Questions about dehydration and low blood suger

[Dean Webster]

Was wondering what everyone uses when you hunt in the heat to keep your dogs from overheating. Is there a company that makes electrolyts for dogs? Something they like the taste of. Also was wanting to know what hunters used if dogs blood suger drops in the field when exsaution sets in. Thanks, Dean Webster

[*beagle girl*]

i didnt know dogs can really have low blood sugar, but i give my dog watered down gator-aid so she doesnt get dehydrated, i'm not sure if too many other dogs will drink it, cause my dog dixie will drink anything you put infront of her(including beer ) but it does help, she got really dehydrated when she was a pup and wouldnt eat, so i put gator-aid in her water, and she ate alot more, but we still had to go to the vet and get some i.v.'s in her,

[Emily]

redbones for mantrailing has "cool vests" for hers.
here's a link to some:
http://www.50degree.com/custom/index.cfm?ID=114521
or
http://www.radiotronics.com/cool_zone/k9_cool_vest.htm

I can't exactly see a dog hunting in one, but for riding in the box in the kind of weather some places have been having this year, or for cooling a dog as soon as it gets back from hunting, it might help save a few from heat exhaustion.. Never tried such a thing myself--mine hunts where its cool at night all summer long, and he's a house dog eating ice and napping in front of the fan in hot weather.

[nmplott]

yeah dogs can even get diabetes. Their is also electrolyte tabs that you can throw in thier water. for a regular dog to get low blood sugar would take a lot of stress to get levels that low.

[ryan goodwin]

i use pedeialite for kids and my dogs love it

[Majestic Tree Hound]

I have 1 pup that has low blood sugar.. She goes into a Shriving Wreck kinda like a Seziure but with some watered down Corn Surup shes over it in 4 mins. and is back to bouncing off the walls "Again"!! The vet told me she will grow out of it "its a Adialisant diabetes"