Not everyone knows of the important role that service dogs play in our everyday life. And meanwhile service dogs are helping people worldwide in such tasks like, f.e. guarding property.
Service dogs help to pasture and protect sheep from numerous predators. They help in finding minerals. And of course they have proven themselves great as guides for blind people.
They also made a significant contribution to scientific research. In Russia there is even a monument of the dogs that took part in the research of I.P. Pavlov. They played an important role in Space Exploration and during the hard years of World War II service dogs were used to search for the badly wounded, carried weapons, ammo and food, and even managed to blow up enemy tanks.
Service dogs were used to warn scouts about closing enemies. They helped to find and disarm thousands of mines, missiles and bombs. Service dogs trained to sniff out mines made a significant contribution to the mine clearing of Budapest, Vienna and many other cities.
Service dogs are also widely used in border guard. They warn about trespassers, help in their pursuit, arrest and disarming. Millions of movie and TV viewers love the fearless dogs that help the movie heroes in their hard work.
There are different ways to keep such animals: in a field, in group, in the yard or in the apartment.
Group keeping is common in many specialized nurseries, for example in the army, large livestock farms, where dogs are bred, or in the police.
The field option is usually a temporary solution in case of an expedition, seasonal pasture or hunting season.
Yard keeping of service dogs is stationary, for long periods of time and provides comfortable conditions for a single dog in the country.
Lots of such dogs belong to the members of the service dog club and a kept in apartments. But in order to contain and care for the animal, the owner needs to know few basic rules and must also be aware of the influence of different environmental factors on the dog.
You know that temperature and air have a huge influence on the dogs. Our atmosphere is actually a mixture of gases, where the main ingredients are nitrogen (79.0%), oxygen (20.96%) and carbon dioxide (0.04%).
Like humans, dogs need air to breathe. Breathing creates the vital gas exchange between the environment and the organism. An organism that stopped breathing might eventually die. Steam is also released during breathing, together with the gas exchange.
Service dogs have no problems in case of a slight decrease of the oxygen in the air. But the lack of oxygen will affect the dogs condition. The air that contains 0.1% of CO2 is absolutely not suitable for breathing. The dog will die if it stays long in such atmosphere.
The body temperature of a service dog is higher than of a human body. That's why the dogs have a faster metabolism and they have a higher respiratory rate.
The air temperature also has a big influence on the dog, which increases with the age of the dog. The respiratory rate of pups is much higher than of an adult dogs.
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