Keeping pets cool while parked, no AC in rig?
Hello all -- My kitty who was attacked by the pit bull has developed diabetes. My guess is that he was going to anyway, and the stress put him over the edge. I was planning to leave him, and my...
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The issue with pets overheating in vehicles is that their core body temperatures get too high. One can keep the air temperature cool enough such that cooling via respiration is sufficient or one can provide a cool surface for the pet to lay on to facilitate convective cooling (like a wading pool with cool water). For healthy pets at rest in the shade air temperatures in the 90s would be okay; if this were not so pets would not survive outside in the summer in many places in the USA. Acclimation to warmer and more humid conditions is key for pets (and humans) to deal with heat stress.
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I know that some vehicles have heated and cooled car seats; is there such a thing as a thermoelectrically cooled seat cover which could be used to keep a pet cooled (in conjunction with exhaust vent&fan?
Our dogs are crated in our van while at sheepdog trials (we can leave the doors open); on hot and/or still days we use a sunshade over the van to keep the van surfaces from heating up which keeps the van cooler.
Temperature regulation of the unanesthetized cat during mild cold and severe heat stressI would expect these results are dependent upon humidity since most cooling would be due to evaporation during panting.
At an ambient temperature of 41C (106F) all physiological responses were stable and maximum; thermal equilibrium could not be obtained at 44C (111F).
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I know that some vehicles have heated and cooled car seats; is there such a thing as a thermoelectrically cooled seat cover which could be used to keep a pet cooled (in conjunction with exhaust vent&fan?
Our dogs are crated in our van while at sheepdog trials (we can leave the doors open); on hot and/or still days we use a sunshade over the van to keep the van surfaces from heating up which keeps the van cooler.
