Thread: Overheating in summer

I think we all worry about the heat & our little darlings but they all seem to have the own ways of coping,I try to give them plenty of options two of them stay out in the pen all the while even though they can get in the house & when it gets to the hottest part of the day they come down off the shelves & lay on the floor {we do have a big sun umbrella up in front as well though}one likes to go off & lay in the bath,another hides under the bed,the little flat chested girl makes the most of it & gets the best bed on the cat tree & the sixth one at the moment continues to lie in the new "winter bed" that I posted photos of on the forum but when we let them out to play it is into the water as quick as they can,we have a pond & a water chute that goes between two small waterfalls,some lay in the chute,some try & get under the waterfall,Shimba normally sits with one leg up the pipe as far as he can & then the others wonder why there is no water coming down & a one of them loves nothing more than a big bowl of water to paddle around in.Me reckons they have it sussed but then while they are outside someone just has to sit with a Pimms & keep an eye on them so we all end up happy & cool....
I have to say though that we are lucky to have a garden that is fenced in but when my daughter was in the position that she couldn't let hers out she had mesh screens made up that she could put up at the windows when it was hot & they seemed to work very well.