Best Health For A Racing Whippet?

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Looking to get my dogs into racing soon and looking for some advice on where to start? :wacko:

I feed Redmills tracker and sometimes change for Eukanuba, My dog walk about 1 mile a day and run through woods for about another 1 mile. (w00t)

 

[IanGerman]

If you ask 50 people you will get 50 different replies :teehee:

Mine walk nowhere, because I can walk nowhere! 30 -60 mins on a treadmill at 5kph seems ok for Frankie around 3-5 times a week depending on whether or not he has raced or will be soon.

When I started in racing 20 odd years ago I used to feed Wafcol, after a few years however I got worried that it was too protein intensive, leading to hair loss which I didn't like. I then changed to a lower protein complete meal like Wellbeloved or Chudleys. Years later and I now feed Butchers Tripe with a mixer - it stinks but they love it - and a complete meal is always down for ad lib feeding.

The ad lib feeding has done ok with Lisa and Frankie but I now have a puppy who thinks he is a one-dog Hoover and once his weight reaches critical mass I might have to re-think the ad lib bit

 

[haycroft]

cant advice that much as i only go racing now and again , but i enjoy coursing so do that more than the racing

i feed my whippet redmills tracker with meat/raw(if and when i can get raw) or just the racer..she get fed twice aday, but never ad lib, she'l be a balloon otherwise

as for eexercise, it varies, as i have a young family and juggling work and school runs,my whippy have a mixture of free running,road walking or even run beside the bike, but she loves to mooch around in fields and of course chasing the tennis ball or anything that moves