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Before You Buy a Puppy: Demand a ‘Puppy Fax’!
- 7-7-2009
- Categorized in: Alternative Pet Foods
Buying a puppy can be likened to buying a used car. When the car’s history is not known, smart shoppers demand a Car Fax report. Whether you are buying a used car or a puppy, the less educated you are, the more likely you will have expensive problems. The only way you will know for certain how a puppy’s mother was cared for; before, during, and post litter is to know the Breeder. Alas, buying direct from a Breeder is no guarantee that your puppy will be healthy! Breeders are often as ignorant of how to properly feed and supplement, as is the majority of MDs and Veterinarians in this country. Vitality Science hopes to change that for everyone’s sake.
Pet Store and Rescue Facility puppies are a high risk to develop weak immune systems. The greater the risk, the greater the probability they will require advanced vet care throughout their lives. Why? Most of the animals sold in rescue facilities were either abandoned, or from feral (wild) mothers. Feral females are often impregnated before they are physically mature, and often become pregnant again, while puppies (or kittens) are still on the teat! Feral mothers survive by scavenging for food. Scavenged food is likely to harbor pathogenic bacteria. At best, this bacterium causes mild diarrhea, however, more likely it will cause chronic diarrhea, which leads to dehydration and fever, quickly followed by more advanced digestive and immune diseases, which compromises the milk.
Since the mid-1980s, families and empty nesters’ have been buying Pet Store Puppies at a pace that has turned breeding facilities (puppy mills) into ‘Big Business’. Even though you may spend a lot of money for your new puppy, price is no guarantee of health! Most of these puppies come from ‘Puppy Mills’, where the living conditions are highly stressful to the mothers. This stress is passed genetically onto the puppies; affecting their disposition, personality and health. Mothers are often over bred, with no regard to replacing the nutrients lost to the prior litter. Puppy Mills also cut corners when it comes to food costs. Manufactured dog foods, despite label claims, are sorely lacking in nutritional value, and especially in human-grade animal protein that should make up the majority of a dog’s diet.
The living conditions in the puppy mill are highly stressful, but that is not the end of their stress. Premature weaning compromises the puppy’s developing immune system. Puppies are transported like cargo, in all kinds of adverse weather conditions; often going days without light, food or water, and living in their own feces and urine. Arrival to the pet store is also stressful. If they acclimate at all, the stress starts all over again coming to your home.
Bringing Your Puppy Home. No matter how healthy your puppy is, they will succumb to emotional stress; imagine the effect on a puppy with a weak immune system. New puppies experience stress on many levels; Meeting you, leaving the store, traveling and adjusting to your home, new people, new sounds, new smells, new food, other pets, and all the attention… Any one of these can cause your puppy to have diarrhea. First time puppy owners often panic, and run to the vet, where they will likely come home with antibiotics and steroids, and told to withhold food and water for 24-48 hours. That’s rough for a full grown dog, let alone a puppy. Stress related diarrhea can be quickly, and safely resolved by administering soil-based probiotic organisms (SBOs), clinically to restore bacterial balance.
Everyone wants to know What is The Best Food to Feed a Puppy? To answer that question, you need to understand a few things: 90% of your puppy’s total immune system is located in their digestive system. By providing the nutrients and supplements any puppy needs, you can supercharge their immune system and thus prevent most health crisis from developing later in life. Reinforcing the need to supplement the digestive system throughout your dog’s life; 80% of all chronic disease is caused by an unhealthy digestive system.
Manufactured dog food lacks the nutrition and supplements a dog needs to grow up healthy, and stay healthy. If your puppy is already weaned, the best food to help their young bodies and immune systems to develop properly is food that comes as close to their wild relatives diet as possible- high-quality animal protein. People who have switched to a raw diet report improvements in health, energy, and behavior: however, no matter what diet you choose, it needs to be supplemented with digestive enzymes, soil-based probiotic organisms (SBOs) and a complement of omega 3-6 oils; all are essential to develop and sustain a strong digestive/immune system.
Due to a lack of education as to the importance of diet to health, pet owners are paying a very high price in long-term care, and lowered life expectancy. Although this article seems to paint a dismal picture, by introducing an all-natural nursing and wean support formula as soon as you bring your puppy home, you can help kick-start their immune system, minimize their health risk, and optimize the enjoyment of your new companion !
