Scratchings-and-Sniffings

Posted by Animals at 5:44 PM Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Scratchings-and-Sniffings

Spot Speaks on Happy Healthy Living

Posted: 20 May 2009 11:19 AM PDT

Speaking-for-Spot-cover Dr. Nancy Kay, veterinarian and author of Speaking for Spot, has a really good newsletter. This week's article is about a contest she had on her blog, Speaking for Spot (she's really good at branding, too!).

I liked it so much, I thought I'd share one of the winner's bits of advice, here.

Dr. Nancy asked readers to submit helpful tips for canines. She gave an autographed copy of her book to the winners. Because this particualr tip is so good, and unique, I wanted to share it here - with encouragement for all readers to visit Dr. Nancy's site, buy her award winning book, and stop over at her blog.

Tonya, a Speaking for Spot reader, wrote to Dr. Nancy and said, "With hot weather approaching and family dogs that want no part of swimming or the hose, we have found a pefect solution. We built our dogs a sand pit in a shady area. We moisten the sand," Tonya continues, "with water and the Boxers eenjoy lying in the coolness. In addition," (she is one smart cookie, I think!), "our Danish/Swedish Farmdog loves to dig and has learned that the sand pit is his special digging spot. At the end of the day, a quick squirt of the hose puts all the sand back in the pit, levels it and makes ready for the next day of warm weather. Any sand in the dogs' coats dries quickly and drops off before entering the house."

Now, that's what I call innovation. What do you do to help keep your dogs cool during those dog days of summer, which will be here before we know it? I always keep ice cubes in Carmie's dish. Well, I did, anyway. She loved ice cubes and they kept her water nice and cool.

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