Minnesota pooches enjoy the dog days of summer in hilarious reader photos

August 11, 2017 at 5:41PM

Here's a tip: The way to a person's heart is definitely through his or her pet. Or, in this case, dog. More than 100 readers sent in pictures showing how their pooch beats the heat during the summer.

From lakes and pools to sand and ill-timed mud baths, dogs do whatever they can to stay cool — and have a good time doing it. We should all be so lucky.

Bindi, an 11-year-old Chihuahua, loves the water and riding on air mattresses. Vickie Shank of Rogers adopted Bindi after she had eight babies!
Bindi, an 11-year-old Chihuahua, loves the water and riding on air mattresses. Vickie Shank of Rogers adopted Bindi after she had eight babies! (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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Nicole Hvidsten

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Nicole Ploumen Hvidsten is the Minnesota Star Tribune's senior Taste editor. In past journalistic lives she was a reporter, copy editor and designer — sometimes all at once — and has yet to find a cookbook she doesn't like.

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