She said that if a dog gets overheated, it can lead to heat stress and exhaustion.
Our Aunt Flo visits us once a year during the summer. Aunt Flo is quite outspoken, especially when it comes to her personal comfort! She consistently lets us know if the water heater settings aren’t to her liking or if my buddy and I keep the home too cool. My wonderful friend and I have never been able to settle our differences about the temperature setting of the central air conditioner. My wonderful friend and I have a dog that is a shepherd husky mix, which means he has a double layer of fur. My wonderful friend and I consider him an pressing member of our family, and keeping the air conditioner set to a comfortable temperature for him is pressing. So when Aunt Flo is visiting, she can complain all she wants to that the thermostat is set too low because our dog’s needs are pressing too. If he spends a lot of time sitting on the air register, for example, my buddy and I can tell that he’s too hot, last summer time my buddy and I lost power during a heat wave and our awful dog was really uncomfortable! Not Aunt Flo – she thought that the home temperature was just right. When the power and the air conditioner came back on, her complaining started all over again. Once she tried to convince us that air conditioner isn’t wonderful for dogs and that their panting is enough to cool them down… But our vet told us that panting essentially does nothing if the air is too hot or humid. She said that if a dog gets overheated, it can lead to heat stress and exhaustion. My wonderful friend and I have finally settled on a compromise with Aunt Flo. My wonderful friend and I now keep the air conditioner set at 72 degrees during her visits. But the minute that she leaves, my buddy and I rush to the thermostat to lower the setting to our dog’s favorite temperature.