Daniel's Dogs, LLC

03/17/2024

23 years ago we brought home the best puppy ever who then became the best dog ever. Lucky Daniel CDX RE CGC
Always in my ❤️

04/11/2023

Please spread widely, especially New England friends! These dogs are part of a wider English Shepherd family.

11/26/2022

This

03/11/2022

This is great news!
https://scienmag.com/researchers-discover-genetic-cause-of-megaesophagus-in-dogs/

Researchers have discovered the underlying genetic variation that leads to congenital idiopathic megaesophagus (CIM), a frequently deadly gastrointestinal

11/04/2021

This is interesting:

Sometimes, when we talk to our canine companions, they tilt their heads adorably to one side.

08/30/2021

Everything that matters.

08/29/2021

Working with reactive dogs can be very rewarding. Here is my reactive Aussie with my daughter's reactive Shepherd mix. Altogether it took about 4 weeks of 10-15 minutes a day to get to this place. We probably could have done it faster with, say two sessions a day, but keeping stress levels down is key.

"Go slow to go fast."
-Mark McCabe

07/14/2021

Ha!

04/13/2021

Wilves just wanna have fun!

Occurred on March 29, 2021 / Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA"Some of the members of the Wapati Wolf Pack were feeding on a bison carcass. They had ta...

03/02/2021

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2021/03/02/seresto-dog-cat-collars-found-harm-pets-humans-epa-records-show/4574753001/

Since Seresto pet collars were introduced, the EPA has received more than 75,000 reports related to the collars, including 907 involving human harm.

03/02/2021

THURSDAY, Feb. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It is an image as heartwarming as any: Young children giggling as the family dog climbs all over them and licks their faces. But new research suggests the bond may be more than playful."The great news is that this study suggests dogs are paying a lot of a....

02/01/2021

It's Black History Month

Kids Explain Black History MonthGlobal Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On our ...

12/31/2020

Impt Heads up!

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recalled pet food products which led to at least 28 deaths and eight illnesses in dogs that ate the recalled product.

10/20/2020

Food for thought:
http://www.turid-rugaas.no/sit.html?fbclid=IwAR3pDQzY0Kg_Bj_LHNrf1Fl4P-r8ZXRGe34VZrcOINOvpxwDLlxcqa-l39E

Sit is usually the first people teach their puppies, without thinking about the consequences or why they do it. We wanted to know more about the sit, so many years ago we started the sit study...

10/14/2020

Robin rocks! For those unfamiliar with the ecollar used properly, there is a moment just a couple minutes into the video where all the dogs return to her with no drama -- you may not even register it, but she is using the e-collar to recall them at a low level and so there is no fear, no pain, no concern they just come back.

08/26/2020

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/canine-corner/201601/are-women-better-dog-trainers-men?amp

Women seem to dominate the field of companion dog training.

03/20/2020

How do you socialize your puppies during a pandemic like coronavirus? Eight tips for keeping your pups development going while quarantined.

02/05/2020

Mac and Abi overlook Epcot Stay with me. It’s phrase I’ve found myself saying to clients and potential clients more frequently lately. “Have you considered that perhaps a Service …

01/23/2020

I came across this and had to share it! Absolutely accurate!

01/21/2020

AND HERE'S WHY: I don’t recommend dog parks. Not ever. The list of things that can go wrong is so long that it completely outweighs the possible a

01/21/2020

We’ve already talked about how dogs can help improve depression and your overall health, but new research is showing exactly how petting a dog affects our brains, and it’s just one more way that dogs make our lives better. Here’s how petting a dog impacts your brain, along with other ways dogs...

01/14/2020

What is a ‘McRescue’? A McRescue is an individual or a group who call themselves a 'rescue' but they are not following ethical rescue protocols. Why the term ‘McRescue’? McDonald’s is the opposite of wholesome, nutritional foods. It's fast food. It’s meant for convenience and is characte...

