November 2006
Canine Products and Expert Resources
Subscribers Only RESOURCES Rabies Challenge Fund Vaccine research scientist, W. Jean Dodds, DVM, and pet vaccine disclosure advocate, Kris L. Christine of Maine, have established The Rabies Challenge Fund to raise money to fund a seven-year rabies vaccine challenge study in the United States. In addition to the challenge study, the fund will finance a study of the adjuvants used in veterinary rabies vaccines and establish a rabies vaccine adverse reaction reporting system.
Canine Benefit from Antioxidants Too!
Subscribers Only Antioxidants are all the rage nowadays, seemingly good for anything that ails you or your dog. Antioxidants, natural and otherwise, are also widely used as preservatives in processed foods for pets and their people. Antioxidants are, however, another of those things that the more the scientists learn about them, the more they learn they don't know. This paradigm seems to repeat itself in the realm of holistic health!
Successfully Adding a Second Dog to Your Home
If your dog is reactive to other dogs but you are thinking about getting another dog anyway, read the following for both a sober warning as well as cautious encouragement. It’s a wonderful case of a seriously dog-reactive dog improving enough to be able to live with another dog – but it took tons of the kinds of work described by Pat Miller in the previous article to get there, and the dog’s training and mangement is ongoing.
Managing a Multi-Dog Houehold
Subscribers Only When asked whether itfs a good idea to add a second dog to a family, my answer is always an unequivocal gIt depends!h If youfre adding a second dog for the right reasons and your first dog gets along with others, it may be a fine idea. Here are some things to consider when youfre thinking of adding a second, third, fourth (or more) dog to your pack.
Shots Fired: Professional veterinary associations call for a reduced canine vaccination protocol
Subscribers Only In the past decade, the veterinary profession’s overall attitude toward vaccination has evolved to a point that can be tentatively termed progressive. In 2002, the American Veterinary Medical Association issued a policy statement that urged veterinarians to “customize” vaccine protocols for individual patients, since there is “inadequate data to scientifically determine a single best protocol” for initial or repeat vaccinations. A year later, the prestigious American Animal Hospital Association (AAHA) released its landmark canine vaccination guidelines, which were updated in 2006.
Strange Excitement
Subscribers Only We’re finally getting invited to pet food plants.
Teaching a Dog to Play Fetch
Last week a trainer friend stopped by to visit with her three dogs: Star, Kaiya, and Lhotse. As we were chatting, Laura confessed to me that she thought she¡¯d ruined Star¡¯s ¡°fetch¡± with the clicker. ¡°She had a great retrieve,¡± Laura said, ¡°until I started clicking her for it. Now she just drops it as soon as I click. I stopped working on it because I knew I was messing it up.¡± I chuckled to myself. I knew this would be a fun ¨C and easy ¨C training fix.
