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Canine Health Concern
Canine Health Concern was formed in 1994 by Catherine O'Driscoll, after
two of her beautiful young Golden Retrievers - Oliver and Prudence - tragically died. She asked, 'why?', and the answers that came back were sufficiently disturbing to make her feel that independent research was necessary - free from commercial bias. Catherine was sent scientific papers which told her that commercial pet food was nutritionally inadequate, and that many deficiency diseases are the direct result of poor feeding. She also learnt that the annual shots we give to our pets each year, in the belief that we are protecting them from disease, are actually the largest cause of ill health in our pets today. http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/ CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Members of CHC who have reverted to a CHC-recommended natural diet have seen illnesses disappear and vet bills plummet. Our diet survey showed an 85 per cent drop in the number of veterinary visits once dogs were changed to real food. |
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Canine Health Concern
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chardonnay9 wrote: CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Not to throw some facts into the mix, but dogs date back about 15,000 years, not "millions." Carry on making **** up. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Canine Health Concern
On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:42:08 -0400, chardonnay9
wrote: Canine Health Concern was formed in 1994 by Catherine O'Driscoll, after two of her beautiful young Golden Retrievers - Oliver and Prudence - tragically died. She asked, 'why?', and the answers that came back were sufficiently disturbing to make her feel that independent research was necessary - free from commercial bias. Catherine was sent scientific papers which told her that commercial pet food was nutritionally inadequate, and that many deficiency diseases are the direct result of poor feeding. She also learnt that the annual shots we give to our pets each year, in the belief that we are protecting them from disease, are actually the largest cause of ill health in our pets today. http://www.canine-health-concern.org.uk/ CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Members of CHC who have reverted to a CHC-recommended natural diet have seen illnesses disappear and vet bills plummet. Our diet survey showed an 85 per cent drop in the number of veterinary visits once dogs were changed to real food. I know this will come as a real shock, but the above are not Chard's words; they're a quote from the web site. I wonder what the beautiful young Golden Retrievers tragically died from. |
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Canine Health Concern
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sighthounds & siberians wrote: I know this will come as a real shock, but the above are not Chard's words; they're a quote from the web site. But c'mon - isn't it AWESOME that Catherine was sent scintific papers? That means that you know it's all TRUE!!!!!!!! -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Canine Health Concern
Melinda Shore wrote:
In article , chardonnay9 wrote: CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Not to throw some facts into the mix, but dogs date back about 15,000 years, not "millions." Carry on making **** up. "Dogs have been around for millions of years. The fossil record shows three main groups of dogs. Hesperocyon (small and weasel-like) is one of the first branches in the canid family tree. The first group evolved in North America about 40 million years ago. Fossil evidence tells us that these first dogs looked like a cross between a weasel and fox. The name Hesperocyon (hess pur oh SYE on) means "western dog." The hesperocyonines became extinct about 15 million years ago. Epicyon haydeni, a borophagine who lived 10 to 5 million years ago, was the largest canid ever. The second group, the borophagines (bohr oh FAY jeens), began flourishing about 34 million years ago and were larger hyena-like animals with huge jaw muscles and sturdy teeth. They became extinct about 2.5 million years ago. Canis dirus, the dire wolf, was larger and more robust than today's wolves. It became extinct very recently, only about 10,000 years ago. The third group, the canines (KAY nines), includes the extinct dire wolf and all living species of canines. This group occurred only in North America until about 7 million years ago, when some species crossed a land bridge to Asia." Natural History Museum http://www.nhm.org/exhibitions/dogs/...evolution.html Facts??? |
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Canine Health Concern
Melinda Shore wrote:
In article , chardonnay9 wrote: CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Not to throw some facts into the mix, but dogs date back about 15,000 years, not "millions." Carry on making **** up. "Darwin was wrong about dogs. He thought their remarkable diversity must reflect interbreeding with several types of wild dogs. But the DNA findings say differently. All modern dogs are descendants of wolves, though this domestication may have happened twice, producing groups of dogs descended from two unique common ancestors. How and when this domestication happened has been a matter of speculation. It was thought until very recently that dogs were wild until about 12,000 years ago. But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. This means that wolves began to adapt to human society long before humans settled down and began practicing agriculture. This earlier timing casts doubt on the long-held myth that humans domesticated dogs to serve as guards or companions to assist them. Rather, say some experts, dogs may have exploited a niche they discovered in early human society and got humans to take them in out of the cold." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li.../l_015_02.html Facts??? |
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Canine Health Concern
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chardonnay9 wrote: "Dogs have been around for millions of years." Hey, dumbass - that's the canid family. Maybe you can't differentiate among wolves, foxes, coyotes, dingos, jackals, and domesticated dogs, but that doesn't mean there's no distinction. Sheds an interesting light on your dog training practices in any event. "Of *course* they behave like hyenas! That's the way nature wants it." So what's the deal - do you just do a web search and cut-and- paste the first thing you come across whether it's relevant or not? Do you think this is going to convince anybody who reads for content? -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Canine Health Concern
chardonnay9 wrote:
Melinda Shore wrote: In article , chardonnay9 wrote: CHC advocates real food for dogs. That is, food that Mother Nature has designed, over millions of years, and which has made the species thrive for millions of years. Not to throw some facts into the mix, but dogs date back about 15,000 years, not "millions." Carry on making **** up. "Darwin was wrong about dogs. He thought their remarkable diversity must reflect interbreeding with several types of wild dogs. But the DNA findings say differently. All modern dogs are descendants of wolves, though this domestication may have happened twice, producing groups of dogs descended from two unique common ancestors. How and when this domestication happened has been a matter of speculation. It was thought until very recently that dogs were wild until about 12,000 years ago. But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. This means that wolves began to adapt to human society long before humans settled down and began practicing agriculture. This earlier timing casts doubt on the long-held myth that humans domesticated dogs to serve as guards or companions to assist them. Rather, say some experts, dogs may have exploited a niche they discovered in early human society and got humans to take them in out of the cold." http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/li.../l_015_02.html Facts??? Hey! This means they haven't eaten a pure Wolf Diet in a LOT loner than many people think! (Good lord, was this supposed to be new info?) |
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Canine Health Concern
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chardonnay9 wrote: But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. Millions of years, 130,000 years - only a nit-picker who's OUT TO GET YOU would notice the difference. -- Melinda Shore - Software longa, hardware brevis - Prouder than ever to be a member of the reality-based community |
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Canine Health Concern
"Melinda Shore" wrote in message ... In article , chardonnay9 wrote: But DNA analysis published in 1997 suggests a date of about 130,000 years ago for the transformation of wolves to dogs. Millions of years, 130,000 years - only a nit-picker who's OUT TO GET YOU would notice the difference. Typically and predictably, Melinda, it is you who picks nits in your effort to belittle anything Chard has to say. The point is that dogs and other canids have been eating a natural and raw diet for most of their history, while processed foods and vaccinations and neutering surgery are relatively recent. It is much the same for humans, and many of our diseases can be traced to our diet and other lifestyle choices. I personally don't think kibble is all that bad, for most dogs, and I don't think there is all that much difference in quality and nutrition between plain old Purina and most of the high price brands. But I also feel good about giving Muttley raw beef hearts and marrow bones, as well as some human food. He seems to thrive on almost anything. I believe that is largely due to the fact that he is not unduly stressed and he is happy and relaxed. Paul and Muttley |
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