Hot UK Weather Warning - How Can I Keep My Piggies Safe Indoors and Outdoors?

anyar.dris said:
We are just managing to keep our living room at 23/24C, and that is with the aircon on! But blimey! I can't handle the heat in the kitchen! I hate cooking when it's this hot. It's too hot for my liking! 🥵🥵 But if I don't cook, I'd get hungry..and then die...and who would take care and spoil the piggies?!?! 🔥🔥
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If you leave your piggies and i lots money . Me and me girls will. :luv: :nod:
But we think they love you more so you need to stay with them. X
 
Eddie & Elvis said:
Your lucky you have air con! All we've got is some little fans ☹ 🥵
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We had to invest on it around 5 years ago. Our past piggy, Bunny, was a Swiss Teddy and she really struggled during her first summer. She was very hairy, soft hair but she was a big fluff! All the frozen packs we bought wasn't doing it for her. So hubby decided to invest in a portable aircon. Hubby and I get the benefit of it too during a weather like this. 😁
 
Just hit 28 degrees in Leicester! My pigs are in the living room bang smack in the middle of my house. Windows doors and curtains all closed and fan on. 🥵
 
My work van is on 33 degress today. I've actually come home because I just can't work in the heat. And there's no work on today, had the option to tidy bits up, but I'm sorting the animals out instead
 
I have 27 degrees in the piggy run and 25 degrees in the hutch, so a bit cooler than yesterday with the shades up, but I won't put the pigs out for a bit. I just bought a couple of fans so I might put one in the pig room with some damp towels over the hutch door and a cool pack.
@Wiebke , when does uncomfortably hot become dangerously hot? In other words, in hot spells like this at what point should I bring my pigs indoors to a cooler room (but small cage)?
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I have 27 degrees in the piggy run and 25 degrees in the hutch, so a bit cooler than yesterday with the shades up, but I won't put the pigs out for a bit. I just bought a couple of fans so I might put one in the pig room with some damp towels over the hutch door and a cool pack.
@Wiebke , when does uncomfortably hot become dangerously hot? In other words, in hot spells like this at what point should I bring my pigs indoors to a cooler room (but small cage)?
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Could you bring your run indoors and set it up round the cage, or extend the cage a bit with a playpen or some C&C grids? My instincts would be to keep them indoors today, even if they have to sit on a towel in the bathtub, until 6 or 7pm- its ferociously hot, and heatstroke can hit so fast... my piggies are very annoyed today because everytime I see one of them sprawl out for a nap I'm poking them awake to check they are ok and sitting them on a frozen bottle lol... but its better they are a bit annoyed and inconvenienced than too hot! Tomorrow should hopefully be thunderstorms and cooler, so it wont be for long... hope you can all stay cool and safe!
 
Qualcast&Flymo said:
I have 27 degrees in the piggy run and 25 degrees in the hutch, so a bit cooler than yesterday with the shades up, but I won't put the pigs out for a bit. I just bought a couple of fans so I might put one in the pig room with some damp towels over the hutch door and a cool pack.
@Wiebke , when does uncomfortably hot become dangerously hot? In other words, in hot spells like this at what point should I bring my pigs indoors to a cooler room (but small cage)?
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I’d bring them somewhere cooler at that hutch temperature.

My boys (live in my shed) come into the house in a c&c playpen if it is going to be 25 degrees or more on the lawn (cant say 25 in the shed because 25 in the shed occurs on a sunny 15 degree day so I’m always chasing temperatures and moving piggies from one place to another to keep them in temps less than 25!)
 
PigglePuggle said:
Could you bring your run indoors and set it up round the cage, or extend the cage a bit with a playpen or some C&C grids? My instincts would be to keep them indoors today, even if they have to sit on a towel in the bathtub, until 6 or 7pm- its ferociously hot, and heatstroke can hit so fast... my piggies are very annoyed today because everytime I see one of them sprawl out for a nap I'm poking them awake to check they are ok and sitting them on a frozen bottle lol... but its better they are a bit annoyed and inconvenienced than too hot! Tomorrow should hopefully be thunderstorms and cooler, so it wont be for long... hope you can all stay cool and safe!
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NOOOOO! 😱😭
I saw the weather warning this morning for storms tomorrow and instantly set to panic mode
 
Piggies&buns said:
I’d bring them somewhere cooler at that hutch temperature.

My boys (live in my shed) come into the house in a c&c playpen if it is going to be 25 degrees or more on the lawn (cant say 25 in the shed because 25 in the shed occurs on a sunny 15 degree day so I’m always chasing temperatures and moving piggies from one place to another to keep them in temps less than 25!)
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There is no set temperature as it depends on humidity as well as heat and how long this has been going on/how much the piggies have been able to adapt to higher temperatures.

But I would consider looking for the coolest place you can offer including creating a cooler area on the bottom of the bathtub or shower by running some cold water over the floor (so there still is), especially towards the late afternoon and evening once you pass 25 C and definitely once you get closer to 30 C!

But basically you try your best you can under circumstances... Anything that works!

Which is why I have listed about any tip or trick I have come across that is safe as not everbody can do everything and we all have to work out what works best for us. But it was important to me is to make people aware that it is the whole ambient temperature and environment that counts most (the more you can keep the temperature down in the first place the better) and not just their little patch in the cage. You generally have to use more than one approach and try out different things to see how you can get your piggies through the heat with what you can provide best.

PS: It's still 24 C in the living room (since noon), with the help of the fan and wetting the sheets both in the back since morning and now in the front as the sun is moving round.
 
Swissgreys said:
Harry is prancing around like a lunatic and looking boggled eyed in horror at the 'cold tiles of death'.
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@Swissgreys this made me laugh out loud as it's also a perfect description of how ours react to the cold tiles. Today they literally ran away from them! Good to know I'm not the only ones whose efforts are going seriously unappreciated.
 
I’ve got 2 massive ceramic tiles in my indoor cage, will they lay on them? Will they heck 🤣
 
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