The Green Pet Shop Chillz Gel Mat, Extra Large - Pressure-Activated Cooling Pad for Pets Over 50 lbs - Non-Toxic, No Water or Refrigeration Needed - Ideal for Home, Travel & Crates

It's cold for a while and then it gets hot and the pet needs to get off to recool.

I bought this 2 years ago and it appears to be dried out.Can it be "reactivated " or is it garbage?

Less than impressed honestly. I live in Southern California, where it's hot as hell on the regular, and this summer, it has been in the 90s-100s pretty regularly. I have two pugs, and not only do they overheat easily with all of their rolls, one of them can't use her back legs and get water or cool off as easily as the other, so I figured this would be the perfect solution for her.I ended up ordering two because the sizes were funky. I ordered a large for our handicapped dog, and it fit perfectly in her dog bed (i don't know the dementions of the bed, but it's an XL dog bed, usually for large dogs). I noticed when I got it that the pad wasn't cold, or even mildly cool to the touch, so I attempted to put it in the freezer, which was a mistake; it expanded and I accidently broke a part of my freezer drawer (I'm not knocking a star off for that obviously, since it was my own mistake, but I want to make sure people know what will happen!). Overall, the pad still didn't seem cool once it thawed either. We normally have to put ice packs on our handicapped pug when she overheats, and I still find myself doing that just as often as before. We still keep it on her bed out of habit, since it also stops her from peeing into the dog bed, but it isn't cold in the slightest, so now it's really just an overpriced pee pad.I also purchased an XL pad because of the great reviews. Our other dog normally likes to cool down on the tile floor in our kitchen, but she is also old and can't go down the stairs to the kitchen, so I figured I'd keep it on the carpet. She seemed totally uninterested in the thing. I'd have to bribe her with treats just to sit on the mat, but that was the only time she'd go on it. I even put her water bowl on the mat, and she'd rather whine in front of the mat for water than to go over it to drink. I'm not sure if it's the texture of the mat on her nails or if she's just picky or just doesn't see the point, but she has zero interest in it. I attached a photo of her napping, and no matter how much I tried to get her to nap or even sit on the mat, she wanted nothing to do with it.So now I have these two pads that are basically a waste of money. I feel like if you live somewhere that's already cold, the mats will also be cold. But if you live anywhere that gets warmer than 70°, it's useless. Pretty disappointed, as our family was looking forward to finding some temperature relief for our dogs.

he likes it

The cooling pad works wonderfully. Have ordered and reordered these for multiple dogs and they immediately choose on lay on them without prompting. Unfortunately my latest purchase of the XL size appears to have arrived defective. I ordered in May ahead of the upper Midwest summer temps/humidity and just broke it out of the box just 24 hours ago. After ~2 hours total of supervised use, one of the side seams has already begun leaking. My current dog has not scratched at the product (past dogs have and did not tear through the fabric) and is ~65lbs. Well within the “weight” for the product.

My Dog loves it

Within days our dog had managed to cut a hole in it.No tape would fix it. We threw one mat away and had the other one still. 1.5 months later and there’s a hole. Dogs don’t play rough or are rough on it period. It is not durable

It works great