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You would not believe the Australian headlines: Man Charged for Setting Dogs onto Toddler!

Firstly one would have to question the mental age of the so-called “man”? Then who on earth would encourage dogs to attack a child? Then how was that done? The questions will probably NEVER be answered here - unless we were to follow the case through the courts - but I feel for the child - and the 2 Staffordshire Bull Terriers who may have been led to frenzy somehow by this idiot - and are probably already dead as a result!

What a fool of a man - and how sad - the end result!

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There is no doubt - a Staffordshire Bull Terrier is a powerful dog, with powerful jaws - one once specifically bred to fight other animals. So it goes without saying that - like many other powerful dogs, the potential for aggression exists.

With younger dogs it’s important to gently but firmly control aggression - from around 4 weeks, getting the dog to accept you as leader! If you do not do this, the dog may try to establish itself in a position where it sees you as the under-dog quite literally.

Now please - this training should be done as gently as is possible, I know that men in particular can be too harsh with dogs, as some of the articles I’ve posted on here on cruelty will suggest!

If you have a dog that growls at you as a pup - all that is needed is to hold the pup at your eye level and growl; until it stops growling at you! Often it may lick your nose as a sign that it has submitted!

Nothing stronger than this or some simple - Time Out in a cage or darkened room is necessary on puppies!

Once male dogs get older though - there may be another challenging period around 12 months of age or so - you might call this stage the “troublesome teenager” stage!

Here a male dog, may make another attempt to dominate you - and this may even take the form of some quite nasty sounding growling!

This can be a really difficult stage - and we’re told is the point at which many dogs are destroyed; as a result of the human fear of the dog becoming dangerous!

As I write this article - we are experiencing this phase in our first ever male Staffordshire. Up until now we have only kept females and put our bitches out to stud dogs!

Our 12 month red male has taken to some quite nasty sounding growling - whenever he’s asked to do something he does not like!

I must admit, when I first saw and heard it for myself; I was concerned that we may have to have him euthanised! But we are persisting with training him for the moment - and I will report on his progress! Needless to say, this is quite serious for us - and for him!

Through reading books on Canine Behaviour, we have established this as Dominance Aggression - a period where he’s trying to position himself as dominant over our 4 bitches - but also over us!

This is UNACCEPTABLE - and we will not permit him to continue with this behaviour!

Treatment for him at present, consists of treating him as if he does not exist for most of the time! And when we DO acknowledge him, e.g., at meal times - it is ALWAYS with some request from him to do something for us!

In other words when we feed him - we always make him DROP - before he eats and only allow him to eat - once he has done this!

Or when he omes to us for attention, he only gets the attention after he has done the Sit or something similar. The idea is to get the dog to accept your control of him - NOT the other way around!

Please be gentle - and have a heart - I am NOT asking you to be cruel!

You should already have trained him to Drop prior to this, so just get him to Drop and then say OK or whatever you normally do before he is released!

Excuse me if I’m cautious in how I explain myself, but one of our bitches came from an abusive home and I believe many owners are just too heavy handed in discipline!

Besides there are a lot of “Dropkicks” out there; who’s very small ego means that they think they need a tough dog to be complete, these types are often cruel to dogs also, believing that by fostering aggression in a dog, they’re somehow heroes!

SHEESH!

We have just started this phase of his anti-aggression training and already have begun to see some changes - but we are NOT finished yet! Stay tuned for news on his progress!

Steve

Dog Food Video - Do You Believe They Really Care About Your Dog?

Firstly - let me introduce myself, I’m an Author who has written several Ebooks, on topics as varied as Cheese-making, Sausage-making, BBQ and more!

My name is Steve Gaskin and I’m also a Doglover! Now - let me state clearly and up front - I am very much, ANTI most commercial dog food!

I sincerely believe that MOST commercial dog food (there are exceptions) is pretty poor quality, and recent and past stories of dog food contamination, will support those claims!

I really do care about dogs - hence the name Dogloverstoolbox, lets see if I can’t get your dog even just a temporary reprieve from a life sentence of what really amounts to trash in a can or tasteless kibble made from waste products?

What if - you just gave your pooch a couple of days a week where you “let him off”?

And since you like convenience - I’ll make it just about as easy as opening a can?

Try this - purchase a couple of the big home brand cans of salmon, tuna or mackerel from the supermarket. If you have access to a catering supply store, you’ll be able to get bigger cans, REALLY cheap and might even find sardines in tomato sauce in large cans. Most dogs LOVE canned fish and there’s nothing wrong with it, it’s an excellent source of protein, vitamins and loaded with minerals - AND there are no preservatives, its simply cooked in the can!

Now also pick up a couple of (500g/1 pound) packets of rice, one white and one brown! Follow the microwave directions on the packets and cook enough rice for 2 days (generally 1/2 cup each white and brown for medium sized dogs) this will only be 1 serve/day for large dogs and might last 3 or 4 days in the fridge for the little guys.

