Tips for cats and dogs to spend the summer without scares

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Heat waves don't just affect humans. High temperatures, heat, and tropical nights can also take a toll on our pets, which is why it's important to adjust their environment and daily activities so they can have the best possible summer. As veterinarian Jaume Martínez, from the El Masnou Veterinary Center, who has been caring for the health of pets for nearly forty years, explains, heat, "if they didn't live with us, they would experience it very well, because they would be still during the day, they wouldn't do anything, they would be in the shade, in a cool place. And even more so for cats, who are specialists at finding the coolest place to take refuge." As Martínez reflects, they would spend the day resting, trying to hydrate themselves when they could, "and it's at night that they would be more active: they would go to eat, they would go hunting, they wouldn't be making useless efforts." With us it's different: "Things change because we, obviously I'm thinking of dogs, take them for walks in places that can be asphalted or with surfaces that get very hot, and that makes them suffer the heat in a very different way."