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walkos5

slistoe wrote:
Vonzeppelinkennels wrote:Who's angry you guys amuse me!!
He thought I was angry when I pointed out the obvious to him as well.

Your always angry, and between you and your brother there's enough anger there to use as a new source of energy..

walkos5

All bones are not equal, nor is the administering of them to dogs yet one often reads "feeding bones" and the plusses of that as being the operative phrase and thought...the details where the devil resides then falls behind the need to appear knowledgeable or the young Mr. Wizard of Dogs. When some...

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Walkos my point is you have one frickin dog so you say that hasn't lived it's life yet so the end result of your perfect raw diet has NO CONCLUSION.I have owned not sure how many dogs over more then 40 yrs. They eat kibble & not the most expensive on the market they live long lives,they perform,the...

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Any dog consuming bones or corncobs or whatever is playing a bit of Russian roulette with megaesophagus. That is not a good thing to experience. Whether the swallow was by accident or by a dog being a dog is one thing.....owner induced or applauded, another. Well I don't feed my dog corn cobs but m...

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I was very recently shown a series of photos from a surgery on a raw fed mastiff - the dog died- where a large amount of undigested chicken bones had accumulated and caused a blockage and then a perf with subsequent infection.Made me rethink my practice of giving RMBs to my crew. I'd rather brush a...

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Walkos a friend of mines Dobe Choked to death on a piece of raw liver yrs ago why is that? I had a dog that got hold of a fox skull that died from impacted bowels.why is that? Sorry about your dog Vonzepp. We caught the impacted bowel in time with our Lab and the vet was able to do surgery to save ...

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Walkos a friend of mines Dobe Choked to death on a piece of raw liver yrs ago why is that? I had a dog that got hold of a fox skull that died from impacted bowels.why is that? Too little info on the Dobe. What was his regular diet? How big was the liver and did he swallow is so fast because he was ...

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Wow, we must have really dumb dogs not only do they LOVE Purina Pro Sport, AKA PPP, they have also eaten corn that was on the ground when we have been hunting. They have also eaten the cracked corn I spilled when feeding pigeons. They look great, are healthy, only vet bills besides shots have been ...

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My Brittany is my first gun dog I've ever trained and this has been my first year hunting over him. He's 1.5 years old and very birdy. I hunt in central Oregon which often means either steep hills or marshy terrain in cattails taller than I am. The difficulty is that this terrain is often not condu...

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All good information here but I think I'll stick to the natural feed my dog has been doing so well on since he was a pup. The truth is, I have too much time invested in him to throw him cheap kibble and take chances. Actually I don't much like eating processed foods either and stay away as much as p...

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I think, laddybuck, that in this issue you find comfort in trying to stack the deck with fear and hatred to cloud or divert attention away from your mistakes in adult 1+1 and business 2+2 by trying to capitalize upon the frustrations, both real and imagined, of others...a common enough ploy on both...

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Vonzeppelinkennels wrote:

:roll: :roll:

walkos5

Now lad, I was the one who acknowledged that all is not roses and sunshine, most enviros are missing the real concerns in favor of the popularly parroted Internet ones....you tho acknowledge nothing but doom and gloom from some pretty questionable leaps to judgment and rather obvious and sad prejud...

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Both you and Slistoe aren't getting my angle. I'm getting your angle, just not buying it. A bunch of buzz words, misinformation and a little hysteria thrown in for good measure. Why aren't you going after the EPA for giving the permit for 5 million gallons of surface water to be dumped down a hole?...

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First, "evil" is one of those words that belies your agenda as well as your immature manner of looking at this issue. The O&G industry has been in Pa. for quite a while.....with secondary and tertiary recovery operations for decades, often with quite modern use of various polymers, etc. Horizontal ...

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......A small group of concerned individuals stood up to Goliath and won. We did everything we could do within our power to protect our precious drinking water and won. No wells near our drinking water..... Well, :D that would be one way to look at it. :D :D Still, if you feel good then good for yo...

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There you go deluding yourself again. You live in America - who in America strives to "get by"? How is that the fault of "big xxxxx"? The only thing limiting the development of other energy resources is economics - unless you are the people you decry (big money) you would never afford to buy electr...

