Fox Collectors

The labs are starting to wear down like there owner. Tough life on the leather couch!

Craig,

You need a big stone fireplace and hearth to warm these girls, like that great picture of those four Setters in George Bird Evans book.

Dave

Sorta like this?

Craig My yellow lab Bailey knows how they feel.

Those dogs ( and owners) need ribose. It is a unique sugar that stops lactic acid build up after strenuous excercise. Endurance atheletes use it. I couldn't believe the fast recovery time it made on my dog, expecially when she got older. At the age of thirteen, she hunted two consecutive days, five hours each. I have to admit, that did get to her though. At fourteen, she could hunt 3-4 hrs a day. Had to put her down this year after her fifteenth; intestinal virus.
Every season, after the first couple of hunts, my groin muscles would get sore. No more after ribose.
I said it is a unique sugar in that it can acutally make blood sugar go down. The heart draws extra energy from it also by converting carbohydrates. As a heart patient, I use it everyday. It is something your body also naturally has, so it's not a foreign substance.