Thread: What are you feeding your working dogs?

If you're using food you can;t call it a training method

A lot of poo is a lot of low quality ingredients and frequently cheap food. Tripe is the best for any dog and almost no poo. One meal a day tripe and one with dry food is O.K. If you want to get more fat(energy) in the same volume the RC 4800 is the best available. What food contains 30% of fat? One or two bags and than go back to the traditional food.
A few US brands (mostly for sleddogs contain +/- 40% of fat ). If it's only a question of finding a good dry food for a reasonable price, that's another question.

Originally Posted by Ruff

If you're using food you can;t call it a training method

If you're using punishment you can't call it a training method....so touche, and just leave me alone now and I will do the same!

Originally Posted by Dougie

If you're using punishment you can't call it a training method....so touche, and just leave me alone now and I will do the same!

I don't. I never use punishment.

I train, I train gun dogs under high distraction and under stimulus of prey drive in a high prey drive dog bred to have high prey drive for countless generations where food becomes irrelevant very quickly to such high inherent prey drives and knowledge and dog handling skills come into play to get a canine working on side with the handler for the same result. this can never be achieved with two things.. punishment or food... no good gun dog ever born gave two shits about a cube of Posyum in a high prey drive situation...

Originally Posted by Ruff

I don't. I never use punishment.

I train, I train gun dogs under high distraction and under stimulus of prey drive in a high prey drive dog bred to have high prey drive for countless generations where food becomes irrelevant very quickly to such high inherent prey drives and knowledge and dog handling skills come into play to get a canine working on side with the handler for the same result. this can never be achieved with two things.. punishment or food... no good gun dog ever born gave two shits about a cube of Posyum in a high prey drive situation...

The penny drops (For me).........................
Clark, you should explain this phyilosofy (Sp) in more detail when replying to requests for help.
I hear what you are saying......................
BTW how's Ducati Mark? Send him my best please, I hear he's getting married.............

Originally Posted by Bulltahr

The penny drops (For me).........................
Clark, you should explain this phyilosofy (Sp) in more detail when replying to requests for help.
I hear what you are saying......................
BTW how's Ducati Mark? Send him my best please, I hear he's getting married.............

In what way do you need more info????

Only spoke to mark a couple of months ago... I have been off the road since the magistrate took such a dim view of how I parked my Jeep in a ditch... so haven;t got out to Athenree in a bit.