My mom was staying with us this past week and we had a lot of fun together. She has a little dog that she brings everywhere. So of course she brought the dog with her on the plane when she visited us. We didn’t mind. The dog is well behaved and quiet. However, I woke up in the middle of the night the first night that my mom was visiting. I felt very warm and uncomfortable. My first thought was that our air conditioner had stopped working. I crept out into the living room and checked the thermostat. Sure enough it was 78 degrees in the house. Then I noticed that someone had turned the thermostat up to those settings. I assumed it was a mistake of some sort so I cranked the air conditioner back down with a thermostat setting of 70 degrees and I went to bed. In the morning my mom asked me why I had turned the air conditioner back down. She said she had turned the air conditioner up because her little dog was freezing cold at night. Mom was upset to wake up this morning and find her little dog shivering cold once again. Well I had no idea the dog was so sensitive to the cold, air conditioned air. I also knew that we couldn’t have the house so warm at night or we wouldn’t get any sleep. Ultimately, I decided that we would have to close the vents in my mom’s room and give her a space heater for the dog. My mom was happy to stay in the heated room. After that night, we all slept comfortably.