Hot Dogs research team member Dr Dan O’Neill recently joined Jo Good and Anna Webb on “Barking at the Moon” on BBC Radio London to talk all things “Hot Dogs”.
In this 10 minute recording Dan outlines:
- The dogs at increased risk of heatstroke
- What triggers heatstroke in dogs
- How to use human heat-health alerts to identify high risk periods
- How to cool a dog with heatstroke/overheating
- How to prevent heatstroke
You can listen to the recording (with accompanying slides and references) here:
Signs of heat-related illness (of which “heatstroke” is the most severe) are:
What to do if your dog overheats:
To read the research behind this work, check out our “Access to our research” page.
To download our infographics for sharing/printing, you can access them here:
Hot Dogs - heatstroke education for dog owners 