Hot Down Here

[keiramarcos]

I live in the southern US and today it was a 110 fucking degrees outside and that's not even taking into account the humidity which made it feel like it was a 120 at least. 

My dogs are a mixture of house and outdoor. In that, they sometimes play outside and prefer to sleep outside in the summer but mostly they are in the house owning domesticity like fucking bosses. They aren't all primped up fussy dogs (despite their quarterly spa days). They are fierce urban hunters who have wrecked havoc on the bunny and possum populations in my neighborhood on a horrific scale like only a Siberian Husky and a Jack Russell could do. 

Now, as I said it was hot today and I had to run errands in the afternoon so I left the dogs chilling inside. Cock Provider let them outside when he came home.... and when I returned two hours later I let them back in. Sisko was totally not on board with being outside for two hours (though I have had his coat trimmed and combed out for summer). It was just too fucking hot for him and CP had a foolish moment. Anyways, Jack (the Jack Russell) was chilling in my office on his pillow (shut the fuck up) and Sisko disappeared. I didn't think much of it because he isn't the kind to make a mess or tear something up if he's bored. I just figured he was in the man cave with CP watching TMZ. (He DVRs that shit. I don't even know).

Anyways, I hear : "Hey Babe! Can you come here a sec?"

So I go to the top of the stairs and Jack just snores and rolls over and ask, "What?"

"Come here and look at your dog."

I go downstairs and find Sisko laying on the air condition vent in the kitchen. LOL. So I make him some ice water and he honestly looked fine. He wasn't panting and he didn't appear to be sick. He laid on the vent for an hour. It was the funniest shit. Anyways, about two hours after that -- I hear, "Hey Babe! Can you come here a sec?"

And I stomp down to the kitchen a little irritated and find CP and Sisko standing in front of the cabinet where I keep the first aid kit and junk. Sisko keeps pawing the cabinet door and CP looks like he's just been asked to take a 4 year old to Toys R Us (confused and belligerent). He just doesn't get what's going on so I say, "He wants a tums."

And he's like, "What?"

"I said, he wants a tums. I give him one if he gets car sick so he knows they are in my purse and they are in this cabinet. He wants a tums."

And CP says, "Bullshit." And laughs.

And I shrug and open the cabinet door and pull out the tums and give him one. Sisko walks away chewing it and goes lay down in his bed. And I said, "Tums."

And he says, "That... that's... ridiculous."

And I said, "The vet said it would help settle his stomach since he most often throws up acid and bile when he gets car sick. It works like a charm. He likes the peppermint ones the best and besides this is all your fault for leaving him outside so long. You know he doesn't like to get hot."

And he went mumbling off about how I'd turned our dog into a hypochondriac. The fucker. LOL. Before anyone starts commenting about heat stroke and stuff. I did check him out -- he's not exhibiting any symptoms and let's just say he endured but did not appreciate his temperature being taken. His temp was 100. So he was perfectly within the range of normal.

Comments

[monophthong.livejournal.com]

I adore you, your husband, and your tums-eating dog. I really do. <3

[ghfan-98.livejournal.com]

Oh this is just priceless.

[azurehart.livejournal.com]

You know Sisko is really a alien in a dog suit right?

[demoncat-8.livejournal.com]

He's probably helping her plot to take over the world.

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

I love your dogs so much.

~L

[jademac2442.livejournal.com]

If you ever sell your life as soap opera, I would watch it every freaking day.

ditto

[neeliemom.livejournal.com]

I'd DVR it and save all the episodes to watch over and over!

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

Dogs lucked out when they paired up with humans--all the wild animals had to be out in the heat today. All day. Ours didn't appreciate being outside today more than 10 minutes at a time.

[tamstercmt.livejournal.com]

OMG, how funny! it's almost as hot and miserable here in Pennsylvania too. I didn't go out at all today. The older I get, the less I can take the heat and humidity. This being almost 52 sucks sometimes. I know that's whiny....

[i-cant-talk-now.livejournal.com]

yeah, it got up to 104 here today, and the storms have just rushed through with wind and lightning. now its 69. but i understand tomorrow will be just as hell like.

[damaskrose32.livejournal.com]

It was pretty close to 100* here today (over a hundred with the humidity) and I got pretty freaked by a couple crazy squirrels. One was apparently hiding under my apartment stairs but darted out as I was walking down the stairs, and the other had squashed itself flat on the sidewalk (not literally flattened, but looking rather squirrel-rug-like) under a tree. I think it was trying to increase the amount of its body in contact with the relatively cooler concrete in the shade. It eventually took off after the other squirrel, but they've apparently gone mad in the heat.

