It's pouring down here! What to do?

Absolutely hammering it down!! The girls are curled up in their armchair and I'm about to drag them out and get all 3 of us soaked to the skin. Can't work out what I should do for the best as Lola's got a cough. Could getting soaked make her cough worse do you think?

I'm the same.. went for a short one this morning but she just got battered and spent the whole time trying to hide in the hedges! Didn't like it at all Planned a moors walk but it's horrendous up there! Think we're just going to play games/do training at home?!

same here i'm not going out again

Could getting soaked make her cough worse do you think?

exposure to the fresh air might help ? ( speculating )
i'd suggest a good rub down with a towel when you return
that should help with blood circulation to her skin and coat

evidently .. one reason why dogs have a good scratch session
is to boost blood circulation to their skin
when Lady has a good scratch .. i help out 'n scratch the places she can't reach :-)

am just about to take her out for a walk ..
ain't too bad here .. just light rain 'n a tad windy .. .. at the moment ..
( Lady likes the rain .. starts running about like a maniac ..
( she's just been out in the garden .. and now is giving me the
( are-we-going-for-a-walk-Now! look

Terrible here too, managed an hour walk this morning before it got to bad but think will be some games later  

my girlfriend got me a balaclava to help get through the walks with current weather.... needless to say i got a few bad looks though haha!

It's boiling where I am but if it were raining hard I wouldn't take Renny out. It's freezing while your out there and when we come back we can have a hot shower and get into dry clothes but a dogs fur to get completely dry is a harder option .

hubby on hols so sent him out in the rain and wind with sash  > !

maybe a daily teaspoon of manuka honey for Lola would help her cough ?

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http://www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/10_9/features/Bee-Honey-Products-Help-Canines_15967-1.html

from search :

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=cr&ei=7WOBUrXRMsfQtAa_pIHIDA#q=manuka+honey+for+dogs

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http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/manuka-honey-medicinal-uses

from search :

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=cr&ei=7WOBUrXRMsfQtAa_pIHIDA#q=manuka+honey+benefits

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took her highness for a walk in the park ( on top of a hill ) ..
spoke too soon .. it were raining and blowing a near gale :-)
she just wanted to run about as fast 'n furious as she could ..

lordmickey wrote:my girlfriend got me a balaclava to help get through the walks with current weather.... needless to say i got a few bad looks though haha!

Staffy + balaclava!! Definitely a bank robber     

We survived although it was hard to stand up! Isn't it strange how Lola (brown) can keep clean in the mud and Chloe (white) gets it blathered over every inch of her???

Thanks for the honey advice - will try that   

Its died down here now so managed another hours walk in the woods  

Inez Maria wrote:Its died down here now so managed another hours walk in the woods  

That's good    Bet Vinnie always looks clean(ish) just like Lola! Clever these dark coloured dogs aren't they?!!   

Oh it's awful out there

Took Alfie out this morning, then a trip to the vets. Think that mentally wore him out, all the sights, sounds and smells pluss the [i]three [i]other staffs in there and one Chihuahua! Lol He went back to bed as soon as we
got in and wouldn't venture into the garden the wether was so bad! No way would he go for another walk....funnily on days like these I agree with him!

It's been absolutely dreadful here today. Kuchar wouldn't set a paw outside and there's no point in dragging him out as he just hunches up into a little ball and refuses to move forward and just heads straight back indoors. The lack of exercise doesn't worry me so much (we can always play chase and tug games indoors) as to what he doing about what every animal needs to do every day.

Mia wouldn't go out for a walk in this weather, not even with her coat on lol. So we went to my sons in the car and my grand kids tired her out   

Ah I must have just missed the worst of it this morning and evening when I took Bane out! It was still just spitting though...it was so funny seeing him running along keep pawing at his head everytime the wind got up and blew some rain in his face First time out in bad weather! haha I can see that he isn't going to enjoy winter!

Yesterday (Monday) was awful here too, looks much better this morning though although it was very windy all night, we have some blue sky now.