Dogs who are left unattended in back yards, even for a few minutes, faceHeat Wave Spells Death for ‘Backyard’ Dogs
danger every day of the year. They are abducted, poisoned, and beaten, and they
suffer from stress and loneliness. In the winter, they suffer from frostbite,
hypothermia, and dehydration
What Climbing Temperatures Mean for Dogs
The “dog days” of summer pose a particularly dangerous threat to “backyard” dogs: heatstroke. Many people know about the danger of leaving dogs inside cars during the warm summer months, when temperatures can climb to well above 100°F in just a matter of minutes. But for backyard dogs chained outside and deprived of water, shade, and ventilation, the threat of death has nothing to do with cars—even though they might be tethered to an old jalopy. Baking in the summer sun in a barren yard—day after day, week after week—takes its toll and kills many of these animals.
Beating the HeatBeating the summer’s oppressive heat is extra tough for dogs, because they can only cool themselves by panting and by sweating through their paw pads. Heatstroke can occur quickly and can result in brain damage or a gruesome death that’s often preceded by panic and seizures.............
1 comment:
you are preaching to the choir here. i want to (literally) bitch slap every person who has a dog they keep chained outside (all day all night). my dogs went out when they wanted to, the FIRST bark they were back inside. that started when i was a child. my moms was wicked cool about animals. i may have inherited that from her. i had a dog (lived with the parental units) that was ill. i have told this story before, but i will again. every night at 10 she peeled an appled and cut it up for him AND gave him vanilla ice cream. why i asked once. BECAUSE HE LIKES A CUT UP APPLE AND VANILLA ICE CREAM at 10:00 pm! how silly of me!hey before he was ill she even got him his own high backed chair so he could sit in it and look out the window. she didn't want him standing on his hind legs to look out the window. not because he'd scratch the pain, noooooooooooooooooooo, BECAUSE it was more comfortable for him to sit to look out!
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