28/06/2025
Increasing your awareness is the first step in protecting your dog from summer hazards. Knowing how to prevent problems and avoid potentially dangerous situations will help keep you and your dog safe and happy all summer long.
Fresh water intoxication
When dogs ingest too much water, their electrolytes in the bloodstream become diluted. Make sure your dog takes frequent half-hour breaks from the water throughout the day.
Saltwater intoxication
When a dog consumes too much saltwater, the excess salt in the bloodstream pulls water out of brain cells, causing them to shrink. Signs that this is occurring include muscle tremors, disorientation and seizures.
Blue-green algae
Blue-green algae is a toxin-producing cyanobacteria that can be found in lakes, ponds and rivers especially during warm weather spells. Exposure to toxins produced by these bacteria can be life-threatening to dogs, humans and other animals.
Pool chemicals
Once diluted, most pool chemicals aren’t toxic to your dog. The one exception is pool shock, which occurs when an extremely high concentration of chlorine is in the water. This can irritate your dog’s skin and respiratory tissues, and some dogs may collapse after swimming in a recently re-chlorinated pool.
Lawn care products
If a product comes in pellet or granule form, and you typically water down the area where you spread the products over the ground, then the water usually washes the chemical agents into the soil. What’s left behind is the material the pellets that carried the chemical were made of, typically corncob or clay matter, which is generally harmless. But if your dog rips open a bag of lawn treatment for a snack, call an animal poison control emergency hotline and start driving to your vet.
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