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Ahhh yes, I do love Florida...... I've had a few of those close calls on the waterway for sure!  Dog wise, I like to get my dogs as cool as I can before they hunt. Dipping them in a creek first helps. I'll still hunt all day/night long though, as long as I'm close to water. I guess water would be my biggest suggestion. |
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Welcome to the Gun Show
Noah Metzger 352 316 8005
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Wmwendler
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In the morning before we load up all the dogs get a bowl of half water/half gatorade or pedialyte.
We've been kicking the dogs out way before daylight and leaving the field around 9am or sooner.
After a long chase or after we catch a hog we put them all on leads, take them to water, and we all take 5 (in the shade if the sun is up).
I carry pedialyte and a 500ml lactated ringer with me in the field. I also have a 1000ml ringer in the truck.
It takes some self discipline but hunting in this heat can be done safely. Its hard to put the dogs on leads when you know there are hogs near by and the dogs want to go but its not the dogs call....its mine and I'm not burying any dogs because I got greedy.
I have caught the dogs with hogs around on the last two hunts. One more hog is not worth a dog getting too hot. Also If I have a choice I hunt places with water readily available for the dogs, irrigation water, creeks, the River, ect, in adition to carrying water with me. And first and foremost the most important thing to do in my opinion is to keep the dogs in shape and LEAN, a good rule of thumb is if you cannot see the last one or two ribs in the summer time then the dog is too fat for summer hunting. Some people might not agree with this, but fat dogs overheat.  I like em to look like this just a few ribs slightly showing Waylon |
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Eric
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Yup, like them lean like in your pic aslo. People laugh when I tell them a scoop and a quarter for that dog, scoop and a half for that one, scoop there, two scoops there... but if you know your dogs and feed good food, it makes a difference.
I also don't feed the day of hunting...
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crackerc
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I tell you guys what, I have postponed a hunting trip due to the heat. I had a buddy that has a lease south of me invite me down for the past two weeks and I keep putting him off. It is just too hot for me to hunt my dogs right now. It was 102 degrees here today and the heat index was 108-110....thats a real good way to kill some of your dogs. I got Monkey overheated last summer so have been more careful this summer. I guess the hogs will still be there when it cools off some.... Besides, I need to take the boat back out....... |
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Florida cur dogs for almost half a century....now I know I am old!!
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shawn
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retire for the summer...  have bbqs, go fishing, do ANYTHING but be in the woods sweating to 100 degree temps. My dogs look like they are gonna overheat walking around in the yard...  they dont need to be in the woods, even though i knew they are restless and bored, but it gives em time to fatten up some, heal some old wounds that wouldnt heal, and generally just be dogs. ill see yall in october... |
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crackerc
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I have been riding my young Cricket female on the front of the airboat on the river....she gets a lot of looks. Course, on some of the female passengers of the other boats I look back.....some more than others.....  |
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Florida cur dogs for almost half a century....now I know I am old!!
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shawn
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thought about taking buddy (my ab) fishing with me like i used to before he started hunting, but im kinda worried i wouldnt be paying attention and hear squealing in the distance... i know one thing, i dont even wanna go outside now, its freakin hot |
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stoked
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we hunt at night to aviod the heat during the summer months and it's still hot.
cant wait till late october.
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