Pets feel the heat – how to keep animals safe as temperatures rise

Covering itself with sand to stay cool. — The Straits Times/ANN

CHARLIE has been reluctant to take long walks at East Coast Park since April, when the weather turned hotter and more humid.

When the cavalier King Charles spaniel reaches an underpass at Marine Parade to the beach, she tugs at her leash to head home or take a shorter walk around the Marine Crescent estate, said her owner Irene Kamphuis, 43.