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Moving, can my Saint Bernards do well in Phoenix?
MindLib
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So I'm moving to Phoenix, AZ, and I have two Saint Bernards. My quick and simple question is, can they get by in the heat there? Thinking that I should be keeping them shaved in the summer months, as well as limiting outside time to evenings and mornings.
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I'm sure they will be fine. Just keep them inside, keep them cool, never leave them in the car, never leave them outside in the summer, and they should be fine.
Eventually he made the dog a "cool room" out of a portable ac unit and some fabric. He set it up in the garage in such a way that the fabric would act as a tent and keep a little spot cool for the hottest part of the day if he had to go somewhere. Though he didn't use it often, I thought it was a nifty idea if you weren't going to be home and needed to have the dog not roaming the house.
On the hair thing, you can trim it back quite a bit, but it wont do a whole hell of a lot to cool the animal beyond removing insulation. When it's hot, it's hot. Dogs don't sweat so you need to come up with a way to keep em cool if they insist on playing outside. I recommend a kiddie pool.
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Once in a while a sprinkler may be fun too. I loved watching my dog bite at the water and frolic.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
I really don't think Oregon and the summer heat of Arizona are comparable. Opening your car door is like staring into an oven.
No, it's pretty comparable. The air is much more humid in Oregon, which makes it seem way hotter than it actually is, compared to Tucson's desert heat. I've been to Palm Springs, so I know what a desert is like, and this is definitely on the same level, if a little different.
fun fact: In Oregon I opened the car door once to find the vinyl upholstery tacky and melted.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
Would the humidity make it hotter for a dog though? I thought that was only an issue because it made sweat much less effective.
Water transfers thermal energy way more efficiently than air, so yeah, it's effectively hotter for everyone.
They cast a shadow like a sundial in the morning light. It was half past 10.
No, it's not. We get like one week of 90 degree weather here and that's it. And humid? Hah! You want heat humidity? Go to the east coast. It can be 70 and you'll have your clothes plastered to you by your sweat. Oregon is extremely mild temperature wise and not comparable to Phoenix in any manner.
The weather you're talking about was a freak heatwave that I've seen once in my 12 years of living here.