Learn about the special needs of your performance dog and how to meet them with a sound nutrition program. Explains how to read dog food labels and select appropriate food for your dog.
Chapters include:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 How Food is Digested
- Role of the digestive tract
- Length and transit time
- Organs of the digestive tract
- Application to performance dog
- Chapter 2 Commercial and Homemade Diets
- History of dog food
- Commercial diets
- The quality range
- Preservatives
- Homemade/natural diets
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 3 Dog Food Labels: What They Do and Don’t Tell You
- Regulation of pet food labels
- What is required on a pet food label
- The nutritional adequacy statement
- The guaranteed analysis panel
- The ingredient list
- Labeling games companies play
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 4 Nutrient Evaluation: How Good is the Food
- You are Feeding?
- Nutrient evaluation
- Determining digestibility of dog foods
- Energy density
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 5 Converting Energy to Motion
- Energy to motion
- Methods of energy production
- Protein and energy production
- Lactic acid production and fatigue
- Genetically altering energy production/utilization
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 6 Protein Needs of the Performance Dog
- What does protein do?
- What is protein?
- Nitrogen balance
- Not all protein is created equal
- Determining the quality and digestibility of proteins
- Common protein ingredients in pet foods
- Protein needs of the performance dog
- How much protein does a working dog need?
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 7 Fats: Essential Energy for the Performance Dog
- What are fats?
- Why is fat important?
- Common sources of fat in dog food
- Fat as an energy source
- High fat diets vs high carbohydrate diets
- Determining daily energy requirements
- Converting ME into cups fed per day
- The power of fat
- How much fat does a working dog need?
- Fat tastes good!
- Too much fat?
- Omega-3 fatty acids
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 8 Carbohydrate Needs of the Performance Dog
- What are carbohydrates?
- What do carbohydrates do?
- Common sources of carbohydrates in pet foods
- How much carbohydrate does a working dog need?
- Dietary fiber and intestinal health
- Common sources of fiber in pet foods
- What types of fiber should be included in a diet?
- How much fiber should there be?
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 9 Vitamins and Minerals: Practical Application
to Performance Dogs
- Vitamins
- Minerals
- Breed-specific vitamin and mineral disorders
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 10 Water: The Most Essential Nutrient
to a Performance Dog
- Water compartments
- Where water is lost
- Dehydration
- How much water do dogs need?
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 11 Conditioning for Performance
- Conditioning is important
- Advantages of conditioning
- How to condition
- Body condition scores
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 12 Performance Dogs: Recognizing Problems and
Finding Solutions
- Causes of diarrhea
- Causes of poor performance
- Causes of weight loss
- Causes of poor appetite
- Application to performance dogs
- Chapter 13 Practical Label Examples
- Chapter 14 Performance Dog Case Examples
Jocelynn Jacobs, DVM 2005, 224 pages, eBook.
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