Hello, everyone
I'd like to hear your input on the topic of keeping your canine athlete in top condition. To me it is a combination of diet+exercise in a healthy dog. IMO there is nothing more beautiful than an athletic animal - see Cona clearing a six foot wall.
Since March I have been compiling a list of relevant resources, which can be found on the Internet. There are many comprehenive sites, the problem is their maintenance, however. Too often the links do not work or there is some other type of connection problem. Still, with all the wealth of info available, it would be a shame for it to go unavailable . . . Think of this, even the most comprehensive web search engine is capable of covering only 16% of the Internet by some estimates!!!
With the growing interest in performance improvement dozens of new worthy projects are poping up on the Net. I'd like a list to appear on the forthcoming IAPC site.
The issue of conditioning for performance is important to me personally: Ivy hates routine, does not particularly care for swimming or retrieving, and I hate jogging
Still, she has a nice set of muscles on her, and I am preparing to do weight pulling with her when she will be over two . . .
The longer I look into the topic, the more I hear from successful breeders and trainers, the more convinced I am that diet is of supreme and foremost importance here. Commercial dog foods do not stand up to a challenge of providing a [working] dog with everything it needs for performance, period.
I would never make a mistake of feeding commercial to any of my animals again - the facts pointing at the detrimental value of processed food are overwhelming (if anybody cares to dispute, I will be more than willing to provide solid references and scientific evidence). My dog, with me trusting her with my well-being deserves the best of care and maintanence to enable her to =do her job right. Well, enough of the "crusading".
Please, let me know what typpe of exercise/conditioning/diet regimen do you folow during warm weather. Do you plan your dogs physical activities? What works for you on an everyday basis?
I adjust my animal's food intake according to levels of stress on the body, first and foremost. I am not strictly BARF, NR, etc. - I use combinations, and experiment with different foods and supplements, going between manufactured and natural supplements all the time. I research endlessly - feeding a well-balanced diet without using processed pet foods requires both a common sense as well as a knowledgeable approach.
I am still learning. My interest lies primarily in working dog specific approach. Please, share any info that you have acces to.
Thanks in advance.
Here are some sites that I like (besides the ones in the ever-under-construction links pages
)
k9power.com/articles1.htm
www.ptialaska.net/~pride1/mwpexerc.htm
I searched out a few things from the following sites which have a very scientific approach. I plan on making extracts available during seminars in a form of topic specific reading packets
home.earthlink.net/~k9care/resume.htm
www.clark.net/pub/pribut/spphysio.html
www.acsma.com/csmtdbt5.htm
Also,
www.asmi.org/sportsmed/Pe...robic.html
asmi.org/sportsmed/Perfor...robic.html
www.caninesports.com/coaching.html
Regards,
Vio
I'd like to hear your input on the topic of keeping your canine athlete in top condition. To me it is a combination of diet+exercise in a healthy dog. IMO there is nothing more beautiful than an athletic animal - see Cona clearing a six foot wall.
Since March I have been compiling a list of relevant resources, which can be found on the Internet. There are many comprehenive sites, the problem is their maintenance, however. Too often the links do not work or there is some other type of connection problem. Still, with all the wealth of info available, it would be a shame for it to go unavailable . . . Think of this, even the most comprehensive web search engine is capable of covering only 16% of the Internet by some estimates!!!
With the growing interest in performance improvement dozens of new worthy projects are poping up on the Net. I'd like a list to appear on the forthcoming IAPC site.
The issue of conditioning for performance is important to me personally: Ivy hates routine, does not particularly care for swimming or retrieving, and I hate jogging
Still, she has a nice set of muscles on her, and I am preparing to do weight pulling with her when she will be over two . . .
The longer I look into the topic, the more I hear from successful breeders and trainers, the more convinced I am that diet is of supreme and foremost importance here. Commercial dog foods do not stand up to a challenge of providing a [working] dog with everything it needs for performance, period.
I would never make a mistake of feeding commercial to any of my animals again - the facts pointing at the detrimental value of processed food are overwhelming (if anybody cares to dispute, I will be more than willing to provide solid references and scientific evidence). My dog, with me trusting her with my well-being deserves the best of care and maintanence to enable her to =do her job right. Well, enough of the "crusading".
Please, let me know what typpe of exercise/conditioning/diet regimen do you folow during warm weather. Do you plan your dogs physical activities? What works for you on an everyday basis?
I adjust my animal's food intake according to levels of stress on the body, first and foremost. I am not strictly BARF, NR, etc. - I use combinations, and experiment with different foods and supplements, going between manufactured and natural supplements all the time. I research endlessly - feeding a well-balanced diet without using processed pet foods requires both a common sense as well as a knowledgeable approach.
I am still learning. My interest lies primarily in working dog specific approach. Please, share any info that you have acces to.
Thanks in advance.
Here are some sites that I like (besides the ones in the ever-under-construction links pages
)k9power.com/articles1.htm
www.ptialaska.net/~pride1/mwpexerc.htm
I searched out a few things from the following sites which have a very scientific approach. I plan on making extracts available during seminars in a form of topic specific reading packets
home.earthlink.net/~k9care/resume.htm
www.clark.net/pub/pribut/spphysio.html
www.acsma.com/csmtdbt5.htm
Also,
www.asmi.org/sportsmed/Pe...robic.html
asmi.org/sportsmed/Perfor...robic.html
www.caninesports.com/coaching.html
Regards,
Vio
