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I consider myself reasonably knowledgeable about dogs and horses, but I have just had a real wake-up call about heat and dogs....I have just spent 15 minutes cold showering my 5 year old jack russell bitch, Twiglet aka Pigalet, is 6 inches tall, but believes she is a dobermann, her life is spent trying to clear my small holding of birds, foxes, badgers...and keeping my other five dogs in order, in other words she never never stops running, even in the house, the mice are a prime target...I was outside with the horses and she was playing with one of my other dogs, after eating her tea, and sorting out the other five, when all of a sudden she collapased, I picked her up, and tried her to see if she could stand, her heart was beating extremely quickly and she could not stand up, I rushed her inside the house, and my very sensible OH put her in the bath and we turned the shower on....thankfully she has recovered, and is now sleeping on her chair. It never crossed my mind that she was a prime case for heat stroke, and I am so glad she is alright. But beware it could be your dog. I also feel guilty after ranting about the policeman yesterday.
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Glad your OH came to think about heatstroke and that your Twiglet/Pigalet is recovering. I saw another reply somewhere the other day from another HHO:er saying she had a dog that had suffered a heatstroke at some time and warning us to be careful about our dogs in this hot weather.


Although I must say, I doubt your Twiglet will believe a word you says tomorrow when you try and tell her that she isn't an invulnerable superhero anymore...


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she doesnt listen to a word anyone says, you are quite right, at the moment, is back sleeping on chair, although managed to polish off, most of my chicken tea...so is obviously on road to recovery...thank you for your words, they made me laugh.
 
I'm really sorry to hear about your JR - they are monkeys for pushing themselves too far and I can understand how you thought she'd pace herself - it's not like you locked her in a car or forced on a 5 miles hike!! Good thinking to shower her off. My collie is fatithful as ever but I was working at a yard yesterday and she was following me (normal practise) about panting so I gave up trying to get her to lie down in the col area and hosed her (and me) off to cool us both down. she looked outraged but I think she was secretly relieved!!!
 
Poor little Twiglet, glad she is okay. My young GSD is the same, never stops. A couple of days ago she came in and was lying flat out panting really hard, didn't collapse or anything but was certainly overheated. I took her outside and hosed her down and she was fine, wanted to charge off again
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. We now let her out for short bursts and then keep her in the house to cool down.
 
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