 ID'ing and preventing heat stress
#74341 - 05/14/2005 01:39 PM |
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It's starting to warm up here and I'm doing more traveling with Maggie and Max so I thought I'd review heat stress. Unfortunatly I can't seem to locate the old threads or do we need a new one? Particularly keeping them cool in the Van.
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[Re: Dennis Jones ]
#74342 - 05/15/2005 12:55 AM |
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I sometimes lay a bag of ice in the crate with them. I may have got that idea from VC.
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#74343 - 05/15/2005 04:18 AM |
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Ray Allen has the fans you can hang on the crate. I have put bags of ice in the crate and they seem to like it and work a little easier.
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#74344 - 05/15/2005 03:40 PM |
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Along those lines. I am always amazed at the K9 Units that on comfortable days are parked with windows up, hoods open, car running and A/C on. Give me a shade tree, open windows and a nice breeze. If the A/C goes out even a comfortable day can be deadly in a closed car. It happens every summer.Besides if my dog layed under the A/C all day, next he'd want a TV to watch Oprah.
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#74345 - 05/15/2005 06:05 PM |
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Along those lines. I am always amazed at the K9 Units that on comfortable days are parked with windows up, hoods open, car running and A/C on. Give me a shade tree, open windows and a nice breeze. If the A/C goes out even a comfortable day can be deadly in a closed car. It happens every summer.Besides if my dog layed under the A/C all day, next he'd want a TV to watch Oprah.
I try to acclimate my dog to the weather changes throughout the year by leaving the rear windows down in the patrol car year round. I hate leaving the car run and exposing my dog to all the exhaust fumes. Whenever possible I look for the shady spot, lock my partition and leave all of the windows down. I always turn on my heat monitor just in case!
As far as that hood up stuff….. cars weren’t designed to run with the hoods up. You are defeating the cars cooling design which is pulling outside air across the radiator to cool the motor. Ford has stated that it’s more efficient to leave the hood down in the summer time.
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#74346 - 05/16/2005 07:45 AM |
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One other issue with running the A/C.
You need to make certain the evaporator -- the part inside the car, does not get clogged with that fine undercoat hair.
I recall seeing on this board a few years back where a K9 was lost to heat prostration. He was in the car with the A/C running. However, the fins had becomed blocked by the dog hair and the A/C was not able to cool the car.
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#74347 - 05/16/2005 08:20 PM |
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There is a neat new product out that is used to clean the evaporator from under the hood. A hose is tapped into the evap housing and the product is injected as a foam. The product fill up the evap housing then turns to liquid, carrying away the offending hair/dander via the drain tube. We also put a filter inside the car in front of the evap intake to minimize clogging. The filter is cleaned monthly.
As far as Dennis' original question. A dog that is suffering from heat exposure will exhibit rapid breathing, drooping head and ears, eye disfunction and change in gum color, to name a few symptoms.
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#74348 - 05/16/2005 10:54 PM |
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When we do a search in hot weather, we keep a close eye on the dogs temps. 99.5-102.5 . If it goes to 103 or above, we take them out of service and cool them down with a kiddie pool (kept in our team trailer) and no more than a couple of inches of water to lay in. DO NOT wet down the whole body. Just the belly and feet. All wetting the body does does is seal in the heat. I've you've ever went pond swimming in levis, on a hot day, you know what I'm talking about. This info also was told to me by one of my hunting partners, a Veterinarian.
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#74349 - 05/17/2005 09:39 AM |
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I also keep an eye on the insides of my dogs ears.
When she overworks, which she will continue to do, the insides of the ears start to get red and I stop there regardless.
Bob, do you let your dogs cool off in streams? We have a lot of streams and the dogs do it naturally and do sometimes get all the way wet but shake much of it out.
I have joked that I am going to dye my nearly black dog blonde for the summer.
The other thing is what about cordura nylon search vests? I know a lot of people think they overheat but if it is lighter than the dog and the dog does not sweat does it really overheat the dog or could it actually be blocking some of the heat from the sun? We get pretty hot here in South Carolina.
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#74350 - 05/17/2005 12:12 PM |
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I'm going to contradict myself here by saying it's in open fields, with lots of sun exposure where I don't like the dogs to get fully in the water. Most of our searches are in heavilly wooded area and I have no problem with the dogs going all the way in. Otherwise, I prefer they just lay in a puddle or very shallow stream. If nothing is available, I wet with belly down with bottled water I always carry. Additionally, your lab probably sheds water much better than my GSD. Water doens't get through his under coat easily, but the top coat seems to drip forever. My Border terriers would be almost dry with just a few shakes. Still, that black coat has to be a problem.
We only use the vests for parades, demos. It would be to easy for them to get hung up on the underbrush. Even our collars are quick release.
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