Why Counting Your Pet’s Sleeping Respiratory Rate Can Save Their Life

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An Early Warning Sign for Heart Disease You Can Catch at Home

Worried your dog or cat may have heart disease? Learn how to count your pet’s Sleeping Respiratory Rate (SRR) - a simple, vet-recommended way to monitor heart health at home. It can genuinely be life saving for your pet.

In this video, I’ll show you:
✅ What a sleeping respiratory rate is
✅ Why it matters for dogs and cats with heart conditions
✅ How to count it accurately at home
✅ When to contact your vet

Many pet owners miss early signs of heart disease. SRR is an easy and powerful tool that can alert you to problems before they become emergencies.

📌 Recommended for pets with:

Mitral valve disease
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Congestive heart failure (CHF)
Any known heart murmur

If your pet has a heart murmur watch this:
   • Heart Murmurs in Dogs - What Does it Mean?  

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Chapters
00:00 Introduction: What is the SRR?
00:38 How to count an SRR
02:10 What's normal?
02:32 The Cardalis App
03:02 Why does the SRR matter?
03:44 Other Changes
03:56 What about panting?
04:38 What to do if the SRR is high?
04:53 Summary