1 00:00:02,759 --> 00:00:05,760 Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to the Houndations podcast. I'm your host, 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Today's episode is all about random injuries your 3 00:00:10,039 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: dog might suffer in the field and how to be 4 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 1: prepared for them. Since it's like smack dab in the 5 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: middle of October, I figured an episode focusing on dog 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: injuries would be appropriate. After all, a heck of a 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: lot of us are out there hunting grouse or pheasants 8 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,560 Speaker 1: or ducks or whatever with our dogs, and this is 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 1: the time of year where if they're going to get 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: banged up by something, it's probably going to happen in 11 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:38,000 Speaker 1: the next couple of months. This is the reality of 12 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: sporting dogs in the field. But it's not like we 13 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,200 Speaker 1: can't prevent some injuries or be prepared if they do happen, 14 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:45,600 Speaker 1: which is what I'm going to talk about right now. 15 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: Back in October of twenty fifteen, I spent six days 16 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: living out of a tent in southwestern Oklahoma. The goal 17 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: was for my buddies and I the hunt some deer 18 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: on the National Grassland down there, maybe take home some venison. 19 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: And we did just that, but we battled rainy, muddy 20 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:10,400 Speaker 1: conditions the entire time. It was the kind of rain 21 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 1: that not only turned the roads to gumbo, but convinced 22 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 1: all of the eight legged nastiness that lives in Texas 23 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:20,520 Speaker 1: North to try to find a warm place to hide 24 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 1: out in which meant we had to check our tents 25 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: and sleeping bags really well before going to sleep each night, 26 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: and it was no fun. On the last morning of 27 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: the hunt, I was tired, soaked, ready to go home. 28 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,679 Speaker 1: We all were. I had just messed up a stock 29 00:01:36,760 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: on a decent buck when I decided that was enough. 30 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:43,360 Speaker 1: The entire hunt, we had crossed countless barbed wire fences 31 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:47,400 Speaker 1: because for some reason, every single national chunk of public 32 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: lands used to be covered in cattle these days. So 33 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:52,960 Speaker 1: I stepped on the bottom strand of the last fence 34 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: of the trip, swung my leg over, and felt the 35 00:01:56,200 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: whole trap door give way. Instantly, I hit the ground, 36 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:02,559 Speaker 1: and I knew that I had just used a fence 37 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: post to go from a baritone to a soprano. Seriously, 38 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,840 Speaker 1: I thought I'd ripped my old apple bag clean off. 39 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 1: It didn't help that I was covered in blood from 40 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: the moment I hit the ground. Now, there was a 41 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 1: few tense seconds before I got my pants pulled down, 42 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: before I realized that I was actually intact, and that 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: the fence post hadn't penetrated into my stomach either. Now, 44 00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 1: when you think you've lost your whole junk pile and 45 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:30,400 Speaker 1: possibly impaled yourself, seeing that you actually haven't is an 46 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 1: amazing relief. It turns out that I got really, really lucky, 47 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: and I only cut my face in my hands on 48 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: the barb wire. I did seriously traumatize a part of 49 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 1: me that I'm usually very protective of, so much so 50 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 1: that the whole junk pile turned black with bruising, which 51 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: lasted for weeks. It was sort of a nightmare end 52 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,040 Speaker 1: to a rough trip that only got worse when the 53 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,799 Speaker 1: transmission of my brand new truck went out in downtown 54 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: Kansas City on the drive home. But before that, I 55 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: needed some medical attention. What I didn't want to do 56 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,160 Speaker 1: was go to a hospital because I was soaked, I 57 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,959 Speaker 1: hadn't showered in a week, and I had been hunting, 58 00:03:07,960 --> 00:03:10,240 Speaker 1: and I was just gross and ready to be home. 59 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,160 Speaker 1: I explained this to my hunting buddies, one of whom 60 00:03:13,200 --> 00:03:15,720 Speaker 1: is married to a nurse and was actually prepared with 61 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,799 Speaker 1: a first aid kid. Now, he cleaned up my cuts 62 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: and glued them, you know, shut on my hands and 63 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:24,480 Speaker 1: my face. He bandaged me up, and he consulted with 64 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: his wife on the phone the whole time. It made 65 00:03:28,919 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: me realize that of the four of us on that trip, 66 00:03:32,120 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 1: we all drove at least ten hours from home to 67 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 1: hunt and camp for a week, and only one of 68 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:41,400 Speaker 1: us had even brought a first aid kit. And we 69 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: were younger than and dumber then. And every time I 70 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: look at a Barboer fence, which is often, I think 71 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 1: about how unprepared we were for any type of real injury. 