kibble for active/working dogs

[finn's mom]

I feed Acana to my working dogs. We call it the "Mushers' Red" bag up here, but I think it's actually the extreme performance formula. They package it differently when you buy it by the tonne!

The dogs have done extremely well on it, even the hard keepers eat it and maintain their weight. I do have to feed more to Ozzy and Pacer--they both drop weight just by breathing hard!

A good friend of mine is an I-rod musher. She feeds Eagle Pack and her sibes thrive on it.

I remembered Acana from your posts...and Eagle Pack is one that's been suggested to me a couple of times. Definitely something I'm looking into.

[Glacier]

I remembered Acana from your posts...and Eagle Pack is one that's been suggested to me a couple of times. Definitely something I'm looking into.

Just checked what my friend feeds....it's the Eagle Ultra Power formula.

[finn's mom]

Just checked what my friend feeds....it's the Eagle Ultra Power formula.

Thank you!

[Giselle]

Hey, PM'd you the track diet for racing greys. Also, I was looking into lure coursing with Giselle a while back, but I didn't have the time or resources to condition her for that so I dropped the idea. However, I did buy a book from a prominent lure courser who wrote a lot on diet. I know she wrote a lot about carbs and its role in a canine athlete's diet, but I packed it away temporarily because we're re-doing our hardwood floors. I can get you an excerpt tomorrow, though.

The way I see it, dogs, as a species derived from wolves, may be better adapted to utilizing proteins and fats. However, to say that carbs are unnecessary is a bit of a stretch and, imo, not completely true. I'm not a die-hard "dogs-must-eat-meat-and-nothing-else" person, so my opinion may be skewed. However, biologically speaking, it's probably best to keep a canine athlete on a protein/fat heavy diet. Yet, it's probably not economical and it's not always feasible. Dogs may digest faster than us, but, from what I've learned, the body's cells run heavily on glucose, amino acids, and fatty acids. You get the latter from protein sources, but you get the former from carbs. So to eliminate carbs completely from a canine athlete's diet is not very beneficial, IMO. For the sedentary dog, sure, a no-carb diet might work. But for an athlete who performs strenuous work, I think eliminating carbs would be more harmful than helpful. My two cents