[batspit.livejournal.com]

It was 104 in the shade in the DC area today and I am officially the Meanest Mom EVER because when it hit 88 at 9:30 am I made long haired cats from Colorado come be inside with the a/c and closed the cat door.

So very very mean.
But you know, my cats didn't drop dead from heat stroke, so I'll have to work with it. And tomorrow too.

[auntbijou.livejournal.com]

Max used to let me know when his arthritis was bothering him by going to sit in front of the cabinet where I kept the baby aspirin for him. And you know, I used to give him Tums for the exact same reason you do! The vet suggested Bonine once, but the purply foam kind of freaked me out, so... Tums it was!

Poor Sisko! At least he knew what to do for himself!

[syble4.livejournal.com]

Now why can't my animals be more like your dog? It would make giving them meds, to make them feel better, so much easier. LOL

[myjadedhavok.livejournal.com]

One of my cats has a fierce desire to be an outside cat. Because I live in an apartment, don't have a yard, and there a couple people that live around me that are rather infamous for shooting the stray cats, he doesn't get to go outside. Regardless, every time you open the door, he tries to run outside.

Sometimes, he slips by me. Normally, this means I have to chase him around the porch for about ten minutes trying to catch him and then heard him back inside. Today, he ran for freedom and then turned immediately around and ran back inside into the air conditioning. xD

[djaddict.livejournal.com]

Sisko, on occasion, reminds me of Quark.
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In a dog suit.

And the CP is so funny sometimes!

[keiramarcos]

He's a very bright dog. Easily one of the smartest animals I've ever known. He can even say a few words -- he can say : out, no, you

I don't know where "you" came from but I actively tried to teach him to make the sounds for "out". LOL.

[freak-in-corner.livejournal.com]

That is awesome lol I wish my cat would take medicine without us having to pin her down force her to swollow then swollow water just so she doesn't spit it back out.

[keiramarcos]

Sisko will eat absolutely anything I put in his mouth. Though they are both used to taking pills. They each get a multivitamin every day.

[antesqueluz.livejournal.com]

OMG! That's hilarious! I'm in the south too and my big black lab/rotty mix is not sure it's worth going out in this heat to pee. I think she'd rather hold it... The tums thing is awesome. What a clever canine. :-)

[sasha1600.livejournal.com]

I had a spaniel years ago who would get as far as the porch, then turn around and come back inside if it was raining too hard. I swear he was thinking 'Fuck that! I don't need to pee THAT badly!'.

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

I needed that. The a/c in the car picked today to go on a break. I swear the cats were laughing at me when I stalked in from work.

(shoves a pat through the DSL for Sisko)

[rabidfan.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I live in AZ...the Valley of the Sun. Today we topped out at 107. Cool side for us in the summer but it's also the Monsoon season so it's humid.

Ick. Cold showers only are attractive in porny fic, never in real life.

[kaleecat]

LOL Your dog is so very smart.

I too live in the deep south. Heat index is running at 110, so its a tiny bit better here. The sun & heat is so fierce my cat actually won't lay on the windowsill next to the glass--its too hot for her. But she will lay on the sill at the window that has sun/heat reducing film on it.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Too funny. CP should understand that Sisko knows what he needs. He laid on the AC vent to get cool and went to the cabinet for his pill. How cool is that! LOL

It's hot in the Northeast here too.

[garnettac.livejournal.com]

My parents had a giant schnauzer that was epileptic. Every night he would get his pills for seizures and his vitamins and then 20ish minutes later he would get 2 tums because his pills made his stomach upset. If my Mom and Dad forgot to give him the tums he would go into the bathroom, and grab the bottle off of the counter and bring it to one of them. I don't think he really knew he needed the tums to feel better, be you can be sure he did not like missing out on his treat; he liked the peppermint ones too.

[keiramarcos]

I think Sisko associates the tums with "feeling better" so if he feels bad he wants a tums. lol.

[hab318princess.livejournal.com]

feel free to send some of the warmth over here...

thanks for making me smile, love your slices of life

[karasumaakane]

That is truly awesome! At least you'll never have to wonder if his tummy is upset. :)

Glad Sisko's okay!

[halftime1030.livejournal.com]

Aw! I love this icon! :)

[halftime1030.livejournal.com]

I love your stories! Sisko is really an alien-dog thing, isn't he - beautiful brave and super-smart pup.

Both of my cats have recently started to crawl into the pet carrier when they're not feeling well... of course, if it's something I can't treat on my own and I go to actually KEEP them in there they bolt for cover and it takes me 30 minutes to wrangle them back inside. Weirdos.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

That was priceless.

[sasha1600.livejournal.com]

I love that Sisko knows where the magic peppermint feel-better tablets live, and asks for them!