Mourne Mountain Rescue Team praised after carrying dog with heat exhaustion on a stretcher to safety
Mike
Dave - CH said:Lucky dog. Shouldn't have been up there.
Dave
Absolutely.
Not just the poor dog, but also the MRT lives were put at risk.
It just beggars belief the arrogance of folk today, and they're getting worse.
Mike
Over the years I was involved our local team rescued many animals, dogs, sheep cows and I seem to remember a dead horse in a popular visitor spot. Sheep and dogs were usually down potholes or cracks in rock. I don't remember a call out involving any pigs, maybe they have the most sense. The only call outs I remember concerning heat stroke were for humans. Even our daughters daft retired Greyhound refuses to go out in the real hot weather goes out does what he needs then retires to the utility room with tiled floor.
Pete
Birding is for everyone no matter how good or bad we are at it,enjoy it while you can
People absolutely disgust me at times.
19th July was the hottest day ever...from what I understand (in UK).
We had a family trip to Whitby..(40°c)... I couldn't believe how any 'idiots' had taken their dogs around the streets in Whitby!
One woman had her 'long haired type ' German shepherd in a side street with a tub of ice cream on the floor in front of it.."aw, don't you want it" she says!!!!!!
What is wrong with these people!!!!!
19th July was the hottest day ever...from what I understand (in UK).
We had a family trip to Whitby..(40°c)... I couldn't believe how any 'idiots' had taken their dogs around the streets in Whitby!
One woman had her 'long haired type ' German shepherd in a side street with a tub of ice cream on the floor in front of it.."aw, don't you want it" she says!!!!!!
What is wrong with these people!!!!!
Lots of them mean well.
Even those of us who do our best and go the extra mile make mistakes.
It's just too easy to "have" animals. So, while some get really good care, others (a lot more) don't.
Dave
Even those of us who do our best and go the extra mile make mistakes.
It's just too easy to "have" animals. So, while some get really good care, others (a lot more) don't.
Dave
Wendy S said:Over the years I was involved our local team rescued many animals, dogs, sheep cows and I seem to remember a dead horse in a popular visitor spot. Sheep and dogs were usually down potholes or cracks in rock. I don't remember a call out involving any pigs, maybe they have the most sense. The only call outs I remember concerning heat stroke were for humans. Even our daughters daft retired Greyhound refuses to go out in the real hot weather goes out does what he needs then retires to the utility room with tiled floor.
Pigs back then would be mainly kept in pig stys. It's only in the last couple of decades that farmers have been keeping them out in fields, free to wander as they should be.
Mike
samsw said:People absolutely disgust me at times.
19th July was the hottest day ever...from what I understand (in UK).
We had a family trip to Whitby..(40°c)... I couldn't believe how any 'idiots' had taken their dogs around the streets in Whitby!
One woman had her 'long haired type ' German shepherd in a side street with a tub of ice cream on the floor in front of it.."aw, don't you want it" she says!!!!!!
What is wrong with these people!!!!!
As Dave says, often folk mean well, even though it's wrong.
Apart from giving a dog ice cream in itself being wrong, as someone who's done an outdoor survival course many many years ago, one of the worst things to have is ice cold drinks or food on a hot day.
Once that cold drink or food hits the inner body, it suddenly feels cold, so the body increases the blood flow to prevent the risk of freezing and tries to maintain that optimum body temperature.
Mike
Absolutely Mike, and the body also wastes a whole lot of valuable energy heating the contents of the stomach to the necessary temperature.
As a (ex) keen cyclist, best place for ice cubes? Thrown in a hedge.
Dave