Did you know that dogs don’t sweat? I recently came into an understanding, that it wasn’t such common knowledge as I always thought it was. Dogs don’t have the glands to sweat, and the way they reduce body heat is by panting. The longer their tongue hangs out, the more they reduce heat. Sweating on the other hand, makes the skin damp so that it can sense any movement of air in form of sweat evaporating and thus feeling cool on the skin. Most animals don’t have the ability to actually sense moving air in any other way than pressure on the skin and sense of hair moving, but as their skin stays dry (unless they get wet in water) they don’t have the sense of cool air on the skin. Therefore trying to cool down an animal with a fan is utterly useless, as they won’t know the difference - apart from some animals like horses, that are notorious of their sweat (or foam).

There you have some random information, that I for some reason tend to collect up in my brain a lot…

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