Overcoming Fears Associated with Raw Feeding
A few summers ago I had the opportunity to consult with several local dog owners about the proper way to feed their pets. Most of …
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Remembering Shadrach
Remembering Shadrach…it was two years ago today that we bid Shadrach farewell until we meet again in eternity. He was a few months shy of his twelfth birthday – or what we celebrated as his twelfth since we didn’t know his exact birth date.
Pet Food Recalls, Safety and Health
The 2007 Pet Food Recalls were a huge wake-up call for many pet owners…at least for a while anyway. May people simply fell back into …
Meet King
Meet King! He will come to live with us this coming Saturday!!! He doesn’t look much like a Great Dane or Neo Mastiff does he? LOL, well that’s because he obviously isn’t either one. I’m going to sidetrack a bit so you will know just how VERY special this little “big” boy is!
Is Traditional Flea-Tick Control Your Only Option?
Spring is just around the corner; new life abounds which also means fleas and ticks. Modern dog owners seem to live in constant dread of …
Exercise is Not Optional
In the last week my husband Donnie and I began walking our neighbor’s little nine month old puppy, Stella (pictured here in the photo), a …
Dogs Are Adaptive Not Omnivores
There is also no definitive proof dogs have evolved from the wolf and have possibly always been dogs all along. Yes, That does not mean to say dogs are not carnivores. They are in FACT carnivores. This “study” doesn’t prove otherwise by any stretch of the imagination, funded or not. In FACT dogs DNA is so close to the wolf as to be nearly indiscernible by even the trained expert. But that isn’t what this argument is really about at all.
Over Vaccination IS the problem (Part Two)
My friend had done her research, not only on raw feeding and vaccination but also on the breeder she had the dog from. It turns out that three or four other dogs from the same dam and different litters had succumbed to the same fate. This suggests a genetic predisposition to the problem and as we all know, if the dog had been vaccinated annually and fed McKibble then it probably wouldn’t have lived this long.