my mouth is dry I'm feeling light-headed I'm starting to get you know a really bad
headache I'm not feeling particularly great so I'm dr. Alex Avery from
ourpetshealth.com helping you and your pet live a healthier happier life and today we're
gonna find out how hot my car gets so it's a lovely day it's four o'clock in
the afternoon so the heat of the sun has really gone I've got my thermometer here
which says it's 27 degrees how hot does a car get so how long can you leave your pets
in the car before it gets too hot for them well I think the answer might just
surprise you but first I've got to get changed right here we are now if you're
wondering why I'm wearing my fluffy onesie well you'll just have to watch a
little bit more to find out but let's get going I've got a car on
air-conditioning's running so it should be nice and cool in there so let's jump
in and we'll see what the temperature is
okay so I've just turn the air conditioning off you know imagine that
you've just stopped at the shops you've just about to hop out well we need to
leave the windows open say or just maybe open a nice opening for windows a little
crack so what a couple of inches no one's going to get in steal the car and
if we look at the thermometer it's only been off for a couple of minutes but
let's see if we can see what it is so it's up it twenty-nine thirty degrees
okay so it's twenty-nine thirty degrees in the car what we'll do is we'll start
my stopwatch and see how quickly it gets hot even though there is a little bit of
a gentle breeze I really just can't feel anything so even that these windows open
and if I put my hand right there I can't feel any cooler air coming into the car
it feels just as hot here as it does where I'm sitting so cracking the
windows is really not an effective way of circulating that air and cooling down
your car okay so we're with three and a half minutes in and already 35 degrees
yeah seven and a half minutes in let me just get the thermometer okay it's
coming up 40 degrees okay so I'm not the first person to do this the first person
I'm aware of was dr. any award and he did it to really raise awareness of how
hot cars gets and how quickly they can get to that temperature I know it was
then repeated by a good friend of mine dr. Dan foster again to raise the plight
of dogs who are left in cars every year dogs are dying in cars make no mistake
so I thought I'd tell you things about a knotch and wear this ridiculous costume
so this is my dog simulation maybe I'm a Dalmatian Dalmatian today
whoo and it gives a more realistic experience of what your dog will be
going through okay so we're over eleven and a half minutes in the temperature
keeps on climbing so let's just see what we've got here
so what's that 40 44 degrees 110 111 degrees Fahrenheit say it's getting
pretty hot just imagine how scary Oh be for your
dog they're getting really hot that body temperatures starting to climb certainly
my mouth is starting to go very dry I'm not feeling fantastic but I know
that any moment I can just open this door and I can get out now most how
scary it would be for your dog you know they don't know when you're coming back
they don't know how long you're going to be all they know is that they're
starting to get seriously stressed out by this heat so think again before you
leave your dog in your car for any length of time it doesn't really have to
be that hot outside either remember 27 degrees it is and there's a gentle
breeze that's you know these open windows are doing nothing to to
circulate the air okay so we're at 17 and a half minutes now and it is getting
hotter so it's very going what's that forty six and a half degrees centigrade
which is 115 Fahrenheit okay so 21 minutes in now it's getting
fairly unbearable and I said that a little bit but it really is now so I've
got the sweat is absolutely pouring off me I'm drenched so that is going to be
helping me lose a little bit of heat so it's going to be working through my
clothes and evaporating and that's going to be helping me to to dump heat but
remember again dogs can't sweat so as hot as I am even in this ridiculous
suits with this ridiculous hood there's still nothing to what your dog
would be going through so they would be getting super stressed now their body
temperature will be starting to climb and why is that so bad well once the
body temperature climbs past a certain point the organs start shutting down it
starts to do damage to the kidneys damage to the liver and a dog will go
into multi organ failure and happen very quickly and once that starts man it's
difficult to it's difficult to get your dog to recover successfully you have to
aggressively cool them down there are only certain ways that we can do that if
we just you know throw cold water over them actually that can just make things
worse and then if you call them too long then
they go hypothermic they get a low body temperature and they're just a mess
there the organs are shutting down all of the normal regulation that the
body does is just just going haywire and even with the best will in the world
even with the best team the best treatment they're just as sometimes
absolutely no way that we can save these guys when they get past a certain point
they are literally cooking my mouth is dry feeling light-headed and I'm
starting to get you know really bad headache not feeling particularly great
okay so my temperature my thermometer is maxed itself out
it's hot okay so we've made it past the 30 minute mark I really didn't think I'd
get here so 30 minutes the cars got ridiculously unbearably hot I feel
terrible please don't try this at home take my word for it your car will get
hot very quickly it will kill your dog doesn't take long and even with
treatment your dog can pass away so I'm doctor Alex from our pets health where I
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until next time take care of yourselves right I'm out of here
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