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Yes, there is a reason for the water tanks...in the far SW of Pa. it is likely Murray...and Murray means coal and Coal issues of the past that must be dealt with in the present...not the Marcellus. Also, "scattered" ......over a state the size of Pa. is more than a mite exaggerated and could leave ...

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I felt badly for you before walk05, now I feel very poorly for you. A pawn in the game of psuedo-environmentalists trying to make money by decrying money. Are you driving a vehicle and heating a house? There is only one way to stop the development of energy resources and that is to eliminate demand...

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Actually, lad...coal mining in years past has impacted the environment negatively, I agree.Folks do love to live in the past, don't they? and refuse to see true advances long underway...but, I also agree, MTR is not a sound idea.My mention of coal mines though was related to the shallow gas that ha...

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Speaking of billionaires and Big Whatever, Coal to Oil to Ag to Timber to...whatever, re any great environmental distress is in error...certainly in this country. However, for China and India, not so much. If you are speaking of the Marcellus and Utica, there can be negative issues with any boom. T...

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You have made the first step but there is much more you can do. Just don't give up but rather try to find the answers why we are living longer, eating better, and are healthier today than we were yesterday. That may stop soon the way we are progressing but so far we are OK. And remember big oil, bi...

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All good suggestions, I think I would go with Munster's advice if I had to choose one.

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But not tough enough as it was commonplace for people to die in their 40's and 50's from many illnesses and many were food related till we became capable of producing synthetic vitamins and had a better understanding of nutrition. It was at that time we also found we could solve a lot of problems w...

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I have watched dogs literally step on a bird and have no idea it was there. The same dog would later find the same bird, in the same location, from 100 feet away - depending on which way he was to the wind. Many people believe in "scent washing" making birds that have just flown and landed more dif...

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Watch the wind. It makes no diffence how fast a dog hunts if he has a good nose. The faster, the better. If he came past a bird, only 10' away and downwind and didn't scent it, I would seriously question his nose. No nose, no dog. Actually we were kind of down deep in a grown in drainage area, not ...

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Especially the raw fed ones and I totally agree about the processed foods. That's why I start my garden in late march and still get some veggies into early November. Freeze a lot too.

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It has been said for years that our dogs eat better than we do and it has been proven to be pretty much true. Dog food is much better nutritionally than any of our cereals and we do mix a complete well balanced feed and sell it to the masses. The reason it is sold in a bag is that is about the only...

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https://www.avma.org/News/Journals/Collections/Documents/javma_220_9_1315.pdf They ate Purina foods. Retrospective analysis of human food consumption is not going to cut it. Warm fuzzies and what we'd "like to think" are not sound science. The majority of human nutritional deficiencies are correcte...

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If there is one thing I would like to correct it is that for about the first hour of our hunts he covers ground too fast or is rushing the hunt and I want him to pace himself better? Take him out for longer hunts, back to back. He should figure it out. Although if he is not slowing down to a stop d...

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I'm still waiting for this fact to actually be addressed. The only paired litter mate study I know of that looked at longevity is the Purina one and what was fed was not the issue but amounts fed and lean body scoring did have an impact:http://veterinarynews.dvm360.com/dvm/ar ... p?id=26745Dogs liv...

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My Brittany is a pointer some days and a flusher on other days and it doesn't really bother me because we always get birds and have fun. I do think he has the natural instinct to circle birds and put them between us because he does bust lots of birds and 90% of them fly in my direction and some righ...

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:D I was just emulating the same rational thought process that has been demonstrated in your comments. Do I need to worry? I see you have been displaying your usual charm while I've been away. By the way do you always feel the need to bail out your loose lipped friend every time he gets in a jam? :...

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Yeah, I fed raw for a few years when I was raising ferrets and mink for fur - didn't make much sense to feed the dogs something other than what I was feeding the critters. Otherwise I have fed kibble for the entire life of all my dogs - but one that one we switched to canned when she turned 17 and ...

