Could animal
vaccinations be poisoning pets?
Newscast on
vaccines!
http://www.local10.com/news/could-animal-vaccinations-be-poisoning-pets/24928510
Organic Pet
Food: How Big a Deal? 10 Useful Thoughts
http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/organic-pet-food-how-big-a-deal-10-useful-thoughts/?inf_contact_key=a69cf82eeda890ca7780e6d0f2843a34358e0d0daa4815d8cfdf1eb4cf605f17
Pet
Food Company Blue Buffalo Hires Banks for IPO That Could Value Company Above $2
Billion -FT
We feel if you can buy food
at a big box store ( Petco/Petsmart) a feed store, grocery store, or worse,
Walmart, don’t. Use your local pet food
and supply independent stores, who really know their food.
A whopping 40% of dogs are
obese. Forty-six percent of dogs and 39% of cats now
die of cancer. Heart, kidney and liver disease are epidemic. Like people, dogs
are what they eat. Save your dog a lot of suffering, and save yourself a
fortune in vet bills, by learning the truth about your dog’s
diet. Here are 10 important things you may not know about what your dog is
eating... read more:http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/dog-food-ten-scary-truths/
Photo: Australian War Memorial collection / Foter
Photo: Australian War Memorial collection / Foter
China Free Dog Food?
Don’t Count on it!
Heart Worm
A must read case report: Heartworm
Cured Without Drugs (or Guilt)...read more: http://vitalanimal.com/heartworm-cured/
Foot Massage for Fido?
Common
Purse & Pocket Items That Can Poison Your Dog
http://dogingtonpost.com/common-purse-pocket-items-that-can-poison-your-dog/#.UyOMx_ldUSN
Joint
Support Dog Food? A must read.
If you are feeding a joint support food, this article is a must-read: http://wp.me/p1CvaB-2S3
Purina answers
questions/ Global Pet Show (or not!)
http://truthaboutpetfood.com/purina-answers-from-global-pet-show
Coconut Oil and how to serve
Many of us are wondering how to keep this stuff in the fridge and then again, how to get it out of the jar! Had a brainstorm and it works. We let it soften, put in ice cube trays sized to the appropriate serving for our small dogs. For larger dogs, increase the cube size. It some out hard, then we transfer it to a container for serving size morsels. ( we found a so many sizes to choose from on amazon.
Hope this newsletter finds you all well. In spite of a computer crash we were able to reconstruct most of it.
Ken and Lona Holm
Inland Small Dog Rescue
www.facebook.com/InlandSmallDogRescueAnd our latest rant!
Search term (Chihuahua) 17,816 Dogs listed on Petfinder.
This is going to be a long tedious posting. We have two Chihuahua’s in rescue right now. Both are young, pretty and healthy dogs. One has been with us since October.
We, as most rescues require an application, home check, and fenced yard. Our rescue requires a bit more that that, such as contractual good nutrition.
No, we are not one of the places you can run in, fill out a little form and pay for a dog and take it. The dog and your family MUST fit.
Problem 1.
Which brings me around and around the Mulberry bush. In the past two months, a couple of the shelters in our area have pretty much been giving animals away. Dogs, 25, cats less, again, no checking where they go, and that frightens me. Not only does this practice NOT help rescues, whose fees can range from 40 to 300 or more. Ours range from 75 to 125. And for that money you get a dog that has been eating quality food, living in a home, getting some training and being readied to be a wonderful pet and companion. Now ask yourself this question. If John Q public, who doesn’t get the rescue concept, wants a dog or cat, and can get a shelter animal for 25 or a rescue for 100, which will it be? So, in the meantime while we empty the shelters (which is not a bad thing if the dogs go to great homes) the rescues sit full.
Problem 2.
Chihuahuas and small dogs are being imported to the Spokane are for adoption, again, two of the shelters do this. While I fully appreciate the work the shelters and their staff do, this DOES interfere with the adoption of local animals. Assuming the adoptions of these small dogs, again, with no home checks, brings in some revenue that must be down with the failing economy.
We have small dogs in our own communities that need homes, yes, and even small ones!
While I feel for the dogs that are brought in from areas that “ get” adopting, even less than our area, it does create problems for our local dogs.
My wish is that all rescues and shelters did home checks, made sure the dogs taken out were not going to be fed CRAP food, and would live inside, be loved, cared for and in a fenced yard, and the people adopting them had the financial means to care for this animal.
Without the shelters, we would all be seeing worse conditions for these animals as the need for rescues grows, these needs are not being filled, and the shelters are a stopgap for these animals.
Please do NOT adopt from anywhere, if you can’t provide a safe, loving environment, and care for your animal, as it if were your child. At the same time please do not adopt if you have any reason to believe you cannot afford to care for this animal, or won’t outlive it. That is what our rescue calls “Age Appropriate Adoptions.”
If you read this and are from a shelter, we appreciate the work you are doing. If you are from a shelter that imports, please, no nasty emails. (yes, it happened once.)
The main problems seems to be, in our area at least, the number of quality adopters, does not equal the needs of the animals needing to be rehomed. I’m sure we can all agree on that.
Want to adopt a Chihuahua? Look to a rescue first please. We are wondering about the wisdom of bringing more of this breed in, given the difficulty of competing with imported dogs.
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