Heat tolerance?

[Slick]

Leo is pretty indifferent to heat.

We live in the Central Valley of California so it gets into the high 90s and low 100s pretty much all summer (103 today, ugh...). The only real difference is that he tires more quickly playing Frisbee and will actually voluntarily take breaks to sit in the shade sometimes (as opposed to me having to monitor him the rest of the year, since he would play Frisbee until he fell over).

He's not a swimmer, which is a bummer, because that would help a lot. But overall, he just doesn't seem super uncomfortable in the heat. He just goes with the flow. I definitely pay attention to it a lot more than him. On a hot day, I will wet him down if we are outside a lot, and he's always like "Mooooooom, why did you do that???? "

 

[sassafras]

Pip is fairly heat intolerant. Maisy is super heat tolerant. The others seem pretty average so far (haven't seen Toast in really hot weather yet, though).

It's cliche, but humidity bothers them far more than heat does.

 

[Jadex]

They both tolerate heat well. Ryker will sun bathe outside all day when it's hot if I let him. They are less active when it's really hot and humid.

 

[Samsonyte!]

Well it's been around 80 the last few days and both dogs have been content to lay around and not do much until evening when it cools down. Usually Wilson spends most of the day running around being busy but he's been chilling out on the hardwood a decent amount.

Sam loooves to sunbathe though. He'll spend hours laying on the back porch in the sun.

 

[Snark]

Murphy hides in the air-conditioning when the temp gets anywhere near 80, he's happiest at around 20 degrees. He'll wade in a lake but refuses to get in the baby pool, unless it's frozen...

Riley will play in the heat/humidity, just not as long as he usually does, and he'll go jump in the baby pool to cool off periodically. Michaela usually entices him to run a lot more than he normally would, he just can't resist chasing her. He also hates being hot at night and likes having a fan blowing on him.

Michaela is a wild child, racing all over the place, then blasting through the dog door into the basement to collapse on the cool cement for 3 seconds, then blasting out again to race like a crazy dog all over again. The heat doesn't seem to bother her too much, but she's also got the thinnest coat...

 

[GoingNowhere]

Boo doesn't seem to like the heat, but that's understandable for a 10 year old dog with long, black fur. With that said, she is still willing to go outside, though we don't take her on particularly long walks when it's really hot. She did about 2 (slow) miles today though at 80 degrees. It was around a lake, so there were frequent stops for wading and drinking, but she came home and promptly laid down frog-style on the cold tile floor.