Difficult conditioning

I am calling myth on all this i have a big boned all white male house dog that stays at 80 unless i work him and he goes to 63 and is just right maybe you should feed more and let him learn new habits to will benefit him after all he is 5 and probabley was outta for a little while between work cycles good luck

 

from 80 to 63? thats nearly a 25% drop. im willing to bet the dog is not healthy on either side of that spectrum

 

if you were to increase his food i would split his feeding to twice a day, increase it all into one meal he might not absorb the extra, give him extra fluids also, he will expel this daily, when he is the way you like him, cut back the evening feed but include the difference back into his first feed, important to do this to have the dog empty and his true weight for the last week of show. when a dog gives you problems like this its very important that its 100% quality food you increase it by, dont hold back on the $$$ at this time, two other things i would say: you might be over working your dog , to give you any more advise i would have to be watching you work and feed your dog, hope this helps when you combine it with the other posts made.

 

Not an entirely true statement - if you are feeding good quality food (one example is EVO) instead of garbage you would be feeding between 2 and 3 cups daily for a dog of that weight - but I do agree with your statement that he probably isn't feeding enough food by feeding 3 cups of BilJac.

EDIT: Sorry MAC11 - I didn't mean to hound on you about this, I just read through the rest of the thread and realized someone else brought this up already - if I had seen that before posting I would not have posted this - please don't think I am dumping on you!

 

I had added the frozen Bil jac. Also I did not have him when he was on raw. I am upping the feed cuz of winter and he is a house dog.

 

Patchwork, when the hips where showing , was the overall condition of the animal good, ?…or had you taken too much off him overall.? Are you asking for tips on weight management or tips on conditioning a weak area?……….. I noticed your conditioning didn’t mention any spring pole work any reason why?.....

 

don't feed a dog 2 times a day . they will never be empty if you do .

 

He is not interested in the spring pole as much and I have nosey neighbors.

Mostly, the reason I put this up was to see if anyone else has had the same issues and if they had tips on it. Also. I know that a few dogs of this bloodline has the same issue with the hips showing.

 

patchwork , im sure you have enough to go on ....so good luck with your dog.

 

Thank you very much..this is his last show season (we hope!!), so I hope to get this down to a fine science!

 

And im calling bullshit on this post. Rallys post about youre bullshit is spot on.

 

really?? i guess you need to tell me how you condition him. i wanna get my pigglet back down to 63llbs...

 

Imo most of these post are great advise for you there is one thing no one has told you.A few maybe most has said to add a higher protein and fat content feed,just onething for you to remember,as your dogs spine an hip bones are showing you need to add a higher protein feed as proteins build flesh fats give energy.good luck with your dog.