Cat Community Wisdom: Purrfectly Helpful Tips & Tricks to Keep Your Felines Fresh and Cats Cool in Summer

It's been a real scorcher outside for the past….month. It feels like there's no escape from the heat, and no matter how high we put the air conditioning, it still feels hot. And if it feels pawsitively warm for us, imagine being a cat with several layers of fur on top of that! Cats have their own ways of staying cool, but as their pawrents, it's up to us to help them as much as pawssible during these months (that feel like years) of intense heatwaves.

The most impurrtant thing is to know when to recognize heat stroke in your cats and how to react to it. In the post below, you'll find several tips and tricks to help keep your felines fresh and cats cool this summer - everything from brushing to games with ice cubes. We've been worried about our kitties at home while we're at work, and now, we feel purrfectly safe leaving them at home, knowing they won't overheat. Tell your cat not to worry, a "lion cut" is not the answer.

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This is one of those things you never want to have to Google (which is exactly why we're informing you about it now!). It's better to read through it and never have to use it, than not know and frantically try to understand something new while panicking. Nobody panic!
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“If they will tolerate it” is key here. One of our cats (the orange one, obviously) would not mind at all. The other would scream at us as if we were telling her the world was ending. She's not dramatic, no, not at all. She does, however, love playing with ice cubes, so that's helpful!
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