He undoubtedly enjoys having a cold place to relax.
I will admit that I wouldn’t run our A/C as often or as low if I didn’t have an animal. For me a/c isn’t undoubtedly required. I spend most of our afternoons outdoors anyway. I work for a few hours at our PC and want a little cooling, but that is it. I then workout in our backyard shed and after that I read, tan and go for a walk around our terrain. I rarely come indoors for any extended period of time. I don’t need AC again until around 7 PM when I eat lunch and then go to bed. However, I do have a furry, adorable beast that gets overheated. My animal is hardcore about going otuside too. The two of us sit out in the overheated sunshine together. He goes under our sunchair and I am on top. There are times the heat is too much for someone who has a fur coat. It is adorable when our animal bursts through his animal door and lays on the cold brick floors in our house. He has an AC vent that he lays underneath for a few moments to cool down. Once his fur and body are chillier, he then goes back outside to hunt. He takes 2-3 AC breaks if it is undoubtedly overheated outside. So I technically could turn off the a/c to save money since I am not inside, however I can’t do that to our cat. He undoubtedly enjoys having a cold place to relax. I believe it is nice for him not to get overheated. Second, when he comes inside he gets a drink of water and has a snack. I like encouraging him to hydrate and fuel up.