Latte Heat Exhaustion
Originally posted to RohJuh.com on Aug 5, 2001. On August 5, 2001, Judy and I decided to take Latte Dog on a run around Miramar Lake (5 miles one loop). I was curious to see whether she could do it. On the one hand, she’s not in the best shape. On the other hand, she’s a dog, and dogs love to run, right? Being August, we tried to go relatively early in the morning before it got too hot. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to the lake until around 10 and by then it was already starting to warm up. At the start of the run, Latte was of course full of energy and enthusiasm and continuously bounded ahead to the limit of her leash. We continued our run and at around mile 2 or so, you could tell that Latte was getting a bit tired. I slowed down my pace and told Judy to keep on running ahead. Generally, if Judy is running in front of me, Latte will try to keep up with Judy. As Latte got more tired, she would bound up ahead to try to get next to Judy and then fade back to me. After a few ...