coats for running dogs

[NickF 50]

My 10 month bitch is getting farking cold when out for a stroll, anyone have any recommendation on coats for her?

[mattyg 1,862]

a nice parka.....lol, theres plenty on fleabay to suit all mate.

matt

[GrCh 856]

coats for dogs??? Heard it all now.

[Rake aboot 4,936]

Theres a snide stone island jacket on here just now,,, ideal

[rob190364 2,594]

My 10 month bitch is getting farking cold when out for a stroll, anyone have any recommendation on coats for her?

yep....fur

[GrCh 856]

Theres a snide stone island jacket on here just now,,, ideal

 

f**k off

 

100% genuine, check the art number.

[nicola1804 114]

My bitch has to wear a coat in the winter she gets very cold and hates getting wet. Masta dog coats are nice and warm with fleecy lining

[stabba 10,745]

Nothing wrong with rugging them up whilst in kennels but whilst out hunting/mooching then i,d have to say no...atb stabba

[skycat 6,174]

If just road walking a dog on the lead then why not use a coat. Dogs keep warm running about, but at walking speed if the weather is bad then there's nothing wrong with using a coat on a thin skinned, short coated dog, especially if its raining. Cold muscles don't exercise as well as warm muscles and what's the point of letting a dog get chilled and wet.

[paulus 26]

dogs already got a coat why would it want 2

[Moll. 1,793]

If just road walking a dog on the lead then why not use a coat. Dogs keep warm running about, but at walking speed if the weather is bad then there's nothing wrong with using a coat on a thin skinned, short coated dog, especially if its raining. Cold muscles don't exercise as well as warm muscles and what's the point of letting a dog get chilled and wet.

 

I agree. Mine never wear coats now because they are never on a lead. But when i used to live in a town they would be coated for 'on lead' walks in this foul weather. Some of you ridiculing people for coating dogs may not have the severe winters some of the rest of the country have

[johnny boy68 11,726]

These are my fave's.........this winters must have.

[paulus 26]

If just road walking a dog on the lead then why not use a coat. Dogs keep warm running about, but at walking speed if the weather is bad then there's nothing wrong with using a coat on a thin skinned, short coated dog, especially if its raining. Cold muscles don't exercise as well as warm muscles and what's the point of letting a dog get chilled and wet.

 

I agree. Mine never wear coats now because they are never on a lead. But when i used to live in a town they would be coated for 'on lead' walks in this foul weather. Some of you ridiculing people for coating dogs may not have the severe winters some of the rest of the country have

well hit did hit -20 last winter so id say we have the same weather mine dont need a coat due to the fact theyve molted into their winter coat properly something that doesnt happen in heated kennels/ houses. i understand them for whippit/greyhounds as they have a piss poor coat but a lurcher is ment to be a working dog and as such its coat should be fit for the job.

[boyo 1,398]

go on the greyhound pet suppliers loads of kennel and walking out coats on there nothing wrong in rugging your dog up in the coldest of weather in the kennel or when waiting around for a run on the longears ..if your mooching about and your dog is running round then even the brain dead know you dont need one then . i bet mine are glad ime not a macho enough owner to think they dont like being kept warm and comfortable while waiting for a run lol.

[skycat 6,174]

When I used to course competitively we would spend the entire daylight hours walking, with each dog given its turn to run. 7 or 8 hours is a long time for a thin skinned dog to be out just walking, not running hard, with no protection from the elements.

 

When you think that most Saluki types don't have thick waterproof coats, those dogs would spend maybe 4-5 minutes maximum off the lead and running their hare. So a dog ran for a few minutes, and then probably spent the next hour or so walking on the lead, in mid winter, through rain, freezing wind etc on the fens, before it ran again.

 

Any athlete will tell you that to perform efficiently, muscles must be warm. Cold muscles not only work less well, but are far more prone to injury. When the club I was with first started out most of the dogs were more the all rounder sort, not the fine tuned Ferraris of the coursing field we have become used to nowadays. As more and more Saluki types hit the fields, you could really see how these dogs suffered when run 'cold'. Gradually, over the years, more and more hardened coursing men brought out coats to rug their dogs up between runs. Even the so called hard men, those to whom a dog is just a dog, began to realise that their dogs ran better if they weren't chilled to the bone!

 

Rugging up between runs not only keeps the muscles warm, but means the dog doesn't lose a lot of condition and energy trying to keep warm.

 

Of course rugging up out lamping is hardly practical! LOL But for dogs which are walked a lot in bad weather, as I said before, its a good way to stave off chills and retain good body heat. Say you have to walk for an hour to get to your lamping ground, through sleet, rain or in bitter cold: I would have thought it would make good sense to keep a smooth coated dog warm and dry before running it.