FTBT Lesson 1: Why Fitness Matters to You, Your Dogs and Bitches, and Your Puppies
The effects fitness has on our stud dogs and brood bitches
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Welcome to Fit To Be Tied!
We are so glad you are here! Fit To Be Tied is an all-inclusive health and fitness program to enable breeding dogs to live their best life. Fit To Be Tied shows you step by step how to exercise your dog safely throughout the breeding cycle.
Fitness is a state of physiological well-being that is achieved through a combination of a good diet, regular physical exercise, and other practices that promote good health and optimal reproduction.
In this lesson, we discuss the effects fitness has on our stud dogs and brood bitches, including fertility and breeding success, as well as our puppies, especially in terms of puppy viability and lifetime health and temperament.
In this lesson:
How Does Fitness Specifically Affect Bitches and Dogs
In the Introduction to Breeding Stock Conditioning video, we discuss the specific ways that fitness affects bitches and dogs.
Intro to Breeding Stock Conditioning Video Timestamps
- 00:17 What is Fitness?
- 1:35 Benefits of Fitness on Bitches
- 2:45 Benefits of Fitness on Stud Dogs
- 3:03 Why is it Hard to Keep Our Breeding Dogs Fit
- 4:37 Fitness Goals for Our Bitches
- 5:03 Specific Fitness Requirements for Bitches
- 5:27 Better Outcomes for Fit Bitches
- 5:36 Fitness Goals for Our Stud Dogs
- 5:52 Specific Fitness Requirements for Dogs
- 6:21 Better Outcomes for Fit Males
- 6:32 Summary
Reducing Physical Costs of Breeding
There are no negative long-term consequences of breeding for either male or female dogs but there are some short-term costs. In this video we discuss the costs our dogs are likely to pay for being bred and how we can limit the effects of those costs through fitness and conditioning.
Reducing the Physical Costs of Breeding Video Timestamps
- 00:12 What is Fitness?
- 1:03 What Are the Costs to Our Breeding Dogs?
- 1:54 Deconditioning
- 2:45 Nutrition Issues
- 5:07 Increasing the Plane of Nutrition
- 7:27 Sleep Deprivation
- 8:12 Stress
- 9:04 Relationship Between Condition and Costs to Breeding
- 9:40 Summary
Fit To Be Tied Lessons
- Lesson 1: Why Fitness Matters to You, Your Dogs and Bitches, and Your Puppies
- Lesson 2: Exercise Changes Throughout the Breeding Process
- Lesson 3: What Stage is Your Dog In?
- Lesson 4: Before & While Breeding Your Dog (3 months prior through breeding)
- Lesson 5: First Trimester (Ovulation - Day 21)
- Lesson 6: Second Trimester (Day 22 - Day 42)
- Lesson 7: Third Trimester (Day 43 - Birth)
- Lesson 8: Early Lactation (Birth to 21 Days)
- Lesson 9: Late Lactation (Days 22 - 49)
- Lesson 10: Weaning (Days 49 - Pups Are Fully Weaned)
- Lesson 11: Recovery (After Pups Are Fully Weaned)
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