Keeping your frenchie cool in the summer!

When it comes to frenchies every owner must know that they cant regulate their body tempretures which makes them prone to overheating and extremely vunerable to heat stroke. Here are some great ideas on how to keep your frenchie cool and healthy in the heat. 

Firstly lets start with the obvious, keep your frenchies coat damp! Spray water over their coat trying to keep it evenly moist, especially focusing on the chest and head area.

Secondly is cool coats . In my eyes these are an amazing invention. A cool coat is a jacket that wraps around your frenchie and keeps moist by applications of water. This allows heat to dissipate from your frenchies body, just as sweat on the surface of our skin does for people. The moist coat wicks heat away from the body surface, which in turn draws heat from the internal organs, keeping your frenchie cool from the outside in!

Please note.. DO NOT PUT A COOL COAT ON A FRENCHIE WITH ACTIVE HEAT STROKE! THE COAT WILL ACT TO TRAP THE OVER HEATED AIR FROM THE SURFACE OF THE FRENCHIES BODY. ACTING AS A SAUNA. instead soak your frenchie with cool (not cold) water repeatedly .

Thirdly place a hard plastic paddling pool in your garden enough so they can splash around! Having access to a paddling enables them to go and cool down when they are feeling too hot. Be warned! My two frenchies like to go in the paddling pool and then roll around the garden so expect a muddy pup. To prevent algae growth in the pool rinse it every couple of days and clean it with vinegar with water.

The fourth great thing is to buy a cooling pad. As frenchies are particually susceptible to the heat. Cooling pads wicks heat away from the internal organs as they lay on it. A cool belly = a cool frenchie.

Access to plenty of fresh drinking water is a MUST. If my 2 frenchies won't drink i freeze a bowl of water with a little bit of chicken stock in it so they spend ages licking at the ice cube. 

I hope these tips give you some ideas on how to keep your frenchie cool whilst preventing heat stroke along the way! Also remeber, if the sun isn't out these rules still apply as the humidity in the air can make them overheat too.