Keep cool and save your dogs life.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1000_.jpg
Keep cool and save your dogs life.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1000_.jpg
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Thought about buying one of those the other day.
I use a big camo golf umbrella stuck in a short piece of pvc pipe. It helps with the heat but doesn't look very natural. Even though it's camo, it looks like a big shiny dome. I wish someone would come out with one made with leafy camo or at least loops so you could attach brush.
I set mine up high enough for the dog to get under but not really high enough to do me much good. Any higher and it would get in the way of seeing and shooting birds.
If it's as hot on opening day as it was this past weekend, I might have to give the dog the day off. Not sure I'm tough enough either.
This reminds me that I need to stick some jugs of water in the freezer.
I put mine on a leash on opening day so it will not overheat chasing a wounded glider or picking up someone else's bird.
I sit on a stool under the umbrella with the dog. I don't shoot until she is called down. I don't worry about a dove coming from the blindspot of the umbrella. I wet the dogs head after every retrieve. Despite all efforts there is risk of a heat stroke, for both of us.
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Best thing to do is use your damn head and leave dog at home if you have any questions about the heat. There will always be more days to hunt.
RIP Kelsey "Bigdawg" Cromer
12-26-98 12-1-13
If love could have saved you, you would have lived forever.
Missing you my great friend.
You mean a dog that was designed to pull in fishing nets off the coast of Nova Scotia has trouble hanging in a SC dove field in the afternoon of September. I don't believe it.
Quit keeping them in the A/C and they will roll opening day-without heat stroke. It's a little thing called acclimation. Office workers need it too.
Mine is acclimated and old enough to know his limits. If I hunt, he'll hunt and if it gets too hot for him, I don't want to hunt without him.
It isn't about saving me from walking to get the birds, it about his joy at retrieving and the fact that my sense of smell isn't good enough to find the ones I can't see.
I'll take the Black dogs when we can hunt mornings/
my dog will go with me bc he's not a wussy.
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
100qt cooler full of water works well
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Bookmarks