I'm putting off going to bed because the bedroom is so hot! I don't particularly like having the fan on in the bedroom because to be effective it has to blow on me (us) and I don't want it in my face, also the whirring sound it makes is not conducive to sleep. A permanent ceiling fan would be ideal, I'll think about that for next year. So I will be staying up until I start to fall asleep on the sofa, don't have to be up early tomorrow or rather today.
Friday's forecast is reasonable, still warm but not so much. Like you we have 30+ temperatures predicted for early next week.
It is hard on animals. When we had a dog and cats we put an old shallow children's paddling pool in the shade of a tree in the garden, they liked that.