Pants, even in very fast consequence, usually connected with long out hanging tongue, no sign of illness is. Throws up alone we cannot assess as illness-appearance also in general.
A dry, warm nose is often the sign against it for an illness of our dog.
Since however after sleeping, after exhausting works, on very dry days and after which scratches in the dry soil as well as occasionally with the hot bitch this appearance appears, we must observe whether the nose proves after short time to be cold and moist again how it corresponds to a healthy dog.
With suspicion of a serious illness, we must measure the temperature of the dog. The greased top of the thermometer is pushed approximately to it 3 cm deep into the anus and three to four minutes in it leaves. With this procedure, the man (the leader) must that dog's holds on.
The normal-temperature induces itself between 37,5 to 39 C, with higher temperature, we must visit a veterinarian.
Keyword " veterinarian ": also a veterinarian is a person of the trust, therefore he/it should be selected very carefully. We should rather give up a veterinarian, that is oriented only on his/its merit and enforces all possible examinations without obvious reason. But also with a veterinarian from " appeal " can exceed the expenses for our darling the 1.000,00 DM frontier quickly. Therefore, a suitable dog-health insurance is to be recommended very much, with the expenses of approximately 30, - until 50, - DM in the month should not incriminate her/it/them our purse old so very much, reports us up to 80% of the veterinarian-expenses however.
Last updating: 21.01.2001 13:04
Source: GU TIER-RATGEBER "Der Westie" v. Ingrid Bolle-Kleinbub