Heat. What do you do?

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.