01/12/2020

Bradie went suddenly blind last night at 10pm. Here's his story. Yesterday Bradie was having a perfectly happy farm dog day helping his people deworm his horse friends. Bradie was enjoying a few little snacks, some horse food and chowed down some horse manure... his favourite delicacy! Last night he started to feel a little weird and then he thought it was awfully dark all of a sudden and he couldn't seem to find his way around - he even bumped into a wall and almost fell down the stairs. He was very alarmed and was relieved that his owners brought him to the veterinary clinic this morning because he definitely needed a checkup he figured. On his exam Dr. Allen said there was absolutely nothing else going on with him except his pupils were very dilated and nonresponsive to light, and of course he couldn't see a darn thing. Turns out he had Ivermectin Toxicity from eating horse p**p or possibly getting some of the dewormer from one of th horses that eats Ivermectin cubes for deworming - most dogs have severe neurologic signs, including coma but Bradie only had the eye issues it looked like thank goodness. Collies and herding breeds are well known to have MultiDrug Resistance1 gene mutations (MDR1) which make them highly sensitive to a number of pharmaceuticals, including the avermectins. The good news, is Bradie should fully recover his sight if our diagnosis is correct. A reminder to all our herding dog owners that these dogs are about 200 times more sensitive to ivermectin (and some other drugs) and even eating manure from horses or cattle that have been dewormed with ivermectin can cause toxicity. Most dogs are much sicker than Bradie and end up in a coma which can take days/weeks to recover from. We can test dogs for the MDR1 gene which is important to do as these dogs have issues with multiple drugs, not just ivermectin. Washington State University has a wonderful website on MDR1 Mutations https://vcpl.vetmed.wsu.edu/ outlining affected breeds, drugs that cause toxicity, and breeding recommendations. All herding dog breeding stock should be tested prior to breeding. The test is a simple cheek swab. We will keep you all posted on Bradie but we expect a full recovery and Bradie wanted to put out a reminder to all his herding dog friends so nobody else goes through this scary ordeal of losing their vision or something worse.

12/29/2019

Not only GSD's are affected. Know the signs of bloat!

A newly adapted gastric decompression technique may help save lives of German Shepherd dogs. Learn more about the G-cath technique at Purina Pro Club.

11/24/2019

Important info if you use essential oils

Saturday night I got home late and my dog didn't recognize me. Being a nanny I thought I woke him up and he was having a night terror. Sunday, he was still acting weird. I realized that I had been running my new diffuser and decided to turn it off. Sunday afternoon, he was feeling better. Today at w...

11/15/2019

Love the older dog here

11/13/2019

Fun Agility lesson today!

11/13/2019

If you must give your dogs Bully sticks (I do not), this looks like a good idea.

Try our Starter Kit

11/02/2019

A dog imported from South Korea into western Canada last October brought along a dangerous hitchhiker: the Asia-1 strain of canine distemper virus, which until then hadn’t been reported in North America.

09/18/2019

Do the Dew(claws)?

M. Christine Zink DVM, PhD, DACVSMR

I am a vet that works exclusively with performance dogs, developing rehabilitation programs for injured dogs or dogs that have had surgery as a result of performance-related
injuries. I have seen many dogs now, especially field trial/hunt test and agility dogs, that have had chronic carpal arthritis, frequently so severe that they have to be retired or at least carefully managed for the rest of their careers. Of the over 30 dogs I have seen with carpal arthritis, only one has had dewclaws. The others have all had them removed.

If you look at an anatomy book (Miller’s Guide to the Anatomy of Dogs is an excellent one – see figure below) you will see that there are 5 tendons attached to the dewclaw. Of course, at the other end of a tendon is a muscle, and that means that if you cut off the dew claws, there are 5 muscle bundles that will become atrophied from disuse.

Those muscles indicate that the dewclaws have a function. That function is to prevent torque on the leg. Each time the foot lands on the ground, particularly when the dog is cantering or galloping, the dewclaw is in touch with the ground. If the dog then needs to turn, the dewclaw digs into the ground to support the lower leg and prevent torque. If the dog doesn’t have a dewclaw, the leg twists. A lifetime of that and the result can be carpal arthritis. Remember: the dog is doing the activity regardless, and the pressures on the leg have to go somewhere.

They can be absorbed by the dewclaw, or they will move up and down the leg to the toes, carpus, elbow, and shoulders.
Perhaps you are thinking, “I never have had one of my dogs have carpal pain or arthritis.” Well, we need to remember that dogs, by their very nature, do not tell us about mild to moderate pain. If a dog was to be asked by an emergency room nurse to give the level of his pain on a scale from 0 to 10, with 10 being the worst, their scale would be 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Most of our dogs, especially if they deal with pain that is of gradual onset, just deal with it and don’t complain unless it is excruciating. But when I palpate the carpal joints of older dogs without dewclaws, I almost always elicit pain with relatively minimal manipulation.

As to the possibility of injuries to dew claws. Most veterinarians will say that such injuries actually are not very common at all. And if they do occur, then they are dealt with like any other injury. In my opinion, it is far better to deal with an injury than to cut the dew claws off of all dogs “just in case.”

Anatomical diagram viewing the medial side of a dog’s left front leg demonstrating the five tendons that attach to the dewclaw.