Allow the rice to cool - then open the can of tuna, salmon or mackerel, drain off the brine or oil and mix with the rice, toss in some cooked chopped spinach too if you have it? Feed that to your dog a couple of days a week - he or she will love you for it!

Steve

OK - so you have decided that you want to buy a Pedigreed dog, to make sure that you get what you pay for? Well there are a couple of traps to be wary of; particularly if you think you might like to Show or even Breed at a later date?

When we were amateurs, we thought that if you bought a pedigreed dog, then you were guaranteed of getting a good dog, free of defects. Not so - some breeders will still knowingly sell a dog with a defect, and just not mention it. We found that out when we got our first ever Pedigree Staffordshire Bull Terrier - she had the Short Toe Defect mentioned on this site in video and via an article. So you still need to be alert and get the dog checked over by a Pro!

But there is another potential problem - lurking for the unwary!

The problem is that of restrictions placed on YOUR Dog, restrictions put there by the breeder, via the pedigree registration!

And this is much more common than most people know! To have ALL rights to what you can do with a pedigreed dog, your dog MUST be registered on the MAIN Register.

Registration on the Main Register enables you to:

a) Show your dog in ANY type of Show you choose, including Conformation Shows, Trials etc
b) Breed from your dog or bitch
c) Register pups that your bitch produces
c) Export any pups that your bitch should produce

The Main Registration certificate is generally blue - the blue colour denoting the lack of restrictions.

BUT there’s another type of registration, not often talked about - called Limited Registration. Dogs on the Limited Register - are, - well, what can I say…. limited!

This register was originally designed to restrict the use of pups/dogs that were perhaps not up to par - but still allowed them to be sold etc. I guess that’s better (from a Doglovers perspective) - otherwise some of these dogs may have ended being destroyed. But the Limited Register can also be abused - if a Breeder wants to control!

Limited Register pups and adult dogs:

a) Cannot be shown dog in Conformation Shows, but are allowed in Trials and Obedience Shows etc
b) Cannot be bred from
c) If you do breed anyway - pups simply CANNOT be Registered
c) Prevents the export of any pups that your bitch should produce

The Limited Register certificate is generally pink - with the pink colour denoting the restrictions on the dog. In the wrong hands the Limited Register can be used by people who want to control Show Ring results and keep winning awards with reduced competition! Be aware that this does occur - believe it or not some people build their self esteem on how well their dogs do in the Show Ring!

IMPORTANT NOTE - THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN UN-DO A LIMITED REGISTRATION - IS THE BREEDER THEMSELVES!

So - REMEMBER TO ASK - DOES MY PEDIGREE INCLUDE REGISTRATION ON THE MAIN REGISTER? If the person is evasive or does not answer you forthrightly - it may be time to look for another breeder?

Steve

CAN YOU IMAGINE A LIFE - SENTENCED TO EATING THIS TYPE OF FOOD?

I’ll show you how to QUICKLY and EASILY make food that dogs LOVE and is EXTREMELY GOOD for them - while you SAVE Around $800 PER DOG - in the FIRST YEAR ALONE!?

A once off INVESTMENT that repays you more than 60 TIMES OVER, per dog per year! That’s about 6000% p.a. ROI per dog (return on investment)!

Depending on what recipe you choose and the size of dog you own - it’s saves about $10,000 over the average (13 year) life of a dog!

Pays YOU BACK in 2 weeks TOPS - from then on it MAKES YOU MONEY! (and yes we actually do this ourselves!) This is REAL Dog Food - food the way it should be!

Don’t get rid of your faithful hound, because money is so tight - keep your dog - REDUCE YOUR FEED BILL to just CENTS per day!

AND though you’ll SAVE up to $10,000 per dog over its life - your dog will likely live LONGER too - courtesy of the healthier, Ultra Premium, All Natural Dog Food!

Home dog food makers enjoy MASSIVE Savings & Super Health benefits!

Thought of feeding natural home dog food - but been concerned that its going to take too long - or be too hard?

Home dog health food (especially RAW) is not hard at all - SMART greyhound racers and dog breeders have been doing this for CENTURIES: because of the HUGE SAVINGS, & better HEALTH, BREEDING & RACING performance to boot! And these guys often have dozens of dogs!

Here’s how easy it is:

Buy Quality MINCED Raw Meat - then just STIR THROUGH the vegetables, nuts and seeds, herbs and nutritious oils!

THAT’S IT! All you need to do to make Home Made RAW Ultra Premium Dog Food!

See healthy dog food MUST include MORE THAN JUST MEAT, since meat alone is lacking in many of the vitamins and minerals that a wild dog would normally get by ranging and eating a variety of foods.

As an example of our natural formulations - many of my healthy dog food recipes use human grade skinless chicken necks as a component - because of their low fat, high meat protein ratio and the fact that the SOFT bone content, removes any need for calcium supplements in the dogs diet!

