I wanted to post My Tiny Corner also on the blog today, not because of Little miss Molly but because of the story from Kim Langston. Scan down for more of her report:
MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Getting more and more concerned about walking too much with my little pal forever, Little Miss Molly. This intense heat is bad on little dogs, in fact, any dog.
Instead of going a full half mile in the heat of the day, I have been reducing it to 1/4 mile and now I am going to shoot for 1/8 mile. Molly does not seem to mind, because her little tongue hangs out quickly.
When I get great resistance is when she sees one of her friends, human or dog, all the way down the half-mile track headed this way. She has a conniption fit to race ahead hoping to get a belly rub from that person.
A sobering note from Kim Langston, ABC 33/40 skywatcher, who told us how she rushed her neighbor and the neighbor’s 250+ pound Great Dane to a vet in Russellville yesterday. If they had not done that, in 20 minutes or so the dog would have been dead.
They found him completely unable to walk. They poured water all over him for a long time and then pulled him to a carport to place under a fan. Only then did they rush to a vet.
When they reached the vet, after the dog had been having problems for 4 hours, his temperature was still 103.7. The vet said 107 is knocking on death’s door. The dog named Scooby is having tests to see if there was any damage to the kidneys, etc.
This is a great lesson and warning to us all. Thanks, Kim. Life goes on.
MY TINY CORNER OF THE WORLD: Getting more and more concerned about walking too much with my little pal forever, Little Miss Molly. This intense heat is bad on little dogs, in fact, any dog.
Instead of going a full half mile in the heat of the day, I have been reducing it to 1/4 mile and now I am going to shoot for 1/8 mile. Molly does not seem to mind, because her little tongue hangs out quickly.
When I get great resistance is when she sees one of her friends, human or dog, all the way down the half-mile track headed this way. She has a conniption fit to race ahead hoping to get a belly rub from that person.
A sobering note from Kim Langston, ABC 33/40 skywatcher, who told us how she rushed her neighbor and the neighbor’s 250+ pound Great Dane to a vet in Russellville yesterday. If they had not done that, in 20 minutes or so the dog would have been dead.
They found him completely unable to walk. They poured water all over him for a long time and then pulled him to a carport to place under a fan. Only then did they rush to a vet.
When they reached the vet, after the dog had been having problems for 4 hours, his temperature was still 103.7. The vet said 107 is knocking on death’s door. The dog named Scooby is having tests to see if there was any damage to the kidneys, etc.
This is a great lesson and warning to us all. Thanks, Kim. Life goes on.
on July 17, 2006, 3:14 pm
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