So hot that I wished I could take off my lovely fur coat and run around with a bare bod.
All that stinky heat makes me tired.
So I just flop down… ker-plunks… on the tiles and lie around all day. Panting.
Then that wretched mom thinks I’m sick and comes groveling around in my chops to check the colour of my gums.
She’s a bit neurotic ever since I was sick last year.
Ooooh nice and pink Fudges – is what she usually says.
I swish my slobbery tongue around my fangs and rearrange my chops into their proper position again.
I give her a hairy eyeball.
Seriously! Just because I’m lolling on the tiles does not mean I’m sick. Ridiculous woman! I’m hot!
You try wearing my magnificent fur coat 24/7 in this weather.
Sometimes I’ll go roll around on the grass in the measly bit of shade under the wall.
Once I discovered a chunk of bread that had fallen out of the bird’s bowl.
I stashed it behind a pot on the stoep… just in case I was ravenous at some stage.
At least the grass is not so crunchy anymore since Alpha started giving it the odd spot of water or two.
He’s naughty – he throws the ball right into the sprinkler.
I dash after it without even thinking and then the water makes my tum all wet and soggy.
Mom says I smell like wet chicken.
Sometimes Mom takes a wet cloth and rubs it all over my belly and my face.
To begin with I thought she was stark raving mad – but then realized it was not actually too shabby and I did feel nice and cool afterwards.
I find my ball and charge around the place – which is a tad silly because then I end up all hot and bothered again.
Hope you all remember to keep the water in your dog’s bowls nice and full in this horrible heat.
Here’s a cool tip – freeze an old coke bottle full of water and then stand it in your doglet’s water bowl when you go to work – it keeps the water nice and cool for most of the day.
Then you can give it a rinse and freeze it again for the next day.
