prefers to sleep in the cold??
Michael Corby
We live in Western Australia, which has what is described as a 'Californian climate' - hot dry summers, and cold wet winters. Winter began here on the first of June. Magnum chooses to sleep where it is coolest, even in the winter. He has a stretcher bed in the garage so that he can sleep in a sheltered place, with a rug over him. I have NEVER seen him on this bed. Instead, he chooses to sleep on the concrete floor. When I arrive home and it is 10oC he is sleeping just outside his dogflap (in the weather) and pokes his nose through to look at me. He NEVER sleeps near a fire, and instead in the house during winter prefers a tiled floor or hard wood boards to a rug or carpet. If we have him on our lap (2 laps to one Magnum), he has a cuddle and lots of licks (he licks us, not the other way round) and then gets too hot and wants to get down. When we sit upstairs and watch TV, he doesn't sit for long at our feet before going downstairs and
flopping out on the floorboards.
This just doesn't seem to fit with what everyone warned me. He is 2 and a half years old and has always been like this. He still has lots of fluffy soft underfur at the bbse of his coat. Has anyone had the same experience, or is he just weird?
Mike,
Perth
p.s. he is the most gorgeous dog we have ever owned.
Jean Glover
Um... I must admit my two switch between warm, squishy surfaces and cold tiles in the summer. I see Suki struggle with being on our bed with me or us in the summer... she begins by switching to having her face hanging off the bed... and finally is forced to get off and slump onto the cold floor!!! As I write this, Coffee is half on, half off the carpet in a normal postiion for her. Face on the carpet, tummy on the cold surface. Suki is lying on the carpet with her feet in the air.... normal position for her.....
Don't you just love their weird little ways??!!!
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:15:46 -0700
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> Subject: [Flatcoats] prefers to sleep in the cold??
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Perfect Paws Dog Training
Hi Michael,
I live in Canada, just outside Montreal. We have very cold winters (-40ºC with the wind chill) and very hot, humid summers (+40ºC with the humidity). Gauge, our 18 month-old Flattie seems to prefer hard, cool surfaces as well, regardless of the season. He is definitely a house dog and if I sit on the floor at all Gauge is usually either half in my lap, or at the very least, lying next to me with his head in my lap. However, when we watch TV, he lies on the hardwood floor between the couch and the coffee table, or in the kitchen on the tiled floor. At night, he will either sleep on his dog bed (next to my side of the bed), or more often sleeps on the hardwood floor beside the bed. We have 2 dog beds in our room (we also have an 8 year-old Golden) and Gauge chooses the thinner, flatter bed if he does sleep on one and is usually only half on it.
I know he does sleep on our bed at least part of the time when we're out for the day, but I think this is partly because he likes to be near our Golden who spends the day on our bed.
I also find Gauge has a hard time handling the heat and tends to get overheated fairly easily so we have to make sure not to run him too hard in warmer weather and to have lots of water around. In the winter, he loves to flop down and lie in the snow, often stretched out so that his full underside is against the snow.
So, my Flattie prefers the cold as well. Maybe not to the level that you're describing, but if you've found what makes your guy happy, then I would stick with that and not worry about what the breed tendancy is.
Enjoy!
Melissa
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