72 00:03:51,160 --> 00:03:53,600 Speaker 1: And Barboyer has just not treated me well in general. 73 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: I spent my summer between sixth and seventh grade nursing 74 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 1: a cut on my leg I got while trout fishing 75 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: that not only requiess twenty stitches, but got infected big 76 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: time and made life not so great for several months. 77 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: It was nasty stuff, and it puts plenty of dogs 78 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 1: in bad situations too. I'd say fences are probably the 79 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 1: number one spot for reasons for dog injuries in the fall, 80 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:21,880 Speaker 1: and new fences, you know, tight strand barberere fences. They're 81 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,680 Speaker 1: bad enough, especially when they are strung, you know, through 82 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,919 Speaker 1: some kind of grass that I don't know the roosters 83 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 1: like to live in. Old fences might be worse because 84 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,360 Speaker 1: they can be just about anywhere out there, and they 85 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,840 Speaker 1: often have tangled strands of barbedoil rolled up in the cover, 86 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: or random fence posts bent over at weird angles poking 87 00:04:42,040 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: through the brush. Most dogs just kind of figure out 88 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 1: the fence thing, at least how to get through them. 89 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:51,240 Speaker 1: But most dogs that spend enough time hunting around fences, 90 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:54,279 Speaker 1: or training around fences, or just hiking with people in 91 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,240 Speaker 1: places where barberare fences exist will tangle with one at 92 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,240 Speaker 1: some point. I have yet to own a dog that 93 00:05:01,279 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: hasn't hit a few, and I did manage to see 94 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 1: my uncle's black lab jump right into one when we 95 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: were pheasant hunting in Iowa years ago, when that dog 96 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,279 Speaker 1: was only about six months old. And that pup hit 97 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,039 Speaker 1: that fence in such a way that he got his 98 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: leg twisted between the top two strands so that he 99 00:05:17,279 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 1: was hanging upside down, which gets your attention real fast. Now. 100 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: Some trainers teach their dogs how to go under fences, 101 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,520 Speaker 1: which is a good idea that very few regular dog 102 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,680 Speaker 1: owners think about. That is a good route, but even 103 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:33,560 Speaker 1: a master fence crosser might not see one coming at 104 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: some point, so having a good first aid kid in 105 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 1: the truck is a must. It should also have a 106 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,520 Speaker 1: skin stapler in there, and you should know how to 107 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,800 Speaker 1: use it. His cuts happen in the outdoors, and a 108 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,800 Speaker 1: lot of times you can't really pin down where they 109 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:49,560 Speaker 1: even came from. Dogs are tough on a level that's 110 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: just kind of weird for us to understand. So often 111 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,320 Speaker 1: when a wound happens, if it doesn't keep them from hunting, 112 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: you just won't know about it till you get them 113 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,599 Speaker 1: into the truck or get them home. But it's still 114 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:05,080 Speaker 1: important to have the tools and the understanding of how 115 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,360 Speaker 1: to treat them, you know, at least in your vehicle, 116 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes the wild birds we love bring 117 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 1: us to wild places that are far far away from 118 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:15,599 Speaker 1: a vet clinic. Of course, it doesn't have to be 119 00:06:15,680 --> 00:06:18,599 Speaker 1: a fence or some old farm machinery that injures your dog. 120 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 1: Quite a few of the people who love German breeds, 121 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 1: you know, like wirehairs and drafts, have found out just 122 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 1: how deep those European roots really run. When those dogs 123 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 1: bump into small woodland creatures that are out there just 124 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: mining their own business. Some breeds weren't just used for 125 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: feathered critters, but were also hell on anything small with fur. 126 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 1: That sometimes translates into dogs that cannot leave a raccoon 127 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 1: alone without trying to kill it, or they can't not 128 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,239 Speaker 1: mess with every porcupine they run across, no matter how 129 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: painful the lessons have been about those little critters. Both 130 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: scenarios can leave you with a dog that looks like 131 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: it has gone five rounds in the octagon. I used 132 00:07:00,720 --> 00:07:03,240 Speaker 1: to hunt quite a bit with a photographer from Minnesota 133 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: