Building muscles on your lurchers

[woodys mum 5]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best diest and excercise to build up muscles gradually on a young dog?

My pup is 8 months old, and we have attented a few shows in the past couple of months, entering her into the under 6 month puppy section, and when she went past 6 momths the overs, the thing that struck me the most in both catergories was the size of muscles on all the dogs competing even in the under 6 months they had fair size muscles in the back halfs, makin my pup look very puny,at first I did think some peeps might have been cheating and entering older dogs, but they were too many of them I think to be that.

I walk my pup an average of a hour a day off the lead letting her run and let of steam, and sometimes of an evening will road walk her on a lead, I like to know what Im doing wrong, to not get the specimens i have seen in the ring,and was told by a reliable source I shouldnt be overexercising them any way before year old.

can any one enlighten me pls where Im going wrong.

 

Woodys Mum

[Ferretryan 74]

Don't worry about there dogs so long as he's healthy wormed and happy that's all that matters. He doesn't need loads of muscule at that age u ain't working him and loads of muscule on a running dog ain't always a good thing

[rob190364 2,594]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best diest and excercise to build up muscles gradually on a young dog?

My pup is 8 months old, and we have attented a few shows in the past couple of months, entering her into the under 6 month puppy section, and when she went past 6 momths the overs, the thing that struck me the most in both catergories was the size of muscles on all the dogs competing even in the under 6 months they had fair size muscles in the back halfs, makin my pup look very puny,at first I did think some peeps might have been cheating and entering older dogs, but they were too many of them I think to be that.

I walk my pup an average of a hour a day off the lead letting her run and let of steam, and sometimes of an evening will road walk her on a lead, I like to know what Im doing wrong, to not get the specimens i have seen in the ring,and was told by a reliable source I shouldnt be overexercising them any way before year old.

can any one enlighten me pls where Im going wrong.

 

Woodys Mum

different dogs develop at different rates, my lurcher still looked like a scrawny puppy at 12 months and yet I've seen a picture of her sire at 11 months and he was very well muscled. What are you feeding her on?

 

I wouldn't worry about it, definitely too young to be doing any proper exercise....just let her be a puppy, you wouldn't be worrying about your sons muscle mass at the age of 12 or 13 would you!

[Runningdogs3 59]

They all develop at different rates. My male Saluki was almost two before he looked anything like a decent dog but my bitch was well muscled at 12-14 months. At 8 months your pup is very likely in the adolescent scrawny gangly stage and there will be very little you can do to improve till it is passed. A little more road work could possibly help as long as you don't over do it and steady walking up hills is great for toning hindquarters but again don't over do it. Aim for a happy healthy well balanced pup rather than the best looking miserable one.

[bracken boy 584]

frank bruno had muscles but it didnt stop him hitting the canvas everytime he got a tap, healthy, fit and keen,

[savvy 8]

what people do too win rossetes.

[iceman001979 1,316]

Play play and more play simple as that

[littlefish 585]

What breeding is in your pup? Perhaps it is genetically destined to be lightly made up - or perhaps from breeds that naturally take longer to mature into themselves. I wouldn't worry about it as long as the pup is healthy.

[minshaw man 111]

Hi, can anyone tell me the best diest and excercise to build up muscles gradually on a young dog?

My pup is 8 months old, and we have attented a few shows in the past couple of months, entering her into the under 6 month puppy section, and when she went past 6 momths the overs, the thing that struck me the most in both catergories was the size of muscles on all the dogs competing even in the under 6 months they had fair size muscles in the back halfs, makin my pup look very puny,at first I did think some peeps might have been cheating and entering older dogs, but they were too many of them I think to be that.

I walk my pup an average of a hour a day off the lead letting her run and let of steam, and sometimes of an evening will road walk her on a lead, I like to know what Im doing wrong, to not get the specimens i have seen in the ring,and was told by a reliable source I shouldnt be overexercising them any way before year old.

can any one enlighten me pls where Im going wrong.

 

Woodys Mum

plenty of faty food

[vixen 528]

Don't worry about there dogs so long as he's healthy wormed and happy that's all that matters. He doesn't need loads of muscule at that age u ain't working him and loads of muscule on a running dog ain't always a good thing

 

Totally agree with this, a dog doesn't need to have loads of muscle to be fit and healthy

[graham4877 1,181]

Its the last thng you want on a pup, the bones need to grow before anything!

[Mixed Bag 603]

forget about shows and work your dog the muscles will come with work not parading around a ring

[Carraghs Gem 1,675]

my pup muscled up at 7/8mths onwards and hes saluki/grey

I was not expecting it! He has plenty of exercise and is fed on gain puppy&salpling with barf

He still regularly goes through gangly stages but they tend to be growth spurts

[d lurcher 25]

forget about shows and work your dog the muscles will come with work not parading around a ring

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