We share tips for keeping horses cool in summer (as well as dogs…and you too!) In Patipedia, we discuss preparation and introduction of puppies to their new home. In Critter Nutrition, we share tips on deciphering supplement labels. And in Coffee Klatch, we ask what magic power would you give your dog or cat.
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Guests and Links for Episode 136:
- Link to Sound File for Sight Impaired: Click Here
- Co-Hosts: Tigger Montague from BiostarUS and Pati Pieucci from Pierucci Dressage
- Discussion: Keeping horses cool in summer (keeping dogs and humans cool too!)
- Article: Defining Ingredient Quality
- Ask Hedwig on Facebook
Tigger, Pati and Jenn discuss the foods that can help with keeping horses cool:
Tigger: “There are specific foods you can use on horses and dogs that are cooling foods. For instance, if you want to cool your animals down, don’t use a sour apple. It’s heating. [Use instead] sweet apples, applesauce, sweet berries, coconuts are cooling…mangoes that are ripe, melons, oranges, papaya, pomegranates, strawberries and watermelon. Don’t give watermelon to a metabolic horse, though. Broccoli, cooked carrots — raw carrots are warming — celery, cucumber, dandelion greens, kale, pumpkin…those are good cooling foods.
On the human side, salted butter is warming, unsalted butter is cooling. Hard cheese is warming. Frozen yogurt is warming. Sour cream is warming, but cooling is soft, unsalted, not-aged cheese…goat’s milk, goat’s cheese, ice cream…”
Jenn: “I wonder why ice cream is cooling but frozen yogurt is not?”
Tigger: “Because it’s milk. I think it has to do with fermentation of the yogurt; that’s going to be heating.”
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