By Dr.Jeannie on Aug 5, 2008 in Dog Breeders Corner, Dog News The Latest Poop | 0 Comments
Responsible Breeding vs. Irresponsible Breeding
I am still amazed how many emails I get from people who have bought puppies from a newspaper ad or worse yet a pet store! The general public don’t seem to be aware of the difference between buying a puppy from a Responsible Breeder or an Irresponsible one.
In a nutshell, responsible breeders promote and protect their chosen breed through careful breeding practices. Backyard breeders or Puppy mills damage the breed through overbreeding, mass production, and breeding genetic abnormalities.
I found an excellent and easy to read chart with a comparion. Just click HERE (http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Fair/1901/chart.html )
Also from this website… Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 29, 2008 in Dog Health - Immune System, Dog Breeders Corner, Doggie Dangerous Drugs & Chemicals | 0 Comments
Heredity & Environment What Role Does Nutrition Play?
Are many of our dog problems today due to their environment or to poor heredity and what role does nutrition play? Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 24, 2008 in Dog Heart Health, Herbal Health For Dogs | 0 Comments
Hawthorne is a spiny shrub that has been traditionally used as a heart tonic in European herbal medicine. The primary active ingredients, the proanthocyanidins, are responsible for the red-to-blue color of many fruits, such as blueberries, grapes, and blackberries. The proanthocyanidins, and a related group of ingredients, the anthocyanidins, are known as potent antioxidants and for their protective effects on the heart and arteries.
The herbal medicine is made from an extract of the proanthocyanidin-rich leaves or berries blossoms of two primary species (Crataegus oxycantha and Crataegus monogyna). Other hawthorne species (Crataegus spp.) have long been used in both European herbal medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine due to their similar effects. Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 19, 2008 in Dog News The Latest Poop, Dog Nutrition, Dogs Aging Gracefully | 0 Comments
Bella with owners David Richardson and Daisy Cooper
At 203 in doggie years, is Bella the mongrel the world’s oldest dog ever? That is about 29 years old in human years and my guess after reading this is that she has lived so long due in part to her diet!
“ And with most of her teeth missing, she can no longer manage to gnaw on the remnants of a leg of lamb. Bella has always had a good appetite and she only has the best. She has only got two teeth left so she can only have soft stuff now. So she has shredded chicken and fish and sometimes, boiled liver and best tinned stewing steak, mackerel and sardines.” Hmmm, what, no kibble?
By Chris Brooke The Daily Mail
The joy of gnawing on a bone is a distant memory and these days the only walkies she can manage is a potter around the garden.
But that’s not bad going considering Bella the Labrador cross is around 29 years old. That’s 203 if every year of a dog’s life equals seven human years.
The faithful pet is believed to be the world’s oldest living dog and could even be the oldest dog ever. Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 12, 2008 in Doggie Dangerous Drugs & Chemicals, Featured | 3 Comments
Drugs have a long term detrimental affect to your dog’s health and longevity. Drugs collect in the liver and kidneys and shorten a dog’s lifespan. Drugs are merely a band aid to suppress the symptoms while the patient is bleeding to death! They just don’t work because they don’t get to the cause of the problem.
I posted this article originally in March of 2007 and there has been no removing of these drugs from the market nor have vets stopped prescribing and dispensing them (most of which do not go over the known side effects or risks involved in giving them to your dog!)
(NewsTarget) The FDA has released information concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pets — including Metacam, Deramaxx, Previcox and Rimadyl — that shows they have been connected to 22,000 cases of illness in dogs, almost 3,000 of which were fatal. Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 6, 2008 in Dog Health - Immune System, Dog Breeders Corner, Dog Heart Health, Dog Nutrition, Doggone Home & Garden Stuff, Essential Healing Helps | 1 Comment
Apple Cider Vinegar
Apple cider is known around the world as Mother Nature’s miracle medicine, a powerful weapon in the war against aging and disease that is more effective than many high-priced prescription drugs. When God created this fruit He designed it be a food and a medicine!
Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is golden liquid concentrated with the healthy goodness of apples. It contains more than 30 important nutrients, 12 minerals, over 6 vitamins, essential acids and several enzymes. Moreover, it has a large dose of pectin for a healthy heart, and thus, healthy as a whole.
Many vitamins, minerals and other nutrients and substances are available in ACV to improve the health of your dog. ACV can provide them with enzymes and important minerals, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jul 1, 2008 in Dog Breeders Corner, Dog Laws Important, Dog News The Latest Poop, Featured | 0 Comments
I hope you all have enjoyed this series of articles as much as I have! Here is the conclusion.
Come To The Edge part 3 The Conclusion
© Written by Dr. Kim Bloomer
Edited by Dr. Bera Dordoni
re-printed with permission:
“Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew.” -Guillaume ApollinaireIn conclusion of our journey of animal care, laws, welfare and rights…
Possibly all the people pushing for these new hard-core draconian laws really believe it will make things better for the animals. I tend to think that many believe this but at the core of the movement behind these laws are those who believe that animals should be living separately from us in order to allow animals to have “real” lives. Some even believe that, for animals to live with us, work with us, play with us and/or help us is for them to be enslaved, and they are better off dead than enslaved. I honestly don’t think my dog thinks he’s the slave in our house. He has it pretty good, especially considering that before he came to live with us he had been a very abused, starved and neglected puppy. He hasn’t missed a meal since he came to live with us and he is rather demanding that his meals be on time! We bathe him, brush him, do his nail trims, minister to him when he’s ill, pay for his food (he is fed a species natural diet) and all his expenses which include the best nature can offer to an ailing animal, get up at ungodly hours so he can cavort with his dog friends at the park, and play with him. I think the “enslaved” part of this thinking is grossly misplaced. And I don’t think he’d rather be dead in place of the life he now leads even though he previously led a life of abuse and neglect.
Possibly people want to see the end to the horrific abuse we thrust upon animals in the name of both economics and protection. Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jun 29, 2008 in Dog Breeders Corner, Dog News The Latest Poop | 0 Comments
Changing The Concept Of Canine Hip Dysplasia
by Dr. Wendell O. Belfield
I am excited to share this very interesting information with you on Hip Dysplasia and how it may be able to be prevented naturally!!
It may interest breeders and fanciers of the larger breeds of dogs, the winds of time are changing the concept of canine hip dysplasia (CHD). In the May, 1997 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, were two papers discussing a new outlook on CHD. Read the rest
By Dr.Jeannie on Jun 29, 2008 in Dog News The Latest Poop, Doggie Dangerous Drugs & Chemicals | 0 Comments
COMFORTIS® and ivermectin interaction Safety Warning Notification
Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) is announcing that it has received reports of adverse reactions in dogs receiving the drug Comfortis® (spinosad) concurrently with high, extra-label doses of the drug ivermectin. The clinical signs of these adverse reactions are consistent with ivermectin toxicity.
Comfortis® (spinosad), manufactured by Elanco Animal Health, a division of Eli Lilly and Company, is a monthly oral, chewable tablet used for the prevention and treatment of flea infestations on dogs. Veterinarians who use high, extra-label doses of ivermectin to treat dogs with non-responsive demodectic mange and other conditions should be aware that some dogs have developed signs of ivermectin toxicity when ivermectin is used concurrently with Comfortis® (spinosad).
CVM and Elanco Animal Health are advising veterinarians that dogs receiving extra-label doses of ivermectin should not receive concurrent treatment with Comfortis® (spinosad).
CVM is working with Elanco Animal Health as they address this issue. Additional information regarding this safety warning can be obtained on the Elanco Animal Health website.
Lilly Companion Animal Health Technical Bulletin: Spinosad and the Extra-Label Use of High Dose Ivermectin for the Treatment of Generalized Demodicosis in Dogs - http://elms.xh1.lilly.com/10788_03_tech_Bulletin.pdf
