Dog Meat Trade: One Man's Meat Is Another's Best Friend!

Dog Genetic Disease:Every Single Dog Carries At Least 4-5 Defective Genes!

The Disturbing Prevalence Of Genetic Disease In The Dog

Genetic disease is rampant in the dog community of today.Over 500 genetic diseases have been described in dogs and several individualdog breeds are associated with well over 100 hereditary diseases. The Poodle forexample, is the dog breed that tops the list, being associated with over 145genetic diseases (The reason why the Poodle is predisposed to so many geneticdiseases is because not only are there 3 distinct sizes of Poodle, the large count of disease is a reflection of the popularity of this dogbreed. By and large a good rule of thumb is the more popular a dog breed thegreater the number of genetic diseases inherent in that breed.)

In fact every single dog that exists today carries at leastfour to five defective genes and currently dog breeders spend over 500 milliondollars annually in an effort to address this problem of genetic disease in thedog. However if this alarming trend is to be properly addressed it requires theparticipation of everyday dog owners!

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Dog Genetic Disease

Dog Killed By Swat Team Run Amok

It what can only be described as the epitome of unprofessionalism

Dog Socialization: How To Avoid Having A Problematic Dog

Why is it some dogs get on well with other dogs and people, while others are consistently in fights with their fellow canine and prone to biting people too! The reason why is actually quite basic; some dogs were properly and timely socialized as puppies while the anti-social animals were not. If a dog does not undergo socialization as a puppy within a period extending from 2 weeks to 16 weeks then that animal is going to have problems as a pet.

Though dogs are domesticated animals (meaning that they give birth to tamed/domestic offspring as opposed to a tamed wolf which gives birth to wild offspring) they still have to undergo a period of socialization if they are going to learn proper canine etiquette and if they are to be well adjusted pets. Every animal requires some degree of socialization if it is to exist harmoniously with the rest of its species; this applies to humans too!

A study group of populations of wild elephants observed a rather bizarre phenomenon. Young bull elephants were seen attacking, killing and in certain cases raping adult wild rhinos; this was a phenomenon that had never been noticed before. Elephants and rhinos for years have co-existed side by side, if not exactly in a truly harmonious manner, at least in a truce that respected each other’s boundaries.

The study group eventually concluded that the reason why rhino attacks by elephants was on the rise was because the young elephants were inadequately and improperly socialized. And the reason the new generation of elephants are poorly socialized is because the vast majority of the older generation of elephants (the big tuskers) have been hunted down by that most vicious and indiscriminate of predators (man) for their ivory!

Just like in people, early socialization of your dog as a puppy can inhibit certain undesirable hereditable traits while instilling new foreign ones. A child who grows up harmoniously in a multicultural background is far more likely to get on with different races as an adult as opposed to the child who has never mingled with any race other than his/her own. In the same manner, a dog that is socialized to other animals such as cats, hamsters and birds will not exhibit the inherent tendency to chase or kill those animals.

Timely socialization of a dog as a puppy is also the reason why livestock guardian and herding dogs are able to co-exist harmoniously with an animal that under natural circumstances would be prey! Click below for more:

Dog Socialization

Dog Domestication: Did The Wolf Tame Itself To Eventually Evolve Into The Dog?

Popular thinking has it that the humans domesticated the wolf about 15,000 years ago in the Mesolithic period when permanent settlements were becoming all the rage. In theory this sound good and well after all the dog is a descendant of the wolf and indeed the two canids (both come from the family Canidae) can interbreed. In fact it is on this basis that some argue that the dog is really a subspecies of the wolf. Although it is instinctive to assume that man did indeed tame the wolf which tamed animals then eventually evolved into the domesticated dog, there is a gaping flaw in this theory! The flaw is that this theory assumes that Mesolithic humans had the time or the intelligence to invest in a selective breeding program that aimed to create a tamer wolf; this would have necessarily meant that those people had hundreds of tame wolves with which to select desired traits from…a notion that is simply preposterous!

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Dog Domestication

Dog Bashing On The Rise?

Troubled Dog Behavior Linked To Genes!

Ever since the complete dog genome was sequenced at The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, scientists and animal behaviorists have been traipsing into exciting new unchartered territory such as explaining the complex association between psychiatric problems in dogs and their genes.

Horror Story At Pet Cemetery

It was a classic case of slapping insult to injury! Here's what happened:

Imagine the grief of seeing your beloved dog fall sick and die prematurely right before your eyes and knowing that there is absolutely nothing you can do! The cause of death; literally the greed of commercial dog food manufacturers but more specifically irreversible kidney failure due to the toxins found in commercial dog food. And as if that was not enough, imagine the horror of finding out that the burial you presumed was accorded your beloved pet in keeping with your wishes (not to mention your finances) never ever happened at all! That in fact those ashes you so lovingly caress each morning just before you head out did not in fact belong to your late dog Fido…that in fact those ashes didn't belong to a dog at all but to a cat!

This is the shocking reality that dog owners who'd taken their pets to Misty Gardens Pet Cemetery and Domestic Animal Cremation in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) had to grapple with. One dog owner who's Labrador had died six months earlier but who'd been awaiting confirmation of burial from the establishment decided to investigate a little deeper; she wished she never had, but was glad that she did.

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She went to the pet cemetery only to find the remains of her dog unceremoniously decomposing in a ripped garbage bag somewhere on the grounds of the cemetery…not exactly the farewell she'd envisaged for her dog!

Another pet owner following a gut feeling decided to find out if the ashes in the urn were really those of her dearly departed doggie. She took the ashes to the University of Manitoba where they were analyzed and lo and behold the results came back feline not canine!

Dog Breeds

Importance of Early Socialization