That’s a bad feeling for sure!
We had that happen on a hunt once bout ten years ago.
Was night hunting with a bud of mine on his ranger and had my female bulldog and his male bulldog named ‘bull’ clipped to the rail on top the dog box where they always rhode.
The night hunts at this place always ended up all night fiascos and bout broke me from night hunting lol
....seems everything bad that could happen always did.
Bout 5 hrs into a miserable hunt I’m sitn in the passenger side and my bud makes a turn and I feel something brush my right arm. I look over and it’s bull just swinging from his neck like a carcass on a meat hook. I yell at Derek to stop and I lift bull and he climbs up to unsnap him. The dog was plumb dead. Tongue lolled out eyes wide open. Just dead...
Ain’t no way of knowing how long that dog had been hanging like that. We touched his eyeballs and there was no reaction no breathing. He was sure nuf dead. I grabbed the dogs muzzle closed in my hand and did a big mouth to nose and could feel the dogs lungs fill up and then gave both three hard chest compressions.
I repeated that over and over for bout 5 minutes. Then all of a sudden when I was just bout to give up the dog made one huge long inhale on its own. After boutfive more mins of the dog breathing and picking its head up and wobbling to his feet, he was wagging his tail and pulling against his lead. We chunked the dog back up on top and he directly went to try to position himself to hp my gyp like he had been doing all night long.... lol dang crazy sob
Obie I did something very similar one night, I snapped my catch dog to the rail of my dog box on back of my truck and was watching a puppy on my garmin, Max was on my tail gate and I was easing along to front if property when the pup ran up in some mama cows, I didn't want them to tear out the raggedy lot they were in so I punched it not thinking about max, I got to the front and jumped out and ran the pup down and caught him, I was leading him to back of truck and found max out cold, his eyes looked just as you described, I unsnapped him and took his collar off and started giving him CPR and chest pumps, he finally stated gasping for air and eventually started breathing on his own, he was still unresponsive and wouldn't pick his head up, I left him alone for a few minutes while I kicked myself in the ass for letting this happen and I looked over and he was sitting upright holding his head up and eventually got his wits about him again....
