drying out naturally

[Officially Retired]

A dog weighs in the same day as a show, it's completely different to martial arts.
In Thai boxing, mma and boxing you weigh in 24 hours before a fight, the idea of drying yourself out and sweat training is so you usually fight at a lighter natural weight because you have 24 hours to rehydrate, if your doing your cut through diet and not cutting water then the thing you face is the strong possibility of fighting a bigger man. I'm Thai boxing and mma this wasn't a huge deal as guys didn't really know much about cutting weight but in later years the mma guys have really caught on which is why you have huge guys at the weight. In boxing you just wouldn't have ever got away with it because the professional edge of the sport had the athletes way more advanced.
The reason you way in 24 hours in advance is for fighter safety around dehydration.

[sofkennels]

Yes and no. Where I'm at some shows we do weigh in 24 hours in advance but also have same day weigh ins only a couple hours before hand and same results. But I see what you're saying.

[Macker]

Obviously the same day weigh ins are in amateur competition?? Professional fighters always weigh in 24 hours in advance. I've been around the fight game most of my life and any true pro I know cuts a considerable amount of water weight before they weigh in.
Think we're getting off topic a bit lol.

[sofkennels]

Yes indeed lol. There are pro am shows we still do day of but either way I'd still like to know how that would work for the dogs. I'm curious if just purely controlling diet and not dehydrating at all will work as well in animals? Maybe I'll just give it a practice run to find out lol

[ragedog10]

We dont like to use dex in that manner of drying out! I can tell when someone lost their cool just because they were a pound over 12-24 hours out!
Dog looks to to dry!
For me i always have to play with their water as they loose lots of it just from work!
They weight is recored every 12hours and before and after work that way i know how much was water weight!
Then might add a cup or two with their feed along with clean water that is left with them for 10Hours and only taken away two hours before work!
I have seen likes of CH Rasco get #4 and pass because of being a pound over and dex till he went from looking like a action figure to looking like a bag of bones!
I say that to say if your going to dry with it master it first!

[Nut]

Yes indeed lol. There are pro am shows we still do day of but either way I'd still like to know how that would work for the dogs. I'm curious if just purely controlling diet and not dehydrating at all will work as well in animals? Maybe I'll just give it a practice run to find out lol

There is no winning dogman that dehydrates their dog for a show. Period

[gotap_d]

There is no winning dogman that dehydrates their dog for a show. Period

In fact there are plenty of winning dogmen that dry there dogs out. There are also a lot of variables that i believe need to be taken into consideration. For example everyones definition of drying out is not the same. Some people like to come in with a 1/2 to a 1 count and some people come in with a 3 count. Some people also give their dogs fluids after they weigh in. Is the dog completely hydrated after that probably not but he will be better off if it goes the long haul with some fluids back in him than no fluids in him imo.

[Officially Retired]

There is no winning dogman that dehydrates their dog for a show. Period

In fact there are plenty of winning dogmen that dry there dogs out. There are also a lot of variables that i believe need to be taken into consideration. For example everyones definition of drying out is not the same. Some people like to come in with a 1/2 to a 1 count and some people come in with a 3 count. Some people also give their dogs fluids after they weigh in. Is the dog completely hydrated after that probably not but he will be better off if it goes the long haul with some fluids back in him than no fluids in him imo.

There is indeed a confusion/muddling of words here ... DEHAYDRATE and "dry out" are not the same thing necessarily ...

[Nut]

Theres a difference in 2 count and being dehydrated. Is it my poor english or would you consider it's the same.

[arsuffi@att.net]

To set my dogs moister I have always used salt in their diet and always tried to bring them in as hydrated as possibie