How to prevent your cats from heat stroke?
By Elaine77
@Elaine77 (315)
China
July 12, 2009 2:56am CST
Hi there,
Recently I moved into an apartment that face directly towards north. Everyday after 10 AM these days, the indoor temperature rise to 30 degree. I have to work and cannot take good care of them, when I returned from work I always find them under the bed.
Is there an effect way to make my cats feel cool? One of them is of long fur, should I cut them? All I can do now is to close the curtains and offer them enough water, Please help me.
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6 responses
@dolphin2406 (1224)
• Poland
12 Jul 09
Hi Elaine, if you want you can shave their fur or cut it shorter. I have a friend who shaves his cat. I don;t like that and will never shave my cat. He does not go out much in the sun, he usually spends his day sleeping on the bed, which room is very hot because of the sun. If he wants he can stay in the living room as on that side it is much cooler but he does not stay there much except when I'm there. Also he does not stay in front of the fan, I suppose he does not like it, so he stays on the side. Here the temperature last week rose even to 36degrees.
@dolphin2406 (1224)
• Poland
12 Jul 09
I saw the photos, your cats are very cute. I guess they wouldn't be nice anymore when shaved, but if helps them I would prefer to do it than letting them suffer.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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12 Jul 09
I assume that you don't have air conditioning so I think that all that you can do is to make sure that they have plenty of water, which you are doing. Perhaps it will help though if you rigged up a fan to keep the air moving under the bed which is obviously the coolest place for them.
@jwfarrimond (4473)
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12 Jul 09
Yes it would be expensive. By the way, you say that your apartment faces North and I presume that you are meaning that it gets the sun through the day. Your profile says that you are in China, so if you are getting the sun from the north at the moment, I presume that you are in Southern China?
@Elaine77 (315)
• China
12 Jul 09
I live in central part, my apartment is among with a lot of tall buildings, some of them are of glass wall, so when the sun goes up, the sunshine reflects to my apartment, at the afternoon, the sun would shining directly to my livingroon, it gets pretty hot here
@fifileigh (3615)
• United States
14 Jul 09
1. give them a cold bowl of water filled with ice on a daily basis all summer long.
2. put their food and litter box in a tiled cool area with no rugs or carpets.
3. use an a/c or fan to keep the area cool.
4. in the evening, open the window to a screen so that cool summer nights air can flow through the house, especially in the area where the cat goes.
5. open ur door, and leave the screen door shut in the evenings to bring in cool night air.
@ShadoCat (92)
• United States
13 Jul 09
Cats can survive without difficulty temperatures up to 140F (far higher than you). So, expect them to be OK with any temperature that you can handle.
Their fur acts as a very good insulator.
As someone else said, make sure they have plenty of water.
If you see them panting, then you need to be worried. That is the sign that they are tying to cool down. Most people have never seen a cat so hot that it was panting. Probably because most people would be unconscious at those temperatures.
@ds6413 (2070)
• United States
13 Jul 09
Hi, what I used to do was wet a towel and place it on my cat when I was travelimg with him. He was one of those cats that didn't mind the water too much. A paper towel sometimes is better and just get it wet again when it dries out.I one used a fan and had a bowl of ice in front of the fan so it was sort of blowing cooler air.Only I had to keep an eye on the ice so it didn't melt and spill over. That one took some time, the wet paper towel worked better but my cat didn't mind the wet paper towel.
If you try to make a big ice cubes and put it in the big blow for your cat eat and play it all day when you don't stay your house.