RAW meat dog food dinners - are a super breeze - coz there’s just no cooking! And dogs just love it - because its so natural - the way they would eat food if they were wild?

But you will also LOVE what I’m about to send you:

Feed a 16 kg (35 lb) dog from around 70c per day!

It’s step by step

It’s fast and easy to do

This (and the ingredients) is all you need

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System PAYS for ITSELF in a week or two!

Save around $700-$800 per year - about $10,000 over a 13 year avg. dogs life!

Here in Australia we save approx. $15 per dog/week when compared to commercial dog food - that’s $780 per dog per YEAR.

Low - one time Investment pays back around SIXTY TIMES in the 1st year alone!

Maximise your dog’s life and health; with Ultra healthy food!

It’s Smarter - that’s why most Greyhound racers and Dog Breeders (Pro’s) do this

It’s also LAB TESTED

Click here to see the full Lab report of my base recipe, which comes in at just OVER 29% PROTEIN (8.6g/29.2g solids).

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Here’s feedback from just some of my clients:

Hi Steve,

Just a quick little story, over the past two weeks we’ve been flat chat………and I realised I’d run out of my home made dog food and knowing I didn’t have time to cook some, in an emergency I bought one of those *** (brand) Chicken Rolls.

Two days later my Staffy Jay started scratching madly. The next day he was red raw and couldn’t even walk properly, I doused him with medicine but the next morning he’d scratched himself to bleeding. I was about to take him up the vet when I suddenly said, “You idiot!” Pete turned to ask what I’d meant - I said they’ve been eating the dog food (commercial stuff).

I cooked all day (Carol prefers Cooked - I give you BOTH systems) making up some of your recipes, last night he slept peacefully and this morning he’s as clear as can be and not a scratch happening. Just goes to show what crap and preservatives are in the manufactured dog food - I’ll never ever let myself run out out of home cooked food for them again.

Cheers, Carol C. Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

EVERYONE should be feeding their dogs from these fantastic recipes, thankyou!

Great ebooks very happy with purchase would highly recommend thankyou A+A+A

What a fantastic read. Thankyou. The dogs are going to love it…

Thanks! Great eBooks. Awesome Information and Recipies! AAAAA+++++

Looks great and can’t wait to cook up some yummy treats for our puppy!

Great variety of recipes, clearly explained, instant delivery .. Thanks!!

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Each RAW & Cooked Dog Food Ebook & Video Training System contains:

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2 x How to Ebooks - with step by step instructions.

Free Making Dog Food Videos.

1 x BONUS Doglovers Oil Formula Ebook - Super healthy, Omega 3 & Omega 6, essential fatty acid supplement recipe.

1 x BONUS Ebook - 140 Page Pamper Your Dog - 130 Recipes for Dog Treats.

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Note: - Aussies only - if you prefer, you can pay by Money Order also - send $19.95 to PO Box 360, Koroit, Vic 3282
Remember to include your email AND mailing address, so I can email and post the CD to you.

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DON’T FORGET this also includes the complete system for Cooked food - so you can choose either, or do both for taste and variety?

TIPS

OPTION 1) The easiest way to make home made COOKED dog food is to plan ahead, buy in bulk and make enough for a month. This will mean a bit of work up front, but then what follows is a month of ease and simplicity! As easy as defrosting a packet in your fridge and feeding your dog its pre-weighed serving.

The only disadvantage is if you have more than one dog - or a larger breed, you will need to cook a fairly large quantity and this will take a few hours. But once it’s done, you can put your feet up for the next 30 days!

OPTION 2) The next method is to cook enough for a week, divide it in half freeze one half and keep the rest in the fridge, where it will safely keep for 3-4 days. Once you get down a bit - remove the 2nd half from the freezer into the fridge to safely and slowly defrost.

This is easier - because of the smaller quantities, but does mean you’ll need to cook weekly.

Now if you want to save even more - buy whole meat chunks and mince it yourself - though you’ll save money - it takes more work so is only for super serious home dog food makers!

****OPTIONAL TOOLS Grinder/Mincers

Pre-minced meat is obviously the fastest, simplest way to make home dog food - because all of that mincing is done for you! But if you’re really a HANDS ON sort of person and not fussed about a bit of extra work - these enable you to buy cheaper whole cuts and mince your own meat, but are also FANTASTIC for processing whole vegetables like carrots, peas, sweet potato and other vegetables that we believe are a VITAL part of any Home-made Dog Food Recipe.

Basic Hand powered unit

Or for just a little more you can get a small electric unit!

1/2 HP Pro grinder/mincer about twice the price of the smaller electric unit - but really powerful and durable!

OK - now go - and WATCH YOUR DOG get HEALTHIER right before your eyes and save yourself big wads of cash too!

Steve

Non-Metric users (US, Canada & UK) Get ALL Ebooks - Top Dog RAW - and Top Dog COOKED Systems plus Videos, Bonus Ebooks - INSTANT DOWNLOAD only - for US $12.75

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