Heatstroke Symptoms in Puppies

While dogs and humans alike enjoy spending time outdoors in the summer months owners should take care heatstroke can kill your puppy without immediate first aid. When the body cant keep its temperature in a safe range heatstroke kills pets in only 15 minutes.
Puppies cant sweat to cool off. Panting provides a rapid exchange of cool outside air and evaporation from the tongue keeps dog temperature normal. Puppies with white or thin fur also can suffer from sunburn. But when the outside air is the same or greater than pet temperature 101 to 102 5 F heatstroke develops.

Cars and Heatstroke
Cars become death traps in even relatively mild temperatures. On a 78degree day a shaded car reaches temperatures of 90 F. If parked in the sun it will reach 160 F in minutes.
Leaving the car and air conditioning running is no guarantee of safety. Even extra protection can fail. On July 16 2003 a Kansas City paper reported that K9 Officer Hondo a German shepherd dog died of heatstroke after being left in the stillrunning airconditioned police cruiser. The Hotdog System a safety system designed to protect K9 officers failed to turn on the sirens open the windows and turn on the fan when temperatures inside the cruiser reached dangerous levels.
Today one of the most modern available for police dog safety is the computerized HotNPop system which is able to sense when the interior of the vehicle has become too hot for the K9 officer. When that happens the system automatically rolls down the rear windows windows have metal screens to prevent the dog from jumping out and 

 activates large window fans that bring in fresh air to help cool the dog. The HotNPop also activates the cars emergency lights and horn as well as sending a signal to a pager

worn by the canine handler.
Symptoms
Symptoms of mild heatstroke are a body temperature of 104 to 106 F a bright red tongue and gums thick sticky saliva and rapid panting. When body temperatures go above 106 F the pets gums become pale it acts dizzy bleeds from the nose or has bloody vomiting and diarrhea and ultimately becomes comatose. These pets can develop