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It's never too early in the season for a cooling dip
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More like cold toes! Lol...if mine were to stand on same spot, their bellies would be getting wet. Oh you little one is a beauty.It's never too early in the season for a cooling dip
Edie and I have been to the East coast she dipped her paws into the north sea she came straight out must have been cold !!!More like cold toes! Lol...if mine were to stand on same spot, their bellies would be getting wet. Oh you little one is a beauty.
Funny how dogs are so different with water. My younger one is just like yours....tries her best to work around wet/muddy patches, but then again she is not concern getting wet when it is raining...as long as it involves walkies. But going into rain, as a quick 'relief' in the garden from warm house...OH NO..can't get wet, far too chilly thing to doFolly thinks she should always keep her paws dry, if she comes across a puddle she either jumps over it or feels her way round it.
LOL...I do wonder what makes them think 'unnatural' water source is not to be trusted.Jasper is - as you can see - quite happy to go in ponds, streams, sea, etc. (as long as it's gently shelving), though won't go in above chest level. But if I try to introduce the concept of paddling pools in the garden in the summer, even just putting the smallest splash of water in a container... Ooh, scary!!
I suppose we could think the dog's coat as a 'surface'...we know that the virus is capable of staying alive on surfaces for few hours at least...therefore it would be quite logical to assume that anybody contaminated with virus and having touched a dog (their own or other's)..there is possibility of a virus 'transfer'. But how likely this is to happen, that is another thing.Worrying times indeed, but I also think that the new reality will set in quickly, new definitions of "normal" will be in effect...
US Center of Disease Control and Prevention on the subject of the virus and dogs: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
At least this does not seem to suggest "social distancing" for dogs.
Am I off mark thinking that I can still let Baby Miles run and play with other dogs in the park, without increasing the risk of contamination if some of those dogs have infected humans in their families?
Oh he has done well! He deserves his treats after all those 'temptations'.My take on this is that although it seems dogs don't 'get' C19, they are a 'surface', in the same way that door handles, carrier bags, etc. can be (Ocado will no longer take back your used carrier bags). So if you handle your dog, your dog goes up to someone else and they pet him... the virus could, theoretically be transferred.
Now, if your dogs play with each other and you avoid touching anyone else's dog (often easier said than done), the virus could, theoretically, still be tranmitted, in the same way that if A shakes hands with B who shakes hands with C who shakes hands with D, then even if none of them 'have' C19, if A had some of the virus on their hands it could get to D.
That's not to say that you shouldn't let your dogs play with each other as the risk is almost certainly tiny.
Jasper was a star this morning. He ignored a couple of reactive dogs from down our road who were lunging and swearing at him, ignored the rukus we could hear when the dogs went round the corner and met another dog, ignored the frenzied yapping of the other dog when it came past us, ignored a spaniel, lab and Border terrier who rushed out of their house off lead and barked at him, didn't ignore a couple of schnauzers (one entire) we came close to later but after no more than some hard staring let me lead him off the path and get the chicken out, was good when we passed a reactive greyhound and didn't insist on trying to make friends because she was a pointy dog, and ignored an Airedale on the way home. All on lead, and on fairly narrow paths and roads where he hardly ever meets other dogs. I was proud of him. My chicken supplies are depleted now though, I must stockpile some!
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