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Article: Heat kills hunting dogs; Unusually warm weather for South Dakota's pheasant opener proved deadly to hunters' best friends.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2003
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Byline: Dennis Anderson; Staff Writer
Along with limits of pheasants, many hunters departed South Dakota with heartaches last weekend.
Narrowly avoiding tragedy was Dr. Phifer Nicholson of Plymouth, whose yellow Labrador, Jack, was one of perhaps hundreds of dogs felled by heatstroke in the unusually warm first days of the South Dakota pheasant hunting season.
Some South Dakota veterinarians estimate that 100 or more Labrador retrievers, springer spaniels, English setters and other hunting dogs died in temperatures that at times exceeded 80 degrees.
Proving deadly were the animals' heavy coats and inability to readily dispel body heat, ...