Supplement Your Pitbull’s Diet

Athletic dogs work hard year-round and need more fuel than the average indoor pooch to maintain good health.

Athletic dogs work hard year-round and need more fuel than the average couch pooch to maintain good health. When winter blows in, active dogs burn even more calories to keep themselves warm. Your dog is active  and requires extra calories if it spends more than two hours a day participating in activities such as Frisbee chasing, ball fetching, hiking, obedience or walking. Your dog is super-active and needs even more extra calories if it participates in highly strenuous activities, such as sledding, skijoring, herding, agility, police work, conformation or field events.

You can determine whether your dog eats enough calories based on its demeanor, appearance and weight. Does your dog seem depressed or lethargic? Does it seem less energetic than normal? Is it ravenous at mealtimes? If so, you may need to feed it additional food or higher energy foods.

Check your dog’s ribs and examine its body outline from an overhead perspective. If you see extra padding over its ribs and no sign of its waist, you are probably feeding too much. Cut down on the dog’s portions or bulk out its meals with lower-calorie foods, such as brown rice. If its ribs are starkly evident and its waist a little too pronounced, it needs more calories. Finally, invest in an accurate scale and weigh your dog on a regular basis. After a while, you’ll be able to pinpoint an ideal weight for your dog. Note that this weight may vary according to the seasons.

You’ll need to adjust the amount you feed on a weekly or even daily basis. The energy a dog requires varies with climate, amount of exercise, stress, breed and the quirks of each individual dog. Most veterinarians recommend you feed your athletic dog two to three meals each day, with the largest meal served at least an hour after the exercise session. A large meal before strenuous exercise can cause indigestion, cramps and other health problems.

You can provide the additional energy your active dog requires during the cold weather two ways: Feed more of the food you already give your dog, or feed it foods that are more tightly packed with nutrients.

To provide the highest level of energy, look for fatty foods. Fats yield more than twice as much energy as similar amounts of carbohydrates or proteins, and smaller amounts of food can supply a larger amount of energy. To help process these additional fats, your dog will also need higher levels of protein. In addition, you may add supplements to your dog’s diet to boost its energy levels and counteract the effects of vigorous exercise.

How much fat and protein should a dog have in its daily diet? In general, high-energy homemade canine diets range from 15 percent to 25 percent fat, and from 30 percent to 40 percent protein; commercial high-performance diets offer 10 percent to 18 percent fat, and 24 percent to 28 percent protein. Whether you are feeding an off-the-shelf diet, making it yourself or some combination of the two, you can easily raise the fat levels your dog’s diet.

Two kinds of fat can be added to your dog’s diet: fat derived from animal sources, which are saturated fats, and fats derived from plant sources, which are polyunsaturated fats. Animal-derived fats offer the highest levels of energy and are the best high-energy supplements.

Plant-derived fats, easily available in vegetable oils, will make your dog’s skin and coat pretty, but they won’t add the desired energy jolt. Plant fats contain fatty acids, which are vital for healthy coats and shiny skin.

If your dog is active, but not super-active, try feeding it larger amounts of its regular diet before switching to the high-energy diet. If that doesn’t seem to satisfy your dog’s energy needs, try adding a little bit of fatty meat, such as chopped or ground beef heart, hamburger, fatty chuck, sirloin steak, lamb or pork, to its meals or increasing the use of fattier cuts of meat in your dog food recipe.

If your dog is super-active, you’ll have to add larger amounts of high-octane foods to its meals. One way is to save the meat drippings from your meals of roasted beef, chicken or turkey. (Be sure it does not contain sugar, artificial preservatives or chemicals, or high sodium levels.) You can also make special arrangements with your organic meat supplier to purchase fresh, pure poultry fat or beef tallow. Poultry fat is much preferred by owners of canine athletes because it is highly digestible and also contains the fatty acids that contribute to a shiny coat. Be careful when adding fat to your dog’s diet, though. If the dog eats solely the fat or too much of the fatty meat and not enough of its other food, it will lack necessary protein and carbohydrates.

Just a little extra whammy in your dog’s diet will have it bright-eyed and raring to mush, even on cold winter mornings. Hmm, maybe you’d better rev up your diet, too. Nutrition

Ultimate Pit bull Video

Another amazing pitbull video. Perla the pit bull featured in this clip is a piece of art work. An extreme dog. Body structure and muscle definition a dream for all pit bull owners.

This Pitbull Pulled A Car!!! Video

Just when you thing that this breed can’t get any more amazing, this red nose pitbull is strong enough to pull a 95 Pontiac!!! Just look at the head size on this dog!

Exposed Secrets to Muscular Pitbulls

Hey Guys, Just in case you did not know, I want to let you know that Champion Pitbull Secrets has just been released this year by Rick Avery. All the goodies, all the details, all the secrets to huge muscular pitbulls. I suggests that if you want to increase the size of your pitbull, go and get you a copy. Lots of goodies in that book. It has already been featured in many different publications such as “American Breeder, and Breeders Plus.

Here is some of the content in the book:

- How to build up to 1-3 pounds of muscle per MONTH!

- Proper Diet Do’s and Don’ts for muscle growth

- The One Big Mistake you must never make again!

- Magic to training using Commands

- Why most dog food’s are worthless!

- How to perform Massage Therapy for maximum results!

- How to maintain muscle mass between workouts

- Isolation exercises to pin-point muscle growth

I keep hearing success stories from his customers. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to add that amazing muscular body to their pitbull.

