วันอังคารที่ 29 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Attack 99 + Strength 99.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QVwNnCWZao&hl=en
วันจันทร์ที่ 28 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Art of communicating with dogs.
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The ability to communicate is the mark of intelligence, the gift of language defines who we are as it gives us the freedom of expression and speech we in the free world hold so dear and defend so vigorously. What a strange thing to say, why do we assume the ability to speak denotes intelligence? Just because we can speak that makes us the supreme beings?
If that is the case and we are so wonderful, why have we lost and forgotten how to communicate with our most loyal and loving member of our family? Why do we babble on, often in silly, high pitched voices and expect our dear friend to actually make sense of it all? The art of communication is a rare thing among humans, even with our ability to listen, think and reply, how good at real communication are we? Not good enough!
What would happen if we lost the ability to speak? Not on a temporary basis but permanently. How on earth would we cope? We are bad enough when we encounter a person who merely speaks a different language, we speak slower and louder because that might mean they can understand us!! Inspirational isn't it? Might as well not speak at all. But the how would we get our message across? How would we convey our needs?
We can learn so much from the other animals we share our lives with and in particular the dogs with whom we share our lives.
When man domesticated the wolf and began the selective breeding programme which has led us to have the myriad of breeds we have today, he understood the canine language, and he learned how to interpret what he was being told by his dogs. This relationship continued throughout history and all over the world as man used dogs to help him in his work. Dogs were viewed as tools, very useful tools that became an invaluable member of the team but at no time were they treated any differently than what they were, dogs. In the modern age where man no longer needs dogs to help him in his work, he has taken them into his house as a pet, a companion, a member of his family.
The dog is not designed to be any of these things. The more dogs reside in families, living with humans; they are being increasingly treated as humans. This is dangerous because as dogs get treated as humans, so are they expected to behave as humans, to reason as humans, to respond as a human, to understand the human condition. As humans we get so used to and comfortable with dogs in our families, we forget it is still a dog. When this fact is demonstrated to us, usually when a dog attacks a human, we are snapped back to reality for a short while that we actually have a dog, not another family member.
Why do these dogs attacks happen? Why was it so unexpected? The shocking realisation that the dog in our family could and did react that way is a very shocking experience and it is always the dogs fault, isn't it?
The sad fact is dogs involved in attacks on humans have already told the person, usually a family member, two or three times they are not happy, that the person is behaving in a way the dog doesn't like and biting is a last resort for any dog, especially one that lives in a family environment. The trouble is the signals the dog gives are subtle and man has forgotten how to watch and interpret his dogs. If he still had the skills required, none of these attacks needed to have happened. Man is so busy talking to his dogs as if they were human; he almost expects the dog to talk back in the same language. When a reaction happens like a bite, you often hear there was no warning, it came out of the blue, and no one expected him to do that. Dogs always tell you what is going to happen before they do it, man has just forgotten how to watch and listen.
Dogs use eye contact in a very different way to humans, they interpret body language at a far more subtle level than humans do, they can hear the heartbeats of people in close proximity and they can smell changes in your body's sweat composition. All of this information is collated by the dog in a matter of seconds and he will use this information to assess if you are a potential leader, a potential threat, no one to bother about or if you are weak and afraid. The dog will then communicate his thoughts with you using his eye contact, altering his posture and body language and the position of his head and shoulders.
If these signs are ignored, or not even noticed, the dog will try again to make you understand what he is telling you. This can be walking toward you, the posture can stiffen, the tail can be upright and there may even be a show of teeth. If signs like these are also ignored or not noticed and acted upon, the dog will resort to his final option to tell you what he needs to and that is the bite. Knowing the signs to look for, you quickly realise that dogs are very powerful and effective communicators, we have just forgotten how to observe and interpret and the teaching of canine communication would appear to have disappeared from modern dog training where food, food, food seems to be the order of the day.
If the role of food for your dog was understood by trainers, its use might be more carefully considered as the control of food can make a huge difference in your relationship with your dog and the roles your family members take from your dog's point of view. Just one final question for all dog owners who take their dogs to training classes or schools, does your instructor bring one of their own dogs to the class or school and if so, are they very well behaved?
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 27 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
วันเสาร์ที่ 26 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Pregnant dogs that feed.
