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02-09-2011, 02:39 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NY
Posts: 849
| Dogsicle! Roxie sleeps downstairs every night. She doesn't particularly care for the upstairs of the house, where the bedrooms are. At night the temperature goes down on the lower level of the house because I just can't afford to keep it up all night long. When I get up in the morning and come downstairs Roxie is like a little dogsicle...cold and shivering I have a little hut of hers up in my bedroom, and I've tried bringing her up there with me at night a few times. She freaks out. Barking and running around, and one time she even peed on the carpet. Is there anything I can do to get her to be more comfortable upstairs? I really hate her being down in the cold living room all night.
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02-09-2011, 03:42 PM | #2 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Deer Park New York
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| I know what you mean because the front of our home is much colder than where the bedrooms are. My dogs like to sleep in the sun room where it is really cold. We've had a few people come in and try to get that room heated but it doesn't work. We had to put our dogs in an xpen at night because we were afraid they would get sick. It took a couple of weeks but they got used to staying in the bedrooms and now they sleep in bed with us. We put in two space heaters for our basset hounds that are too big to sleep in bed with us but we feel the basset hounds are much tougher than the small dogs. It was difficult but was a matter of their health and yes they did carry on for awhile but now things are good. |
02-09-2011, 05:01 PM | #3 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 283
| I wonder if a heated dog bed might help? Or, even maybe putting a sweater on her at night might help. We have this microwavable heat pad...it believe it's called a Snugglesafe. It stays warm for 12 hours. It's hard as a rock and to tell the truth, my dog doesn't really care for it, but apparently, a lot of dogs do. (I think because my dog always tries to steal my heating pad from me!) It has 250 five-star reviews on Amazon. You can wrap it in a blanket and it's more cozy. Do you have fluffy blanket in her bed that she can snuggle in for warmth? |
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