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12/02/2023

04/02/2023

https://petsummits.com/control/2-2-2/
Here is a free virtual summit, Dr. Dunbar speaks on Over the Top Dog on Dog play on day 5, I love any subject presented by him, he's very no nonsense but so polite to dogs, always says please and thank you to them

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16/01/2023

A nice walk with the kids supporting Bandaged Paws Animal Rescue Association with the ResQwalk app

15/08/2022

03/03/2022

Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/svr.nuSupport us: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=68ZYNFCNE9XVASVR - Stockholm Wildlife Rescu...

28/02/2022

GREAT TESTIMONIAL TO THE POWER OF REAL FOOD FROM TURID RUGAAS, THE QUEEN OF CANINE BODY LANGUAGE AND BEHAVIOUR...
Turid Rugaas has always been a bit of a hero of mine. We studied her lessons in depth in Guide Dogs. Fabulous insight, revolutionary at the time. I was lucky enough to have been invited to her symposium some years ago to talk nutrition and we have been friends since. She just sent me this wonderful testimony for the powers of real food in a recent case (I edited it a touch for brevity/clarity):

"I had a client with a dog who was biting everybody. They came to my house so I could see and control what was happening.

The first session was just getting used to my home and me. He was stiff as a pole, alert, worried, stole things and was restless.

He received only kibble which he ate a bit of now and then. He never felt full at all, so after our first meeting, I decided to put emphasis on feeding. .

When he came to me the next day I gave him breakfast and then he fell asleep.

That afternoon I instructed the owner to begin feeding him with proper food.

He went home yesterday, walking towards the car with proper strides, soft muscles in the back and legs, walking normally for the first time instead of stiffly trotting, looking around, enjoying the traffic, people, a helicopter passing - and all with a sweet, curious face.

It was a complete transformation, I have never seen anything like that in such a short time. He was not hungry for the first time in his whole life.

I usually have a calming effect on dogs but this was different. His whole body changed."

As a trainer myself, with a background studying the effects of food on behaviour, I can very much testify to seeing (and now hearing of) the same effect in a great number of dogs. Many trainers have told me the same.

I would add a note to the above that there are two types of starving, and both drive unwanted behaviour in your pet. The first is giving a meat-eater a handful of rapidly digested crackers for breakfast, inducing an actual hunger in the dog soon after, and hungry dogs are significantly more likely to exhibit unwanted behaviours because of it.

But there is also "nutritional" hunger (this is the overfed, undernourished of the world) whereby if you continue to feed a product where studies show 62% of the "complete" kibbles off the shelf in the UK cannot even manage to meet the minimum nutritional standards set out by the kibble manufacturers themselves, you will get a similar effect - an animal not only deficient in certain mind-calming nutrients and bioactive compounds, but one driven to get them.

And hunger is really only one part of it - why is it kids go crazy at birthdays after we give them all the crap food? Is it the rapidly digested carbs? The artificial colours? Dry food has all these en masse but also poor quality protein, stale fats, erratic vitamin content (notoriously deficient in b complex, for example), chemical preservatives that decimates the gut flora (central to good behaviour), on and on.

There is surely no one solution to problem behaviour in your pet, and nothing replaces the advice of a good trainer, but if you're feeding them ultra-processed kibble folks, you sure as hell aren't helping matters. The foundations must be solid before the lessons can percolate in.

Has anyone else experienced this positive change in behaviour in their pet?

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Catch up with Turids' work here
http://en.turid-rugaas.no/

She also makes available a huge amount of great info for free on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj7BWxC6iVs

22/02/2022

Oh, my optimistic dog people friends! I wish (really, REALLY wish) that you were right about the top-selling category of books. (See yesterday’s post.)

The reality is that people buy more Problem-Solving books than any other category…by far…very, VERY far.

While I am glad that there are excellent resources to help people solve problems with their dogs and am proud to make them available to Canadians…there are SO many wonderful resources that would prevent most of these problems from developing in the first place.

Safe socialization, consistent foundation training and an understanding of what your dog is telling you - all things that you can be prepared for BEFORE your new dog comes home.

Please help me to reach people at the beginning!

It’s all here at Mungo’s Books! You just need to send people my way, and we can work together to prevent problems and create even happier homes for dogs.❤️

www.mungosbooks.ca

E-mail [email protected] for recommendations and orders.

10/11/2021

greast chat about vaccines in puppies and when to do it so as not to interfere and neutralize the maternal immunity. Dr. Edward is from Australia, Dr. Dobias is Canadian with a Czech background, so this is truly an international based discussion. The internet gets interupted but go to The Healing Vet's fb page to get part two on socialization and behaviour

28/10/2021

PLEASE, if you have a dog, clear an hour, get comfy and listen in earnest to this interview.

In this podcast episode, I was honored to interview Dr. Karen Becker & Rodney Habib.Dr. Becker has spent her career as a small animal clinician, empowering a...

13/10/2021

Cyrene Reef 2013Released a stranded octopus that got stuck on the sand when the tide went out in the shallow water. After recovering, the octopus moved towar...

20/09/2021

The Drongo is the Kalahari's greatest trickster and the meerkats are his victims of trickery but first he must win their confidence... Taken from 'Africa'. S...

05/09/2021

My girl 😍

21/08/2021

Danielle had just moved into her new home when all of a sudden, a wild magpie landed at her feet. He would follow her around and sit on her knee. Then, he br...

18/08/2021

Documentary coming out early in 2022
https://youtu.be/Zt2NJxn-VcY

We are beyond excited to share this glimpse into our upcoming documentary project, Cutting the Line, due for release in early 2022.Armed with handheld nets a...

18/07/2021

Here at Beau-Dog we love animal rescues of all types, even those that are on the other side of the globe. These guys do amzing work!

A little bit more background to Antoine's and Naude's efforts to free seals in Namibia from Ocean rubbish and plastic pollution: see how they spot the animal...

17/06/2021

A quote worth sharing:
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.” ― Dean Koontz

04/06/2021

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10/05/2021

04/05/2021

After months of not being able to go there, we couldn't wait to get back to the mountains. And it was worth the wait for all of us.