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Important caution for dog owners

Recently we almost lost our pet Sadie to heat stroke. She is OK now, but we were lucky.
What I did not know was that barking can actually raise a dog's temperature . Sadie
was barking to get at a cat, and we put her out while we moved the cat to a safer place.
She was only outside for only 5 or 10 minutes, but when we let her back in she was panting
for air with foam in her mouth. A wild ride to the vet and $500 saw her through it, but as I said,
we were lucky.

This can happen very quickly even to healthy , young dogs -- It can result in
brain damage, coma and death.

So heads up!

-John


The poor dog, in life the the firmest friend,
The first to welcome, foremost to defend,
Whose honest heart is still the master's own,
Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone,
Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth,
Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth,
While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven,
And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven.

Lord Byron
Inscription on the monument of his
Newfoundland dog, 1808


EPITAPH TO A DOG
His friends he loved. His fellest earthly foes--
Cats--I believe he did but feign to hate.
My hand will miss the insinuated nose,
Mine eyes that tail that wagged contempt at Fate.
- Sir William Watson


DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and
surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier
incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male
aspirant. The Dog is a survival -- an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet
Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and
fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the
Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.
- Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914), "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911