Hot Dog Day 2024 is on Tuesday, July 23, 2024: How do I keep my dog cool at hot days?

Tuesday, July 23, 2024 is Hot Dog Day 2024.

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Hot Dog Day

Each day for parades, occasions, and hotdogs by the bucket load. Celebrated around the globe, Hot Dog Day is definitely an chance to boost money for non profit organizations although mixing large amounts of sausages, bread, ketchup, mustard and let's eat some onions.

How do I keep my dog cool at hot days?

As temperatures soar, dogs become more vulnerable to heat stress. Maintaining a comfortable environment for your dog is important. Providing plenty of cool, fresh water will help keep your dog cool throughout the summer.

Hot pavement, sticky tar or gravel may cause footpad problems. To remove tar from footpads, rub them with petroleum jelly and then gently wash with mild soap and water and rinse thoroughly. Never use kerosene or turpentine to remove tar. These chemicals irritate the skin and can be toxic to your pet.

Sometimes we worry that our dogs are not eating as well as usual. Unless a dog displays other signs of illness, chances are it's doing what many dogs do during hot weather — eating less. Many cats also tend to eat less during extremely hot weather.

Providing plenty of cool, fresh water will help keep your pet cool throughout the summer. Put a few ice cubes in the water bowl during periods of extreme heat.

Maintaining a comfortable environment for our pets is important. Pets who are left outside should have plenty of shade and cool water.

Confinement in a car or any other poorly ventilated enclosure can be fatal to a pet. One study reports that when the outside temperature is 78¡F, a closed car will reach 90¡F in five minutes, and 110¡F in 25 minutes. Avoid excessive exercise of dogs during hot days or warm, humid nights. The best time to exercise dogs is either early in the morning before sunrise or late in the evening after the sun goes down.

As temperatures soar, pets become more vulnerable to heat stress. Puppies and kittens and geriatric dogs and cats tend to be more susceptible. Others at risk include short-nosed breeds, like the bulldog and the pug, and Persian cats; overweight pets; and pets with cardiac or respiratory disorders.

Adult pets more susceptible to heat stress include those who recently moved from cool to warmer climates, those or with cardiovascular or respiratory disorders or with a history of heat stress.

Dogs who have recently received short haircuts may become sunburn victims and are as susceptible to heat stress as dogs with their natural hair coats. In fact, a dog's hair coat has insulative characteristics to help protect it from heat. Close clipping should be avoided during hot weather.

Does eating sausage (hot dog) and yogurt in the same day cause cancer?

Does eating sausage (hot dog) and yogurt in the same day cause cancer?

The hot dog may if you eat one every day. It's called "processed meats."

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What a great question!

I found this website with this explanation:

What are the "dog days of summer"?

Are you familiar with the Dog Star? I have heard the star rises and sets with the sun. I am trying to ascertain if it is fact or fiction. Does the term "dog days of summer" come from the star?

Well, the dog star is actually Sirius which is the brightest star in the night sky and it does rise and set with the Sun at some times during the year - when it does this it is said to be in conjunction with the Sun.

Since Sirius is the brightest star that we can see in the sky, it might be thought reasonable to guess that it adds some heat to the Earth when it is in the sky, although that amount is now known to be insignificant.

The name "dog star" came from the ancient Egyptians who called Sirius the dog star after their god Osirus, whose head in pictograms resembled that of a dog. In Egypt, and in ancient Rome, Sirius was in conjunction with the Sun in the summer (ie. it was up in the sky at the same time as the Sun) and ancient Egyptians and Romans argued that it was responsible for the summer heat by adding its heat to the heat from the Sun.

The called the period of time from 20 days before to 20 days after the conjunction "the dog days of summer" because it coincidentally fell at the time of year when it was very hot.

The exact time of conjunction changes with the precession of the equinoxes so that now the conjunction of Sirius with the Sun is a little earlier in the northern summer than it was during Roman times, and as time passes it will move out of the summer season altogether (note: the conjunction is in the southern winter (both now and in Roman times), so ancient civilizations in the southern hemisphere could not have come up with this myth).

August 2002, Jagadheep D. Pandian (more by Jagadheep D. Pandian), Karen Masters (more by Karen Masters)

I had no idea it was an astronomy reference.

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