Re: What does having to make these same two hue/saturation adjustments mean?

Along with recovering the weak Blue channel you're trying to get more detail in highlight areas (light colored hair). The best way to do this is with the LR Tone Curve, but you can also modify your CCPP profile using the Adobe DNG Editor. X-Rite's ColorChecker PP plugin uses a tone curve that has higher contrast than the Adobe Camera Raw Default. You can download the Adobe DNG Editor and a tutorial here:

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/thankyou.jsp?ftpID=5494&fileID= 5490

http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/photoshop/pdfs/cs6/ DNGProfile_EditorDocumentation.pdf

Follow the directions (not too hard actually) and create a new camera profile using one of your standard  CCPP raw Images, and save it with an identifiable name (CCPP_AdobeDNG) to the Windows default location:

C:\Users\NAME\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\CameraRaw\CameraProfiles

Next while still in the DNG Profile Editor go to the Color Tables tab > Base Profile and select 'Choose External Profile' from here:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3\Resources\CameraProfiles

Find your camera model and select 'Camera Faithful' or Camera Neutral,' both use the same lower contrast tone curve. Save to the same location as the first profile and give it a unique name (CCPP_AdobeDNG_Neutral). Here's what the Adobe Camera Raw Default (Top) and Camera Neutral (Bottom) tone curves look like:

This will give you CCPP profiles with three tonal levels – X-Rite's, Adobe Standard & Camera Neutral, in order of decreasing contrast. The custom CCPP profile with Camera Neutral tone curve applied should give you the best results for highlight detail. You will  have to readjust the White Balance of the Adobe DNG Editor created camera profiles. I suggest creating a Develop Preset for each custom profile with only White Balance & Calibration boxes checked. This will allow you to switch between profiles very quickly for review, and have the correct white balance settings applied for each camera profile.

Opposing Saturation and Vibrance controls used with the custom CCPP_AdobeDNG_Neutral camera profile should help you produce accurate images for your dog photography. For other usage such as landscapes it may not be so good.