Flashback Friday...on a Long Weekend

Flashback Friday...a beautiful Spring day, with two handsome puggies soaking up the sunrays on our balcony at the time. Well, it looks like Simon was done with the sun, he's in the shade. But in the pic Cody's still living it up in the sun.

Skip  ahead to the present...a couple of days ago Cody gave me quite the panic attack. I thought he was on the super fast track to joining Simon in heaven. I was almost certain I was holding him for the last time. Here's what happened, I took him outside with me and it was warm out. It's been rather warm this week. Warm not hot! Then again, I still go by AZ standards when it comes to the heat. Anyway, it was rather warm. We hadn't been out there long. I estimate maybe around 8 minutes or even less. All of a sudden I looked over at Cody and he was fading fast. He seemed to be attempting to take a gasp of air. But wasn't succeeding. I walked over and literally forced his mouth open so he could get air. I wasn't into waiting any longer outside with him so I hoisted him up in my arms and RAN inside the house with him. I then sat on the floor with him on my lap and poured water in his mouth. He was wet, I was wet, Piper was getting wet as she was right in on the action. She likely recognized my panic and she doesn't shy away. She hangs in there to see what is happening to her brother. Every minor and big emergency we had with Simon she was front and center for. Same is the case now with Cody. After quite a few minutes he seemed to relax and was fine. I'm not sure why he never opened his mouth to pant while we were outside, but that's all he needed to do...simply start panting and he wouldn't have started to overheat like that.

It was super scary for me. I've never heard of a dog forgetting how to pant. Does anyone know if that happens? All I know is it appears Cody no longer can remember how to pant. Panting is how dogs cool off, it's a necessary thing. Clearly, in the future we will have to be EXTREMELY careful with Cody outside during warm/hot days.


In other news, welcome to the long weekend...it's a 4 day weekend for us! Woo-hoo! French Open starts on Sunday...double woo-hoo!