
One of the first symptoms is the hiperventilación. María José puts like example to Nina, the perrita that accompanied it during the interview. In spite of finding in a studio with air conditioned, the simple nervousness to be in a new place did that it began to jadear with intensity.
When a dog goes in in this state of thermal stress can occur something that a lot of owners desconocen: although it need hidratarse, leaves to drink water.
"A lot of owners try to give him water and the dog refuses it. It has gone in in a loop in which it needs to freshen, but no longer wants to drink."
Therefore it is so important to act quickly before the corporal temperature follow augmenting.
One of the most interesting councils that shares María José is that it does not suit to wet immediately all the body of the dog. With animals of a lot peel, the water hardly arrives until the skin and the effect is a lot of minor of the that imagine.
The really effective consists in cooling the pads planted, since it is one of the zones by where the dog releases better the excess of temperature.
The recommendation is simple:
This simple gesture can reduce the corporal temperature much more quickly that wet him the loin or the head.
In front of a swipe of heat, attend to the veterinary is indispensable, but María José insists in that before it suits to make some first basic helps.
While the dog continues hiperventilando, his temperature will follow augmenting even during the distance in car. Therefore it recommends to begin immediately to freshen the pads and offer water if the animal wants to drink. Once stabilised mínimamente, it is necessary to attend what before to the veterinary centre.
If the incident occurs near of house, also can use a stock exchange of gel cold wrapped in a cloth to go alternating it among the legs during the scrolling.
During the months more calurosos, María José recommends to make the long walks only to first hour of the morning, when the soil still has not accrued heat.
The starts of the midday would have to limit only to the necessary time so that the dog do his needs, procuring walk always by zones of shadow and spending fresh water.
To check if the soil is too hot proposes a very simple test:
"If you can not maintain the palm of the hand five seconds on the asphalt, your dog neither would have to walk on him."
The pads are resistant, but are not a footwear. Also they can suffer important burns.
It is one of the most widespread beliefs, but no always is true.
María José explains that the races with double layer of peel, like the Pomerania or a lot of Nordic dogs, have a natural isolation that helps precisely to protect the skin of the external heat.
This mantle creates a camera of air that reduces several degrees the temperature that finally arrives to the skin. Instead, races of peel short like the Boxer, the Greyhound or the Dálmata receive the heat much more directly.
Precisely by this protective function of the fur, María José desaconseja entirely rapar to the races of double layer.
In addition to losing his natural isolation in front of the heat, a lot of dogs can develop problems of growth of the peel and even suffer permanent alopecias.
Like specialist in Pomerania, explains that good part of his work consists precisely in recovering dogs that have developed alopecia X after a rasurado wrong.
Further of the first helps, the best tool keeps on being the prevention.
The water has to be always available, clean and fresh, renewing it several times to the day. Also it is important to check that the dog really is drinking and spend always waters during the walks.
As it remembers María José Guerrero, the majority of the swipes of heat can avert with some very simple guidelines and a bit of common sense. Adapt the schedules, avert the central hours of the day and watch constantly the state of the animal are the best forms to enjoy of the summer with security.