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While the initial dogs were undoubtedly kept as companions , it probably did not take long to realize the working value of this newly-made friend. Even before the history of dogs was recorded , these pets were helping man for a diversity of purposes , mainly to hunt for food. In those days , notwithstanding , hunting was not a sport , but serious tough work.

Today the dog calm helps man in his quest for food , but the nature of the job has taken on a unalike conformation. The dog calm helps man to hunt , but for a unalike reason. Whatever the inducement or nature of the job , the performance of work always requires time expenditure of power. As a moment , every working dog's indispensable dietary penury is increased power. Whenever dietary power is increased , those B-complex vitamins , minerals , and the water essential for burning the power need to similarly be increased.

Except for this increased penury for power and the nutrients to singe it , working dogs require most nutrients at no greater levels than non-working dogs. When working dogs gulp colossal quantities of general maintenance dog foods to acquire all of the power they penury , they oftentimes consume many of the nutrients in excessive amounts. Paradoxically , they can similarly gulp such colossal quantities that the digestibility of all the nutrients in their diet are adversely affected and many nutrients can in reality be obtained in inadequate amounts.

In other cases , a working dog seemingly cannot , physically , gulp all of a food needed to grant its power needs. In these instances the dog suffers from the lack of total digestible power , and loses weight. If the condition is allowed to continue , the dog volition diminish its activities in direct to diminish its caloric demands. If the dog is forced to continue working at the same walk , it volition lose weight faster and laster , and eventually work itself to demise.

Herd Dogs are the most general working dogs that are fed in the United States. Herd Dogs are dogs that wattle or guard animals implement the least amount of extra power of whatever of the working dogs. They seldom are required to disburse power in excess of normal activity for whatever duration of time. Even their short-term expenditures of power are not very colossal. The seemingly time school dogs ever implement colossal amounts of power are when they are rounding up strays , missing or semi-wild animals running at colossal.