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Also, I'm not sure about cats (I think they can as they come into heat every 3 months), but I know for a fact that it is nearly impossible for dogs to get pregnant while nursing (>99% impossibility). Dogs usually only come into heat every 6 months & it is unlikely they would be nursing puppies for over 4 months when their next heat comes along. Also, lactation tends to inhibit ovulation & thus pregnancy.
That was the first thing I noticed about this article too.. was come on.. a dog can not get pregnant again while still brestfeeding. I'm not really sure why the author went into such detail about feral dogs.. what does that have to do with a puppy fax?
The author gives no credit to dedicated hobby breeders who carefully screen potential breeding animals for health problems, as well as studying pedigrees and having an in-depth knowledge of the lines they are breeding. Puppies are raised with love and high quality care in their homes. Responsible breeders also screen potential buyers as carefully as they select the animals they breed.
Well---dedicated hobby breeders{back yard breeders} you are the reason that we have all the exsess animals we do . you say , you screen animals/people, and raise the pups in good conditions and manners.YOU dont keep them long enough to check in with them at 3 or 4 yrs . {when most cronic symptoms surface} and If you buy from a pet store or a back yard -I meen local hobby breeder, you are buying from a puppy mill!!! No female should be bred more than twice in a life time,for health sake. rescue a dog or cat. we have hundreds of thousands, do not support some one on the back of an animal !!
They even might have been over-crated but even so, this is nothing like the dire circumstances you will find at puppy mills. Ironically, everything stated above regarding puppy mills is absolutely true. I just don't why on earth anyone would make that statement in print. We need more people to adopt from shelters, where this could easily deter someone if they didn't know to research further.
The main thrust of Hart's report was intentially to relate to all populations to be wary in general and use this information to scrutinize any and every source for obtaining their pets. And though it talks about the detractors of health associated with buying from a puppy mill/pet store/backyard breeders and just merely accepting a tradesman's presumed claim to quality while not scrutinizing the credibility of such claims with regard to breeder reputation, nevertheless, in the trade of pets and pups, the breeding conditions and genetic origins, are circumstantial history of the bred animal is entirely undeterminable in most cases we as consumers encounter. Thus being the reality, we therefore must be concously aware of the probabilities as reality, and that is intended message of Hart's article. Hart is underscoring a rather bleak and, by his own admission, "dismal" fact is that the pet trade is withall, just what it is, and is here , driven by, good or bad, American "families and empty nesters", to withal, serve as the primary marketplace for pets to be bought and sold as a comodity, irregardless of health investment in puppy's developing immunity or much if any conciencous regard for the product's quality ; That it was also self-evident that among these, the reality is that the pet marketplace doesn't patrol itself with regard to conserving breeding standards or any thing else, and follows in turn, primaryly to supply a large number of newborn pets that supply a fittingly popular consumer end.
..... If report was percieved to bias or to condemn any one of the 3 popular ways a fair and just person would use to go about obtaining for themselves a new puppy, then maybe we should view it this as a result of our own making, e.g. our own self-centered way of exploiting our breeder's, our pets and each other through trade with a ruthless sense of market-driven consumer power leveraging us and to demand cheaper prices over quality. This is perhapsy a collective societal ill, but the plight of animals and others should be not overlooked and always seems to get lolst nevertheless, when it comes to the kind of mindset most people of have is a over- simplistic consumer approach and concept of trade with every thing they buy and self-righteously demand with their money, as it were. By assuming typical selfish role of consumer with the money, people automatically presume that thus grants them the satisfied, smug freedom from the burden of insuring product quality if, as it occurs to them, is supposedly always a given, and based, up front, solely that of the accountability with the dealer's garantee( be it pet store, a managed puppy mill operation, or dedicated, self-appointed breeder ) and accordingly, on his deserved reputation or on the merchant and his commercial business interest , rather than themselves as proactively aware and well-appointed consumers. And this is a unviversal complacency as a matter of fact: Bbuy a pet, like a car: it is just a matter of price and selection anyway .