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I think rudeness is not just an internet culture it's every day life period.No one has any respect for anything & when you show disrespect you will be disrespected in return!! That's human nature. So when some one comes on this forum & pretty much disrespects 99% of the members right from the start...

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Diamond's recall due to salmonella was a production issue, not an ingredients issue. Which anyone who actually read the FDA report would know. If they were being intellectually honest, that is. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/CentersOffices/OfficeofGlobalRegulatoryOperationsandPolicy/ORA/ORAE...

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You need to get out from under that rock on the side of the mountian you live on.....grow up. I only stated what I found on Diamond's site for everyones benefit. You decide to be nasty here on a 2 week old post, made so others didn't need to go look up the same thing again (for diamond users) is ob...

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Diamond only states all ingredients are from food grade distributors, I would like to imagine there is no "food grade" chicken coming in from China as the mid Atlantic area of the east coast is covered in Chicken houses. How about asking them if they add cheap vitamins from china because I noticed ...

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Do federal labeling laws require manufacturers to disclose if a product is made overseas? What about if it's made in the U.S., but an ingredient comes from overseas? Yes, to #1. Country of Origin would be where the product is made into the form that it is sold. If the food is made in Germany with i...

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$50 for Snake avoidance and $10 for Rattle snake vaccine is cheap insurance. Paying $1300-1800 for snake bite treatment with anti-venom. Giving advice to take your chances by doing nothing is not poor advice, it is Bad advice . :roll: Like leaving a loaded hand gun with a 6 yr old, even if they are...

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Hey Benjammin, Your concern is probably common for those who hunt in snake country but from my experience with my dog I think they have a natural built in respect for snakes and would avoid or at least keep his distance in the event he is confronted by DO NOT GO FOR THIS ADVISE! I hunt a in a very ...

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lol, I bow to your vast wealth of knowledge based on one hunting dog and one black racer. I humbly bow out..... :lol: Here's a neat little article for you to read, I know how much you like google search. http://www.beaglesunlimited.com/training/training-your-hunting-dog-avoid-snakes Summer months a...

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Hey Benjammin, Your concern is probably common for those who hunt in snake country but from my experience with my dog I think they have a natural built in respect for snakes and would avoid or at least keep his distance in the event he is confronted by one. I'm from PA and we have Eastern Timber Ra...

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Hey Benjammin, Your concern is probably common for those who hunt in snake country but from my experience with my dog I think they have a natural built in respect for snakes and would avoid or at least keep his distance in the event he is confronted by one. I'm from PA and we have Eastern Timber Rat...

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Walkos this is pretty much why we ALL think your full of BS,you know nothing about any ones vet bills but your own.My foundation female lived to be 2 mos over 15 yrs old I bought her when she was 7 wks old.She went to the vet one time in her life when she got an infection between her shoulder blade...

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What vet bills? please elaborate mr one dog owner..... I've had dogs, multiple dogs for the last 35 years and see a vet very very infrequently, just for rabies shots every 3 years mostly...... BTW- Your Britt is 9 or 10 lbs over the breed standards high end......I've never seen a 50 lb britt. Pleas...

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Walkos this is pretty much why we ALL think your full of BS,you know nothing about any ones vet bills but your own.My foundation female lived to be 2 mos over 15 yrs old I bought her when she was 7 wks old.She went to the vet one time in her life when she got an infection between her shoulder blade...

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Now for what I feed my dog, high quality kibble. Like any healthy diet, it needs to be well rounded. Why should I spend countless hrs preparing my dogs food when there are companies out there that do it for a living and the results on my dog are desirable? I've always fed my pups kibble and have al...

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Around here the Dept. of Highways doesn't remove the road kill deer, nor the moose. They push them off to the side, give it 3 days and the coyotes have them gone - and I mean GONE. I don't doubt you but I just don't get it why hardly nothing eats our road kill deer, even in mid winter I watch the s...

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They kill young or weak deer in the winter too. They can catch them in the deep snow and one effective way they kill them is bite their muzzle around the nose and mouth and smother them. Sad but true. And yes, there is no doubt all meat you prepare can have these pathogens. The good thing about fee...

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