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re: How cold is too cold to hunt a lab?
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:24 am to rattlebucket
Posted on 1/12/24 at 9:24 am to rattlebucket
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Is this true
Frick no. Now, having said that be fricking smart.
I have seen ice cut a dog pretty good and he needed stitches.
I have a buddy that almost lost his dog last year in the freeze. He fell through some ice and couldn’t get back up and they had to bust ice all the way to him. Luckily he was close to home and took him and warmed him up.
Have a couple bottles of water for him to drink that isn’t the same temp as outside. They won’t/shouldn’t drink water that is too cold because it will drop their body temp too much.
Make sure your platform/dog stand isn’t too low where they are sitting/standing in the water.
Pay attention to your dog on retrieves if it has a vest on and doesn’t normally wear them. I saw a dog get caught on a tree in a lake once and the guy thought he was going to have to go swimming to get the dog off.
Like someone said earlier. I have seen labs having the best time of their life with ice cycles hanging off of them.
I’ll be hunting mine, but just be careful. They will kill their self before they stop.
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Posted on 1/12/24 at 12:51 pm to eatboudin
I’ve hunted mine in negative temps here in Minnesota. Keep a vest on her and keep a buddy heater for her in the dog box in the pit.
Never had any issues.
You just need to watch them closely around ice if you’re hunting an open hole in a locked up pond. If a bird lands on the ice, I don’t send her, I’ll walk or break the ice with the boat to get her a path to the bird. Cuts can be nasty from ice or they can fall through and get trapped.
Never had any issues.
You just need to watch them closely around ice if you’re hunting an open hole in a locked up pond. If a bird lands on the ice, I don’t send her, I’ll walk or break the ice with the boat to get her a path to the bird. Cuts can be nasty from ice or they can fall through and get trapped.
This post was edited on 1/12/24 at 12:55 pm
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:04 pm to eatboudin
Have hunted with friends in Tennessee and Missouri when it was single digits and they hunted their dogs with no apparent issues.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:06 pm to eatboudin
I see labs up north hunt every year in it. They just make sure they have a place to get out of the water and wind.
That said, I'm not proposing you do the same considering those dogs work in those conditions often.
That said, I'm not proposing you do the same considering those dogs work in those conditions often.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 1:45 pm to eatboudin
Mine has hunted many times when we had to break ice thick enough he could walk on it. Heat is much harder on them than cold. He’s old and retired now but not because he doesn’t still have the drive.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 2:29 pm to eatboudin
All of my Labs loved the cold and though none of them were house dogs they thrived in an un-heated doghouse with adequate bedding even in -20 degree weather with -49 wind chill. House dogs will naturally be less tolerant.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 4:41 pm to eatboudin
Coldest hunt I’ve ever been on we left the dog at home and called in a nephew.
Decent on retrieves, but, 30 minutes after the first time he fell in, he asked us to take him back to the truck.
Not nearly as tough and reliable as the dog.
Decent on retrieves, but, 30 minutes after the first time he fell in, he asked us to take him back to the truck.
Not nearly as tough and reliable as the dog.
Posted on 1/12/24 at 6:56 pm to bbvdd
Never had a problem with any Lab I have owned down to single digits. I just throw a vest on them and try not to make them just stay in the water.
Plus you can stick your hands under their vest when your hands get cold. Kinda like instant hand warmers.
Plus you can stick your hands under their vest when your hands get cold. Kinda like instant hand warmers.
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