Did you know a dog can get brain freeze. Ive done that to my dogs a couple times. Ive learned to pace his ice cream bytes instead of giving him a big spoon full one after another. They will start to take a bite and then hesitate and turn their head a couple times. Dogs are people too. Im sure that goes for any mammal. Letting your dog overheat is very dangerous. They will over heat, you give them some cool water and put them in the shade, stick a thermometer up their butt, the temp will actually start to drop below normal, then, back out to the sun to warm them up. still monitoring and then if it starts to climb above 104F, back to the shade. I had to do my dog that way when I was in the Air Force Military Police K-9 school. We were posing for a group pic and they kept procrastinating and then we had several dogs that started passing out and many others beginning to show signs from overheating. I had to stay over with my dog for over an hour to get him regulated. One of their temp regulator is in their ears. Notice when you let your dog out in winter and the ears almost instantly get cold. I always hold my dogs ears and put it against different parts of my body to warm them. They get warm as fast as they get cold. My 3 year old dog Courage, my best bud has learned to appreciate the ear warming. “You should take your dog’s temperature at the first sign of distress or after exercise,” West says. “If it is above 105.5 degrees Fahrenheit, start cooling down the dog right away. If the temperature drops below 104 degrees Fahrenheit in three to five minutes, the thermoregulatory mechanisms are working. “On the other hand, if body temperature remains above that temperature, the dog may be having trouble regulating and you should do what you can to help bring the temperature under control. In cases where dogs become heat stressed or lose the ability to thermoregulate and remain at elevated temperatures for extended periods, they never totally regain their ability to regulate body temperature. These dogs will regain some regulatory ability but may never be able to work well again in even mildly warm conditions. This demonstrates that it is of the utmost importance to be vigilant about our dog’s well-being.”
Posted on: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:06:52 +0000
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