petalique. Fun to see some Westies here. We had four (one at a time), but have been 'dog-less' for several years now.

Ongoing heat here, 30 miles north of Chicago. Thunderstorms nightly. Triple digit 'feel-like' temps today. We may be visiting the basement late in the day; tornado weather. I can't imagine what August/September will bring if it's this hot in June/July.

I love seeing these photos. Martin — that is so adorable with your caption.

I have never met a Westie, but I have admired them from afar.

Chisue, stay cool and safe. And this is only mid July. I don’t want to think about the electric bill.

Good thing this is just a few years of increasing warm weather and not anything like human influenced climate change./ sarc

I feel just awful for those without air conditioning or a way to stay cool, or cool water or people who must labor in outrageous heat.

And what is going on with Houston and areas in Texas? It must be unbearable.

I tried to post about my horses....they all have fans for their stalls. They still go out in the pasture every day...their choice, but come in around 2 pm, which is early for their evening feed (around 5:30 or 6), and stand in front of their fans. Besides getting fed twice a day, they all get soaked alfalfa pellets, which helps put more water in their gut, which I think is especially important in hot weather, altho they always get it every evening.

I also told about my new rescue horse(s)....since one more may be coming when she is strong enough to make the trip from Oklahoma. (Yes, she is that bad off....a former race horse named Egos Patriot Doll, a racing Quarter Horse.)

Anyway, I went to post a picture and lost the post. I have a new phone, and I obviously haven't figured it out. :-/

Egos Patriot Doll.

Please hold a good thought for her that she makes it here.

This is Nimbus, the other new horse. Saddlebred mare....former show horse and broodmare. Could no longer have foals....dumped at the kill pen (for slaughter). There was another one that came with her...an old Quarter Horse gelding....starved and had been to 3 auctions. Some ladies saved him and asked me to take him, and he arrived with Nimbus, but died overnight.

marilyn, you are a saint!! i do so hope and pray the mare makes it to you. poor girl is really in terrible shape. how do people let animals get this way??? i'm so sorry you lost the gelding, that must have been simply heartbreaking. :(

i once bought a very old mare at a sale barn, i outbid the killer buyer. i had zero intentions of bringing a horse home that night but i just could not let her go to slaughter. lucky for me, i had a friend there with a trailer since i had left mine at home. my vet estimated her to be near 30, she lived another couple of years as a pasture pet.

as for keeping my horses cooled off, i would turn the hose on them. those 2 silly beasts would push each other out of the way. i soaked them good then let the stock tank run over for a while so they would be stepping in a puddle whenever they drank. in drought years i always worried about their hooves getting dry/brittle.

my gelding would stand at the 75g stock tank, put his whole face in the water and then splash it back onto his chest. what a character he was!

Marilyn, sorry about the gelding. Hope the mare makes it. Do possums like watermellon?

Marilyn, you inspire me in ways I can't really explain right now. Bless you.

Sherry, yes, possums like watermelon... doesn't everyone? ;)

I took Nimbus, but was really a little more excited to get the gelding, because he was a Quarter Horse. I knew he wasn't going to make it tho, because I opened his lips to get a quick look at his teeth, and I saw his tongue was blue grey, when it should have been pink. But it was late at night.... a terrible rain storm going on, and I was afraid he would die in a stall...and the practical issue of how I was going to get him out of there. And he was dead and stiff at daybreak.

Of course I felt bad for him. I would liked for him to make it and have a better life, the rest of his life. But, he was too far gone. He had traveled over 250 miles that night, and I am thankful he didn't die in the trailer. Three other horses in there, including Nimbus, and 2 others going to another person.

Doll, the really skinny mare, was bought by a FB friend of mine who lives in California. She wanted to save her, but couldn't take her, herself. She is in Oklahoma, and my friend had her picked up by a woman who does quarantine for kill pen horses. She has been seen by a vet twice, and is slowly gaining weight. She didn't know who she could get to take the mare....but she knew I have rehabbed several senior horses, so she asked if I would take her. It is hard for me to turn down a horse. I don't have to pay for anything....she is hiring a shipper....but, of course I will pay taking care of her the rest of her life, and it is expensive.

But ...I have taken care of senior horses most of my life. So, I don't think much about that.

Ninapearl, I have horses that like water like that.

When I got Bane, one of my other kill pen horses, he had a bad skin infection and the vet prescribed medicated baths for him. He totally flipped out when I tried to bathe him. I wasn't going to get killed bathing him, because I knew once he got healthy, it would clear up.

Later....a few weeks later...he had calmed down and I found out he loves a bath. They are so stressed when they get here from the way they are handled at auction and at the kill pens, plus being taken from all familiar to them, their buddies.....it is hard on horses, and few people know or care.

Thank you for saving the old mare. I have done that at auctions too.

This why I asked Maryln..

I had cooked a Boston Butt on the Weber. Had a tin pie plate with water under it. I drained the water and fat into a jar and put it and a pie plate onto a grocery sack. I set it on the table and forgot about it until the next morning. I went out to get it and there was a half grown possum sniffing the bag! It took off and disappeared!

I have a seedless mellon That we did not like. I thought the wildlife would like it. We have not had rain in forever!

OkAY, the mellon did not work. Nothing, not bird or animal touched it. Only flies. They loved it. It all went into the garbage just now. I guess seedless watermellon just s--ks.

Anyone watch Horse Shelter Heroes, youtube videos? They rescue horses and burros from the slaughter pipeline through a buyout process. Oh my those horses are pitiful, so they must euthanize many but save many as well for adoption. People even adopt blind ones as pasture pets. At least many are saved a horrific trip to Mexico or Canada and are gently treated by HSH even if they have to be humanely euthanized.

Sorry if I missed this info, Marilyn, but is Bane still with you? I remember him.

Marilyn and everyone rescuing abused animals, you are angels.