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As an owner of a female dog one of the most exciting/scariest things to hear is that your beloved family pet has become pregnant. The questions start to come up. What am I going to do with all the puppies? And what should I be doing to make sure that she stays healthy?
Besides making sure that she gets plenty of rest and lots of water the best thing you can do is to feed her a high quality dog food. It is true that not all dog food is created equally and some can do more harm than good. A pregnant dog, like a human will go through changes during pregnancy that tax the body and require more nutrients to feed and nourish the growing baby (or 4 to 8 puppies).
Ideally your dog's diet should already consist of high quality protein and essential fats but that doesn't always happen. The fact is that dog food can be expensive, especially if your dog is a large breed or you have 2 or more of them. Sometimes costs wins out over quality, pregnancy is no time to be buying cheap garbage quality dog food.
Here are a few things to look for on the label of most dry and wet dog food. If you see them listed high up on the list on ingredients you should avoid them or at least use them sparingly.
Fillers - Fillers are basically what you might think they are, worthless ingredients that are mixed in to add bulk to the food and in some cases make your dog want to eat more (meaning more trips to the grocery store for you. These fillers are usually corn and soy products or wheat (not the whole grain either).
By-products - This is such a loose term and can literally mean any part or parts of an animal. Including, beaks, claws etc. Also allowed under the "by-product" label is the fact that these animals don't have to be healthy. They can be cancerous or previously dead (of natural causes) and sick/dying animals. Most of these by products consist of "meat: that isn't fit for human consumption, so why would you want to feed them to your "best friend"?
Tragically some if not all of the major brands of dog food contain these garbage ingredients. Try some of the healthier brands including Buffalo Blue, Wellness, Iams, and Taste of the Wild to name a few.
Also as the time for your dog to give birth get closer try supplementing her diet with yogurt and other calcium rich
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 24 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Food preparation in the Aztec community.
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Culinary Sundries
Aztec commoners did not live by maize and beans alone. Tomatoes, avocadoes, and several varieties of squash presented more choices at a meal. Chili peppers were used to flavor foods and were so vital to the Aztec meal that fasting often meant forsaking chilies alone. Ants, grasshoppers, maguey worms, and jumil bugs, all available in large quantities, provided protein. Commoners gathered tequitlatl (blue-green spirulina algae) in large fine nets to provide large harvests of protein. Bernal Díaz del Castillo described the blue-green algae sold as little cakes that tasted like cheese in the markets of Tlatelolco and Tenochtitlan. But these were not the only aquatic goods consumed by the Aztec. Sahagún writes that tadpoles, frogs, and tentnonmichin (thick, large-mouthed fish) were also eaten. Axolotl newts and acocilin (shrimplike crustaceans) offered variety to the diet as well.
Cacao was a popular drink among the royal classes and was a valuable commodity; 100 cacao beans could buy a small mantle. To prepare the beans for drinking, first they would be ground and soaked while being filtered. A frothy head would form on the surface; later this would be discarded. Then water would be added to make a bitter drink. The chocolate drink was so bitter that an assortment of additives would be used to flavor it: flowers, vanilla, honey, and even chile tamed the bitterness of the cacao bean and changed the color of the chocolate drink from white to colors ranging from red and orange to black.
Fruits
The nopalli, or nopal (prickly pear cactus), served as a popular vegetable in the Aztec diet, and Sahagún reported on 13 different varieties in his Florentine Codex. He described the nopal plant as having wide, green branches and a smooth, though thorny, surface that excreted a saplike liquid. The cactus's succulent fruit, the nochtli, or tuna, had a fine and flavorful texture. This fruit, which could be eaten cooked or raw, provided a filling for tamales and was often served as a dessert, though always in moderation. Because the nopal cactus grew throughout Mexico, all Aztec were able to take pleasure in the nochtli fruit; however, only the royal classes enjoyed the more exotic varieties of white, green, and orange nochtli. Quahcamotli and camotli (sweet potatoes); cimatl, a cylindrical or balllike twisted tree root that would cause vomiting and diarrhea if eaten raw; and atzamatzamolli, a bulbous sea plant with white blossoms, were also eaten as fruit.
