Keeping your dogs warm at night

Polmop

Yes, I wasnt laughing at the thought of Pyjamas it was my dog in pink spotty ones.
Think they are a good idea.

gratefulforhelp_2

Sofas. Our poor weedy Labrador needs a big high sofa!

Pop over to Bumbling along for 2011 thread in MFW Michelle is knitting dog coats.

krlyr

staffiecat wrote: »

The GSD is probably ok, she is crossed with a Staffy so she doesn't have the usual GSD coat, its more like a Staffy coat but coarse. She does however how HD and onset of arthritis so she too really feels the cold in her bones.

There's a few beds on the market to help with joint issues, e.g. ones that are heated or reflect the dog's body heat back up at it to keep the chill off the joints. There's also memory foam beds out there, though a more MSE way of doing it would be to scour Ebay for the off-cuts of memory foam for human beds, and buy/make your own cover for it (you can buy lots of dog bed covers seperately to the cushions though, in various sizes - Ebay is a good place but many petshops sell them too)

staffiecat

dizziblonde wrote: »

Lots of greyhound (and whippets since they're very similar just dinky - well apart from the world's biggest whippet I met tonight who's only about half an inch smaller than my grey girlie) owners swear by the hound pyjamas (loads of places make them - AK Creations is the one I normally go to for hound-wear, I've got a fantastic coat from them and a few collars that I continue to be impressed by). I made girlie-girl a housecoat and had a few nice nights sleep where she didn't decide to join us on the bed, shove her legs under the duvet and get them berlumming everywhere - but hubby refuses to relent on the pyjama ban he's imposed!

Depends a lot with hounds if you've got one that runs very skinny or one that carries a little bit more weight - mine runs very very skinny (despite us feeding her up and her having gained a lot since she left racing) so I think she feels the cold and it wakes her up a lot on a night.

I would say she is on the lean side, she usually paces quite a lot at night time but last night she didn't budge an inch. Found an old warm jumper belong to OH and drapped that over her - she was still snug this morning ! I'll have a look at AK creations, thanks and think i will possibly make her some PJs

krlyr wrote: »

There's a few beds on the market to help with joint issues, e.g. ones that are heated or reflect the dog's body heat back up at it to keep the chill off the joints. There's also memory foam beds out there, though a more MSE way of doing it would be to scour Ebay for the off-cuts of memory foam for human beds, and buy/make your own cover for it (you can buy lots of dog bed covers seperately to the cushions though, in various sizes - Ebay is a good place but many petshops sell them too)

Oh that is a great idea, never thought about off cuts. I am happy to make something myself, I have a sewing machine that I rarely use and could do with the practice

krlyr

Also cot mattresses - often given away on Freecycle when the baby outgrows the cot but can be fab dog beds. May need cleaning with a steam cleaner perhaps but could be a cheap way of doing it.

dizziblonde

krlyr wrote: »

Also cot mattresses - often given away on Freecycle when the baby outgrows the cot but can be fab dog beds. May need cleaning with a steam cleaner perhaps but could be a cheap way of doing it.

Mine sleeps (well until she sneaks onto the foot of the bed and I use her as a footwarmer in the middle of the night) on a folded up duvet that she tends to dig into a nest for herself and pull over her.

olibrofiz

my dobie used to have a duvet in her bed -the duvet was folded in half and then half again and when it was beddie byes I would lift the top half up, she'd get in, then I'd put the top bit over her. Snug as a bug all night

Woe betide me if I didn't tuck her in she'd come and stand by the bed and stare at me till I did

Miss her

fly_dragon_fly

my collie had a duvet but she likes the sofa and we have know just recently got her a polka dot dog bed which turned out to be a duvet folded over and had a pretty washable cover put on it! x

Raksha

My two are currently enjoying two cardboard 'display boxes' (flashy fruit boxes) from Costco, his and hers in different colours, each lined with a piece of vet bed

Paradigm

staffiecat wrote: »

Hi everyone,
Just wondering how you keep your dogs warm at night?

Errrr..... I don't, they seem to do ok by themselves.