How to Keep Your Pet Happy & Healthy On Hot Summer Days

Silly as this sounds, the most important part of feeding your pet in summer is making sure that your pet has adequate and cool enough water. Yes, the best food is water in summer. Of course your pet will need regular food, but water is essential to life. One can live almost thirty days or so, in the wilderness without food but most can only go about three days without water. Read more about this in the next section of this article.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Things You’ll Need:

• large and small bowls
• ice filled hard plastic bottle
• dry pet food
• about three teaspoons of wet food sometimes mixed in with the dry
• Make note that even though it does not look as appetizing to the animals, the dry food is more healthier for the pet than the moist food.

1. WATER, LIFE OF LIFE!
   
   All pets need water. Though some need to swim in it or cover themselves in it, most need it just to drink. On extremely hot days, a quick spray from the garden hose might be just the thing that a big dog might need.
2. FOOD:
   
   Use dry dog food or dry pet food or pellets for pet animals. The wet or moist food is subject to diseases and parasites. Dog food and animal food is not regulated by the government therefor there can be ANYTHING in it. Try the dry food and use that only.
   
   If you insist on moist food, try it as a treat , once in a while instead of giving it to the animal every single day. You know, like smokers who cannot go cold turkey, so they poison themselves only about twice a week or three times a week or they use only the polluted end of the cigarette. If you must, use it as a treat.
   
   NO TIME?
   
   If you have no time for these kinds of pets, get a fish!
3. Would you like to sleep in a cage? Probably not. Do not cage your pets. SECURITY:
   
   Cages outdoors and chains and long chains are no security for an animal. These things do not keep animals, healthy, happy or safe.
   
   And now, the part of the article that will have everyone yelping about:
   
   Though pet store owners and pet suppliers and cage sellers will insist that your dog will feel comforted and safe inside a cage inside your home, do not believe a word of it. These workers explain themselves by saying that dogs are pack animals and that the cage is there home as if they would have a cave or cage in the wild. THat is nothing further from the truth.
   
   IF a dog was in the wild and had a cage or home to feel safe, that cage or cave door would remain OPEN and the dog would be free to come and go as he pleases. This is not the case with animals who are kept in cages inside homes. If you truly believe that your dog loves his cage, then why not leave the door of his cage open? He will still have that secure feeling of being in his own home if his cage door is unlocked.
   
   Truth of the matter is that cages are just used to sell more dogs. Using cages as "homes", pet stores can sell animals that cannot be left alone in the daytime. For example, an animal that chews furniture or that poops all over the place is the animal that would be in a cage all day to prevent those types of accidents.
   
   Even the pet store owners will tell you that the animal will not poop in his "home" /cage.
   
   Take this truth and believe it or not. No dog, no domesticated animal wants to be in a cage, or likes to be in a cage or needs to be in a cage. Now the only people that will argue this point are cage sellers, retailers and people who have already been convinced to cage their poor animals up.
   
   Just do not believe the hype. Prove it to yourself. If you have a caged animal, leave the door unlocked and see what happens. If that animal is able to get out the door he will go out the door.
   
   IF the animal loves his cage, then you have no problem either, do you? After all, you can leave the door open and unlocked and since you claim that he LOVES his home/cage, then he will freely go into his home/cage when he wants to go in there.
   
   Try that experiment and see how much your animal loves to be locked inside of a cage.
   
   I tried that with a cat one day. I left the animal carrier open and unlocked. And he , once he saw that it remained open and unlocked, would go into the cage when the cage was in the car.

Tips & Warnings

• Buy cages and pet carriers only for transportation to keep the animals safe and from harm.
• DO not use chains on animals outdoors when the animals are left unattended.
• Do not use cages outdoors that have no tops and that are smaller than small rooms.
• Be kind to your pets.
• Chaining any animal up outdoors or indoors might cause an animal to strangle itself or choke itself to death. Never chain an animal unless you are holding the other end of the chain.
• Keeping an animal in a cage outdoors (without a top on the cage) subjects the animal to wild animal attacks. (For example, in one yard in the Central States, there were possums in the trees. They easily dropped down into animal cages. And any animals, dogs or otherwise in those cages were at the mercy of those wild animals.
• Leaving animals outdoors unattended for long periods of time also subjects yuor animals to rabies. Many raccoons and other wild animals, even squirrels, might be carrying or infected with rabies, so your outdoor animal has a good chance of developing rabies without you even knowing it until it is too late.
• BEST ADVICE:
• If you have a pet, keep them indoors unless you are outdoors with them.