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It's too hot to run Beagles.....is what everyone around the house has been sayin...
Well, Sonic Got so used to the A.C layn on the couch & sleepin til it cooled dwn enuff for me too go riding, So When I took him huntin he was the dog to jump the first rabbit...You can hear every dog I got coming back after a race,.... My dogs are mud fat from a break I took for a lil bit, But I started running them this week && their runnin great...
Rabbit after rabbit, I run from about 4:00 pm til 3-6:00 AM ,Depends on the mood Im in or if I get tired ....
I've been riden Horses & so missed hearing m hounds run!*
Never takin a break again, if lords willing & nothing happens , See y'all at the trials...
I don't know where your from,but at 4pm yesterday it was still over a 100 degrees here. This morning i woke up at 4am,and it was already 80 out,to hot for me.
We been having really bad storms and lightning n wind. No one would be out in them..When it wasn't storming its been in high ninetys..We run dogs as much as anybody, but you run that many hours in that heat you will kill a dog or your dogs ain't doing much.
Intrepid is right as here it was 100 degrees last night on the thermometer on my neighbors pole barn at 9:00 p.m. This morning at 6:30 a.m. it was in the mid 80's and HUMID! It's been so hot that I'm seeing green alge on ponds that never have it and mine look like golf course putting greens. The water level is lower than what I've seen it in many years and I'm starting to worry about a fish kill as well. I've got rabbit's that have eaten ALL my green beans in my garden and if it weren't so dang hot I'd put some go in them. the heat has been around so long they have wiped out my green beans so I'll have to go raid my neighbors when he gets green beans on. I told him I was sacrificing mine to the rabbits so he'd have to share his! First rabbits i've had around here in years so I'll not do anything but allow them to eat my green beans as I can buy green beans but can't buy wild rabbits.
My dogs caught a few rabbits back in the fall & last summer..I brought them home & there here in the yard when tons of samjuans & Smokey Mtn Rabbits...
Of & cant forget the Dutch rabbits. I love em, They run all day long...
But back on the strip were I've been runnin my dogs, it stays retty shaded & its big hollers ,like all trees & creeks..It stays very cool down in there ,but yet it is hot...
My dogs run rabbit after rabbit & anybody who's gotta dog or just wanna watch...It's fun to listen to them runnin in the hollers,It's like a roarin noise, lol
But, I ran today....I sold 2 dogs cuzz them were in better shape than these dogs, I've had here for so long & they would get to pounding & here they'd come back, now I thought, what? Sonic's still runnin hard & Those guys told me them dogs wouldnt run a deer, so I walked over the hll & Herd Sonic & Sissy comin wide open..The rabbit didnt have time to set around...the dogs watched it go!!! It was hot, but those dogs didnt even act tired & that was the 4th time they had did that!
ohh, well! 2 less dogs in the kennel barkin at me...My dogs are pretty quite until a rabbbit goes out there in the grass in from of the bark & sets there eating.
But those to dogs barked all day long, & when you came out to the kennels, to feed them would bark!
[quote="Katelyn"]It's too hot to run Beagles.....is what everyone around the house has been sayin...
Well, Sonic Got so used to the A.C layn on the couch & sleepin til it cooled dwn enuff for me too go riding, So When I took him huntin he was the dog to jump the first rabbit...You can hear every dog I got coming back after a race,.... My dogs are mud fat from a break I took for a lil bit, But I started running them this week && their runnin great...
Rabbit after rabbit, I run from about 4:00 pm til 3-6:00 AM ,Depends on the mood Im in or if I get tired ....
I will be the first to say your dogs are definitely better than mine!
It has been near or over 100 degree's everyday here for the past week, and my dogs can barely breath in this heat let alone run a rabbit.
I want to run dogs just as bad as anyone else; but I don't want to be in this heat, so I don't expect my dogs to want to either. I have seen a few dogs have heat stroke from running in extreme heat.
You go girl. You are still my heroine. I would like to request that I be able to use the name "super sonic" for one of my up coming pups. He will be out of my Ghost dog and I want to call him "Ghost's Trains Super Sonic". I love your posts.
OK, let me get this straight.
You have your dogs layed up for weeks/months, in AC and they are fat, but you turned them loose for 14 hours straight and they pounded the entire time?
Went to the store awhile ago and my truck thermometer showed 103 to 104 all the way there and back. I ain't puttin my dogs down in it for an hour let alone 14 and I ain;t got a good on the place. Sure would hate to see one just up and die like the guys boxer did especially when it would have been my fault turnin them on a rabbit in this heat.
Sorry theres no way I am buying this story be hard enough to believe in the winter let alone summer in heat advisors going down to the high 70s at night. My dog will run all day everyday in the winter hunting had them out last two weeks 2-3 hours later they shouldn't even been on the ground that long and I run from late evening to dark on not 4 pm in highest heat of the day.
Who have u ran with that have seen you dogs run for 14 hrs straight in this kind of weather?
I once was told by my vet that running a dog in the high heat may cause long term issues with either liver or kidneys(forgot which he said), and I have seen dogs fall over from heat exhaustion and if not properly cared for I am sure would have not made it.
I love to run dogs as much as anybody, but truth me told when dogs are on a rabbit few hundred yards away from you, you have no way to tell what that dog is doing, and if it stops barking, by the time you get to your dog, it may be too late. I for one am not going to risk loosing a hound in this heat. If you want to feel what your dog is feeling put on a jacket,gloves,boots and hat, and stand outside for just a few minutes. Let's not forget that a dog doesnt sweat like we do, so there is another problem.
I could understand a short 1 hour run, but 14 hrs??? Is it worth the risk??
To each his own, but common sense goes a long way!!!
Let's all be careful, as there have been many reports of dead dogs from the heat.
Heat exhaustion causes the kidney's to start to shutdown, but also causes
organ failure as well.
The kidney's may be the first to go but eventually it leads to complete organ failure.
I am so glad that starting Monday it will be in the 80's instead of 106 degree temperatures like today thru Sunday.
Man I can't wait until fall .
First rabbits i've had around here in years so I'll not do anything but allow them to eat my green beans as I can buy green beans but can't buy wild rabbits.
