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Dear Sadie:
I love my Basset hound to death and take him
everywhere with me. I sometimes run into a store
for a quick item and leave my Fester in the car. I
figure since I will only be gone for a few minutes and
I leave the windows open a little bit he will be OK.
Should I be concerned with the weather being as hot
as it is?
Signed, Quick Trip in Quantico
Dear Mess,
It is a good thing you are in Quantico because I can
call out the FBI on you. You sure are loving your
Basset hound to death. Have you not heard that the
temperature a car in this kind of beastly, ghastly,
hotter-than-hell fire weather can get well up over
100 degrees in no time making the inside of your car
like an over? Your poor Fester is festering in that
heat and will suffer from a heat stroke one of these
days. We dogs do not have an efficient mechanism
for handling heat stress because we do not sweat
like you humans do. We pant and “sweat” from our
foot pads and nose, but that only affords some
cooling, especially when the ambient air is so hot.
Our internal body temperature can rise quickly and
once our internal temperature rises to 106 degrees,
damage to our internal organs starts. We can die in
20 minutes. If your poor Fester shows signs of heat
exhaustion such as rapid panting, bright red tongue,
red or pale gums, thick sticky saliva, depression,
weakness, dizziness, vomiting (at times with blood),
diarrhea (that would serve you right), shock, and
coma, you need to get him cool and get him to a
vet. Do not cool too quickly as that could harm him
too. See the following web sites for more
information.
www.vetinfo.com
www.Peteducation.com
I am sure if Fester were writing to me he would want
me to tell you that he would much prefer to be in a
nice cool house in a nice safe kennel with a nice
episode of “The Young and the Restless” on TV
waiting for you to come home with some nice
delectable treat like, hmmm, say, chicken ice
cream? Now that sure beats diarrhea in your car
now, doesn’t it?
I love my Basset hound to death and take him
everywhere with me. I sometimes run into a store
for a quick item and leave my Fester in the car. I
figure since I will only be gone for a few minutes and
I leave the windows open a little bit he will be OK.
Should I be concerned with the weather being as hot
as it is?
Signed, Quick Trip in Quantico
Dear Mess,
It is a good thing you are in Quantico because I can
call out the FBI on you. You sure are loving your
Basset hound to death. Have you not heard that the
temperature a car in this kind of beastly, ghastly,
hotter-than-hell fire weather can get well up over
100 degrees in no time making the inside of your car
like an over? Your poor Fester is festering in that
heat and will suffer from a heat stroke one of these
days. We dogs do not have an efficient mechanism
for handling heat stress because we do not sweat
like you humans do. We pant and “sweat” from our
foot pads and nose, but that only affords some
cooling, especially when the ambient air is so hot.
Our internal body temperature can rise quickly and
once our internal temperature rises to 106 degrees,
damage to our internal organs starts. We can die in
20 minutes. If your poor Fester shows signs of heat
exhaustion such as rapid panting, bright red tongue,
red or pale gums, thick sticky saliva, depression,
weakness, dizziness, vomiting (at times with blood),
diarrhea (that would serve you right), shock, and
coma, you need to get him cool and get him to a
vet. Do not cool too quickly as that could harm him
too. See the following web sites for more
information.
www.vetinfo.com
www.Peteducation.com
I am sure if Fester were writing to me he would want
me to tell you that he would much prefer to be in a
nice cool house in a nice safe kennel with a nice
episode of “The Young and the Restless” on TV
waiting for you to come home with some nice
delectable treat like, hmmm, say, chicken ice
cream? Now that sure beats diarrhea in your car
now, doesn’t it?
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