Published Aug. 14, 2023 3:20 p.m. ET
A family pet fighter is reached safety after obviously getting overheated on the Lynn Loop Trail near North Vancouver, B.C., on Aug. 13, 2023.
Rescue teams needed to bring an overheated dog down a North Shore treking path on Sunday, triggering a suggestion about the threats heats can position to animals.
North Shore Rescue said its members were contacted us to the Lynn Loop Trail to help a hiker and dog who were stranded on the mountain after dark.
The hiker’s 80-pound fighter “would not continue” along the path, the rescue group said in a Facebook post.
“While this dog had access to a lot of water throughout his walking and was treking in the (rather cooler) night, it is most likely that the conditions were just excessive for the puppy,” North Shore Rescue composed.
Dogs with much shorter snouts can’t cool themselves as effectively as those with longer snouts that permit “drawing air over the big area of their tongue when panting,” according to the post.
Volunteers filled the fighter into a knapsack and brought him down the path to a place where the animal might be filled onto an all-terrain vehicle and driven to safety.
With a continuous heat wave on B.C.’s South Coast, North Shore Rescue said the event must function as a suggestion to hikers about the requirement to prepare – and possibly even reassess strategies – throughout extreme conditions.
More details is available on the group’s website.
North Shore Rescue said its members were contacted us to the Lynn Loop Trail to help a hiker and dog who were stranded on the mountain after dark.
The hiker's 80-pound fighter "would not continue" along the path, the rescue group said in a Facebook post.
"While this dog had access to a lot of water throughout his walking and was treking in the (rather cooler) night, it is most likely that the conditions were just excessive for the puppy," North Shore Rescue composed.
Dogs with much shorter snouts can't cool themselves as effectively as those with longer snouts that permit "drawing air over the big area of their tongue when panting," according to the post.
Volunteers filled the fighter into a knapsack and brought him down the path to a place where the animal might be filled onto an all-terrain vehicle and driven to safety.
With a continuous heat wave on B.C.'s South Coast, North Shore Rescue said the event must function as a suggestion to hikers about the requirement to prepare – and possibly even reassess strategies – throughout extreme conditions.
More details is available on the group's website.