who ran a draft hor and he would carry a 134 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,400 Speaker 1: thick leather glove with him always so that when his 135 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: dog got into a fight with something, he could sort 136 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,320 Speaker 1: of safely reach into the melee and extricate his dog 137 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:19,080 Speaker 1: from the situation. Some hunters carry a wirecutters or a 138 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:22,560 Speaker 1: bolt cutters too. The idea here is that where the 139 00:07:22,600 --> 00:07:25,480 Speaker 1: birds live, so too live the fur bearers that some 140 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,800 Speaker 1: people like to trap. This is a scenario that every 141 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: bird dog owner has at least thought about, and it's 142 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: one that isn't much fun to deal with. You know, 143 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: there are body grip style traps out there that can 144 00:07:36,960 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: turn a rough grouse hunt into a mad scramble to 145 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:42,480 Speaker 1: save your four legged bestie in a real hurry. There 146 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,800 Speaker 1: are also those more traditional leg hool traps. I watched 147 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 1: my older lab Luna, step into one of these several 148 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:51,840 Speaker 1: years ago. It was on the main trail leading out 149 00:07:51,840 --> 00:07:54,560 Speaker 1: of a parking lot on public land, not one hundred 150 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: yards into the woods, or in other words, right where 151 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: anyone who grouse hunts the price would start and walk. 152 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: There haven't been very many times in my life where 153 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: I would murder someone, but if that trapper had walked 154 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:09,760 Speaker 1: up when I was trying to free my dog, I 155 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: might have shot him in the face with a load 156 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,360 Speaker 1: of sixes from that little over under twenty gage. I'm 157 00:08:14,400 --> 00:08:17,080 Speaker 1: just kidding, of course, please don't report me to the 158 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: police for homicidal threats. I wouldn't have shot anyone over 159 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 1: my dog because I actually got her freed up pretty easily. 160 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,440 Speaker 1: But I can tell you that my anger level was 161 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: at an eleven on a scale that only goes up 162 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:31,680 Speaker 1: to ten, and to her credit, Luna immediately went back 163 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:33,800 Speaker 1: to grouse hunting as soon as I stopped panicking and 164 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:37,600 Speaker 1: looked at the problem objectively. Sometimes you don't have that 165 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: kind of time, I asked Tom Dock and what his 166 00:08:40,520 --> 00:08:43,560 Speaker 1: worst dog injury was once and he said with his 167 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: personal dogs, it was a lab that got a cattail 168 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:50,480 Speaker 1: stem shoved way way up its nose. He said that 169 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 1: when he pulled it out, it was obvious the dog 170 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 1: was going to bleed out without some help. By the 171 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: time he got to the emergency vet, he said, it 172 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,000 Speaker 1: looked like someone had butchered a cow in the front 173 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:14,440 Speaker 1: seat of his truck. At one point, I had a 174 00:09:14,440 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: different podcast where I interviewed a whole bunch of different veterinarians, 175 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,239 Speaker 1: and I almost always asked them what the worst injuries 176 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: were that they dealt with With sporting dogs. You know, 177 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:26,719 Speaker 1: there were a lot of stories about dogs getting hit 178 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:30,800 Speaker 1: by cars. One mentioned a GSP running full board down 179 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: a ranch road that hit a cattle gate in such 180 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:36,320 Speaker 1: a way that it wrenched its front leg in the 181 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: wrong direction, in a way that was pure horror movie material. 182 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: Plenty of dogs eat fishing tackle and you can imagine 183 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:46,680 Speaker 1: what happens there. And then there's the dumb stuff like 184 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:49,040 Speaker 1: just jumping off of a tailgate of a truck and 185 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 1: landing wrong, or running headlong into a sliding glass door 186 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 1: in the hotel, or if you have the kind of 187 00:09:55,559 --> 00:09:59,440 Speaker 1: dog that I tend to have eating something that they shouldn't. 188 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,559 Speaker 1: Twice Luna has eaten something that has put her in 189 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:05,600 Speaker 1: an emergency VET clinic overnight. The first was a pound 190 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: of raisins, and the whole ordeal cost me well over 191 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 1: a grand to figure out that she could eat a 192 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: pound of raisins and not even flinch. The second was 193 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:15,720 Speaker 1: something else. I don't know what it was because I 194 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 1: was driving back from a turkey hunt in South Dakota. 195 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: What I do know is that she went downhill fast, 196 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 1: and by the time I got there, we had to 197 00:10:23,640 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: drive two hours to the nearest clinic. And whatever they 198 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: did worked, and whatever she ate is a secret between 199 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,120 Speaker 1: her and my wife, who still claims that she has 200 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: no idea. But I have my suspicions. Injuries happen, and 201 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: it's their nature that we will not see them coming. 