Advice/ info on a heart murmor, anyone?

[pomtzu]

We are having a spell of hot weather over here and with Alfie being a short nosed breed I am already being careful, I think I will just have to be that little extra careful now.

Yes - it has turned hot here too, and the heat does bother these two. They just lay around and don't do anything except lay in the breeze of a fan, but it's best that they aren't active tho. We're headed for the 90's starting this weekend, so the energy guzzling air conditioning will have to get turned on and will probably be on for the rest of the summer. I shouldn't complain - I'd die without it!

[Jessika]

Sometimes when pets get stressed out in the clinic they can sound like they have a murmur. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Depending on the grade, you may not have any clinical signs or any true health problems associated with it. You do want to watch for coughing and exercise intolerance, as that could be a sign of it worsening or other heart problems. But many pets live very normal lives with low-medium grade murmurs.

[ChrisH]

Yes - it has turned hot here too, and the heat does bother these two. They just lay around and don't do anything except lay in the breeze of a fan, but it's best that they aren't active tho. We're headed for the 90's starting this weekend, so the energy guzzling air conditioning will have to get turned on and will probably be on for the rest of the summer. I shouldn't complain - I'd die without it!

80f today with a nice breeze but cooler than that when I took Alfie for a short walk this morning else we wouldn't have gone. Stayed in the house for the rest of the day apart for short sojourns into the garden to hang out some washing to dry. Hopefully won't get any hotter, air conditioning is not a thing people have over here ... except perhaps for the well-off (which I'm not).
I checked out the cooling coats for dogs but they are pretty expensive, even so I may have got one except that Alfie won't wear a normal coat so chances are it would turn out to be a huge waste of money.

Jessika, thank you for your input. As the vet said it was minor I'm now hopeful.
The vet and his nurse remarked how good he was and how he was obviously used to being handled, (he's the same at the groomers) it led them to wonder if he had been shown at some time, but of course that doesn't rule out his being stressed.

[wishbone]

Poor Sparky.