Summer is coming, will the dog continue to breathe when it is hot?

Once an animal's body temperature cannot be maintained at a constant temperature, it cannot live in a healthy state. If the outside temperature rises or the body temperature rises due to illness or fever, animals will naturally disperse the water in their bodies to the outside to dissipate heat and exercise at low temperature, that is, sweat.

There are two kinds of sweat glands in dogs. The apocrine glands of apocrine glands are distributed in the whole body skin outside the soles of feet, and the urine glands of apocrine glands are only distributed in the soles of feet. The second sweat gland secretes sweat, but because the dog is covered with hair, it is not as developed as human skin sweat glands, so the dog should stick out his tongue with his mouth, salivate, breathe rudely and emit body heat.

Dogs are very heat-resistant animals.

Because dogs don't sweat and don't stop exercising because of heat; The dog's body can't adjust its temperature, and the dog won't take care of itself and replenish water in time; The sweat glands of the dog are all on the tongue, so seeing the dog sticking out his tongue and panting means that the dog is very hot and needs to drink water to cool down or calm down. Dogs with short noses are more afraid of heat and less likely to dissipate heat than dogs with long noses.

The normal body temperature of dogs should be 37.8℃-39℃. When the body temperature reaches 40.65℃, the internal organs begin to be damaged, and when the body temperature reaches 465,438+0℃, it is highly dangerous. In a hot environment or a humid and muggy climate, the dog's body system may fail and die within 20 minutes at the earliest, so heatstroke is the biggest threat to the dog's health in summer or other muggy weather conditions.

This is also the reason why dogs stick out their tongues to dissipate heat.