In summer, we all are taking care of ourself by drinking too much water, keep Air Conditioner, Eat cold food and wear comfortable cloths. But did you now, a dogs need more attention in summer. Summer management for your dog keep them healthy and active all day on this hot days.
But how we can do summer management for our child?
7 Points Consider to summer management for your dog
This summer, we can consider some managemental tips for your dog.
- Ticks management
- Food management
- Environment management
- Exercise
- Bathing routine
- Hair Clipping
- Water Intake
1. Ticks management in summer for dogs
Ticks are highly seen in summer season in your dog skin. Ticks are some type of parasite that hide and resident in your dog skin.
Ticks are two types mainly:
- Soft ticks
- Hard ticks
Due to ticks, many dangerous problem happen with your dog like kidney and liver failure. So ticks management is the crucial for your dog.
How to remove ticks from dog body?
For removing ticks there are many instruments available at market. You do not remove ticks by simple pull, it can cause bleeding and some time teeth of ticks can also reside in the dog body.
For removing, you can twist the ticks to clockwise manner and remove.
2. Food management in summer for dogs
Like human, we also eat foods those are suitable us in summer. So for dogs, we also give them a suitable foods in this summer. You can this food in this summer
- Cucumber
- Watermelon
- Yogurt
- Coconut water
- Mango
Sometimes giving coconut water, dog may feel the gassy tummy. So give this food in restricted manner only.
3. Environment management for dogs in the summer
In the summer, we purchase cooler, air conditioner and many things that keep cool us. But did you know that dog feel more warmness than us, because for temperature management dogs not sweat like us, they just have remove excess heat from their paws or from respiration.
For keep cooling, you can purchase sprinklers, a wet jute, cooler environment(not by Air conditioner), etc. Do not use air conditioner for keep cooling for your dog(except breed that are origin from cold environment).
You also use Co0ler mat that make dog cool.
4. Exercise management for dogs in summer
We all know that exercise to dogs is very much important for their entire health. But sometimes heavy exercise in this summer is dangerous to dogs. So, avoid heavy exercise in this summer.
You can give exercise in early morning or late evening. At this time the environment is not too much warm.
You can keep water bottle along with you to keep your dog does not feel thirsty. Keep in mind that give water after sometimes so avoidance of stomach pain.
5. Bathing routine
In summer, we also bath two times to keep us cool. You also increase frequency of bathing to your dogs. Generally 1 bath every 1 week is recommended but you can increase the frequency along your dog’s body to keep them cool always.
For bathing, you always use the dog’s specific soap or shampoo to avoid any further complication.
6. Hair Clipping
In summer, we all are cut hair to cool us head. And we think this strategy also work to dogs. But don’t do that.
Dog’s hair protects them from winter season as well as summer season. So never cut all hair of dogs, this will lead to many other complications. Littel bit cutting hair might help but never cut their entire hair.
7. Water management in summer season for dogs
Water in term of sweat is used to cool the body in hot environment. This water is come from tissue and in tissue water come from blood.
So, too much sweating can lead to reduce amount of blood and can lead to many complications.
In general, dog need to around 40-50 ml water/kg of body weight to maintain health status. In summer, it might be high.
So regularly provide freshwater bowl to your dog can maintain water level in body.
Don’t give too much chilled water to your dog. This can lead to sever complication including stomach pain.
Conclusion
In summer, you need to give extra care to your dog to keep them healthy. Now a days summer get hotter and hotter day by day. You need to attention toward your friend is very crucial.