202 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:43,360 Speaker 1: I just had a neighbor pull into my driveway to 203 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: chat about hunting, and I asked him randomly about his dog. 204 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: He said that his dog died two weeks earlier from 205 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:51,800 Speaker 1: a twisted stomach and he wasn't really sure how it 206 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 1: even happened, but his five year old German short haired 207 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,680 Speaker 1: pointer went from healthy and active to laying around one day, 208 00:10:58,760 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: and the next day it was too late. So what 209 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,640 Speaker 1: do we do with hard, charging, working dogs Keep them 210 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: bubbled up inside like some toy poodle owned by a 211 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: Manhattan dwelling socialite. Hopefully not. The key is to start 212 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 1: with the basics and try first to not put your 213 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 1: dog in danger. I know that sounds dumb, but think 214 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: about it. How often do you hear about someone who 215 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: hunted their dog in extremely cold water for a few 216 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:28,839 Speaker 1: late season ducks and suddenly things got out of hand, 217 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: like when the dog chases a cripple into the big 218 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 1: waves or the opposite end where it's hotter than hell 219 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,719 Speaker 1: on the pheasant opener and a bunch of people take 220 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: their dogs from the couch to the field and they 221 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:44,720 Speaker 1: run them in the heat until they collapse. What about 222 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 1: walking a dog through a rattlesnake festival in the southwest, 223 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 1: somewhere out west where they're just asking to get whacked, 224 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: because it's the right spot, in the right conditions to 225 00:11:53,559 --> 00:11:55,880 Speaker 1: have a bunch of danger ropes out there looking to 226 00:11:55,960 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: whack your dog. What we ask of them, they'll generally do. 227 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: So we must at least think about that first. An 228 00:12:05,679 --> 00:12:08,319 Speaker 1: awful lot of the worst dog injuries and deaths happen 229 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 1: because we put them in risky situations when it wasn't 230 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: really necessary. This is also where the ingesting bad stuff 231 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: thing comes into play. Sure, you can't help it if 232 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 1: your dog runs into a bag of garbage out in 233 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: the field that some low life dumped out there. But 234 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:25,240 Speaker 1: you can help it if you leave a whole freaking 235 00:12:25,280 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 1: pound of raisins out when you have a one year 236 00:12:27,440 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: old lab left at home, or at least you should 237 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: be able to, unless you're my better half. You can 238 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 1: help it if your dog gets a hold of a 239 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:38,160 Speaker 1: whole bunch of chicken bones after a barbecue and tries 240 00:12:38,200 --> 00:12:40,439 Speaker 1: to do the heroic thing and wolf them all down 241 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:43,960 Speaker 1: as fast as possible before he gets caught. I guess 242 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:47,080 Speaker 1: what I'm saying is it's like with kids. You can't 243 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,760 Speaker 1: be there all the time and prevent all the bad stuff, 244 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 1: but you can prevent some of it by just thinking 245 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,800 Speaker 1: about the world in which you'll place them. That's the 246 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,040 Speaker 1: first step I'd say. Then it's really worth thinking about 247 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: a good first aid. As I mentioned before, there are 248 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: several companies that make these specifically for dogs and dog owners, 249 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:08,480 Speaker 1: and they are a small price to pay for some 250 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:12,599 Speaker 1: good insurance. As I mentioned, a skin stapler is just 251 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:16,199 Speaker 1: a great idea, and some kids don't have them. Most 252 00:13:16,280 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: will have a tickpull or antiseptic whites, gas and other stuff. 253 00:13:20,240 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: Find one that has everything you need, or build one 254 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: for yourself. Either way, having one with you, at least 255 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,680 Speaker 1: in the truck is worth it, but only if you 256 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: know what to do with it. There are also times 257 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:35,520 Speaker 1: when an injury is going to be way beyond us 258 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:38,320 Speaker 1: to just fix with a first aid kid at our truck. 