r/Shihtzu Finch & Sparrow🐦🐤 11h ago

Tzu Discussions and Stories 🐶 What temperature do your ShihTzus prefer jackets?

When it gets colder at what point does putting a jacket on them make it easier to go outside for your ShihTzus?

With Sparrow if it’s 14C (57F) she’ll avoid going outside unless she really has to go to the bathroom.
But with Finch he’ll happily go outside down to -25C (-13F)

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u/CookieMonsteraAlbo Shih-Tzu Enthusiast 11h ago

At 60F, Poppy gets her light fleece jacket.
At 45F she gets her wool coat.
At 32F she gets her warm, parka-like waterproof coat.
Below 20, she gets the fleece jacket with the waterproof coat on top.

u/crispytortilla Twix 🦁 10h ago

Twix has long hair so we use a puffer coat when it’s below freezing

u/mlssac Sophie Jo 7h ago

Just after a short cut.

u/Squeeesh_ Tucker🌈 & Zoey🌈 10h ago

My Tucker would wear a sweater all year. It would be 30+ Celsius out and he would have a sweater on. He was totally fine health wise, he just liked to be cozy.

u/Much_Permission_2061 Shih-Tzu Enthusiast 2h ago

Everything under 10 °C and my boy is cold

u/crvenkapa10 56m ago

My Stanley loves the winter and snow, so I don’t put a sweater on him until like 35 and his winter jacket isn’t until it’s like below 20 or I just don’t let him outside, if it’s worse than that and he goes on the porch the potty.