Top quality canned meat dog food with added supplements in a keep???

[CYJ]

Ditto arsuffi@att.net. That was some excellent insight. Rowell may have been ahead of his times,using a less hassle free way to feed in a keep. The only times I saw him lose a dog show event was from being out pulled by a better dog. Which happens to all that stay in the game long enough. Rowell never lost from his dog having lack of conditioning. Rowell won way more than he ever lost. Rowell was a very private dog man that stayed out of the lime light. He worked dogs not only for himself but others as well. Hear his health is not very well today. He had years back some Carver/Red Boy crossed dogs along with some pure bred Carver dogs.

If one ever reads Don Mayfield's feed keep. It is one long drawn out tedious process. V.J. said heck with all that and simplified that keep a lot with very good results. James Crenshaw spent some time with Don Mayfield also. The biggest difference in Crenshaw's feed keep and V.J.'s feed keep was Crenshaw used more kibble later into the keep to maintain the dogs weight. V.J. kept the kibble at the amount that was used to bring the dog to it's best show weight during the prekeep. V.J. added more chicken necks and chicken backs/Chicken broth to maintain show weight.

Now here is the kicker since many advocate a 100% raw diet. I will not argue that view point being that excellent results have been shown from doing so. It is the cooking destroys this and that I have pondered over. We cooked our Chicken necks and chicken backs in a pressure cooker to also obtain the Chicken broth to boot.

The dogs were worked on the pressure cooked Chicken necks/chicken backs/chicken broth/ with a lesser amount of kibble. The kibble amount would have worked out to about 20% of total diet. There was added supplements like green tripe/ desiccate liver/brewers yeast /Greens/probiotics/Geritol/etc. in moderation. Best I can figure today is that the moderate supplementation replaced anything lost in the cooking process. Should work as well on a top quality cooked canned dog food.

These dogs conditioned by James Crenshaw or V.J. were in excellent shape with bright eyes and gleaming shiny coats. The inner gums were a deep healthy blood red. It appears to me, the old saying of skinning a cat more than one way, still holds true. That cat can be skinned more than one way in the working part of the keep and the feeding part of the keep.

This has never been a lazy man's sport. Even the most diligent have to work hard to say on top. Cheers