Pets R.I.P – Top Tips to Keep Your Pets Cool this Summer
Summer is hot! We all know that, but it’s easier for us to be able to crank up the A/C, jump in the pool or just take a cool shower. For our pets, it’s a whole other story! Did you know that dogs can suffer heat stroke and it can be fatal within minutes? Cats can also suffer from heat stress, and both of these conditions can be severely debilitating to your pets, and can cause long-lasting damage. Unlike humans, dogs and cats don’t sweat to keep themselves cool, at least not in the way you might think. Since the animals are covered in fur, pets don’t sweat through it but they do keep themselves cool through a small amount of sweat glands located in the pads of their paws. The surface area of those pads is, as you know, rather small, making regulating their temperature quite difficult. Dogs will pant to release excess heat from their bodies as it allows evaporation of heat from the mouth. Cats will stretch out their bodies and lay in the shade, as the smarter of the two animals (argu