Despite the fact that officially soon will come the summer season, high temperatures now becomes the cause of tragic incidents. Thus, recently, the police rescued from a deadly trap — heated car parked on 64th Street in Brooklyn, two dogs.
#NYPD ESU rescued two dogs from a locked car located on 64th St. in Brooklyn. ESU quickly gained access & administered oxygen while cooling the dogs down. The dogs were taken to an animal hospital where one is in critical condition w/ a strong heart beat. The owner was arrested. pic.twitter.com/bXsay3tZJX
— NYPD Special Ops (@NYPDSpecialops) May 26, 2018
Officers had dogs first aid, after which they were taken to veterinary hospital, one of the dogs is in critical condition. The owner of the animals was arrested.
According to the world organization PETA, every year in the world suffer and die thousands of dogs left by careless owners in the car «just for a minute.» Cars become deadly traps: in the heat of the pet is sufficient to sit in a hot transport in just 10 — 15 minutes that he had irreversible brain damage or heart attack.
Dogs are very hard to tolerate high temperature. And if the person is in the heat, to regulate body temperature, sweating, in dogs the process of thermoregulation is different.
Let’s start with the fact that they do not sweat for cooling. Sweat in dogs produced only on the exposed parts of the body (nose, ear scope, paws), but not for cooling and humidifying and the production of specific substances involved in communication with other animals.
All dog owners know that on a hot day their pet will prefer the cool granite of the kitchen floor, the soft carpet in the living room: the mechanism of thermal conductivity. But in a closed carparked in the sun, all surfaces are hot, hardly any air circulates and is heated. The coat of the dogs involved in thermoregulation, warmed up the car makes the situation worse. The dog resorts to its main way of cooling is panting (rapid breathing with an open mouth with protruding tongue). But in a hot car the air is rapidly heated, moistened dog is harder and harder to breathe.
Many dog owners believe that their pet is safe, because:
they left the crack in the window.
It has been proved that this method does not affect the heating rate of the car — with the Windows ajar and closed it heats up the same way.
they parked in the shade.
In this case, the temperature in the cabin, albeit more slowly, but increases. And let’s not forget that shadow is already in a few minutes can change sun.