Animal Foods
Though not a strictly vegetarian society, the Aztec ate mostly from plants that grew in their landscape. Partly due to large population growth and partly due to the lack of many domesticated animals, animal foods were not in significant reserve. Among the domesticated animals were dogs, turkeys (uexolotl), which provided both eggs and meat, and the muscory duck. Archaeologists have found quantities of fish, white-tailed deer, cotton-tailed rabbit, iguana, dog, and turkey bones in trash deposits, although these finds were not in high, dense concentrations. The upper echelon's diet included more variety in animal foods. Rabbit, possum, deer, crane, goose, quail, and eagle meat added variety to the Aztec diet, but these were probably luxuries enjoyed predominantly by the upper class.
วันจันทร์ที่ 21 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Dog Show: Fun and Crazy permitted.
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Who are the people who show dogs? Are they lunatics or fanatics? The dog people have a favorite joke about themselves. They say you don't have to be crazy to enjoy shows, but it certainly helps! This is because they actually go through many hardships and disappointments but still enjoy it and call it fun.
It is one of the fascinating peculiarities of the dog game that the people who are thrown together in the pursuit of this sport are from so many different walks of life: dentists, carpenters, teachers, bankers, housewives, farmers, musicians, engineers, artists, industrialists, young and old, rich and poor. All have the same desire-to take home a blue ribbon.
Perhaps you wonder why they show dogs. I take it you are interested in showing or you wouldn't be reading this article. I warn you, however, that the day may come when you will wonder why you ever decided to go in for something involving so much hard work and heartaches but so much sheer enjoyment!
Well, why do they show dogs? There are many reasons, and here are a few. First, we have the serious dog breeders. They make a promise to theirselves to improve the breed in which they are interested, and they are anxious to compare their dogs with good competition, for it shows them if they are on the right track in their breeding program. This is important. Many dogs look very good at home and only when they are compared with other good dogs can you see if they are better.
Comparison is the material of which dog shows are made. Every dog looks good in the back yard, but how does he look in the ring? To the serious breeders, showing is important for another reason. It gives them a chance to let other breeders and fanciers see what they have accomplished. They may own an excellent specimen of the breed, one which would be very valuable particularly for their ability to sire exceptional puppies, but no one would know about him if he were not shown.
Then we have a group of people who look at the dog shows as a competitive and active sport. The dog game affords plenty of action but is not so strenuous as, let us say, skiing or tennis. As a matter of fact, there are a great many physically handicapped persons who show dogs successfully.
We have another group. A person buys as a pet or receives as a gift a puppy which turns out exceptionally well, and they are advised to show it. They do so, and it makes some nice wins and the dog becomes a Champion. Very frequently this person is "bitten by the bug," and succumbs, and dreams about breeding their own Champion. They stay around and often become an important member of the first group, the serious breeders.
Then we have the person looking for a hobby or perhaps a weekend activity. What better hobby than one which offers you some traveling, some outdoor activity, and a great deal of pleasure and good fellowship while also keeping you fairly active and very much interested? I remember being at an outdoor show rather early one very beautiful Sunday morning talking to Mr. Percy Roberts. Percy was then a top professional handler, one who shows other people's dogs for pay; he is now a well-known professional all-round judge, one who is eligible to judge all breeds of dogs. Percy told me that one of his relatives had chided him earlier that morning for being in a profession which occupied all his weekends. He looked around the beautiful show grounds, at Long Island Sound sparkling in the background and dotted with a few sailboats, at the clear blue sky overhead, and as he lovingly patted his dog he began to laugh, and he said to me, "And to think I get paid for this!" Yes, there is much enjoyment to be had in the dog game.
Finally on our list of those who exhibit dogs we have the "show-off," the exhibitionist. If you like to be in the public eye, here is your chance. Go ahead, show a good dog, you'll really enjoy it! But I'll tell you something. One of two things will happen: either you'll fall in love with the sport and become serious about it and a part of it, giving you an interest which will lessen your need of the spotlight; or you'll look elsewhere for that spotlight, for without a genuine love for and interest in dogs and the dog game you can't last, you will become bored, you'll be forced to find a new spotlight.
In whichever category Reduced to fit the opportunity to draw in sports. It will be a special handler. Dog experience!
