are you playing a trip to the mountains to maybe go hiking or RV and you're taking
your animals along we'll have you ever thought that they might get altitude
sickness today I'm Colorado martini living
make sure you stay for the whole video so you can see all the tips for helping
your animal without altitude sickness so many of us love to take our dogs or our
cat even our rabbits on trips with us many of us go on high-altitude hikes and
we love taking our dogs with us but would you recognize if your animals had
altitude sickness because if you're going to 6,000 feet and above most
likely they could suffer from it so today I'm going to talk about the signs
of altitude sickness in animals and some tips to prevent it
but a lot of people don't realize is that when they travel to New Mexico and
Colorado and Wyoming and even Montana you think that you're not that high up
because you're not in the mountains but you are actually in altitude so if you
travel to some of these places and you're trying to figure out why am I so
winded why am I so exhausted why can't I catch my breath when I go up a flight of
stairs you might be suffering from altitude sickness and it might just be a
mild case so as you go up in altitude the air gets thinner and thinner and the
harder it is to take a breath so as you know I live in Colorado so you think I'd
be used to altitude I live in fifty five hundred feet above
sea level but for every two thousand feet that you go up you have to
re-acclimate
the thing you might not think about are your animals they might be suffering
from an altitude sickness also a lot of times we don't give them a ton of water
while we're in the car because we don't want to have to keep stopping but you're
doing them and injustice they need the water just as much as you do
so let's say you're taking a drive or maybe even RVing across the country and
you'd come to Wyoming and your intentions are not to go to the
mountains but it's going to take you a couple of days to get where you're going
so you're driving along i-80 you are going across a lot of high altitude
points for instance Cheyenne Wyoming is six thousand and sixty three feet above
sea level
Laramie Wyoming is seven thousand one hundred and sixty-five feet above sea
level Rawlings Wyoming is six thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four feet above sea level and all the way over to Green
River is six thousand one hundred and fifteen feet so as you're traveling on
the i-80 you don't realize you're in altitude and your pets might be
suffering
even when you're in the southern regions of the United States you might be
traveling to altitude a lot of people don't realize Albuquerque New Mexico is
about 5,300 feet in altitude Denver is just a little bit higher than
Albuquerque
so who is at risk well your senior dogs or dogs with underlining or undiagnosed
cardiac or respiratory issues
breathe does not matter some breeds are at greater risk of altitude sickness
dogs with smashed faces such as an English bulldog pugs Boston Terrier and
mixed breeds with a similar short muzzle this is because they have a difficult
time increasing their air intake fast enough to overcome the effects of
elevation as quickly as other breeds can
tip number one hydration is key when it comes to prevention always have a dog
bowl with you and plenty of water and offer your pet water as often as you can
a good rule of thumb is to always give them water when you are drinking water
so just wait to get one of these classical bowls I'll put a link down
below on where you can get them they're really cool and our puppy dog carries it
on his our puppy dog carries this on his back and we'll show you how he does that
he's got it connected to his harness there so he carries it for himself and
then we bring bottled water with us the adorable dogs on the husky and woof dog
YouTube channel they live in Europe where altitude can change very quickly
their parents know the importance of making sure dogs are hydrated when
traveling in altitude tip number two
the first couple of days that you're an altitude take it slow keep them on a
leash so you can keep them at your side and encourage a lot of breaks don't let
them run ahead of you keep them at a controlled speed tip number three if you
live at sea level or lower elevations it is always a good plan to go to 5,000 or
6,000 feet before going above 8,000 and spending some time there driving from
sea level to 10,000 feet and hoping that you can get out and take a big hike is
just too hard on your animals
so you know that old saying that you can't lead a dog to water well it's
pretty true how many times do you take your dog out try to get more just won't
drink so our last and that's tip feed them wet food instead of kibble so they
can get the moisture that they
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