Thread: What are you feeding your working dogs?

Originally Posted by SiB

a horses poo should 'break open like a freshly baked scone or muffin' (per Pony Club Manual) - any takers on describing optimum doggie poo?

I'm starting to find this a little uncomfortable

But yeah, bout the same is what I'd say... I just ran my dogs and both took a dump... I had a thought and then let it go... photographing shit is just going too far LOL

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

Iv probably been doing it all wrong but my dogs are happy and healthy, me well Im happy (most of the time)

Then it can;t be wrong... all the theory in the world is dissolved by real world results... an absolute axiom in the dog world anyway!

Ha sorry Ruff you should know me well enough now that you won't be converting my training methods!

And good call about the photographing poo lol

If you're using food you can;t call it a training method

A lot of poo is a lot of low quality ingredients and frequently cheap food. Tripe is the best for any dog and almost no poo. One meal a day tripe and one with dry food is O.K. If you want to get more fat(energy) in the same volume the RC 4800 is the best available. What food contains 30% of fat? One or two bags and than go back to the traditional food.
A few US brands (mostly for sleddogs contain +/- 40% of fat ). If it's only a question of finding a good dry food for a reasonable price, that's another question.

Thanks for the info on all this poo and thanks for not posting picturs of it. I think when my tux energy runs out im going to give the eukanuba a whirl.

Hi there Hales.

I too feed Mighty Mix, data below. New Zealand raw product.

Analysis
NUTRIENT AS FED DRY MATTER
Energy 4.0 kcals/gram 5.8 kcals/gram
Moisture 31.1% -
Protein (Crude) 17.4% 25.3%
Fat 36.8% 53.0%
Fibre 2.0% 5.1%
Carbohydrates 7.9% 11.7%
Calcium 1.1% 1.5%
Phosphorus 0.59% 0.86%
Ca Ratio 1.8:1 1.8:1
Magnesium 0.05% 0.07%
Zinc 114ppm 119ppm
Manganese 10.5ppm 17.6ppm
Copper 7.3ppm 12.2ppm
Sodium 0.11% 0.48%
Chloride 0.56% 0.93%
Potassium 0.74% 1.15%
Iron 188ppm 313ppm
Cobolt 1.08ppm 1.82ppm
Selenium 0.24ppm 0.42ppm

Originally Posted by Ruff

If you're using food you can;t call it a training method

If you're using punishment you can't call it a training method....so touche, and just leave me alone now and I will do the same!

chocolate then a spanking, best of both worlds

Originally Posted by el borracho

chocolate then a spanking, best of both worlds

I didn't know you knew my hubby?

Originally Posted by Dougie

If you're using punishment you can't call it a training method....so touche, and just leave me alone now and I will do the same!

I don't. I never use punishment.

I train, I train gun dogs under high distraction and under stimulus of prey drive in a high prey drive dog bred to have high prey drive for countless generations where food becomes irrelevant very quickly to such high inherent prey drives and knowledge and dog handling skills come into play to get a canine working on side with the handler for the same result. this can never be achieved with two things.. punishment or food... no good gun dog ever born gave two shits about a cube of Posyum in a high prey drive situation...

In all seriousness.. if the assumption is that if you don;t use food you use punishment we are stuffed.

I don't have a gun dog, never said I did, never said my training was better than yours.

Sorry Splash for the hijack...good luck getting some pounds on your pooch.

punishment -ear pinch,toe pull and e collar,Ive used them all not to abuse but to teach -I dont like e collar but my dog does wear one