Do you heat the house for your dog?

[Imzadi]

Plus the tv if she was alone all day.

I do this too.

I do leave the AC on also. A fur coat may keep her warm enough, but I don't want her to get overheated because of that fur.

 

[SadieDog]

My boxers do just fine even if the house gets down to the high 50s (usually overnight). They can curl up in their comfy beds (or mine). I think even in the low 80s they should be fine. Frankly, they'd do better with warmer temps (after all, air conditioning is not THAT old an invention and people had dogs before it). You can run a fan that he can seek out if he wants to feel a cool breeze in the summer. But I'm a softie and when it gets much above 85 I try to let the dogs spend the day at their air conditioned grandmother's house!

I have dogs and cats. My house gets down to the high 50's at night in the winter too. During the day it's 62. I don't have to worry about too many days over 85 here in Maine.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

We have a boxer and we air condition the house for him in the summer, he doesn't deal with the heat too well, normally we keep it around 70-75 if we aren't home. We have the heat set to 65 right now, I'm sure we will keep it that way all winter. Champ likes it a little cooler anyway

 

[Stacerita]

I don't heat the house for the dog. Only for the family, and even then its rare. Doesn't get that cold around here. And when it does, we layer up before turning on the heat. If our dogs are cold, they will sit close to someone, or crawl under their blankets. They are mostly inside dogs so they generally have the temps being great. But they are dogs. We got both of them as rescues, so having a roof over their head, comfy blankets and beds, plus all the other things they have, having it dip a little cooler isn't bothering them.

 

[penguin087]

We dont worry about heating the house for her but shes a husky so its not really an issue. We do cool the house for her in the summer. The air is on 70 for her all day while we're at work.

 

[izziecat]

We heat and cool the house for our cat. We even leave the TV on so she will hear voices talking and not be so lonely. Yeah we are nuts!

 

[Kirby]

No, my dogs stay outside.

 

[pixiewings71]

Sorry, no. I lived in L.A. I just assumed the temp was about the same, maybe 10 degrees colder.

I suppose it's like AZ. People think it's hot/warm most everywhere, but you can be in Flagstaff where it's warm. Yet several miles away there is actually snow & ice on the mountains, within about 2 hours of driving.

LA & SF are very different weather wise. The LA "area" is warmer than it is up here in the North. I'm 45 min. from SF and like I said, we freeze! Sacramento commonly freezes and it snows sometimes in Auburn, which is about 30-40 min. the other side of Sac from us. I wasn't offended, but a lot of people assume that since I live in CA it's always hot, and no way is that right. LOL It will get well over 100 in the summer and drop to under freezing in the winter, it doesn't snow here very often (only once or twice in the 21 years I've lived here) but it does get cold.

 

[georgina]

Before we had guinea pigs, I would turn the heat down quite low at night. Now I don't turn it down so much, so they won't be cold. I am home during the day, so the heat is on then.

 

[Disney Doll]

When Ted was alive, I always figured that if I was comfortable, he was comfortable.

 

[pppiglet]

I don't heat the house for my cats, but I do A/C for them in the summer time.

 

[NMAmy]

We live in Michigan so the heat is always on in the winter (although we turn it down to the low 60's when we're gone.) Our golden has her own twin bed in the finished basement that she prefers to use when we're not home. She has a fur coat--she's fine. And the basement is always cool in the summer so she's fine, then, too. In fact, I think that's why she likes the basement so much--because it's cooler down there.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yes I do, but my house always hovers around the 68 degree mark summer, winter, spring & fall. This keeps the allergens and bacteria counts down for our health as well and theirs. I like a bit of a sweater and my pets have fur coats so I suspect they prefer the house a little on the cool side just like me. But, if you and your pets like it warmer and you can afford it then go for it. To each their own.

 

[suejai]

I don't heat the house specifically for the dogs. They prefer it cooler than we do anyway. We turn our heat down to about 15C (59F) at night and leave it set to around 20-24C (68-75F)during the day depending on how cold it is outside, but only because I hate coming home to a cold house. I might consider leaving the air conditioning on for them if we lived in some place like Florida; but we don't really need it up here for enough days for me to justify getting a/c.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

There's usually always someone home in my house so the temp stays the same most of the time, ie no special adjustments.

We don't have central air. I do have one section of the house I run the AC on really hot days in the summer, but it would be a waste to run it just for her as she doesn't go to that area unless someone's there - instead she generally sits by the front door looking out and waiting for us to come home.

I will leave the fan in DD's room running on those really hot days as that's the one other place she *might* go if we're not home. But even without it, she's ok.

 

[Pakey]

My dogs are hairless so I definitely keep the house warm in winter and cool in summer; at the same temps I would leave it if I were home.

 

[Angelhalo]

We don't do anything different with our heat and air for our pets. In the summer the air is usually somewhere between 75 and 77 depending on the outside temp. In the winter the heat is usually at 70-72ish unless it gets really cold and then it may go up a degree or two. The pets have warm cushy beds to lay in if they get chilly but that rarely happens. In the summer when they want to cool down they just lay down on their bellies on a piece of non carpeted floor.

 

[luvwinnie]

We have a bulldog. Heat can be fatal to them pretty fast and they don't handle cold well either. AC has to be 74 in summer (I'm freezing). We keep heat on 68 usually in winter. We also have a kitty with renal failure who gets cold easily. I had to make her a little cave (box) with wool blankets in the summer to keep warm!

 

[disykat]

We really never let it get below 62 and she has access to blankets to snuggle in so I don't consider heat an issue. No air conditioning here, but I do leave a ceiling fan on in one room for her if it's super hot so she has a way to cool down if necessary.

She normally sleeps in the laundry room in her crate at night, but if it is extremely cold (power outage) or extremely hot weather we don't crate her so she has options. That way she can sleep with us if she gets cold or get extra water and access to a fan if she's hot.

 

[daannzzz]

I think I will let the heat stay off until it gets real cold. I do know they said boxers don't do well in extreme temps but being in silicon valley we do not usually get extreme. My old house is not well insulated so in the summer the heat builds up pretty bad. That is why I used the A/C. I think he will do a bit better in the cool temps. Here he is in his crate. There is a comforter on top and then the Disney blanket to help keep the warm air inside with him. He gets to go to work 3 days a week with me where it is warmer.