Take care of your dog drive
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | | |Dur dogs need much more than nutrition for pets a typical. These dogs, including hunting, racing, dog sled or breeding dogs, are in need of food and feeding schedules to support their efforts and work training.
The first step in deciding your dog food is to see if he truly is a "hard dog." If he spends most of the week and then goes off inside a work of a term or long-play session the weekend, a normal diet probably suffice, with perhaps a little more on exercise days to compensate for the calories it will burn.
On the other hand, if your dog spends several days a week, throughout the hunting season in the woods or water, or if your dog pulling a sled dog, dietary adjustments May be in order. Usually, you want a nutritionally dense food with 27 percent of digestible protein and 1850 calories per pound.
Often hard dogs should be fed twice a day to maintain body condition. Furthermore, it is a good idea to keep handfuls of food with you in making the activity to give your dog a "pick-me-up" during the day. Some people feed their dogs sweets to maintain energy and sugar in the blood. This can be dangerous because the canine problems related to large quantities of chocolate. Tell your veterinarian if you think you have to give your dog a boost.
Do not feed immediately before or after work. Make sure there is always plenty of water, but regulate it, before and after exercise so that your dog does not get sick. Keep fresh water, but not cold.
In cold weather, May you need to feed your dog for no additional keep warm. The basic rule is 7.5 percent more calories than normal for each drop of 10 degrees compared to normal.
One of the challenges for feeding dogs work is what to do in the off-season. There are two schools of thought: feeding your dog less of the protein-dense food, which avoids a transition, but the food can leave your dog you hungry when the volume is reduced, or feed your dog the same amount to a little dense food, which keeps the dog full but may give rise to finicky eating if the dog prefers one over the other. The best thing to do in both cases is making the transition slowly over a period of two weeks.
The first step in deciding your dog food is to see if he truly is a "hard dog." If he spends most of the week and then goes off inside a work of a term or long-play session the weekend, a normal diet probably suffice, with perhaps a little more on exercise days to compensate for the calories it will burn.
On the other hand, if your dog spends several days a week, throughout the hunting season in the woods or water, or if your dog pulling a sled dog, dietary adjustments May be in order. Usually, you want a nutritionally dense food with 27 percent of digestible protein and 1850 calories per pound.
Often hard dogs should be fed twice a day to maintain body condition. Furthermore, it is a good idea to keep handfuls of food with you in making the activity to give your dog a "pick-me-up" during the day. Some people feed their dogs sweets to maintain energy and sugar in the blood. This can be dangerous because the canine problems related to large quantities of chocolate. Tell your veterinarian if you think you have to give your dog a boost.
Do not feed immediately before or after work. Make sure there is always plenty of water, but regulate it, before and after exercise so that your dog does not get sick. Keep fresh water, but not cold.
In cold weather, May you need to feed your dog for no additional keep warm. The basic rule is 7.5 percent more calories than normal for each drop of 10 degrees compared to normal.
One of the challenges for feeding dogs work is what to do in the off-season. There are two schools of thought: feeding your dog less of the protein-dense food, which avoids a transition, but the food can leave your dog you hungry when the volume is reduced, or feed your dog the same amount to a little dense food, which keeps the dog full but may give rise to finicky eating if the dog prefers one over the other. The best thing to do in both cases is making the transition slowly over a period of two weeks.
