I have a sheet of vetbed which we put down in the bedroom pod for our doggies and they love it. It's so cosy I think I'd like a piece myself. Apart from that I find the dogs settle really well if I leave a thermostatically controlled fan heater on at night.
dogs are adapt in regulating there own comfort zone by nature. you who are spoiling there natural instincts by over protection, you are doing your dog no favours by thinking keep them warm! yes they are not fools and will happily revel in your attempt to what you think is a "comfort zone". you are treating a dog has human they are not.
ok some breads are for warmer climes and have a less dense coat, but on the whole the dogs that are found prevalent in our climate can happily live controlling there own environment .
there coats provides not only warmth,but blocks out the effects of the sun. you in your mind set think they need to be wrapped like newborn's,this is far from ideal,this will hasten dropping of any growth in there coats even stopping it.thus offering less natural protection.
I wish people would start to remember that your "rover" is part of the wolf family and not a surrogate child.
One of our dogs shivvers indoors at home in the morning when she wakes up, and in the evening before bed time. Took them camping last week though, sleeping in a tent, and she didn't shivver at all. No covers, no nuttin'! At home she sleeps a lot during the day when not out and about. Camping she was awake and alert and happy all day. Guess she prefers outdoors life.
We did buy Comet a doggy sleeping bag, but he just sleeps on the beds with us.
Once or twice last week when we were sitting outside (on the rare occasions that we could) we just put a fleece blanket over him if he seemed cold. I always take plenty of fleecy blankets for us, so could always throw one of the smaller ones over him.
I have just bought Blue a dog coat - it was quite cheap off the market (I think someone makes them). Its material with fur lining. First time I put it on Blue he was not impressed. However after snuggling back down in his cage in the car he was warm as toast. Blue does like his comforts though at 13 - he's a very old OAP!
Dogs just like us feel the cold at night.Our Springer 'Blue'lays at the side of my airbed on a picnic rug and then a blanket,I then cover him up with his thick fleece pet blanket.He snuggles down and very rarely moves all night.
Just looking at RogLozLee's post above our 'Blue' is also 13.He will be 14 on 18 september while we are away camping.
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dogs are adapt in regulating there own comfort zone by nature. you who are spoiling there natural instincts by over protection, you are doing your dog no favours by thinking keep them warm! yes they are not fools and will happily revel in your attempt to what you think is a "comfort zone". you are treating a dog has human they are not.
ok some breads are for warmer climes and have a less dense coat, but on the whole the dogs that are found prevalent in our climate can happily live controlling there own environment .
there coats provides not only warmth,but blocks out the effects of the sun. you in your mind set think they need to be wrapped like newborn's,this is far from ideal,this will hasten dropping of any growth in there coats even stopping it.thus offering less natural protection.
I wish people would start to remember that your "rover" is part of the wolf family and not a surrogate child.
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In nature a dog who is cold will help themselves by digging a pit to snuggle into, or find a warmer place to shelter.
We take a dogs ability to do that away by telling them where they are sleeping, so its quite important that we offer blankets etc to allow them to make nests etc (mimicing what they would do in the wild).
A dog wo is to hot will shrug out of any blankets offered, and put themselves somewhere cooler.
Yes dogs descended from wolves (although there are those who argue they didn't!)but my dog is slightly more domesticated than he would have been 15,000 years ago. If dogs "regulated their comfort zone" so well then there wouldn't be an issue with leaving your dog in the car with the windows closed in the middle of summer and we don't do that now do we?
Usually if my dog is cold in the night he jumps down off his leather sofa with fleece rug and joins me and OH in our kingsize bed with quilt! We only had single beds/air beds this year so Aspen had a camping mat on the floor with a fleece on top of it, with an air bed then another fleece, then him, then another fleece on top...lol.. I kept waking up wondering if he was too cold or too hot but he was warm without being too hot and lay and snored the whole night!
So each to their own, if you feel your dog is warm and comfy enough lying on the floor of the tent without any insulation or blankets then fine, but all I know is my dog gets cold on a night in the house so I KNOW he's cold when camping.
Oops and yes he's spoiled but I don't treat him like a child, I treat him like the loving domesticated furry human he is..lol...
Merlin, my labrador and Jack Russell are domesticated pets..not wolves. As domesticated pets they are used to living in domestic climatic conditions. I personally could not sleep soundly while my two dogs shiver on the cold tent floor. I think that would be cruel. I have two children who I treat with love and respect. My dogs are not surrogate children they are pets and I treat them with love and consideration.
We got our greyhound pyjamas as with so little body fat he got cold. He has these plus 2 fleece blankets if it's really cold as we don' heat our tent. He is still wrapped up when we wake up in the morning and is toasty warm.
He also has a raised bed with thermal mattress to keep him away from drafts
Just remembered, when we went camping last week, our border X JRT bitch slept in the same sleeping bag as our 15yr teenage bitch....oops, I mean daughter!
So each to their own, if you feel your dog is warm and comfy enough lying on the floor of the tent without any insulation or blankets then fine, but all I know is my dog gets cold on a night in the house so I KNOW he's cold when camping.
I know when Lola is cold as, apart from the shivering, she drops 1lb or more in a couple of days.
For a skinny dog who only weighs 13lbs, that's a significant weight loss. Wearing her equafleece stops that happening.
We have a 17 month Lab, Paddy. Every bed we have brought him he has eaten So when i was looking for something to take camping for him i was not expecting to have it for long!
In the end I got a piece of vet bed and it seems perfect!
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Don't see the point in giving him blankets etc- he does not stay still long enough for me to get them on him and he certainly never seems cold!
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So when i was looking for something to take camping for him i was not expecting to have it for long!
