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    Quote Originally Posted by Spook View Post
    Give the dog a big feed at road end and then share your food with dog...watching your dog eat half your rations will improve your hunting ten fold...dog can easily go 5 days without a major meal...a hungry hunter will hunt all day...a well fed one will hunt for a couple of hours morning and afternoon...be nothing worse than running out of your own food and having to share dog biscuits.
    exercising a dog on a full guts can be risky to a dog and a hungry dog will soon start to scavange or find something to eat like old 1080'd coon frames that rolled under a log.
    they don't need a major meal but they do require a feeding to keep some gas in the tank.
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