Just a quick note to those of who who provide dog walking services as well as pet sitting. Please be aware of the dangers that dogs face in the current weather we are experiencing. Dogs need to inhale air cooler than their normal body temperature of 102F degrees (38.8C). In fact, even 80F degree air (26.6C) temperatures can be dangerous. Heat stroke is a dire emergency and one from which many pets do not recover. And you’d be shocked to find out just how fast it can occur. It’s probably best if you arrange with the owner in advance and agree that on days where the temperature is for example 30C or more that you won’t walk the dogs on those days. If owners are at work, some owners will probably still want you to call round anyway for playtimes and to top up water etc.
If anyone has any tips that they’d like to share with regards to keeping pets cool in hot weather, then just drop us a line and we’ll publish your tips on the blog.
Archive for January, 2009
Care with pets in hot weather
Thursday, January 29th, 2009A quick reflection on 2008
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Just a quick blog, looking back over the past few months since we took over running anzpetsit.
- In terms of visitors, as we only took over the website in July, we don’t have any figures before this date, so we can’t compare how popular the website is. However, for the stats we have, from July to year end, the website was visited approx 3500 times and people viewed around 13500 pages.
- First aid course – The online pet first aid course we added to the website is proving popular with both peple in the pet care industry and members of the general public.
- We’re delighted to have welcomed aboard several new pet sitters since July, both in Australia and New Zealand
- Website promotion – We’re continuing to promote the website and hope to double the number of visitors over the next 12 months