Quote Originally Posted by Errabal View Post
People don't realize how quickly heat stroke can kill your animal. As little as an hour is all that it takes. A week and a half ago a friend lost 9 of her dogs when the AC in her kennel stopped working. Earlier in the day she went it to check on them, everyone was fine. 3 hours later she checked again, the AC unit at some point had stopped working and all the dogs had passed. It was terrible.
Having suffered heat stroke before that should have required hospitalization (I was out in the middle of no-where, about 5 hours drive from the nearest medical clinic), I can say that it really doesn't take long at all for heat to overwhelm you. We had no A/C and no real way to cool me off at the time, so they literally tossed me in the lake to get my core temperature down. It was terrible recovering from that, and to this day heat just 'gets me' a little faster than other people.

That's.... horrible to hear about those dogs. That's awful! Oh my goodness