Keeping him sweet
IN A RECENT COLUMN I told the story of a spaniel of mine that collapsed during a bitterly cold and wet shooting day. I carried her back to the car, where she was revived in the heat of the passenger footwell.
My conclusion was that she had collapsed from hypothermia, but that was a very amateur diagnosis. A far more likely cause was hunting dog hypoglycaemia (HDH), a condition I admit to not having heard of until reader Geoff Blake emailed me about it.