259 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 1: This is where every dog owner will find him or 260 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: herself eventually, And if you know anything about vet clinics, 261 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:47,760 Speaker 1: you know that they are still dealing with the COVID 262 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: boom of pets of all varieties, so they aren't short 263 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,280 Speaker 1: on business. They're busy. They are often though, short on 264 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: staff because it's a high demand job with an equally 265 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,400 Speaker 1: high level of burnout. You can only tell people so 266 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:04,160 Speaker 1: many times that their dogs can't eat whole birthday cakes 267 00:14:04,160 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: for the fun of it before you want to leave 268 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: the average pet owners behind and go live in the 269 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,680 Speaker 1: woods where the general public generally doesn't go. And I 270 00:14:11,679 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: don't blame them one bit, but that means that finding 271 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: a vet clinic when you really need one might not 272 00:14:18,559 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: be so simple. This problem gets a hell of a 273 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: lot worse the more time you spend in places where 274 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,680 Speaker 1: the bird hunting is really good, because those are the 275 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,800 Speaker 1: places that are usually pretty far from concentrations of people. 276 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,280 Speaker 1: In this case, not only might your dog need a vet, 277 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:37,640 Speaker 1: but the closest clinic might be hours away. Knowing that 278 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: before you go is important, just as important as it 279 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: is to know where the closest emergency vet clinics are. 280 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,760 Speaker 1: These open twenty four hour types of clinics are not 281 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: real common, so you better understand how to get to one, 282 00:14:51,640 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: no matter where you end up at out in the field. 283 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: This is something that I learned from a few of 284 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,760 Speaker 1: my trainer buddies. But I always do some pre trip 285 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: before I head out. If I'm looking to find a 286 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,440 Speaker 1: few quail or sharp tails in some forgotten corner in 287 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 1: Nebraska or some other flyover state, for example, I figure 288 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,920 Speaker 1: out where my options are and save that information before 289 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 1: I go. Now I have yet to need it, but 290 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: that's probably just pure look. Eventually I'll run into a 291 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,080 Speaker 1: situation with one of my dogs where it's literally going 292 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: to be do or die time. And in those moments, 293 00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:27,680 Speaker 1: you don't want to spend precious minutes looking for a 294 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:30,680 Speaker 1: cell signal and then trying to google up the closest option. 295 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: You also don't want to think about what it'll cost, 296 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:36,560 Speaker 1: not that you will in the moment. I just know 297 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 1: from experience that the two times I've had to take 298 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 1: my dogs to emergency clinics, it made me seriously think 299 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: about getting pet insurance. That's a topic I'll cover on 300 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: some other episodes, but for now I'll leave it at that. 301 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:55,600 Speaker 1: So get out there with your dogs, Go hunt some stuff. Ducks, sharptails, roosters, grouse, doves. Oh, 302 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:58,320 Speaker 1: maybe run the hounds on some raccoons, or let the 303 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: beagles out for some bunny busting. Just remember that out 304 00:16:01,800 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: there in that world are old fences and homesteads and 305 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: trash bandits with hair trigger tempers, and porcupines that are 306 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: chock full of quills. And of course there is the 307 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: heat and the cold, and the moving water and the 308 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: somewhat frozen water, and the lunch full of stuff that 309 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:17,600 Speaker 1: your dog shouldn't eat. But your hunting buddy leaves out 310 00:16:17,640 --> 00:16:19,920 Speaker 1: anyway right on the seat of your truck while you 311 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:22,760 Speaker 1: talk strategy for the next hunt, and suddenly Rufus has 312 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 1: a belly full of the bad stuff. There are a 313 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: lot of things that can go wrong out there, and 314 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 1: the best we can do is try to anticipate the 315 00:16:29,640 --> 00:16:32,880 Speaker 1: danger and steer clear of them, while also recognizing that 316 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: we won't be able to get that right one hundred 317 00:16:34,760 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 1: percent of the time and will at some point have 318 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: to address a wound or find someone who can do 319 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: that for us. Do that this fall when you're out 320 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 1: there with your dogs, and come back in two weeks 321 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:50,200 Speaker 1: because I'm going to talk about the recall command, how 322 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: to train it, how to recognize when your dog won't 323 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: listen to it, and why it's important, you know, maybe 324 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: the most important command in the dog world. That's it 325 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,159 Speaker 1: for this week. I'm Tony Peterson and this has been 326 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: The Houndation's podcast. As always, thank you so much for listening, 327 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 1: for tuning in here, for supporting us at Mediator. We 328 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:14,280 Speaker 1: honestly truly appreciate it, so thank you for that. 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