Most sporting dogs get more than food and water. In a survey of 494 agility dogs in the USA, 62 % of owners gave supplements, most often joint products, followed by fish oil (Dinallo et al. 2017). Among 394 flyball dogs the figure was as high as 78 % (Koh et al. 2020). I wanted…
Many people consider raw food without carbohydrate the best diet for sporting dogs. The dog is a carnivore, they say, and does not need starch. I have more than 40 years of experience with working dogs and wanted to know how much of that is proven. Here is the short version. The question A dog…
Why the treadmill belongs in therapy and not in training Alpentrail, final stage, shortly before the finish. A stage race over six runs, around 290 kilometres and a good 6800 metres of climbing. This is the world that produced the observation behind this article. You see it all the time on social media: a dog…
I did not find a single feeding study on protection dogs. Not one. On the question of how hard protection work actually is on the dog, I found a single small study with seven German Shepherds. What dog sport says about carbohydrate, glycogen and sport foods comes almost entirely from sled dogs, Greyhounds and seventeen…