> 05-08-05  19:18, Barbara Mcnay told James Bradley
 > about Hello!?

 >  How do, Barbara?

 >> 05-06-05  06:49, Wayne Chirnside told Cindy Haglund

 >> I recall hearing something about an acidic, or baseous
 >> soap. (50% chance of guessing right here, but...) We
 >> use an acidic formula to dislodge our baseous sweat,
 >> (Or vise versa) where other mammals are the opposite.
 >> Likewise, our sweat can wreck havoc on all but wool
 >> fibre rugs for the same reason. It's the fluctuating
 >> change of states in a dogs skin, and on most carpeting
 >> that speed up their demise. Of course, I might have
 >> heard total crap, so...

 >  BM> I don't know anything about the soap; if I bathe my dog, I use the
 >  BM> same  SoftSoap that I use for myself.  In dilute solutions, it
 >  BM> kills fleas on contact, I discovered.  When dogs and cats
 >  BM> ingest hair, they can't digest it. They either throw it up,
 >  BM> or pass it through, unchanged by the acidity and alkalinity
 >  BM> of the digestive tract, so perhaps the pH of the sweat is
 >  BM> not the issue, but an appropriate pH that agrees with the
 >  BM> skin. Dogs and cats sweat very little, in any event, which
 >  BM> is why they pant when hot.

 > What little I know about soap, wouldn't *wash* a flea!
 > 

 > All I can do is report on what I once read/heard.
 > Being so long ago, I couldn't remember where I
 > gathered so much. I have no real way to test if it's
 > true or not.

 > I know you are right though, about the sweat glands. I
 > know dogs will only sweat through their tongues, and
 > paws. Although, sweating through a tongue never made
 > much sense to me.

When animals pant, they exhale through their mouths and inhale through
their noses, I understand.  This cool air travels closer to the brain and
carries off the excess heat generated in the head.  I guess the brain is
most sensitive to excess heat.

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