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Freezing Danger for any outdoor Pets
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30-12-2009 11:26am#1
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I personally know of 6 dogs within half a mile of me who are outside, on short chains, & only have an open fronted kennel for shelter. Their owners do not care at all. One of them leaves the door open on an old car so that "the dog can get in out of the cold". Try sitting in your car for a while with the engine not running & the door open.
Plenty of "caring" owners will have the dog sleeping outside in his "warm" kennel. Get a cheap digital thermometer & you may be surprised at just how cold your "warm" kennel really is.
My two sleep in a small conservatory. Last week the indoor temperature fell to 7c at night which is why they each have an electric heat pad. The pads are cheap to buy, very cheap to run & make a huge difference. They are available in two versions, a metal plate for dogs that chew & a flexible pad for dogs that don't. The pads run via a low voltage adapter so they are totally safe & they use about 12 watts which is nothing.
An individual Pad out of its velour cover:
Two Pads tied to the ortho foam to prevent wrinkling. A faux fur cover goes over the entire bed. Note that the pads do not cover the whole bed so there are cooler areas:
Finally a cheap thermostatic adapter switches the pads on at a preset temperature - available from B&Q. The pads only give off a small amount of heat & have overheat protection. They are widely available on ebay. The ones that I use are from Petnap:
Proof of the pudding is that even my Greyhound stays cosy & has nice warm ears in the morning. I tried using one pad but they kept pushing each other out of the way to get on the warm bit !0 -
Discodog... You're brilliant. where can I get the metal plate??? (oops, never mind, just saw your reference to petnap - thank you!)
I think its a fab idea as my little one cant help ripping out all her bedding (even if shes left for 20 minutes). Its her daily challenge.
Ive stapled bedding to the floor of her kennel and like magic, mins later its in the garden.
Christmas eve, she was left in the garden for 20 minutes while I nipped to the shop. (believe me, she did not want to be in the house)
I arrive back and the little twit is not in her kennel but in the middle of the lawn, curled up in a ball, shivering like crazy with sleet falling on her. :mad:
now if i could only buy her some sense....
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The weather really is awful, our dogs normally sleep in the garage but they've been in the house since the colder weather started, now with the stormy weather the other half is seriously considering taking the 2 sheep into the house too I keep telling him that a straw filled shelter is grand and cosy for them and most sheep don't even get that but it doesn't stop him worrying about preveiling winds and checking on them 3 times a day :rolleyes: Don't think adding 2 non housetrained sheep to the 6 dogs and 2 rabbits already in residence in the house would be a good recipe for harmony! 0
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CrowdedHouse wrote: »We use these they're pretty good.
Zap them in the microwave for 5 mins or so.
They retain heat for hours.
Disadvantage - smallish and rock hard
http://www.snugglesafe.co.uk/heatpad.htm
Hmmmm.... Maybe should get these for sheep, might keep hubby from worrying 0 -
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Sheep worrying hubby better than hubby worrying sheep ! Very true!
When we got sheep we swore we wouldn't make pets out of them, they were to mow grass and nothing else.... that lasted about 1 week before they got named, their own individual feed bowls, let into the rest of the garden cos we reckoned they were lonely, a summer shelter and then a double walled winter shelter specially built for them, despite their breed being from an island off the northern hebrides of Scotland! And who says city slickers don't make good country people?!! Neighbours thought we were soft in the head when we got vet out to look at one of their hooves, they reckoned the call out fee was worth more than the sheep, we couldn't have done otherwise though.0 -
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Ah Memories. On one occasion a Boxer, a Saluki, 2 lambs, a fox cub & some baby wild bunnies, oh & 3 cats all spread out in front of a huge Aga. As each one got too hot they would move to the back & another would move to the hot spot. All except the Boxer who would just roast. Took up half the kitchen !.
Now that would be well worth seeing!
As it is the sheep don't see why they shouldnt be allowed into the cabin my hubby works from during the day and they headbutt the doors. You should see him trying to explain the noise to the Americans when he's on a conference call - now they really do think we're backward!
Here's a pic of the two trouble makers, I think a nice red coat each would look great!0 -
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