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Originally Posted by Mardelin  I've purchased some fans that have an ability to attach a frozen item to add coolness to it. These fans can be attached to crates with no fear of causing harm to the dogs. I do have other fans that I take along. But, if you are at a show site, such as Ft. Worth Exhibition Center or the Denton Fair Grounds where grooming is in the horse barn, and the temp is 98-100 degrees, with 90% humidity, nothing helps. |
I;ve not seen those. Are they at wallmart too? I do have an electric mist fan - which is most often useless here - as our norm is if we have heat,we have lots of humidity!
I have two huge black fans, bought at Canadian Tire they are the best for our Blackies, range of blower speeds, and boy they can keep their long beard dry and the rest of them cool on a hot day. Of course we need electric for them, and that is why we had to purchase a generator as some show sites either don't have electrtic, or it costs an arm and a leg to rent!.
I remember in Missouri, when we had our 2nd US National specialty the temp was 90 in the shade all weekend. We set up under some trees, started up the generator, put up the sunscreens, etc, this poor woman came in the afternoon to show a herding dog, he was just panting from the heat. She asked if she could set up by us, we said yes of course. I could tell she was so worried about the heat and her boy, I said look come closer, we can angle the fans so your dog gets cooled down. Also we had ice cubes that we used, and gave to her dog too!.
It's great when exhibitors all work together. We stayed together all weekend, and we traded off looking after our equipment, water etc, so our dogs, were never left unattended.