Hydration - Page 2

Thanks everyone for the helpful hints. Im relatively new to the GSD world. I've had a few in my life but never have had a "working dog" until the past almost year. I have always shown and judged horse shows so the dog thing is out of my realm of things. Its actually amazing how much training a dog is similar to training a horse though! I had been cooling him off with water and putting him in the SUV with the air running in between sessions and its working but hes still drained. We use electrolytes on the horses..Does anyone have any opinions on using them on dogs?

Product called Go Dog, sports drink.  http://www.healthyplanetrx.com/Animal-Naturals-Go-Dog-Sports-Drink-p/an-go-dog.htm  I like to train very early in the morning to avoid the heat.  I wet the dogs underside it's like sweating

K9 GoDog........www.k9power.com, Ronin is correct you need to hydrate out from the activity, with GoDog you can beginf days ahead, night before, morning of and during the event.

Prior points are great, additionally I have a pressurized 2 gal. spray bottle dedicated to my dogs-the kind normally used to spray herbicide, found in garden section.  Use cool water-not ice water.  After work I spray legs where big vessels run & belly.  They enjoy it & I think recognize the cooling benefit.   I also will stand the front legs in a bucket of cool water while spraying.  They figure it out & cooperate.

I carry multi gallon insulated water cooler-you know, the orange ones.  I fill it with water & the ice from my ice maker.  By the time I get to the hot part of the day it's cool enough to dump in floor of crate. I take a crate out of the car & put cold water in it. 1 of my dogs won't lie in it, the other will. But this water quickly warms up.

Be aware how hot the solid crates get-so many of them are only ventilated toward the top so at the base where the dog lies there's less circulation.  It's vital to have fan & ventilate the rear of the crate.  I've used  my drill with attachment to make holes to ventilate older plastic crates more.  Router would work too.

Has anybody had experience with CPN's Power Boost??  http://www.k9performance.com/pages/powerboost.html