Kerry's Clever Canines. Dog walking and Pet care.

25/07/2024

Days like today are made ALOT brighter when this is your welcome!! I love the way he’s gone to EVERY advantage view just to double check it was him I was coming to! I Love you too Rufus small! 😍

04/07/2024

RIP beautiful girl.

02/07/2024

Little and Large! Here at Kerry’s Clever Canines fun and friendship comes in all shapes and sizes! By mixing little dogs with large dogs it can help them build confidence and calmness around the bigger breeds and also give the larger dogs the opportunity to build trust in the fact that not all smaller dogs have “little dog syndrome”. Besides everyone knows that friendship comes in all shapes and sizes! So if your dog is looking to make new Pawsome friends and have some fun adventures please do call on 07947739664

26/06/2024

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

21/06/2024

Looks like Cooper had a fun filled Friday walk today as he was zonked before I even had chance to sit down and take off my boots! Hoping you all have had a fun, filled productive, happy week and wishing you all a Pawsome weekend!! Looking forward to seeing all the pups next week for more adventures!

20/06/2024

I love getting pupdates like this one from Maui and his family! He certainly has had a lot of fun this week and he definitely deserves a day of rest!! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow with your friends Maui! 🐾 If you’re looking for someone to help enhance your dogs day with daily woodland walks on well balanced packs then please don’t hesitate to give me a call on 07947739664 for a no obligation chat.

17/06/2024

Monday Motivation!! When you start the week with these absolute wonderful dogs + Sunshine = a fabulous start to the week!

29/05/2024

Finally had some sunshine today! But even the greyest of days is always filled with Joy with these gorgeous pups on our adventures!

20/05/2024

What an amazing start to the week the only way is up! Wishing you all a Pawsome week!

14/05/2024

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13/05/2024

I may be biased but I must say I have the best dogs in the world here at Kerry’s Clever Canine! X

10/05/2024

Thank you to everyone for your understanding and support today whilst we attended a funeral today of an amazing lady, the world is a darker place today.

01/05/2024

When you go to the store and can’t decide so you pick one in every colour!!

01/05/2024

I can absolutely see why!! An interest read and confirms why Cooper much prefers the rivers and Bucket and fountain outside full of rain water…

WATER EXPERIMENT COMPLETE...AND THE WINNER IS....
What happens when your followers are nerds? Awesome things, that's what.

In response to my (strangely heated) post on water consumption in dogs, Sue Holstead took it upon herself to test out various waters on her pack.

In short, I posited that dogs, with their super sensitive sniffers, prefer virtually any other water bar your tap water - toilet, plant pot, mucky puddle -because tap water has chlorine in it.

Chlorine is included in water to sterilise it, and it goes in gas form. This means, should you leave said water out to stand someplace for a few hours - in bowl on your kitchen surface, in an open tank in the attic (where a lot of toilet water comes from in Ireland, but nowhere else, it seems…) or in a toilet, say - the chlorine gas will soon evaporate and leave the water, rendering it a more attractive beverage to the dog as a result.

But I forgot my following is global. Most countries don’t use tanks in the attic (why does Ireland do that?!) and other countries have worked to get chlorine out of their water (Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland).

So Sue (UK) set out to find the answer.

She put together 5 types of water: K is kettle water, R is rainwater, L is from toilet, T is tap water and C is from a glass bottle left outside for 24 hours with copper strip running from the ground to bottle, used to purify the water and add a bit of earth-energy; rounded up 5 suspects (4 dogs and a cat) and monitored their consumption over a few days.

The results were:

- The three older dogs only drank rainwater
- The cat drank rainwater and some copper-wired water
- Only the young terrier took a small amount of tap water

Measuring how much water was consumed in total, the winner was rainwater (300ml of 500ml consumed). Followed by copper wired water (200ml), tap and kettle water (

30/04/2024

Not a bad view from the “office” love that I get to work in such beautiful surroundings, and spend my days with such wonderful souls!

19/04/2024

I adore this photo of Demi it embodies all her her!! Her beauty, her sweetness, her joy and zest for fun, (hence the mud!) and the fact that she is just so gorgeous and loved by all that even Daisy her bff has to kiss her!

12/04/2024

Who’s ready for weekend!!!! 🎉 wishing you all a Fabulous weekend!

10/04/2024

Please share and help find this little lady, lost today. 🤞

04/04/2024

Just stay sunny! 😅🌷

25/03/2024

16/03/2024

Picture of the week! I love this one From Tuesdays morning woodland adventure in a bid to capture Ambers DIY Mud Facial.. Henny’s Photobomb.. capturing both of their personalities perfectly in one image!

04/03/2024

01/03/2024

Friday fun! These pics from today were Just too fun and I think too pretty to just put in my story so here they are in all their glory! Have a great weekend y’all! X

28/02/2024

don’t you just love it when you catch your gorgeous pup with a funny face in a photo! It’s been a while but this one is worth the wait! 😍😂🥰

18/02/2024

This post is a plea on behalf of a very special, yet utterly shut down lady that has spent her entire 9yrs of life being used in a breeding facility and now is desperate to have the love and compassion from a family that’s willing to give her a chance.

Antigua, a gorgeous Tibetan x Newfoundland, is not doing well here at the rescue, and the likelihood is that she has been just as worried, shut down and scared for a long time before she even found herself here. Us staff struggle to comprehend just what’s going on in her head, but with each day passing, it’s easy to see that this lady has utterly given up on life. She isn’t eating at all right now and is currently being syringe fed, but this is what happens, even though we know she is safe here, she has no idea what to expect from us.

We were told before her arrival that she was just 3 years old, but it turns out this large girl is actually closer to 9. She has been in the same place for the last 9 years and being here has turned her world upside down. As you can see from her pictures, Antigua is a very big girl and true to her breed temperaments, she is a giant softie that doesn’t deserve to find herself pacing anxiously within a kennel like she is currently.

Antigua shows signs of being the most incredible companion and her personality definitely starts to shine when she gets to go on walks. The further away she is from the kennels, the more at ease she becomes. She enjoys having a roam around the fields and sniffing out her environment, and whoever adopts her will get to give her the experience of discovering loads of new places.

Antigua could be the girl of dreams but we just need someone to properly bring it out of her. We understand that all of our dogs need to break free, but it’s painful to see a lady like this in such desperate need of tlc and the bottom line is that Antigua isn’t going to blossom in this environment, she needs a person to save her.

If you are able to give this gorgeous big lady the home, love and life she deserves, then please consider applying for her on our website ❤️🐾

https://www.manytearsrescue.org/display_mtar_dog.php?id=40542