A.L.S Dog Grooming

18/07/2025

✨ Maternity Leave ✨
I am now currently on maternity leave as the countdown begins of the arrival of our baby in August! 🍼🤰

I cannot thank all of my wonderful customers enough for your support, understanding & best wishes throughout.
I will keep you all updated on my return to work on an individual basis, in the meantime for my regular customers if you do need to contact me please don’t hesitate to do so!

Amy 🐾

11/07/2025

➡️ Dogs DO NOT DIE from missing a walk. They might if you risk taking them out in hot temperatures.

➡️ According to research, 26.56% of the dogs with heatstroke died

➡️ Nearly half (48.7%) of the dogs with heatstroke were dog breeds with flat faces. Flat-faced dog breeds were four times more likely to develop heatstroke than normal-faced dogs.

☀️ Protect your animals from the heat ☀️

🌞Dogs can get heat stroke on hot walks

🌞Animals get heatstroke in hot hutches they cannot escape

🌞Animals can get heatstroke if left in rooms with no ventilation

🌞Animals can get heatstroke if they have no access to cool water

We are hopefully aware now of the national UK campaign 'Dogs Die in Hot Cars' - this advice remains!

However, work by VetCompass has shown that 10 times as many dogs present for veterinary care related to heat-related illness (HRI) following exercise as dogs that present following being entrapped in a vehicle.

The most commonly cited reasons for triggering heat-related illnesses were exercise (51.46% of cases), hot environment (31.02% of cases) and hot vehicles (12.41%).

➡️Remember there could be a number of risk factors including:

✅Brachycephalic breeds
✅Age - juvenile or geriatric
✅Thick Coated Dogs
✅General Health
✅ Other illnesses

❌Do not leave animals in hot cars
❌Don't take your dog to the pub all day in the heat
❌Do not walk your dogs in the heat - remember even when the sun is down they may still get too hot while exercising if the temperature is still hot
❌ Ensure they aren't locked in rooms with no ventilation
❌Do not lock rabbits and guinea pigs (and other animals) in hutches or enclosures with no escape from the heat

✅ Provide plentiful cool, fresh water
✅ Provide shade, ventilation and cool breeze ( consider using a fan)
✅Give them cool mats to lie on
✅ Engage in enrichment to boredom bust
✅ Provide rabbits and small furries with cool frozen bottles, shade, ventilation, escape from the heat and plentiful water

https://www.rvc.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-facilities/veterinary-epidemiology-economics-and-public-health/news/new-research-from-the-rvc-suggests-human-heat-health-alerts-could-help-prevent-heatstroke-in-dogs

08/07/2025

Our Reg is 9 today 💙🐾🎉

24/06/2025

🐾 Otis ✨ Lola 🛁 Gaston 🐾

Lovely Otis (Golden Retriever) celebrated his 1st birthday last week by enjoying a much needed deshed & of course a few treats! 🥵🦴

18/06/2025

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14/06/2025

Another mixture of beautiful customers 🐾
I am so grateful to each & everyone I have come through my door ♥️✂️

07/06/2025

Finally captured Ralph having a snooze during his groom 🐩 It’s a hard life being a pampered pooch!

23/05/2025

✨Happy May Bank Holiday Weekend ✨
A few more of my well pampered four-legged customers 🐩

22/05/2025

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🐝🐝HONEY UPDATE🐝🐝

We now have our delicious pure Somerset honey back in stock.🍯🍯

Please pm me to order. Thanks. Sam

£5.50 per jar.

20/05/2025

Peggy 🐾 Pickle 🐾 Meg 🐾
Came in for their much needed hand-strips ✨

11/05/2025

Dog First Aid certificate renewed today.
This was a great opportunity to refresh on all topics of important first aid skills required should I ever have to use it on any of my four-legged customers or even my own dog 🐕

I highly recommend this course to any of my customers to participate in.
Please visit Allwinds Dog First Aid for further information ⛑️🐾

04/05/2025

Something else to think about if you are heading to the beach with your dogs (well, the ones that allow dogs!) As well as a fun place for humans, it can be a fun place for dogs but, know the dangers of Saltwater Poisoning in Dogs. When a dog is thirsty, many will drink pretty much anything and, seawater can look just as inviting.
Drinking too much sea water can make a dog seriously ill, although the odd small sip here and there shouldn't cause harm.
There is a huge amount of salt in sea water and, if a dog drinks too much, they can very quickly become dehydrated when there is a disruption to the fluid levels in the body.
Symptoms:
➡ Vomiting
➡ Diarrhoea
➡ Lethargy
➡ Confusion
➡ Odd behaviour
➡ Muscle spasms
➡ Extreme thirst
➡ Excessive weeing
➡ Loss of appetite
➡ Seizures

If you notice any of the above symptoms, take your dog to a vet immdiately.
Try offering water little and often on route to help rehydrate.

How to prevent Saltwater Poisoning
✅ Take plenty of fresh water with you, enough to last your whole visit
✅ Remember to take a bowl or something your dog can drink from
✅ Allow your dog plenty of breaks from play, both in and out of the sea
✅ Try offering water to your dog on the breaks but, make sure there is plenty of fresh drinking water available at all times that they can help themselves to
✅ Offer plenty of shade

www.allwindsdogfirstaid.co.uk