Sport Dog Food

[CYJ]

One thing I learned from not watching the dehydration process on a hard working dog. Was I did not pull up that skin everyday and I did not give a broth fluid drink with some liquid supplements 12 hours from main work out.

A excellent dog nutrition book I had at one time. Taught that a working dog's endurance was increased up to 85% with additional water in presence of good fats. A dog gets most of it's energy from the fats in presence of adequate water. Not so much from carbohydrates per say.

I had this dog up to six hours trotting and running on a 80 foot swinging jenny. Probably half of that was enough for the local completion I was dealing with. The results of missing enough water cost me the show. I lost a deep game dog to a rank hard biting cur that was never matched again or heard of. I was ahead for around thirty minutes, and was seeing the quit in the other dog. All of a sudden the bottom fell out of my dog,it could not even stand. Was not blowing hot for sure. Just no electrolytes to make the heart/lungs and muscles to continue working.

You can not just assume your dog is getting enough water in the keep. In the future I added enough broth to cover the kibble and let soak. I started adding a water/broth supplements 12 hours before work out. Things got to looking much better. I got a good win over Mr. Pratt with Braddock's Mr. Clean.

Certain proteins will digest slower or faster for sure. Still, if you use kibble in the feed mix. The main workout will eventually go out to a 28- 30 hour feeding. Those last three workout rest days need to stay at a 28 to 30 hour feed cycle. If using kibble in the feed mix. One will make a bad mistake if on those last three rest days one puts the dog back on a 24 hour feed cycle. When it has been on a 28 to 30 hour feed cycle for that last main week of work.

Dog will not have enough time to clean out all the way, can run the dog hot. Why it is a bad mistake to enter your dog in Multi dog shows.
The main dog show personnel always gets to go first, one can find themselves going too early or too late as the show continues. Either way can affect the way your dog performs.

Water drank by the dog at a specific time will clear the dog's kidneys in six hours. So in that 28 to 30 hour period as the dog goes through a making weight and peaking process. If your dog is weighing light after each clean out period and walk, rub down etc. You can give the specific amount of ounces of fluids to make weight up to six hours before final weigh in and show time. J, Crenshaw says it is possible up to three hours.

Most will not give any water after the 30-28- 24 hour last feeding before final weigh in and show time. If dog comes up 1/4/ 1/2 to 1 pound light or more. Could be from slow dehydration. Dog may not run hot. Still if the dog show goes a while,is a very rough show. One's dog will grow weaker as the time progress. Better to be a tad on the wet side than dry at all. I know I have this post bouncing all around. We have to try and see all the factors involved.

By the time one gets a lot of this figured out and has a good system that works for them. Murphy's law sets in and starts wrecking havoc in your life and your dog yard. If you are not a young person. Can break the will to keep going on. It takes a Spartan mind/Spartan body to handle these Spartan bred dogs. Cheers.