The Alpha Dominance is not the way to go!

Dog Training and the Myth of Alpha-Male Dominance

Why Victoria Stilwell and other experts are opposed to the submission techniques exposed by 'Dog Whisperer' Cesar Millan

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2007250,00.html#ixzz0vCuGixhq

I ran across this article and wanted to share it with all of you.

DVD review - We Will Miss You

We Will Miss You - support for grieving the death of a pet.

When I first started to view this video I wasn't sure how it would help someone in a grieving state.  As the video continued I did come to realize that it did have value.  There are professional people talking about their journey of when their pet passed.  It is heart felt and has good resources.  Everyone expresses that you go at your own pass in your own way.  Having had many animal friends and family that have passed on through different ways, I reflected on how I felt and how this video would have helped.  This is a good video to watch in the first stages of grief because you are so tender and vulnerable. It's also short, 30 minutes.

This gets 3 1/2 paws out of 4

Jefferson County Public Library

Amazon

Here are a few pet loss grief and support links - there are many online just put into your search animal grief support. Blessings.

Association for Pet Loss

Pet Loss Net

Pet Loss Grief Support

What is Self Healing?

Self healing is a process of recovery, a place where the body is able to draw on it's own natural resources to heal physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.  As a facilitator, I guide the "body" into a place where it can access the natural in-born rhythms that have been "knocked" out of place from some form of event in the life of the animal and/or the people in their lives.  This is accomplished through interspecies communications,  different modalities of healing energy therapies and complementary support.

Book Review - Underwater Dogs

This book is filled with amazing pictures of dogs just having fun in the water!  The photographs are incredible due to the view being from Under the water and not from the view point of the surface.  You get to experience what it must feel like to dive into the water after a ball or stick or a toy or anything else.

Here are a couple of links for you

Jefferson County Public Library

Amazon

Barnes and Nobles

Recalls on pet food

Below are links to pet food recalls for 2013.

Please make sure you are also not buying and feeding your animal companions products (food or treats) AND toys made and or manufactured from China. Just say NO! Aire on the side of caution.

I was feeding treats (Dogswell) to my Shiba, a jerky product that says on packaging it is safe from no added hormones, no antibiotics, no fillers, no byproducts and was cage free. The company is an American company BUT it produces some of it's products in China.   http://www.dogswell.com/qualityassurance  I stopped feeding her the treats (they were feed just as a treat & not to be meal replacement) just as a precaution, and that was all that I changed. The dandruff stopped and her coat was much better and so was her general health (weight) and behavior.

Because of strong encouragement from a fellow animal communicator I stopped any treats from China and started making my own.   If you wouldn't eat it or give it to your child, then do the same for the pet(s) in your life.  

Just because it is made in the USA doesn't mean it's not going to have issues as well as with the all the recalls that are going on.  Buyer beware is always the best policy. 

You might want to read this article
http://www.poisonedpets.com/wary-pet-parents-need-to-know-made-in-the-usa-dont-mean-diddly-squat/

 In future blogs I will give you some recipes that I have used and found safe.

https://www.avma.org/news/issues/recalls-alerts/pages/pet-food-safety-recalls-alerts.aspx

http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recalls/

http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/resources/facts/pet_food_safety.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/cat-food-recall-2013-full-list-products-states-where-diamond-pet-food-has-been-recalled-low-levels

http://www.petmd.com/news/topics/alert-recalls#.UW8VkaL_mSo

Here's a link for good info from Dr. Karen Becker that explains how the FDA is not protecting your animal companions. Highly recommended to be part of her email newsletter.

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2012/09/14/chicken-jerky-treats-fda-warning.aspx?e_cid=20120914_PetsNL_art_1
  

The food that I have found to be continually safe is Stella and Chewy's
http://www.stellaandchewys.com/index.php   it is my Shiba's food of choice along with ZiwiPeak
http://www.ziwipeak.com/

Be healthy and be well!

The Process

This adventure in learning and using engery healing modalites has been a very eye opening experience.  I have learned and experienced that there is more than we realize to being in this life.