My Dog Family

21/08/2024

Spaniel heaven with Boris & Cooper 🐶❤️🦴🐾

20/08/2024

Lovely seeing the gang together again with blue skies too 🙌

19/08/2024

We are back from our summer break! These guys have some catching up to do 🦴🐾🐶

15/08/2024

Happy Birthday Billy ❤️🐶🐾🦴

17/07/2024

Iris ❤️

16/07/2024

Very playful Penny & Billy with birthday girl Connie, Bobby, Holly & Iris ❤️

16/07/2024

Happy 4th birthday to another stunner our Connie ❤️🎉🥳🎂🎈

16/07/2024

Happy 3rd birthday to our cheeky Winnie ❤️🥳🎉🎂🎈

07/07/2024

04/07/2024

Thursday MDF Gang ❤️

27/06/2024

Is it true that if we use cold water on heat stroke pets they will go into shock?

One of the most common things we still hear is that we can only use tepid water on a pet with heat stroke, incase they get some complications like hypothermic overshoot, peripheral vasoconstriction hindering a cooling response, and cardiogenic shock...

We have heard not to use cold water in case it causes shock... this rarely happens!

But guess what? In a recent study over 26% of dogs presented with heat stroke died, with flat faced breeds making up nearly half of heat stroke cases seen in the study.

You should:

💧Get someone to call the local veterinary practice and tell them you're going to travel down with a heat stroke patient
💧Pour, hose or if possible immerse the pet in very cold water (this should obviously be done under constant supervision, ensuring the head is fully above water and immersion should not be attempted if the animal is too large, or you are unable to do so without hurting yourself)
💧NB: If using a hose pipe, make sure it has run through until cold, as they can often contain water that is extremely hot in the tubing initially
💧Do not drape in towels and leave them in situ. Keep the cold water flowing.
💧Move to a cool, shaded area
💧Prepare to transport to vets in a cold, air conditioned car

In studies they found that:

🌅International consensus from sports medicine organisations supports treating EHS with early rapid cooling by immersing the casualty in cold water.
🌅Ice-water immersion has been shown to be highly effective in exertional heat stroke, with a zero fatality rate in large case series of younger, fit patients.
🌅Hyperthermic individuals were cooled twice as fast by Cold Water Immersion as by passive recovery.
🌅No complications occurred during the treatment of three older patients with severe heat stroke were treated with cold‐water immersion.
🌅Cold water immersion (CWI) is the preferred cooling modality in EHS guidelines and the optimal method applicable to UK Service Personnel
🌅Studies suggest using either ice-water or cold-water immersion

The best intervention is PREVENTION, but if you find yourself with an animal with heat stroke, using cold water either by pouring, hosing or ideally (if safe) immersion then this may help reduce their temperature to safe levels while you transport to a veterinary practice.

Read more below:

https://www.vetvoices.co.uk/post/cool-icy-cold-or-tepid

26/06/2024

Early morning dip ❤️

25/06/2024

Alvin enjoying a cool dip ❤️

25/06/2024

Shady wood walks close to water for Tuesdays gang 🐶💦☀️

20/06/2024

The sunshine has arrived ☀️🐶💦

13/06/2024

We’re all loving the weather 🙌

13/06/2024

Who’s the boss ? 😂
Fun in the sun ❤️

12/06/2024

This is what happiness looks like ❤️

08/06/2024

Montage of Mabel sitting up front ❤️

06/06/2024

Thursday fun ❤️

05/06/2024

Wednesday pack fun ❤️

05/06/2024

Hail in June 🙈

03/06/2024

Morning walks with the Monday gang ❤️

21/05/2024

Loving life ❤️

21/05/2024

Billy ❤️

14/05/2024

Happy birthday Bobby 😍

07/05/2024

Zorro ❤️

02/05/2024

Chuck ❤️