The title. If you try panting as a human it is not comfortable.
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The breaths are so shallow that they don’t bring in much air, and they don’t lose too much carbon dioxide.
We’re not built for panting: we have an even better trick (sweat… we turn our whole body into the “tongue” and let the breeze pant for us). Dogs are made for it, and are used to and naturally good at panting. Like the other person here mentioned, it’s a particularly shallow breath meant to mostly move air over their tongue/mouth.
If I *try*, I can pant w/o hyperventilating or getting light-headed, but I’m not used to it and I’d get tired before I’d cool off. I’d probably start sweating 🙂
When dogs pant, they are not hyperventilating because panting is their way of cooling down, not from stress or over-breathing. When they pant, they take quick, shallow breaths, but they don’t breathe too deeply. This helps them cool off by releasing heat through their tongue without taking in too much air, which keeps their breathing safe and steady. It’s like their natural air conditioning system!
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