Here are a couple of testimonials from his satisfied customers:

How to Rescue a Pit Bull in Atlanta

The pit bull is not a breed recognized by the American Kennel Club, but instead is a term used for the American Staffordshire Terrier, Staffordshire Terrier or American Pit Bull Terrier. They are difficult to find homes for. Here’s how to rescue a pit bull in Atlanta.

Instructions:

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Learn about pit bulls by volunteering for one of the Atlanta-area rescue groups. All or Nothing Pit Bull Rescue, operated by tattoo artist Brandon Bonds, actively advocates on behalf of former fighting dogs. Pit Prints Pit Bull Rescue & Rehabilitation is a state-licensed shelter that specializes in bully breeds.

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Check with your city and county animal control department to make certain that pit bulls are not banned in your area. The list of areas banning pit bulls is growing, and different counties have different jurisdictions in the Atlanta area. The SPOT Society website provides contacts for all Atlanta-area animal control agencies and shelters.

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Ready your home for your new dog. Before you rescue a pit bull, make necessary changes in your home and yard so your dog can live a safe life. It is dangerous to leave dogs, especially bully breeds, outside when you are not home. Pet theft is a real threat, and bully breeds are stolen for fighting rings and research labs. Repair or install a fence so that it surrounds your yard

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Work with All or Nothing Pit Bull Rescue, or Pit Prints Pit Bull Rescue & Rehabilitation Shelter to find the right dog for your family. Both agencies will help choose a dog that needs a home and has the right personality traits for your family.

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Visit a veterinarian with your rescue dog right away. Get all necessary vaccinations, heart worm testing and make an appointment for spay or neuter. Contact the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association for a referral to a small-animal veterinarian in your area. Consider positive-reinforcement obedience training for the dog. All or Nothing Pit Bull Rescue can recommend trainers that works with your breed.

By  Justine Depalma

The Bully Pitbull

Hello guys, sorry for the delay, I’ve been out handling a couple of matters. Anyway, I wanted to show you guys what a bully pitbull is suppose to look like. Eddie over at xtremebullypitbulls.com sets the breeding standard for breeding bully pits.  Check him out. I will not be long today. I just wanted to answer the question I have been getting from readers of “what is a bully pitbull suppose to look like.” Eddie has the remedy. He has some beautiful monsters over there.

Bull Terrier: Pitbull Family

Hello folks. I wanted to give a little in-site on a dog that is part of the pitbull family and often mistaken for the American Pitbull Terrier.

The Bull Terrier is a magnificent dog and should not be mistaken as a pitbull. Very similar in body structure, yet these are two different breeds.

History of the Bull Terrier:

The Bull Terrier is a British breed of dog.  Its predecessors were developed for the purposes of pit fighting, in the middle of the 19th century.   The “sporting enthusiasts” of that time loved to bet on dog fights, bull fights, bear fights, etc. Some of them decided to mate two formidable breeds of dog, the Bull Dog and the Black and Tan Terrier (which is now extinct).  They wanted to combine the Bull Dog’s tenacity, courage and high threshold of pain, with the terrier’s lightening speed, agility and unsurpassed ratting (eg.,killing) instinct.  What resulted was an extremely rugged dog, well suited for pit fighting, which is still popular in parts of the world to this day.  It was not a pretty dog.  It had bowed legs, and its colors have been described as “smutty”.  It was called the Bull and Terrier dog.  On the other side of this not so pretty picture, is the fact that the dog had unfaltering devotion to its owner. Read more

Are Pitbulls Dangerous to children?

We all know that something comes to mind whenever “pit bull” is mentioned. More often than not, that something is negative. A large part of the reason why so many of us have negative thoughts about pit bulls despite never having had a bad experience due to one is because of the media. This is why many of us tend to think of pit bulls as particularly aggressive dogs which has actually fueled a drive in some parts of the country to ban the breed altogether. Read more

Pitbull Exercises: The Flirt Pole

Now that we have stressed the importance of exercising your pitbull to not only build good muscle tone, but over all it is what pitbulls like to do and they need it. Pitbulls are a working dog and they love to work. Most pitbull owners that train, work, or give there pitbulls exercise, know that this breed loves to please. Most of the time you will get tired before they do and their the ones that are actively in motion.

I would like to introduce to you the Flirt Pole: Read more

How to Make a Pitbull Gain Muscle Mass

Here is a topic that views have been asking more of. I would like to first start off by saying pitbulls will gain muscle mass with little effort on your part as the owner. Its in there genes. Pitbulls are naturally muscular dogs. When we get into this topic we have to also recognize the fact that not all pitbulls are the same.

Breeders have really taken pitbulls to another level in areas of appearance. Of course we all know of the bully breed. It is simply a hybrid pitbull crossed with who knows what. I pretty much have a good clue on what breeders are crossing pitbulls with to get an appearance of a larger, more muscular dog (I will get into the topic of hybrid pitbulls at a later date). So recognize the fact that the original American Pitbull and the Bully style pitbull will have a very noticeable difference in muscle mass depending on how the dog was crossed. Some Bully style pitbulls are really sloppy looking with large amounts of skin folds that don’t come from the genes of pitbulls but other dogs. I have noting against the Bully style pitbull, I actually think that some breeders are doing a really good job. It’s really up to the buyers preference.

How to Make a Pitbull Gain Muscle Mass: Read more

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