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Just a friendly reminder to give your dogs a little more bedding, more food, and more waterings per day during this cold snap. We are gonna have a high of minus 4 today in MN. Much of the rest of the country will see very cold weather this week. Every time we go through a cold snap like this, this site will be full of threads announcing the loss of "old sarge", who "despite appearing to be in good health died MYSTERIOUSLY" on a recent cold night.
It takes a lot of energy and calorie intake to create the internal heat to stay alive in this weather.
It takes a lot of liquid intake to process those calories.
Many dogs actually die of dehydration in the cold. It is hard for them to take in enough water if they only get watered once a day and their water freezes in 15 minutes. Many folks think it wise to put out HOT water so that it does not freeze as quick. Dog comes out and burns his tongue on hot water and goes back in to doghouse and by the time he comes back out water is froze. It is not wise to put out water that is too hot to drink. Warm water yes. Hot no.
Warm mush is great. Soak their dogfood in water in your house. A big bowl of 70 degree mush twice a day beats dry food and ice.

I know this is all common sense to 98% of folks, and maybe the 2% won't listen, but it is sad to see a dog die due to the owner not fully understanding just how brutally cold it is outside right now.

Please add to this thread your advice or experiences in hopes of saving a few dog lives thru this cold snap.

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Gonna be cooler here to. Just went an got me some new shavings for dog house.

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i cook alot of old deer meat when it gets like this, and feed with plenty of water soaked in their feed,

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I offer my dogs water a couple of times a day but the main thing I do is soak their feed. I mix in beef cracklins and my dogs love them. I feed in the evening just before the sun goes down and the feed ferments in their stomachs giving off heat which keep them warm. I put extra sraw in the dog boxes and give them a little extra feed. My dogs actually gain weight this time of the year. I have 1 that will be 15 in a couple of weeks, so I must be doing something right.

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I lost an old g.n.c...sagamore blue..because of the cold, I thought he would be o.k. but I was wrong. I have them in an insulated building now. We were 13 below this morning with 28 below wind chill.

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We don't have extreme cold coming like you guys up north but we still have a pretty cold front coming in. Mid 50's Saturday and could get into single digits tonight so I packed my houses with straw today and the normal warm water with their feed that they get anytime the temps get close to freezing.

Bo is my oldest at 10 years old but he stays in the garage on cold nights and with it being attached to the house it rarely gets below the mid 50's in there even on the coldest nights.

It is important that if you use straw to really pack it in the house to the point the dog has just enough room to turn around and lay down. I pack my houses to the ceiling and then work out a little hole with my hands and the dogs will climb in and work out a place to sleep. They are surrounded by straw. This keeps them much warmer than just giving them a thin layer of straw in the bottom of their house.

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ya virgil, straw is the way to go...they freeze if a guy uses shavings, they like to burrow into it.

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I pack my houses full of pine shavings dogs move it around and push what they don't need out,I use spring loaded doors and vent my insulated dog houses feed half there food with warm water in the morning and the other half at night,was 10 below this am with the hi being 0 today,I will NEVER bring a outside dog in on a cold nite!

I also have 5 gallon heated water buckets in all kennels

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I use straw. Have insulated dog houses with flaps on door opening. Kennels are completely covered roof, sides and fronts. I also feed morning and night with native level 3 and hot water and do fine. I too would never bring a dog in at night then back out. Just got in from feeding and dogs were nice
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It only got up to -10 below today here for the high this morning going to work was -20 suppose to be colder tonight hard not to feel bad for any animal that has to stay out in this stuff with no shelter.

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its supposed to be in the sigle digets tonite in my area of wv high of 16 tommorro and 1-2 inch of snow i packed my boxes full of straw and mix some beef broth and hot water in thier food for the nite

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Outside dogs are used to the cold but once it gets below twenty the mud room is their bed for the night. Not as warm as the house but a lot warmer then outside.

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I feed all my dogs twice a day . Pour warm water on their feed in the morning and mix calf replacer in the evenin on top of their feed . My dog are all excellent shape. Bear stands out in this cold without flinching lol

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Outside dogs are used to the cold but once it gets below twenty the mud room is their bed for the night. Not as warm as the house but a lot warmer then outside.

LOL If we did that around here the dogs would stay in the house 80% of their lives.

It was below zero this morning. I fixed up an old Milking barn that is half underground. My kennels are in there. Each one has an insulated dog house with a hinged door on it. My water buckets have not frozen yet inside the barn. But I still like to give them a little warm water over thier food every night............ Jon

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Electric bowls are nice if you live in northern states had mine ten years.
Tractor supply will help you out for around 25 dollars well worth the money no more beating ice out of the bowls and the dogs always have water.

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I lost an old g.n.c...sagamore blue..because of the cold, I thought he would be o.k. but I was wrong. I have them in an insulated building now. We were 13 below this morning with 28 below wind chill.

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i have in the past let the old dogs stay in my heated building, they love the couch, its about 70 degrees in there and they don't bother the trash bags of empty beer cans, lol!!! they do tend to expect it all the time.

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Electric bowls are nice if you live in northern states had mine ten years.
Tractor supply will help you out for around 25 dollars well worth the money no more beating ice out of the bowls and the dogs always have water.

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I left Minneapolis Sunday morning the temp was 1degree, drove through a snow storm in Iowa, temp 5 degrees, spent the night in Lincoln, NE temp 5 degrees, drove East on I80 temp 9 degrees, drove through bli nding snow, temp 9 degrees, turned South through kansas temps improved all the way to Oklahoma. When I crossed the Oklahoma state line the temp was near 40 degrees; I got out and kissed the ground. Tom

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I left Minneapolis Sunday morning the temp was 1degree, drove through a snow storm in Iowa, temp 5 degrees, spent the night in Lincoln, NE temp 5 degrees, drove East on I80 temp 9 degrees, drove through bli nding snow, temp 9 degrees, turned South through kansas temps improved all the way to Oklahoma. When I crossed the Oklahoma state line the temp was near 40 degrees; I got out and kissed the ground. Tom

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Yep gotta keep an eye on them in the cold.My kennels are set up where they come in & out of the basement I shut the doors to keep them in. Stays around 60 down there the seem to be fine but they do drink alot of water right now.Fill there buckets a couple times a day

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Just made up a big pot of 26/20 Pride with cut up pieces of bologna,a couple of eggs,little bit of grease,dab of milk and poured the water to it.Warmed it up on the gas stove and then let it soaked.They ate it up like no tomorrow.I still feed them only once a day but give them plenty of extra but I water them again before I go to bed.Think Im going to have to cut back cause their getting fat just like me in this cold weather lol.

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Anyone else still hunting in this cold weather?

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Just made up a big pot of 26/20 Pride with cut up pieces of bologna,a couple of eggs,little bit of grease,dab of milk and poured the water to it.Warmed it up on the gas stove and then let it soaked.They ate it up like no tomorrow.I still feed them only once a day but give them plenty of extra but I water them again before I go to bed.Think Im going to have to cut back cause their getting fat just like me in this cold weather lol.

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corn will make heat we feed it to our horses all yr long but cut them back when it warms up and we start working them everyday gettin ready for the pulls didnt think i would like it but my buddy started selling joy 24/20 talk me into switching to it my dogs stay fat and look good lots of energy


I guess it keeps them fat with lots of energy until it is put to the test. Still feeding suggested amounts of Diamond EA here with no drop off in weight or energy. Some should feed a better feed and they would find that they don't have to add all of the other stuff mentioned in this thread when times get tough on the dogs.

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