Pet Allergies and Intolerances

Food Allergies and Food Intolerances for Pets

Please go to the website for more information, your pets will love you for this and you will be able to sleep better knowing that you care!

Allergies and Intolerances

Food intolerance refers to a gastrointestinal response triggered by certain ingredients. For instance, a dog with a sensitive stomach may not be able to tolerate certain ingredients that then lead to diarrhea, vomiting or irritable bowel.

Scratch, Scratch: Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms

Just because your pets aren’t coughing and sneezing, as we do when confronted by some allergens, that doesn’t mean they aren’t suffering all the same.

Pets with food allergies tend to experience skin irritation when exposed to known allergens, which in turn causes varied scratching behaviors.

Identifying and Removing the Offending Foods

Some of the most common offenders are common ingredients found in dog foods. The most common food allergens for dogs are beef, dairy products, eggs, chicken, corn, wheat and soy.

The key is to determine which one or more of these ingredients are responsible for your pet’s distress. To make that determination, a food elimination trial should be performed. In the elimination trial, you should choose a wholesome, complete and balanced diet that avoids ingredients to which the pet has previously been exposed, then feed this recipe, and this recipe only, for six to eight weeks.

http://www.wellnesspetfood.com/product-details.aspx?pet=dog&pid=118&dm=allergy

Airedales

Baton Rouge Louisiana

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Welcome to the blog of another spoiled Airedale.

One that my mommy and daddy are proud to claim that they did this to me :)

From another real good WebRing website

www.webring.org/hub/airedales

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When is an animal or plant Endangered?

Why Do Animals Become Endangered?

For the most part we humans are responsible when animals become extinct, endangered or threatened.

Here are some reasons why animals become endangered

A species is called endangered when there are so few of its kind left that it could disappear and become extinct.

When does an Endangered animal no longer an Endangered animal?

http://airedalepets.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-is-endangered-animal-not.html

When members of the officials at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stand to profit from contractors when they buy their lives!

Or

Destruction~ of Habitat to build homes, roads and other developments. Pollution from oil spills and water pollution have been devastating for many species of fish and birds. Hunting/Fishing animals are over-hunted because their meat, fur and other parts are very valuable. When animals or plants arrive into a new habitat from a foreign place they introduce diseases the native species can't fight, other sspecies can also prey on the native species.

According to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, a species can be listed as endangered if it is threatened by any of the following:

1. The present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of its habitat or range.
2. Utilization for commercial, sporting, scientific, or educational purposes at levels that detrimentally affect it [a species].
3. Disease or predation.
4. Absence of regulatory mechanisms adequate to prevent the decline of a species or degradation of its habitat.
5. Other natural or man-made factors affecting its continued existence.

The worst of the military

One of the worst of the military

More than 6,000 goats and pigs are intentionally maimed.

The Department of Defense says trainers slice open live animals and saw off their limbs in order to train medics in how to treat human injuries.

Dr. James Santos is a retired Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and a physician. And after working with real patients in the field and at the Naval Medical Center, he knows that operating on live animals did not train him in how to treat real, complex human injuries.

But worst of all not only is this kind of animal cruelty unnecessary, it could actually make medics less prepared to treat real human injuries.

Please ever if you have never signed one before, will you sign this petition?

http://www.change.org/petitions/us-military-stop-shooting-cutting-open-and-breaking-the-limbs-of-living-animals?utm_campaign=iWVzokHZYt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert

Salmonella Diamond Pet Foods recall once again

Diamond Pet Foods recalls batch of dry dog food over possible salmonella issues at SC plant

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/mo-based-diamond-pet-foods-issues-recall-because-of-possible-salmonella-issues-at-sc-plant/2012/04/26/gIQAYWbnjT_story.html

This is the reason why, as soon as we got our Breanna home we changes to safer pet food!

The product was distributed to customers in 10 states: Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.

Salmonella concerns prompted Missouri-based Diamond Pet Foods to recall a second batch of dry dog food produced at a South Carolina plant where production has been suspended, the company announced Thursday.

The plant in Gaston, S.C., is the same one that made mold-contaminated food that killed dozens of dogs nationwide in 2005.

The company said the recall includes Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul Adult Light Formula dry dog food.

The Meta, Mo.-based company said one bag tested positive for salmonella, and the recall of four production codes is being conducted as a precautionary measure. No dog illnesses have been reported.

The product was distributed to customers in 10 states: Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia.

Production was suspended April 8 at the Gaston plant after a recall two days earlier involving a different product, Diamond Naturals Lamb Meal & Rice dry dog food.

A cat food recall at the plant in 2009 was prompted because the food didn’t contain enough thiamine, an essential nutrient for cats.

The latest recall covers the following production codes:

— Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul 35 lb. CLF0102B31XCW 27/JAN/2013, CLF0102B32XWR 28/JAN/2013

— Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul Adult Light Formula 35 lb. CLF0102B31XCW 28/JAN/2013

— Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover’s Soul 6lb. CLF0102B3XALW 28/JAN/2013

The company said customers should stop feeding the food in question to their pets and discard it.