EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Just a reminder to all of you to be sure and carry lots of fluids and watch those dogs CLOSE this time of year.

Monday night about 11:00 pm we hunted a new place and from where we parked to where we planned to turn out was a pretty good distance.  I put my dog that will rig on the front of the wheeler just in case and we headed out.  A short distance down the field, he bails off and into the corn.  Before I could get the wheeler stopped and get off he was baying, then the run began.  This particular dog is the only one in my pack that will bark behind a hog, but only if it's within his sight.  We turned two more dogs out and listened as he ran out of hearing range.  We drove as far as the road took us, and he was barely within tracking distance.  Not long and the other two dogs returned to us...they had never made it to the bay.

Long story short, we walked about an hour and a half and finally met the dog coming back to us.  He was wobbly, but didn't seem that bad.  I walked him back and let him roll in a stock tank by where we had parked for a good while.  Gave him a bottle of pedialyte and put him in the trailer.  Later that morning we got home and I put him in his kennel.  I checked on him that afternoon and he just wasn't coming around so we went to the vet (who as of lately has offered to rent me an apartment right behind the clinic).

Dog is still there and the prognosis looks poor.  He's suffering from disseminated intravascular coagulation (or DIC as it's commonly called) and we're trying like heck to pull him through.
 
This particular occurence wasn't something that really could have been prevented, but PLEASE keep an eye on those dogs when hunting.  It doesn't take much in this heat to get them hot.  This was even around midnight that this happened when it's typically cooler.

Sorry to hear that bryant i hope he pulls through. Good point and reminder because i sometimes dont think of things like that till it is too late.

I hate to hear that Bryant , I think the humidity has also got alot to do with overheating also.Me and my family will keep him in our prayers and hope he fights through this !!

Prayers sent for your dog.......Hope he pulls thru!

Hope your dog is recovering .
We also Had one go down a couple of weeks ago also, He made it just fine after finished vommitting got some electrolytes in him.
 Cody started carrying a new pack that has electrolytes that are easy to carry and mix in the feild for emergency cases like that, I have it with me on my belt pack as all times now. It is a helpless feeling for sure.

Sorry to hear about your dog bryant... its still hot even at night :(

Bad feeling when one of your dogs goes down, sorry to hear about it.  I was at the co-op yesterday and some some type of electrolyte gel that came in a syringe type tube i think it was labeled for pigs or something but it would probably work for dogs also.  Have any of you guys seen it or tried it.

 IMO....The humidity is what nocks them out the fastest.  A dog releases body head by evaporating moisture off the tounge which is why they pant,  much like how we sweat except just on their tounge.  High humidity makes it hard for a dog to cool them selves because there is not much evaporation going on.  One of the last hunts I was on we turned loose early and the dogs struck hogs it was still cool about 75 degrees.  But it was very humid and no air moving in the thicket what so ever.   We Got two hogs and had to catch the dogs and take them out to the river for a drink and the get a little air blowing on them.  That was about as hot as I've had dogs so far this year even compared to sometimes when we were still out at noon and it was 90 degrees.

Waylon