Yes that is Exactly what I am saying ! We had record heat all summer so the local dogs were used to it also and it is always hot at the first part of the season and nothing like this has come up.
Just some reporter looking for a story other then the good hunting the guys were having.
I am sure there are folks out there that got the dogs in trouble just as this reporter may have wrote on waterfowl hunters having dogs die in the ice and cold in his Own state - But - 100 NO.