Dogs and heat stroke
 

I was reading the post about dogs and sunburn and was curious about the signs of heat stroke. I did a search and came across this great post from 2007 by jp4m2-worth reading. I cut and pasted it as I'm not sure about linking to past threads-this was buried within the thread.

Charlene
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Posted by jp4m2, May 23/07

I was curious about heat & our yorkies so I posted some info before that I came across in my search...I also found a few sites that said not to cut their hair so it's close to the skin because it will burn ....this is all I had for ya :)



I was looking up heat exhaustion / heat & came across some interesting info:
1) Dogs don't sweat, they inhale through their nose, the excess body heat is picked up & it's expelled through their , that's why they pant
2) When it's only 72 degrees outside the inside of your car is already about 20 degrees hotter.
3) A dogs normal body temp. is 101-102, when their body temp. reaches about 105 damage can begin.
4) When it's 80 degrees out it can climb to 102 degrees inside of your car in about 10-15 min, cracking the window does NOTHING to help.
5) Even if your home in the yard, if it's hot enough they can still suffer from heat, & a hot & humid day is of more concern.
6) Only 10- 15 min. of exposure can cause damage or death in your pet.

Some signs of trouble:
Rapid, frantic panting
Wide eyes
Bright red tongue
Vomiting
Staggering
Refusal to obey commands
Coma

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