Build me a heat tolerant dog

Yes you are right. I consider a hunt to be letting my dogs out and then picking them up to go home. Some times it is an hour some times it can be a week. Kelso and I caught 8 boars in 2.5 hours not behind a fence just bay catch bay catch you get the point. We had covered over 8 miles in that time. Every hunt is different and can not be planned for in my experiance. Plan on an hour takes 5 and so on.

I think how your dog is hunted is how he will perform. If he is taken out for a hunt every other week he will be lucky to be at 60% of his ability. If he is hunted 2 or 3 times a week he will preform at 100% of his ability. Excersize can substatute for hunts. This includes diet excersize and what ever it takes to keep them in shape and healthy. Just like us our dogs have to get used to the heat every year, and there is still a limit to how much the dogs can do when it is so hot. Our low last night was 81. and the dogs worked good but not like when its colder. Plus each dog is different in how they reacts to heat.