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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a 21 lb baby and I also have a 50 lb very furry northern breed dog.

Because I've been following this thread and story, out of curiosity, I put the baby in his pack and on my back and picked up the dog just to test out the hurt dog theory. That is a LOT of weight and distributed very very oddly. On a 109 degree day, the combination is deadly, not to mention the sheer effort involved in just keeping yourself balanced, especially if you're going up and down hills. Even with two people passing them back and forth or taking turns carrying one, it would have been deadly.
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Interesting experiment. You should post your results on WebSleuths.

I also think the immobile dog is what did them in. The mom had that dog for about 8 years and she owned it before she started dating her husband. No way was she going to let them leave the dog behind to rescue at a later time. I honestly think that this is what killed them - trying to transport both the dog and the kid in a day that was rapidly heating to above-normal temps. [/quote]

+1 I think the dog set off a bad chain of events. I live in the desert with a young GSD and there is no way she could make this hike in that heat. At 110 degree temps, she tires completely after about 10 minutes of exercise (sometimes we throw her tennis balls in the backyard if she is a bit rambunctious- after a few minutes she is tired and heads for the patio door) And their dog was on the older side, if memory serves, and who knows how much water they brought or how much was given to the dog...[/quote]

+2 It's tragic, but I get it.  I would never leave my dog (and obviously you don't have a crystal ball that tells you, guess what, dog dies anyway and so do you, your husband, and child if you don't leave the dog behind).  [/quote]

I just do not understand why they took the dog to begin with. I could see maybe doing a mile with the dog and baby. Maybe a mile out and a mile back. But I have a small dog who barely gets around the block without panting in the 95 degree weather. Had they gone on long hikes and/or desert hikes with this dog before?[/quote]

My guess is they had no idea how the dog would do in that heat. I posed about having a young German Shepherd and living in the desert, and desert hiking with her is only possible in the winter at temps in the 60s for daily highs (and even then, We go out early because the sun can be surprisingly hot by midday- even if the actual air temp isn’t that hot). I’m sure the dog has done hikes with them before but not in this type of heat, and the dog was getting older, besides...[/quote]

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