Is everyone ready?
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I am, Mrs with heart condition isnāt. So Iām sticking her in the fridge 
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Iām looking forward to a good pub lunch my favourite beer garden.
Mainly worried about my cat.
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Iāve caved and bought a portable air conditioner for me and the tiny hounds. Iāll be making a fort of coldness in one room.
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Is it a house cat or allowed to go outdoor?
Just make sure it has plenty of water and if it normally stays in the garden when itās outdoor then perhaps spray the pavement down a bit so it wouldnāt hurt itās paw pads from the heat
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Itās a house cat with balcony access.
The trouble is she periodically decides not to drink water and she seems to have made that decision around Thursday.
Thankfully weāve been shown how to administer water to her a little less optionally by the vet, but she does not enjoy this process. We did phone the vet yesterday and today and they basically said āplease do whatever you can because we expect to be slammed with emergency appointments and wonāt be able to get to herā. Hence worryā¦
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Will she drink from a tap if you leave one dripping? Sometimes cats wonāt drink from a bowl but will drink running water.
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She has a fountain and three bowls and weāve tried taps and pouring water for her, butā¦ no sheās made the decision not to drink from any of these sources 
Should have got a dog I swear they donāt do this kind of stuffā¦
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Before our cat passed away at the age of 23 she used to only drink from taps/flowing water
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23! Awww bless
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She was a rescue one aswell, we found her dumped inside a bag as a kitten. Sadly all the others didnāt make it and she was the only one so we kept her.
No one hardly believes she was 23 so I usually have to whip out my baby pictures and you see her in the background.
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Oh dear. Sometimes cats are just too mercurial for their own good! I wish you the best with getting her through this period.
I hope you (and other cat owners) also have access to fans and cooling pads to help get the furry beasts through this period. Anything above mid 30s is no joke, and 40 is worryingly insane.
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Iām so happy I managed to convince the other half that it would be a good thing to do! Now we wonāt have to put up with this heat. I am just upset that literally a few weeks later Lidl released a much cheaper oneā¦
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Aldi / Lidl always do that 
you buy something then shortly after they have it as a special buy
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This isnāt even a special buy, they seem to have their own brand air conditioner for about Ā£100 less than the cheapest competitors
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We have a cooling pad and lots of cooler spots for her to hide. She wonāt go within 15 ft of a fan though (noise! worse even than the hoover for her!). Sheāll be okay because we are drip-feeding her water from a syringe - sheās urinated normally since we started yesterday - Itās just a pain and you have to do it often because you can only give tiny amounts at a time.
Agreed itās a rough time for pets, Iām sure everyone is looking after theirs though!
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I didnāt quite manage to convince mine but I got to a begrudging āIf you want to buy one then buy oneā so away I went 
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When I say āconvincedā, I used the word loosely. It went a bit like you describe and is still somewhat sceptical even though it got us through the last heatwave
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We bought i huge fan for upstairs, mostly for the cats, and then have the og tower fan circulating the living room with the curtains closed and loads water everywhere for them.
Two black cats donāt enjoy the sun at all bless āem
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