Quote Originally Posted by DUKE_CITY View Post
we do hydrate threw the whole keep. we use 1oz of water for every pound of body weight. the last week the water gets substituted with pedialyte.

with the use of rf1, oils, raw feed and Pedialyte our dogs are ready to be dried out.

the dex not only dries us out properly but it is a anti-inflammatory. so our lips are like leather. (less fang calls) and our head & nose won't swell do to the pig trying to pull us out. my biggest fear is a good nose hog. I breed for great mouth so keeping the swelling down around the nose and the eyes are big concerns. dex makes me sleep easy the night before. lol

being so dry and not swelled it makes it so much easier to find a vein during the aftercare.

the good with Dex outweighs the bad.
If you're using the 1oz per pound method, you don't need pedialyte at all. You're simply adding something else basically for the sake of adding it.

You can strip off extra water by simply reducing the amount of water the dog gets. The dog's body will rid itself of the excess water and be how it needs to be.

You won't have fang calls unless you have something hanging around your mouth. It doesn't matter if you use dex or not in that case. Same can be said for a quality head/nose dog. No amount of dex is going to help with the damage those kinds of animals can inflict.

Being dry actually hinders IV access due to veins collapsing, rolling, etc due to not enough fluid volume. Not only that, but being dry also hurts the dog's body throughout it's performance, and if you go a long time, you stand a much greater chance of passing than otherwise.

NOW, all of my ideas/knowledge are strictly based on my idea of dry dogs and working in the medical field on people.