Share Your Conditioning Tips

Tell us what you do when it comes time to get your dog ready for show.

pull a tire--light weight long distance--track work every other day

i put my dogs on a keep..... try to work them as much as i can..... and do a crap load of praying on the way to the show.......

freekypixie wrote:

..... and do a crap load of praying on the way to the show.......

...LMAO!

3P Kennels wrote:

freekypixie wrote:

..... and do a crap load of praying on the way to the show.......

...LMAO!

LOL, I was thinking the same thing

who hasnt looked at their yard going hell ya im gunna do good only to get the the show and go ........ crap.....i hope i get ANYTHING...... but its all for fun really..... ribbons and trophys are only bonus points

i like 2 add wheat germ oil 2 my kibble and raw chicken leg quarters bone and all but i only do the weight pulls this diet dont burn off all the fat if u dont work them on this diet they will get fat quick but if u work them the wheat germ oil packs on the muscle quick it is amazing (the wheat germ oil is for horses u have 2 go to the feed store 2 get it)

i prefer cooked chicken..... dogs can get saminella........i will also cook up beef heart, liver, and deer scraps for the dogs...... especially in winter when a nice warm tummy can do wonders

freekypixie wrote:

i prefer cooked chicken..... dogs can get saminella........i will also cook up beef heart, liver, and deer scraps for the dogs...... especially in winter when a nice warm tummy can do wonders

lol do you think they cooked their food in the wild?

Its rare

raw meat and raw bones are really good for dogs
it does have soem bad germs but it also has good ones

after you cooked it you jsut lost alot of the nutrients

For Ivan, when we are getting ready for some weight pull we do spring pole, running, hand walking, flirt pole, and some practice pulling.

For Roxy, show or weight pull, we do hand walking, spring pole, weight pull, running with bike, and loads of playing.
She is looking damn good. (She is supposive Sorrells/OFRN/Jeep and blue dog)

pit4life wrote:

For Ivan, when we are getting ready for some weight pull we do spring pole, running, hand walking, flirt pole, and some practice pulling.

For Roxy, show or weight pull, we do hand walking, spring pole, weight pull, running with bike, and loads of playing.
She is looking damn good. (She is supposive Sorrells/OFRN/Jeep and blue dog)

I see that you've shopped at stillwater . Good lookin dog

Stillwater is the place! Love it, great stuff!

Thank you!

what i do with my dogs is well.. I try and keep them "fit" most of the time.. I feed half kibble and half raw diet and my dogs do a TON of RUNNING.. right now i have an acre fenced in and who ever is on the outside rotation RUNS for quite a bit.. LOL some of this a attribute to the neibors labs running the fence when my dogs are out


now I show UKC so a "conditioned" dog in that venue is different then ADBA or AADR or some of the other venues.. and alot of times people will say my dogs are TOO THIN
here is Dawn



this is Akando




here are the girls Diva the black and Hoover the brindle.. remember these are PUPPIES Diva is 7 months old and Hoover is 8 months old you can see the muscle in Divas thighs in this photo


for me i guess the best way to condition a dog is to let them be a dog.. feed them properly and let them run off the excess.. Just like with people a proper diet and exersize can do wonders

Well if you check out my site or the pics that Tonya posted you can see how my dogs are.. We feed a strictly raw diet (even the pups are on raw from day one) we feed Chicken leg quarters(big dogs)chicken necks to the pups, then we feed ground turkey or ground beef for their muscle meat and 3 days out of the week they get beef liver.. I will get some of the raw links from my friends site as I need to add them to mine(lol) and I will post them here for all to see..

The dogs get to run to their hearts content. They play on the spring pole and flirt pole and sometimes they'll even jump on the treadmill on their own and stand there until I turn it on.

During the summer, the dogs swim (well, Luna does - Ryker hasn't met the pool yet) and have a blast.

We do long walks (I go to Ann Arbor walking too) and play lots of games while being fed good quality kibble and raw.

Basically, we let the dogs be dogs. If they do good in a show or pull, that's extra good, but they're companions first and foremost.

here are some pics of my dogs on keeps......... all of them are in a basic keep with a 20 ft chain space..........they get ti use all of a 20ft radious...........here are some pics of my dogs from the last show


damien hasnt even been on a keep ..... this is just chain weight for him


ember ann on a keep



faylene on a keep......

I would like to see a little more tone on your dogs FreekyPixie... they are skinny and tight enough, but there is no tone going on there.
Less backbone would also be better, a little is okay but once it starts to get the whole spinal cord... well... no.

But nice looking dogs besides that.

they are just comming off winter weight......... they loose weight faster then they gain muscle mass....in a month or two they will be showing muscle as well.........plus the dog in real life and the pics are two different things........as far as the back bone .... there isnt as much as you think you see really

freekypixie wrote:

they are just comming off winter weight......... they loose weight faster then they gain muscle mass....in a month or two they will be showing muscle as well.........plus the dog in real life and the pics are two different things........as far as the back bone .... there isnt as much as you think you see really

Your dogs look good and those of us that have seen them else where know that . And we all know that pictures rarely do a dog justice.

there is no back bone showing.... and the pics do not do them justice..... here are a couple of other pics of ember and faylene...... they show more muscle tone so you can get another perspective on them........these pics were taken within the last two weeks......i do know they need more defination... but it has gone from 80-30 degrees in one day.not exactly weather to work a dog on either end......

sure here ar the pics she was talking about...........

ember


faylene


here are the pics i just posted

ember


faylene..... the backbone showing in this pic is due to the position she is standing in.........

shadowwolf .... my dogs all want to come live at your house...... i have a spring pole but very few of them really want to work it.....i also have a tread mill .... its a self powered one.....i got it late last show season.... so most of them are still not comfortable with it yet.........soon as it warms up im going to start working them on it again... next week is supposed to be in the 50's.....that will be ideal working weather.....