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>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) News From Phoenix Rising – Report From the OFFER 2010 Conference
Interesting info on these two sites
>Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) News From Phoenix
Dog Training and puppy socialization made easy and reliable.
Increasing numbers of dogs and cats are abandoned every year in the USA due to behavior problems. 80% of shelter population are there because the prior owner gives up their pet because of a behavior related issues.
I strongly recommend:
1. Spend alot of time selecting your next pet. Most pets are purchased as a spur of the moment decision. More than 90% of animals are chosen based on appearance, not personality. To be real about our life choices we pet lovers must admit we spend less time selecting this living, feeling and active new being, than picking out a pair of Jeans. We carefully research our cars, homes, appliances, TVs and our lifemates in the hopes of finding a good match for our needs and expectations. Do not the pets, who will be living in our homes and sharing a place in our hearts also merit careful choosing.
Check out this website’s free ebook:
” Before you get your puppy” at www.dogstardaily.com
2. Teach your new pet the rules and manners necessary to live happily in the world of people. Remember that in the eyes of a puppy or kitten, humans are strange!! We make constant mysterious noises (our language & tendency to talk to one another). Dogs and cats vocalize for sure, however much more of their communication occurs through combinations of body language, scent and context. Even the slight tilt of an ear,or change in pupil size has meaning in dog-land. Vocalizations often convey more exuberant, fun or urgent messages and are a few sounds, not strings of different words into complex sentences.
The first meeting with our new pet, where we laugh at the puppy’s mannerisms or coo over their cuteness, is a mystery to the object of our attention. The puppy is hoping to be safe and wants to figure out how to be submissive enough to avert aggression from us. So some puppies will “over-greet” us with lots of; wiggling, tail wagging, licking faces and even roll over or make short squeaks, or high-pitch barks. All puppy-isms for; “I submit to you, you are the boss, don’t hurt me, and “show me what you want” . The next year for the puppy will be filled with difficulty, while pup tries to learn English or read our confusing body movements.
I encourage all pet owners to learn about the brain and social development of the puppy or kitten to become better owners. So much more is known about behavior & how they learn, than was thought 30 years ago. Thankfully this is leading to many new methods to educate our pets on how to live with us. I recommend the site http://www.dogstardaily.com. Good source of info and best of all, the training methods are easier & more successful for the average pet owner and much faster compared to older dominance or clicker methods. See “After you get your puppy” and don’t miss the online training book.
3. Do yourself and your pet a favor; socialize it very young to humans, cars, dogs and cats and vet offices. Teach it the manners of living in a human household and neighborhood.
a. Dog and Cats both become more bonded to their human family through the process of consistent and daily training.
b. They also become confident in their surroundings when they understand how to behave when human do unpredictable things. In the view of a Dog or Cat especially in the first year, much of what we do is unpredictable.
c. An important fact to know, for the welfare of the puppy is, they do not know when to use the skills learned in puppy class. To the dog; Sit, down, stay, come are just tricks that are part of a playdate in once a week class. Most animals need hundreds of repetitions of “sit” within every part of the house and day, to slowly understand what it really means.
In Madison WI area check out “www.Badgerkennelclub.com for classes, sport with your dog, good breeders of puppies and more.
Pet food reviews- good website to find a review of the recipes of commercial dog foods
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/index.php
Definitely helpful for consumers to quickly check the quality of pet food brands.
I read a few of the reviews and found them to be knowledgable. Although the reviews are not able to completely review all the ingredients in each recipe, the general conclusions are very useful to pick out the poor quality recipes for basic pet foods. The reviewers are aware of major ways that pet food ingredients are listed in language that the average consumer can not understand. They do pet owners a service by translating the label ingredients in a more meaningful way and to rate the food brands by quality.
>New Medical Claims or product that is "the best ever"
>There seems to be continuous new cures or life enhancing programs for us to buy. Look up your self which claims are true.
This is the Link “Pubmed”, one of a few online search engines to medical science published world wide. This is free to the public to get the summaries of articles and in some cases the full research paper. In valuable resource for Doctors and scientists.
PubMed Help – PubMed Help – NCBI Bookshelf: “- Sent using Google Toolbar”
Go through the tutorial on how to use the site if it is your first time. Some articles are complicated and in the jargon of the science world, however the conclusion paragraphs are usually understandable. Can give readers an appreciation for the difficulty involve in research studies and when conclusions are made it is based on very strong evidence.
>Vitamin D deficiency linked to chronic fatigue in brain-injured patients
>Vitamin D deficiency linked to chronic fatigue in brain-injured patients
another interesting observation.
>Breed Specific Health Concerns | AKC Canine Health Foundation
>Breed Specific Health Concerns | AKC Canine Health Foundation
This is the Labrador list of health problems that are common in the breed of dog.
>Study: Even "BPA-Free" Plastics Leach Endrocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
>Info on a major cause of thyroid, adrenal diseases, leukemia, lymphoma, and brain tumors.
Study: Even “BPA-Free” Plastics Leach Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
These plastics are what have been found in both tumors and in dysfunctional endocrine organs. The endocrine organs are responsible for secreting the hormones are body used to regulate itself. Hormones like thyroid hormone, cortisol, insulin, growth hormone and immune signal hormones. The most commonly effected organ in cats is the thyroid gland leading to overactive thyroid. This is a serious condition in cats and women. In dogs the most common tumors are in the lymph nodes (lymphoma) and the most common organ dysfunction is over active adrenal glands, but many others are all too common. All the organs in our bodies that use hormone precursors to do their job can be effected. The plastic molecules are mistaken by the body as building blocks for the production of hormones and the white blood cell called lymphocytes. For example , plastic molecules (resemble a building block of thyroid hormone) are taken into the cells of the thyroid gland to make into thyroid hormone. But it is the wrong molecular structure and the cell is not able to make what it intended. The plastic molecules keep being transported in and build up in the cell until the cell either dies, undergoes inflammation or shuts down. This is why these compounds can cause a variety of responses. Inflammation can lead to tumors, or over-function of the organ affected. Alternatively, cells that fill up with plastic do not have enough of the normal molecules to build from and are unable to make hormones, leading to low thyroid function. The death of cells can also dis-regulate the organ in another way. In many body organs, there exists cell to cell local communication that is going on all of the time. The cell will signal its neighbor with either a chemical message or electrical impulse. When there are allot of dead cells distributed throughout an organ, gaps between active cells occur. The theory is that the gaps interrupt the normal cell to cell communication ability like a break in any small wire or a dam. This process is thought to lead to the “dis-regulation” of the immune system for example.
2010 is the first year that the American Association of Endocrinologist (all Doctors) testified before Congress of their own initiative to alert the nation to the danger of the class of compounds called “hormone disruptors”. Veterinarians and animal scientists have been collecting data for over 50 years on these effects & warned congress 10 years ago. The that last 10 to 15 years the effects have become more serious and much more frequent. The estimates from the American Veterinary Cancer Society is that within 10 years, 50% of our pets will die from cancer. This is a rapid increase in how often cancer is happening in our pets. Pets and children get a much higher dose of anything in the environment because they crawl around on the floor or ground and have a faster metabolism and take more into their bodies.
The other most common “hormone disruptor” chemical to be aware of is the herbicide 2,4-D also called “weed begone. The main exposure to humans, pets and other creatures is through drinking water. This is the most significant only because it has been around a long time in everyday use since the 1950’s. A simple water filter will remove this. Bottle water is as contaminated as any other water.
I will periodically write about this problem when new reliable science becomes available.
Dr Smith Holistic Petcare 