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Our 14 year old beagle dove into the trash can for food and died from  
the heat. I was gone today when my hubby found him. It's been over  
100 for a while. Just had given him a bath last week and was keeping  
the old man in the house, somehow he slipped out and died doing what  
he loved-eating trash. Trying to keeps dogs in and horses semi-cool,  
but obviously accidents can happen and the heat makes you pay. We're  
a sad family tonight. 14 years is a long time to spend with a dog.  
Cecil will be missed.
Tiffany
On Jul 18, 2006, at 3:16 PM, rides2far@xxxxxxxx wrote:

> > I would like to hear other's ideas on this as well.  N. Alabama is
> > "on fire".  We too are having consecutive days of over 100 degrees
>
> Am I the only one who has stepped out in this heat and thought this is
> what it will be like if they have the WEC in Malaysia? It's easy  
> enough
> to imagine it in the winter, but when I step out into this it seems
> impossible and even if possible...like something I wouldn't want to  
> do to
> a horse.
>
> I'm not sure what the heat index has been, but it's upper 90s, high
> humidity and it hits like a wall this week when I walk out the  
> door. All
> summer my horses have voluntarily lined up to be put in the barn at  
> 10 AM
> where they stand with fans and hay all day. NOT THIS WEEK. It's  
> been so
> hot they've refused to come in the barn because the barn has suddenly
> become a furnace. What was shade is now an oven. The air coming out of
> the overhead fans was superheated and I had to cut them off. I put  
> a fan
> at ground level but it still feels like standing in front of a  
> furnace.
>
> The good news is...it's so hot the flies are hardly biting!  The  
> horses
> act as if the heat isn't as big of a deal as the flies were. When they
> stay out of the barn they really aren't even hovering in the shade,
> they're out in the sun grazing. When I checked on them (and it about
> killed me to walk out there) they weren't even sweating and didn't  
> seem
> concerned.  I do hose them *before* I ride because they feel kind of
> sticky.
>
> I've ridden up till this Sat. but when this wave hit I've left them
> alone. It's supposed to get less horrible Saturday. Stepping into the
> woods helps tremendously. It's still thick, but no radient heat coming
> off the ground. Good ol' deep woods, humid, rain forests, but shady!
>
> I'm worried about how to control the heat for the farrier. Thinking  
> about
> bringing the horses into the living room.
>
> Angie
>
>
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