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Grab a Coat!

Forget fashion! Your dog needs a warm coat that fits and goes on easily.

Putting a coat on your dog shouldn’t be about making a fashion statement. Rather, it should be about keeping a chilly dog warm, thereby preventing hypothermia, a dangerous condition characterized by a reduced internal body temperature. (The normal canine body temperature is 100.5 to 102 degrees. A dog whose temperature drops below 95 degrees can die.)

A dog’s natural protection against cold varies from breed to breed. Labradors and certain Northern dogs (Huskies and Malamutes, for example) have developed with special physiological responses for coping with cold.

The Snuggy
However, many other breeds (and certain individual dogs) benefit from extra warming layers in cold weather, including: …


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