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Couch to 5K Accountability Thread
bainidhe_dub:
About 5 and a half, 100 pounds. He was out of shape when we adopted him last fall but I started walking him almost every day a few weeks ago. He's fine walking but he gets tired from running pretty fast.
Redball:
Have you tried him with a Frisbee?
Carl-E:
Be careful as summer comes on - they're nowhere near as efficient at dispersing heat as we are from under that fur coat!
Lines:
D'aww poor puppy. They make cooling bandanas for dogs, maybe one of those would help? (I don't have a dog, so I have no idea if they're effective, but they sound pretty nifty.)
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 22 May 2012, 18:59 ---Be careful as summer comes on - they're nowhere near as efficient at dispersing heat as we are from under that fur coat!
--- End quote ---
Very true. Indeed, they don't even have sweat glands where they have fur, so panting is not so much their extreme position as the normal heat loss mechanism, the tongue and lungs being the main heat-exchange areas (the nose and paw pads not amounting to much in comparison). When they are running, there's also the air-flow through the fur, at least in the less shaggy types.
A bandana would not help, as there is no sweat to wick into it and evaporate to cool it down.
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