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Try lubrysn (SP?) on their food....a couple of days before you hunt and while you hunt. The same thing has happened to me with my dog....this stuff works...
 
Crusaderhunter said:
No temp, the vet put him on Anti-inflammatory twice a day and says if he does not get to walking better in a few days we will need to have x-rays. No hunting for him for the next two weeks. That is going to be tough on him when he sees us going to the field without him.
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Just curious as to what anti-inflammatory your vet prescribed?
 
This is just my opinion but I firmly believe that like humans, there are Type A dogs and there are Type B dogs. Type A dogs refuse to succumb to fatigue and will keep going until they drop, while Type B dogs will just naturally begin to ease up when fatigue sets in. IMO, Type A dogs can hunt themselves into such a state of physical exhaustion, it can take the dog 2-3 days to fully recover from it. I think it's important to recognize if you have a Type A dog and hunt him/her accordingly.
 
Best thing for a tired hunting dog.....

Is to have the dog hunt with an old man :) My five year old fbECS (Cocker) gets plenty of rest on a hunt because when I'm tired I call him in for a drink and a little "set a spell". We can hunt all day that way and several days in a row. Best thing in my opinion is to not be in a hurry and enjoy the hunt.
 
Marty, I second that hunting with an old man. Just ask one and there are times I think I under hunt Tony because of my age........Bob
 
I "ditto" that Marty & Bob. Being in my 60's I just can't hunt as long and hard as I use to. Plus I can go out any day and any time here in SD. I hunt 2-3 days a week, usually during the week and take the weekends off. So the dogs rarely hunt back to back days. Like Bob said, I probably under hunt my dogs. I know that when friends from out of state come and we hunt hard 3, 4 or even 5 days in a row I'm one tired hunter and so are the dogs. It's nice when the dogs can get a break to re-coop and heal.
 
Did your vet do a Limes test?

Depending on where your from, fall can be a bad time for Deer Ticks.

I have seen 8-10 or more deer ticks crawling on the dog when grouse hunting in Northern Minnesota.

The dog can get sore and slow moving, maybe favoring a leg or shoulder if they have Limes

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Everyone seems to be content in treating the symtom and not the problem. I've been training and hunting dogs for 35 years (labs, springer, GSP and English pointers) along the Snake & Salmon Rivers in Idaho, tough hunting and have never had to give my dogs aspirin or drugs to get over sore or aching muscles. I can understand an older dog may need something but a 2 year old dog? Like I said in my earlier post the dog is either sick or something is wrong with him. Keep them is shape, sorry for being so blunt, jmo.
 
I have to agree with 20thunderjet. I have only used asprin on my older dogs. I have never had to give asprin to my younger dogs and the get hunted very hard. I would say the dog is out of shaped or he has to be sick.
 
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