Heat Stroke on Dogs
Heat Stroke is common to every dog but the flat face dogs are more prone to this dog emergency. Flat face dogs such as bulldogs, boston terriers, frenchies, pekingese, pugs, etc are the first in line to have heat stroke. Some triggers could happen inside your closed car on a very sunny day, being outside on the hottest day, while getting groomed and the hair dryer is too close or too long on drying them, having no source of water or not in a shaded area.
Heat stroke symptoms can be detected with their rapid breathing, noisy and frantic type of breathing. Their tongue and mucus membrane turned very red, vomiting water, excessive saliva that drips on their mouth. Seeing your pug physically can detect the heat stroke is happening and we do not like have an AED type of gadgets for flat face dogs to detect the heat stroke right there and then but you can check on their temperature.
Rectally taken, the normal temperature would be around 100-102 Fahrenheit but if it measure more than that your dog is having a heat stroke. You will notice that your dog weakens, it can have a diarrhea with blood on it, lost their balance and falls into coma before it will die.
Yes, Heat stroke is fatal so you have to be vigilant on you dogs health condition, for one, your dog cannot speak and tell you how they feel, right? So provide them some of your time and attention, know their breed’s health history so you would take enough precautions about the do’s and dont’s on your dog.
So for mild cases of heat stroke and or if you detect it right away, you can make them drink cold water, give them ice cubes, shower them or hose them, if the temp is high dip them on a tub of cold water and it will help on lowering the heat, some also uses cold enema for some heat stroke cases but if you do not know what to do or easily freaked out better bring you dog to the nearest vet.
What I do is I always made sure that during summer my pug and other dogs sleep on a nice soft cold cushion for prevention. I hope it helps. 
