# Keeping pets cool **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 5, 2012, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-pets-cool/630543 "2012-08-05T20:27:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-pets-cool/630543/21 "2012-08-07T02:36:34Z")
How the blue fuck did this post wind up in a thread about keeping pets cool? ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-pets-cool/630543/22 "2012-08-07T22:48:01Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > How the blue fuck did this post wind up in a thread about keeping pets cool? thanks, now I want a cookies! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Hamsta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Hamsta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamsta)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-pets-cool/630543/23 "2012-08-07T23:35:44Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > The speculoos has kind of a cool story, originating in the 18th century Low Countries as a way to teach children Bible stories. Religious tableaux were carved in wood and used to stamp out crispy buttery cinnamon-y cookies. They went mass-production in the early 1930s under the Biscoff name. > > If you’ve had Dutch windmill cookies (eg Voortman’s), you’ve had a kind of speculoos. > [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > How the blue fuck did this post wind up in a thread about keeping pets cool? Because… That’s why. xD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/keeping-pets-cool/630543.md?page=1)