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I lost a good young dog yesterday to heat stroke. We struck a group off a protein feeder and the dogs went 1,000 yards before they shut down a big sow. Bobo was staggering around after we got her tied. Got him cooled down in the water and pumped him full of electrolytes... just like i've always done to others in the same situation. Lost him a few hours later.

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dang Mike   sorry to here that

Sorry for your loss Mike!!

Damnit sorry to hear that Mike. Hate to have one already go down from the heat. The humidity and the heat is here to stay people be careful and good luck to everyone during these summer months.  RIP Bobo

Sorry for your loss Mike!

Sorry,to hear about that.I have lost some gooduns to heat.I cut way down on summer hunts now.

RIP Bobo.   

I really hate that you lost him Mike, I really enjoyed hunting behind him and just being around him, he was a good dog.  Just goes to show how the heat can take any of em at any time, he was in shape in healthy but the heat effects all of us.
MG

Hate to hear about you losing your dog. The heat is brutal this year it seems. It was 96 here today and about 100% humidity. Not exactly good hunting conditions.......so you guys be careful with those dogs and watch out for the snakes & gators!
I have definately cut down on summer hunting after getting Monkey overheated last summer and about losing him.

man sorry for your loss...bestfriend almost lost an awsome catchdog in north louisiana bout a month ago from overheating

Really hate to hear that. Something like that happened to our catch dog (ammo) about a week ago. He didn't die but it was touch and go all night. Got so hot he just went limp on us, like a dish rag. Took him to a drain ditch that had a little water in it. When we got him home he couldn't keep his head from shaking and his pupils were diatated. Took hem a few days to get over it. Now we take an icechest full of water for the dogs with us and started hunting at 8pm instead of 6pm. Mornings are just too hot also.

Sorry to hear that Mike....I was hot as all get out here this weekend,suposed to be that way all week.

Sorry for your loss Mike. Summer and the humidity is definetley here.

That ain't worth a hoot!

man hate to hear that you lost one like that.

Sorry to hear mike

That sucks Mike.  Sorry to hear it

Sorry Mike

RIP Bobo. Sorry buddy.

Sorry about your dog man, it can happen quick even if you take precautions.

Sure sorry for your loss... hate to hear that.

Sorry to hear that.  I've gone down that ave. myself.  It sucks.

Sorry about that Mike.

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

I've had and been around quite a few over heated dogs that showed the same symptoms. Most of those were on very humid days... a lot of them with temps in the 70's. Out there it was so dry... a 100 degrees in the afternoon, but you could be outside and not break a sweat. This happened around 10:00 in the morning, just starting to warm up. Kinda puzzled as to why he got so hot without the humidity.

"a 100 degrees in the afternoon, but you could be outside and not break a sweat"

Thats what gets people I think, you are sweating like crazy but never stays on your skin so you sweat even more.  I drank TONS of water all day and only peed once, that water is going somewhere.  Dehydration and over heating are strange enemies that are hard to fight and can begin with events that took place days prior to the actual episode.  Chris talked to Roderick yesterday and I talked to Mandy about it and several good points were brought up that I will take away from bobo passing.  One is the fact that a pond feels cool compared to the ambient temp outside but may not be cool enough to drop the dogs temps fast enough.  Instead use rags and soak them in alchahol or vinegar and drape those over the dog and make sure there is good air movement around bothsides of his body.  Another thing you can do is put ice in a t-shirt or take a cold water bottle and put it between the back legs and do whatever you can to bring the core temp down.  Electrolytes work great but high temps are what cause brain damage and death.  I know that in the future there are a few things that we will do different and that is what it is all about, have to learn from those situations and do better next time.
MG

Sorry to hear that Mike, we spent the weekend hunting water holes to cool our bulldogs off it really warmed up Sun. fast!

Joey

Sorry to hear that Mike. One of my dogs got extremely hot the other day. I pumped him full of electrolytes and he seems to be fine but I am concerned about his drive now.

Took him yesterday and he didnt seem real motivated but he is always been on and off.

Sorry to hear that Mike

Sorry to hear about BOBO Mike.

 SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT UR DOG

Matt

about 4 summers ago, my bulldog Catch had a heat stroke after a lengthy battle of about an hour.  One of my hunting buddies put a IV on him from his cut kit and he was up and walking minutes later.  That is something we should all learn to use and have handy when needed.

Joey

sorry about your dog man. rip bobo

Man, that is sad! RIP BOBO!

Sorry to hear that Mike.

RIP BoBo. Thanks for the heads-up Mike. I will be more careful this summer....I CANT lose his dad.

Marshall, I sure hated to lose him... he was making a good one at his age.

R.I.P  Bobo.

Mike, am I remembering correctly that he was 1/2 mt.cur? Marshall was his sire the brindle Kemmer you have?

Bryant, he was 1/2 mt.cur 1/2 catahoula.

I hear ya.  I had two dogs heat stroke on me several years ago.  One died in the field and the other one was able to hang in there until we got to the vet.  The first thing the vet did was hook up an IV with saline solution and he was able to lift his head a couple of minutes later.  That moment was the first sign that he might make it and he evntually did.  A couple weeks ago I started carrying a 500ml IV bag with me in the field and have a 1000ml bag in the truck. 

Yeah Mandy said she is going to teach me how to give an IV, it is too easy to NOT know how to do it if need be.

wow that sucks...it's hard to believe it when something like that happens.

hope you find another dog as good as he was.

Sorry to hear about your dog.
   I almost lost my dog Ammo (CD) a few weeks ago to the same thing. Now I'm hunting at night and early in the mornings.

    James

It's not always the easiest thing to set a cathader when your dog strokes out. If you cannot hit the vein you can always skin pop them in the same spot you give your dog it's rabies shot, under the skin top of the neck.

The body will naturally work the H2O through itself. Lost a good CD to the heat stroke this year too... nothing nice. Even if you bring them back they're never the same.

Mike- Thats just part of being a dedicated hunter. Gotta hunts year round. Thanks for hunting him!

Bryant- Yeah he was out of my Kemmer stud dog...."Bud".

sorry for your loss mike :(

Sorry to hear Mike