Do have a cite for this? Snopes seems to think this (or at least the related story concerning ice) is a myth:
Also Scumpup can chalk me up to that heinously unconscionable group of inhumane monsters who have occasionally let their dog get hot while forgetting my water bearing helicopter back at home.
If he’s not drinking ears seem like the obvious place to me.
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I missed this one. This is entirely inappropriate for a first response in GQ. This is a warning for being a jerk and threadshitting.
Colibri
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Just curious Leo Bloom, was it this dog?
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But please note the narrative:
He throws up mightily a half hour later–which, sad to say, I was pleased about, relatively speaking, because from experience I was waiting for uncontrollable diarrhea every which way.
Questions:
I’ve been contemplating this thread this morning trying to think of a time my dog passed by an opportunity to drink … I’ve come up blank … even while walking along a creek, and my dog drinking his fill every five minutes, he’ll still lap down any water I offer him …
I just assumed this was more than just staying hydrated … he’s taken it into mind that’s it’s his job to mark my territory … that takes a lot of water … fine with me, he’ll not be arrested for indecent exposure …
Evaporative cooling from the tongue and foot pads helps with thermoregulation.
Another reason I prefer rural over city life. When we are walking with the dogs and they are hot, a quick walk in the creek or swim in a pond and they’re happy.
Cite?
I was wondering about that thread, where the popular sentiment also had a touch of pitchfork and torch about it.
ETA: I’m tempted to add “of course I know,” but I won’t, since a thread is multipurpose. I know about the physiological evaporative cooling mechanisms of the dog.
It is the pure physics of evaporative cooling of skin surface and of hair and heat conduction that interests me. (Somewhere I have a cite to a slo mo study on animal shaking-off-water, along these lines.)
Which includes, as pointed out, in one of the more rational posts above, the conduction through the byways of a double coat, whose presence I noted. I brush him deeply about a half a hour a day now, and enjoy the king about all those nifty passages I’m fluffing up.
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This is irrelevant to the subject of the thread. Drop it. If you have a problem with the OP’s care of his pets, take it to the Pit.
Colibri
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I don’t have a golden retriever handy to assess where the best spot is but I’d think a part which has 1) relatively little fur 2) well exposed to the air for breezes to interact with the wet part 3) preferably underneath the dog so the dog will create a shadow.
Perhaps under the chin, throat, the legs below the elbows and knees?
Also, perhaps you might have him shaved for the hottest part of the summer. He might look stupid but he’ll be comfortable.
You might go for this length: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-u8Cbhj_TnPo/TjX0i6JhuFI/AAAAAAAADV8/kqABhn_w7Ms/s1600/GoldengrB%2526A3.jpeg
or shaved close: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a218/luvallpups/champshavejpgf.jpg
If you go shorter, watch out for sunburn.
You might have gotten less pushback if you’d asked the question in this more straightforward manner. And I would think the thing to do would be to leave the water in the bottle, in case he wants more later. But I get the impression you really just wanted to know about how best to cool a dog, why not just ask that question?
Now it’s my turn to get jumpy: as maybe one or two posters have noted above: DO NOT REMOVE THE TOPCOAT (“shave”) of any double-coated dog in the summer, or ever really, but in the summer you are making the heat terribly worse for the dog.
Double-coated dog=thermos bottle.
The same barrier of air between the layers of fur is what keeps them warm in winter also cools them in summer.
I want to murder owners and groomers who-just-follow-orders when I see them.
I had a dog who once or twice a summer would push her limits and have heat issues (rectal temperature dangerously elevated). She’d chase a ball and not take a break, and my son wouldn’t recognize that a break was needed.
I’d get her to lay down on her side and I’d put a freezer pack in her groin. She would lie quietly, panting, and you could watch her temperature slowly return toward normal.
She was an amazing dog. She fought mast cell cancer, staying in remission for almost three years until it showed up in her spleen, which was removed. Then it was in her liver and that was too much.
Don’t double-coat dogs get to a point where the fur is not enough to insulate them from the exterior heat?
Do you know if it works the same with cats?
Don’t know nothin about cats.
Dogs? Yes. Then, if you some water handy, you can wet them.
And post about it. 
I just now remembered a met a professional musher (isn’t that a cool thing to have on your business card) in the dog park last summer, who buys these water/ice(?) thermo jacket things from RAI – is that the name of the sporting goods store-- for her sled dogs in the summer when she takes a few down to NYC. I looked them up once but have completely forgotten what they were about.
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Zeus is also a marker of our territory and against any dog & anywhere other dogs have marked or might mark sometime in the future.
He won’t come inside the house until the inside temperature is 5 degrees cooler than the outside which must be 73°F or higher.
That is in fact the one that I use, at a petco great we give you tub and supplies and pro equipment for $10.00. (It’s crazy how much to pay for a wash in NYC–$90 by the time you get out of there.)
He doesn’t like it, and I’m looking to buy the right (MUCH) slower hand drier.
Have you thought of writing the rest of the lyrics to your country song?
You sound like an OK dog owner to me. If he seems to be panting overly or otherwise in distress, find some shade. Squirting cool water on his back (or elsewhere) couldn’t hurt though.
Dr. Khuly’s Top Nine Coolest Summertime Pet Products for 2013
Interesting, including the comment thread.
Why don’t you let him in the house?
OK, might as well say what I think I said in some other thread would be the last time I say it, and although two dings and a note seems to be kind of a record in such a short thread–not counting conceivably the above crack/would-have-been bit of humor, depending on the mod’s mood:
I have now my second service dog, after having had my previous one (my current pup’s Uncle-of-some-degree) for the last 10 years. Every pet owner and pet have their own special relationship, I guess, and comparatives in such things are not definitive or objective or possible, really.
But I do think that the care, concern, and attention I give my dog–leaving aside “love/emotional bonding”–and which he gives me, is of an order quite uncommon to anyone who has never been in such a relationship with an animal.
He is with me almost every day of our lives 24 hours. If it is 90-deg weather out, and I have stuff to do, he suits up because that’s life. It’s hot. Life is also shopping in the tiny aisle of a Chinatown butcher walking unperturbed wedged between rows on either side of floor-level crates of bones and meat; so is knowing how and demanding to stay beside me and stay inside an ambulance or the tons of other technical stuff–his most serious games and joy for both of us–which he does to keep me out of one as often as possible.
My relationship with him is second only to mine with wife in some respects.
For the curious, at least three photographs of my current dog (the pitied object of comment in this thread) have been cited/posted in the annals of SD, although his stealth capability is actually quite high.
