|
Welcome to the YorkieTalk.com Forums Community - the community for Yorkshire Terriers. You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. You will be able to chat with over 35,000 YorkieTalk members, read over 2,000,000 posted discussions, and view more than 15,000 Yorkie photos in the YorkieTalk Photo Gallery after you register. We would love to have you as a member! Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today! If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please click here to contact us. |
|
| LinkBack | Thread Tools |
02-23-2005, 12:48 PM | #1 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Posts: 37,147
| Yorkies and sailing We have a sailboat and would like to take our Yorkies when they are adults sailing with us. I have read Yorkies can be sensitive to the heat. If so how sensitive are they?? Untill July it is usually breezy and comfortable on the boat for us but I do not want to potentially put my dogs in any risk. Also I have found little life vests but do they do well supervised in water??
__________________ Chachi's & Jewels Mom Jewels http://www.dogster.com/?132431Chachi http://www.dogster.com/?132427 |
Welcome Guest! | |
02-23-2005, 02:03 PM | #2 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Austin,TX
Posts: 76
| I am not sure about them being in the sun, but that is a great question that I would like to know about too. I got this thing from petsmart that helps with overheating. It looks kinda like a sweater made out of towel material that you stick in water and put it on them. It says it helps cool them down. I haven't used it yet, because I don't know how good she would do in the heat. I live in Texas, and I have noticed she gets hot very easily. Do they sunburn? My little girl is 2 1/2 lb and is an okay swimmer. When I first got her we were sitting by the spa, and like the idiot I am I let her walk around and she fell in. I swear I had a heart attack. To my relief she popped up so I could grab her, but she was sinking very fast. So sometimes before I give her a bath I will fill my tub up and get in with her so she won't drown. It has helped tramendously with her swimming. I am just scared that she will fall in somewhere and drowned, so my suggestion would be to fill the tub up or go in the pool with their life vests on(so they get used to them), and try and get them comfortable in the water. That way you don't have to be paranoid anything will happen. Sometimes dog trainers will have swimming lessons for dogs. Hope this helps. |
02-23-2005, 03:14 PM | #3 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Posts: 37,147
| It does help, thanks!!! I am going to have to find one of those aweater/towels. I never cease to be amazed at the products that are available for these dogs.
__________________ Chachi's & Jewels Mom Jewels http://www.dogster.com/?132431Chachi http://www.dogster.com/?132427 |
Bookmarks |
|
|
| |
|
|
SHOP NOW: Amazon :: eBay :: Buy.com :: Newegg :: PetStore :: Petco :: PetSmart