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Originally Posted by Michael Romanos
If you are into conformation showing you would build up your Corgi/s weight before an important show, and then tone down the Corgi/s bodies with vigorous exercising and other muscle promoting ploys such as hill work, pushing against their chests (or the slapping method) so that you build up muscles including those hams out of the extra fat. So muscular hams are to be commended.
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You can't make muscle out of fat.
Muscle tissue is different than fat tissue. What it sounds like Sassy is doing is building muscle tone and mass and reducing her body fat percentage.
Conformation dogs will have a higher body fat percentage than say agility dogs and yes they are conditioned - road work and treadmills being two of the more common ways in the States. Pushing against chests (or the slapping method) must be a NZ thing? The posternum either drops into a good depth of chest or it doesn't and front end assembly is definitely a factor in that. I don't understand how "slapping" a chest is going to change skeletal structure.
Debbie