what do you do to keep your dogs cool?

I don't leave Casey out for long when it's hot out. He's not a big water drinker, and I worry about him dehydrating. I have a 'cool-collar' for him, that you wet and freeze, but it's a bit too small for him (a friend got it for him). It fits, as long as he doesn't move! He hates water... so wetting him is out of the question. He likes ice cubes, so I let him chase some around the kitchen. I add a little ice to the big water bowl in the kitchen, but that's mostly for the cats. We go to the park and on walks later in the evening, when the sun is lower and it's cooler out....

 Well, until now, we have just come inside.  I didn't have much of a back yard before and it hasn't gotten really hot here yet so I haven't had to deal with it.

I plan on getting a little wading pool for them, if only to keep them out of the one for Kali.  But likely, I'll just give them access to inside when we are outside.

For walks I bring bottled water for them when we don't go to the beach.  We will also keep our walks to late evening or early morning once it gets really hot.  

Dog.com sells a cooling bed for dogs too.(at least they used to)  But since they won't ship to me, I refuse to buy from them....

 my dogs love ice cubes too. I wish i could leave them indoors, but Bella isn't 100% on the house breaking avenue, plus I dont usually have the A/C on. but still it's cooler.  Might just have to put her in a pen on the hot days ( inside).  I saw those K-9 cooling jackets & wonder if those would help on hot days.

We don't have the AC on either, yet.... but it's still a whole lot cooler inside. No direct heat, plus the fans are on. Casey is housetrained, so he's free to roam (although, he never leaves my bed...) but the pups that I foster stay in their crates. If I know I'll be gone for longer than 4 hours, I leave them confined in my room with their puppy pads. I would never leave my dogs outside when I'm not home, it's just too risky! Plus the heat out here can kill (literally)

 out here, as long as you're in the shade your pretty good, it's not humid at all like Florida.  My dogs are always kept outside during the day - even in the winter time ( they have dog houses & coats), i think it might be a bit upsetting to them to make them stay inside all day long.  I'll see how their fairing, they've spent the last two summers outside & did well, no one got dehydrated etc.

for the inside water I'll freeze a water bottle & stick it in the water. 

I've actually  entertained the thought of making an air conditioned dog house!! lol 

haha! I'm sure they'd love it! You should look into the cooling collars, we use them down at the shelter too - and they seem to work really well with keeping the dogs temps down

Yeah, it's 100 here too but both my dogs do fine outside in the summer. My older girl is 12 and has never had a problem and the younger one is 8 or 9 and also never had a problem. As much as I might want to leave them inside, they can't be left alone together, so I'd have to choose one or the other, and I don't want to do that. We have a mister system on the patio and it helps a lot. Both of my dogs love ice cubes and I also freeze chunks of apple, carrot or anything else I have on hand and give that to them. Even today while I'm home, they still don't want to stay inside much.

It never gets too hot here but I still give them cool fun stuff. I like getting a bundt cake pan, filling it with water and freezing it so they can lick it up like a popsicle, LOL

I turn on the bedroom ceiling fans and Max hops up on my bed and sprawls out under it.  He's not much for being outside at any time of the year unless someone else is out there. Sometimes on hot nights he goes outside in the patio and hops up on one of the lounge chair cushions and snoozes for awhile.

Joyce

I don't leave my dogs outside too much.  Maggie is a Great Pyr and is not a fan of warm weather so she is inside most of the time.  Sam is a lab mix and likes to be outside so I have a wading pool too.  We get home from our walk and he goes right to the back door to be let out again. He jumps in the pool and then ready to come back inside after about 45min. 

I'm a big fan of the Cool Bed III. But if it was 100 degrees out my guys would not be left outside, they'd be inside under the A/C. How old is Bella that she's not housebroken yet?

It's not hot here yet, but last summer when it was really hot I didn't force Kenya to do anything.  Some of our agility sessions were postponed b/c of heat (our training is on an outdoor field up on a hill, no shade).  We would go for walks at dusk.  At the cottage I had her jump in the lake often, especially if she kept lying by me in the sun.  There's not much I can do for them indoors, since we don't have AC and often it's 90+ indoors too.  They will lay on a hard floor b/c it's cooler.