วันเสาร์ที่ 19 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Death by Chocolate Dog - Dog a Valentine 's provisional.
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Even though Valentine's Day is a holiday of romance, roses and chocolate, it is important that you keep the health and welfare of your puppy in mind. The biggest health challenge for dogs during the holiday of love is the abundance of chocolate candy. Did you know that chocolate poisoning is the second most common cause of accidental poisonings for dogs?
Chocolate contains the chemical theobromine. This chemical is found in the cocoa fat component of chocolate and acts as a stimulant within the dog's system. Small dogs can be poisoned from smaller amounts of theobromine than large dogs. 1 and ½ ounces of dark chocolate or Baker's Chocolate can be a lethal dose for a small dog. Each variety of chocolate has a different level of theobromine. White chocolate has the least amount of theobromine, about 1 mg per ounce. Milk chocolate, the most common kind of chocolate, contains 65 milligrams of theobromine per ounce, semisweet chocolate contains 165 mgs and baking chocolate has about 400mg.
When you or your dog eats chocolate, the theobromine is rapidly absorbed from the stomach and intestines into the bloodstream. It's carried to all parts of the body and is eventually metabolized by the liver and then eliminated in the urine. Unfortunately, dogs have a very difficult time metabolizing theobromine; it takes approximately 15 to 20 hours for a dog to eliminate one-half of the theobromine consumed from its body. However, it only takes 5 hours for your body to dump the excess theobromine from your system.
Theobromine, like caffeine, acts as a stimulant. It directly affects the heart and can cause an extreme increase in heart rate, an increase in blood pressure, as well as irregularities in the heart rhythm. This is why people find chocolate so irresistible, chemically it mimics the feeling of infatuation by causing rapid heartbeat, hyperactivity, flushing of the skin. Chocolate makes us feel like we are in love.
Unfortunately, the canine central nervous system is negatively stimulated by theobromine. Excessive chemical stimulation can result in nervousness, restlessness, insomnia, tremors, and even seizures. Stimulation of the central nervous system can increase respiration, increase panting, and induce nausea, and vomiting. Theobromine acts a diuretic causing large amounts of body fluid are lost by urination, which can lead to dehydration.
Within two to three hours of consuming a toxic dose of chocolate, the dog will appear excited, agitated or nervous; may exhibit polydipsia; and may vomit. Within 8-10 hours, the dog may be extremely hyperactive, have difficulty walking, may develop seizures and ultimately may fall into a coma and die. Watch for the following symptoms of chocolate poisoning:
o Excessive drooling
o Excessive urination
o Pupil dilation
o Excessive panting
o Rapid heartbeat
o Vomiting and diarrhea
o Pale gums
o Hyperactivity
o Muscle tremors and seizures
So what do you do if you find that your dog has gotten into your gift basket of chocolate? If your dog consumed only a small amount of white or milk chocolate, he may not require treatment. Any dog that is exhibiting symptoms of chocolate toxicosis must be treated immediately. Treatment usually involves the administration of emetics, to make the dog vomit; activated charcoal, to bind theobromine in the stomach and limit its reabsorption into the bloodstream; intravenous or subcutaneous fluids prevent dehydration, and sedatives such as valium, to control seizures.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure during the most romantic time of the year, Valentine's Day. If you follow the following guidelines, you will be able to protect your dog from temptation. Always place chocolate on a high counter, in a cabinet or in the refrigerator. If you are a pet parent that likes to share your goodies with your dog, purchase some dog friendly Valentine treats such as carob cookies or carob candy especially made for the canine body. If you are having a party at your house make sure that all liquor and chocolates are placed on a high counter or are always under the watchful eye of a sober bartender. Most importantly double check your kitchen and eating floor and counter for any forgotten chocolate contraband before you turn Overnight
วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 17 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
JB Love Story 7 Part 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3a1wFRWBK4&hl=en
วันจันทร์ที่ 14 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
The history of child Niley ep 6.10!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSpbSXReWQ&hl=en
วันอาทิตย์ที่ 13 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
วันพุธที่ 9 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
Innova Large Breed Adult Formula Dry Dog Food
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วันอังคารที่ 8 มิถุนายน พ.ศ. 2553
kevvvvvvvvvvvin(freestyle )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWx4JLsGg4&hl=en