How To keep From Wasting Food On Your Guard Dog

Most guard dogs that serve in the military as well as civilian occupations have one thing in common: their extreme level of training. Guard dogs can serve from anything including sentry duty, to warehouse security and many other similar jobs, such as shore patrol, and riot control.

A guard dog is well trained and taught to keep at its maximum performance during its shift. This can usually be for long periods of time and requires a lot of energy use. A guard dog that is under extreme stress requires huge amounts of energy to handle the emotional stress from its duty. Due to this lifestyle, guard dogs use more energy than most other dogs, and require a more energy producing diet.

Most dry foods contain 1,500 to 1,600 calories per pound, but due to a guard dog's high-energy consumption, this isn't enough caloric density to give a guard dog all the energy it requires. Guard dogs are generally fed only once per day, either three hours before their shift, or three hours after the shift, and require greater quantities to satisfy their energy needs.

To adequately provide a guard dog with the correct amount of energy it requires, you must feed him a diet that is more concentrated, this type of diet should contain a huge amount of energy, and it should contain all the nutrients, which are balanced to increase the caloric density.

One of the main complaints of guard dogs that work in buildings or malls during the night is the amount of stool they produce. It usually creates a mess, which needs to be cleaned up, and the smell it puts off usually last for several hours after it has been cleaned up, this causes problems for both the customers and the employers having to smell this odor, especially while they are eating breakfast or having their morning coffee.

This can't be avoided, it's not the guard dogs fault it is just doing its job.

But there are ways of reducing this stool problem as much as possible; you can feed the guard dog a food containing huge amounts of energy, with the minimum quantity of dry matter as possible. Upping the digestibility of the ingredients added to the food can do this. When this is done, the food can be digested easier and more will be absorbed and used for energy, and only a small portion will become stool.

This will also aide in the smell of the stool because the digestibility of the proteins and carbohydrates is greatly improved. This will make for a happier work place, if you don't believe me just ask your employees after about a week.