Dogs choose where to lie largely by surface temperature. It is why they find the tiles, the bathroom floor, the shaded patch by the back door — offer a cooler surface and most will move onto it without any persuading.
This is the thin, light version of a cooling mat: a woven ice-silk face that stays cool to the touch, with no filling and no gel. It weighs very little and folds down small, which makes it the one that travels. There is nothing to charge, freeze or plug in.
Because it is unpadded it works best over something that is already firm — a crate floor, a car boot, the base of a bed — rather than on top of a thick duvet, which insulates and defeats the point.
Sizes run from 40 by 30cm, which suits a cat or a small dog in a carrier, up to 150 by 100cm for a large dog or a whole crate floor. Measure the space you want to cover rather than the dog, and if you fall between two, size up: an edge the dog can feel is an edge they will slide off.
Rinse it and hang it to dry rather than putting it through a hot wash, which flattens the weave that does the work.
Dogs choose where to lie largely by surface temperature. It is why they find the tiles, the bathroom floor, the shaded patch by the back door — offer a cooler surface and most will move onto it without any persuading.
How this helps
A thin woven pad that stays cool to the touch and folds down small. It supports that same choice in the places where there is no cold floor to find: a crate, the back of a car, a rented room in summer.
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