🐶 How to Keep Your Dog Safe in the Heat
It’s only getting hotter this month, and you’ll need to stay extra weather-aware to keep your dogs from overheating. Just in case it needs to be said: NEVER leave your dog in the car. Watch for signs of overheating, like extreme panting or difficulty breathing, increased heart rate, excessive drooling, glazed eyes, deep red or purple tongue, dizziness or lack of coordination, and vomiting. But have no fear, keeping your best friend cool is not hard.
🐾 Protect Those Toebeans
If the pavement is too hot for you to walk on barefooted, it’s too hot for your dog’s bare toebeans to handle, too. Limit your dog’s time outside, and optimize it in the morning or evening when it’s coolest out. If you have a tolerant pooch, get them a set of booties and make sure you take a video of their first steps.
🧊 Frozen Remedies
Add ice to your dog’s water when you can, especially on extra hot days. Try your hand at frozen treats! Freeze chicken broth into cubes, or blend up fruit and unsweetened yogurt and pop it into the freezer for a cold treat. Pack a dog bowl in your summertime emergency tote! (Oh, you don’t have an emergency tote? Keep an extra swimsuit, towel, bug spray, sunscreen, and deodorant in your car.)
🥵 Inside Can Be Fun, Too!
Who said you have to spend the month sweating outside? When it gets too hot, we head to the nearest movie theater — or activate our favorite boredom-tackling-tool: Arts and crafts.
💎 For Tweens and Teens
Head to Austin Public Library Central Library on July 11 for free, tween seashell jewelry-making and on July 14 for crafting and games at the library’s Teen LGBT+ Craft Space event.
🎨 Adults Only, Please
Kick off the month learning the basics of quilting at Austin Creative Reuse on July 6. Austin Creative Reuse, which is in Windsor Park, is also hosting an “Intro to Embroidery” afternoon on July 27. You can also make “the ugliest art possible” at Austin Public Library Central Library on July 29.
🍉 🥒 🫐 What’s In Season 🧅 🥕 🍅
Here’s a big list of what’s in season this month, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture. And here’s where to find them:
➡️ East Austin
During the week, from Wednesday through Saturday, head to Boggy Creek Farm between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m.; on Sundays, round out your weekend at the Texas Farmers’ Market at Mueller starting at 10 a.m. Don’t forget to try the dumplings!
⬇️ South Austin
South of downtown? Try out Lone Star Farmers’ Market at Steiner Ranch on the first and third Thursdays of the month. The SFC Farmers’ Market in Sunset Valley and Barton Creek Farmers’ Market at Barton Creek Mall are both on Saturdays starting at 9 a.m.
☑️ Downtown Austin
Hit up Republic Square on Saturday mornings for SFC Farmers’ Market.
