Dogs In The Car -- No AC

[Anonymous]

We're taking care of a friend's dog for a week. The AC in our car doesn't work. We just took the dog with us for about a 50 minute ride and he did okay, and actually seemed to enjoy it, but how hot is too hot to take him with us in the car with the windows rolled down? If it's not too hot for us, does that mean it's not too hot for him? He's a standard poodle with a short haircut. TIA.

[Anonymous]

It's 95+ air. Too hot.

[Anonymous]

Way too hot, OP. Please don't do that. And it's also too hot for most humans today. Limit your exposure to heat, especially if any of you have asthma or cardiac issues.

[Anonymous]

put on the thickest winter coat on and drive. if you are okay, dog should be okay.

[Anonymous]

Way to torture the dog. Now you offer him a nice bowl of water with ice cubes, and a cheese snack to get some salt into him. If you're going to be that incompetent, better buy some pet-a-lyte to rehydrate the dog.

[Anonymous]

INSANE!!!

WAY TOO HOT!!!

[Anonymous]

Too hot.

[Anonymous]

Way too hot and isn't it too hot for you too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're taking care of a friend's dog for a week. The AC in our car doesn't work. We just took the dog with us for about a 50 minute ride and he did okay, and actually seemed to enjoy it, but how hot is too hot to take him with us in the car with the windows rolled down? If it's not too hot for us, does that mean it's not too hot for him? He's a standard poodle with a short haircut. TIA.

It should be too hot for you. The fact that you, for some strange medical reason, cannot correctly determine that it's too hot for your own body, does not excuse your abuse of the dog under your care. If I were your friend, I would be livid.

[Anonymous]

It’s too hot, sorry. I mean he probably won’t die. But imo it’s way too hot.

[Anonymous]

He can get heat exhaustion and die. This can happen very quickly without warning. The dog isn't doing to write you a notarized warning letter in triplicate.

He can also get progressively dehydrated and develop a UTI over several days.

You are so dumb, OP. Do better. And since you can't feel the heat, I'm telling you right now that this isn't a day to bring out your elders and young kids in a car without A/C either.

[Anonymous]

I’d be pissed if you took my dog in a car with no AC in this heat for an unnecessary trip.
Don’t do it.

[Anonymous]

I have a standard poodle. It's way too hot for a long ride like that. Also, make sure you're not giving the dog water or food while he's still heavily panting; they can get bloat. If the owners didn't talk to you about it, please Google; it's real and it's serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a standard poodle. It's way too hot for a long ride like that. Also, make sure you're not giving the dog water or food while he's still heavily panting; they can get bloat. If the owners didn't talk to you about it, please Google; it's real and it's serious.

Optimal treatment is A/C, then when he's panting less, cold water.

[Anonymous]

Wait, what? The other responses on this thread are bananas.

Most dogs have loved car rides since forever, and when I was a kid, most cars didn't have AC. Not in the Stone Age, in the late 80s/early 90s. Being in a moving car without AC with the windows down is a dramatically different experience than being in a house or other enclosed space without AC. I feel like, once the car cools down and you get going, a car with the windows down on a 100 degree sunny day is the equivalent of like 75-80 degrees. Hot, but not uncomfortable or dangerous. And it's not like he's a Newfoundland, he's a poodle with a short hair cut.

Is he happy and hanging his head out the window loving life? Then do it! Give him water before you leave and upon return.

If he's curled up in the back seat, then he's a dog that doesn't like car rides. I wouldn't.