do dogs sweat??

[kelly]

i was wondering do dogs sweat my wee westie sometimes feels hot and sticky and i had thought that didnt sweat!! but he seems to!!
and is fresh garlic ok to put in to dogs feed i heard it keeps fleas and ticks away is this an old wives tail??

[davet]

dogs sweat through the pads of their feet and the nape of their neck...they can have sebvaceous discharge any spot on their skin which may appear to be sweat but is not...re garlic...i think it is worthless but some people swear by it...i usedput a drop of fenthion on the back of clients dogs, ie those who used garlic, and invariably several fleas would drop off...but it does not harm and if owners are happy with it let them use it but frontline etc works much better...

[kelly]

I was in a different site and the people there told me that dogs didnt sweat i really did believe that me westie was sweating!! but they said that (exact words) "dogs dont sweat they pain instead duuh" which i didnt find a very nice answer

[davet]

not a very nice answer and not a very accurate one either...

[kelly]

well at least someone is nice enough to give me an answer thanks

[Mary Plummer]

I didn't know dogs sweat through the nape of the neck area! I'd heard about the foot pads, and thought that was it. Kelly, we use Frontline on our Mr. Blue, and never get fleas or ticks, so we've been really happy with it.

[lmd]

Kelly... I`m sure they meant the dogs PANT instead. They can cool somewhat by increased evapouration.

[kelly]

i used fronline as well and still do was just checking out the garlic theory!
and was wondering if it was harmful to dogs to feed the fresh garlic in their feed??
i have to keep my westie clipped short and left with just the westie head as he sweats alot!! he had really greasy spots round his ears and neck and that has cleared up not that he is clipped short

[davet]

garlic doesn't hurt, whether it does anything is questionable,,they have done studies on children and mosquitoes and garlic and the kids got bit as much as the non garlic ones...but again, unless is sefver excess it does no harm

[k9Karen]

davet - what the heck does sefver mean????

I'm usually pretty good at davetisms, but this one has me stumped!