FDA Makes No Bones About it, Advises Against Bones For Dogs

Here is an interesting article from "www.dogster.com"

http://dogblog.dogster.com/2010/04/22/fda-makes-no-bones-about-it-advises-against-bones-for-dogs/?utm_source=dogster%2Bnewsletter&utm_medium=pull%2Blink&utm_campaign=100427

DROP IN SESSIONS

These sessions are for clients only! (that means ANY of you who have ever gone through training with The Ruff Life) However, you are more then welcome to come and watch.

Keep checking back, as Ill post more drop in/fun sessions shortly.

DROP IN SESSIONS: EXISTING GROUP SESSIONS

Time & Date: Wednesday , April. 28th at 6pm-7:30pm
Place: Bx Dog Park
Bring: Treats, long leads
Price: FREE
Working on: Distractions, Distance, and informal commands, come command (out of play), tricks and problem behaviour.

Time & Date: Saturday, May.1st at 10am-11:30am
Place: Bx Dog Park
Bring: Treats, long leads
Price: FREE
Working on: Distractions, Distance, informal commands, come command (out of play), tricks and problem behaviour.

Time & Date: Monday , May.3rd at 3pm-4:30pm
Place: Bx Dog Park
Bring: Treats, long leads
Price: FREE
Working on: Distractions, Distance, and informal commands, come command (out of play), tricks and problem behaviour.

Time & Date: Wednesday, May.5th at 3pm-4:30pm
Place: Bx Dog Park
Bring: Treats, long leads
Price: FREE
Working on: Distractions, Distance, informal commands, come command (out of play), tricks and problem behaviour.

TRACKING:

Time & Date: Saturday, May.8th at 3pm-4:30pm
Place: Forest Tree Plantation - Follow Mission Hill Rd past Hy Country Kennels, Turn RIGHT on Bench Row Rd. It will be on your Left hand side.
Bring: bug spray, long leads, treats.
Price: $10

Here is a map of the dog parks: http://www.greatervernonrecreation.ca/pdf/dog_parks.pdf

All the dogs can do this big or small. We teach the owners how to lay a scent/track. The dogs find their owners by air or ground scenting. It is a total blast!!!

THIS PRODUCT IS HIGHLY TOXIC TO DOGS AND CATS

Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other Garden supply stores contains a lethal ingredient called 'Theobromine'. It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks.

Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.

Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company's web site,

This product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats.

Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim that "It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won't eat it."
*Snopes site gives the following information:http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp *