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Anyway there is no reason to take fright. With a good hygiene you'll avoid problems. Let think to give your dog vermifuge twice in a year. Your veterinary will advice you as to choice a good one.

Though their coat protects your dogs in winter, you must watch out for the frostbites in the event of a contact with cold surface like earth :

Notably in winter sports holiday, the digital cushions of your dog may be damages.
Equally, lost dogs in winter, and that rove several days may have frostbites.

The parts of the body concerned are the extremities of the ears, the toes, the scrotum and the tail.

Keep him warm and treat him with a disinfectant or an antiseptic or even a tanning treatment. If the lesions are deep a surgical operation is necessary.

The cold can also cause cutaneous reactions that possibly itch the dog, when you go for long walks, and disappear when you come back home.

The cold may cause among some animals excessive immunological reactions requiring an appropriate drug therapy.

Some weeks before to go in in winter sports holiday :

apply preventively every day on the subcutaneous cushions of your dog a tanning substance that will harden and strengthen the horny layer of epidermis,
during the walk avoid that he eats snow, it may cause digestive problems,

When you come back from a walk in the snow wash him or dry him carefully. Wipe his underbelly (to avoid a cold that can be at the origin of a congestion that perturbs digestive functions) and his paws (to remove small crystals that form), then keep him warm, the dogs don't like humidity.

Finally consider to protect his eyes against reflection of the sun on the snow that can cause an ophthalmia. May be the Ocry-gel that humidify and protect the eyes of the dogs notably during sports competition will be enough. Ask your veterinary.

In summer you mustn't leave your dog in your car, even a few minutes, at the risk of his life. For lake of information, there is accidents every year.

Even if you leave your car in a shady place, or when the sky is cloudy, the sun comeback and turns very quickly, the shadow too, in spring and summer.

If it happen, go faster to veterinary.

If its a public holiday or if you are isolated call the veterinary and before he come, put fresh water or fresh wet terry towel, that you will change often, on your dog to stabilize temperature.

Dogs assure thermoregulation by panting to stabilize the temperature of theire body. If they stay without water in a hot place, their body will began very hot and they will may die.