Articles about dogs,
dog training, dog food, and dog health

published by Mogens Eliasen through K9joy^®

Here is an overview of articles relating to dogs, all published by Mogens Eliasen:

Dog training and dog behavior problems
Dog food and natural feeding
Maintaining good health for your dog
Other issues pertaining to dogs

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Articles related to

Dog Training and Behavior Problems:

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2006 APR 10	Consolidating or destroying your relationship with your dog? Few people understand that satisfying the dog's most obvious physical needs for food, water, exercise, etc. can lead to deterioration of their relationship with the dog! This does not mean that those needs should not be adhered to, but it means that there are some much more powerful emotional needs that should have a higher priority.... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 SEP 18	Using treats as a "bribe" - or as reward Many trainers refuse using treats as reward because "the dog will then only perform when you have a treat in the hand", as they claim. The problem here is that those trainers do not understand the difference between command and reward... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 APR 25	Teaching the dog English...? In order to make life easier on themselves, most people choose to use traditional spoken language, also in communication with their dogs, hoping that the dog will at least learn some English. It is not happening as intended. Instead, this practice drastically lowers the dog's speed of learning! URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 12	The solution to the problem behind "problem behavior" Why "correcting" the problem itself hardly ever works very long, but dealing with the true reason for the obnoxious behavior does... The solution calls for prevention, not correction. URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 12	The link between behavior and need Why eliminating unwanted behavior is next to impossible if you focus on the behavior... Only by allowing the dog to satisdfy the need behind the behavior, can you hope to redirect the energy into a more acceoptable behavior. URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 12	Is your dog bored? Keeping domesticated wolves as pets in a modern society is not free of conflicts - but they are not difficult to solve... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 12	Standard Obedience training: What is in it for the dog? Some important reasons why traditional obedience training does not work... URL for this article: Click here for access

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Dog Food and Natural Feeding:

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2007 MAY 12	When Too Good is Bad This articles discusses some physiological and genetic aspects of feeding a diet that is not natural. By making nutrients too easily available for the body to use, we actually cause irreversible damage, long-term. The determining principle behind this is Nature's fundamental rule "use it - or lose it!", which applies to all physiological processes in the body. This natural law requires that we let our dogs use their abilities to eat and diet raw natural food. If not, that ability will go lost, both for the individual dogs and for the species as such. URL for this article: Click here for access
2007 MAY 06	Conclusions from the Dog Food Recalls This lengthy article goes into detail with the true commercial reasons behind this scandal, and why it is naive to expect that anything will change in the way the big industries produce dog food in the future. Their media releases clearly indicate that they are not about to do anything at all, except for naming a foreign scapegoat that really is utterly irrelevant to the case, as the whole system behind the production continues to include cheap unnatural food components, and that is the true culprit behind the misery. The core of the problem is that the whole industry is based on a false pretense of cheap grain products and industrial waste products being OK to use as the main base for a carnivore diet - which is utterly nonsense from a responsible non-commercial health perspective. URL for this article: Click here for access
2007 MAY 05	Tom Lonsdale: "Open Secret: Giant USA Corporations Poison Pets" This article is written by Tom Lonsdale and brought here with his explicit permission. It discusses the recall scandal in lieu of the complete lack of regulations for the pet food manufacturing industry - which literally leaves the public completely vulnerable to the industry's self-regulation, which is nothing but deceit. URL for this article: Click here for access
2007 MAY 03	The Dog Food Recalls An overview of the facts of this scandal, as available from public sources - and what the case is all about. The article is based on the original article in "The Peeing Post", 2007 April 12, with some added/updated references. The article contains links to where people can get the education they need for handling the only sane alternative: boycotting big business as a food supplier for their dogs. URL for this article: Click here for access
2006 OCT 22	Preservation Chemicals in Dog Food In contrast to what is the case for human food producers in most countries, pet food manufacturers are not legally obliged to disclose what preservation chemicals they use…. What few people know is that the most common of those chemicals are outright illegal to use in human food, because of their dangerous properties! Or they are know to promote cancer in dogs… URL for this article: Click here for access
2006 JUN 01	Is it OK to Feed a Dog Table Scraps? Since the cave man's time, man has fed his dogs with his own garbage. Modern times, with kibble, are no different. The nature of the garbage has changed, though… And so has the answer to the question. URL for this article: http://k9joy.com/dogarticles/tablescraps.php
2005 SEP 14	Ian Billinghurst: "The Raw Truth - Separating Fact from Fiction" This article was submitted to "Dogs in Canada" in response to an article written by Hilary Watson and published in the September issue. Hilary Watson's article falsely pretended to be balanced, but was, in reality, a fake and unsustainable attempt to demonstrate that a raw food diet for dogs is a "bad" choice. With Ian Billinghurst's explicit permission, we like to bring his very eloquent answer, along with links to the original article and Mogens Eliasen's spontaneous comments. URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 MAY 02	The Dangerous(?) Vitamin A... There is a profound general fear amongst raw-feeders that they should overdose vitamin A. Sure, it is possible to kill with vitamin A - but the natural sources that contain enough to do any harm are so exotic that they truly do not deserve any concern, unless you feed with polar bear on a regular basis... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 MAR 26	Which "Raw" Guru is right? In the community of people who feed their dogs raw food, there are disputes and controversies between different belief systems that too often appear to do nothing but giving hesitant followers reason to go back to kibble… URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 NOV 30	Balancing the diet with logarithms… When discussing food and balance in nutrition, it is important to understand that chemical processes in the body are controlled by the same fundamental chemical laws as the rest of the Universe. One of the unpleasant consequences of this is that it gets impossible to understand how different chemicals impact each other, unless you comprehend that what matters for their energy and "value" for the body is not their concentration, but the logarithm of their concentration. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 NOV 16	Do you dare to feed a raw diet to your dog? Or do you really dare not to? It is amazing how people can argue about whether or not to feed their dog a raw diet instead of commercially available kibble products. Here are some facts that should be considered before you attempt to participate in that discussion! URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 SEP 21	Shifting to the ultimate carnivore feeding schedule… Once you comprehend that your carnivore companion, the domesticated wolf you have in your family, needs to ingest its food on some completely different terms than the two-legged primates in your family, the question is, how you manage the transition. This is a grade-7 level guide to managing the shift. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 SEP 15	What all carnivores are dying for... Most people feed their dogs from a perspective of what is good for a human. Unfortunately, the dog's digestive system is very different from that of a monkey, so such an approach causes a lot of conflict and undesired results. Few dog owners comprehend that the common practice of feeding at least once a day, if not more, seriously contradicts the dog's nature and leads to dog being constantly stressed by hunger! URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 FEB 14	Food Allergies - Part II: Identifying the Culprit The specific action plan - how you isolate your allergen through elimination and practical observation. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 FEB 14	Food Allergies - Part I: Preparing the Investigation A practical approach to identifying the source of the problem when you deal with food allergies - and how you find out if you indeed do have a food allergy and not an allergy caused by something else. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 JAN 28	When labels of mineral contents are misleading for the uninformed... Don't let fancy labels fool you! Minerals are important nutrients and often great for treatment of certain medical conditions - but it matters a lot in which form they are present - and, most often, this is not disclosed at all on the labels... URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 JAN 15 (Updated October 22, 2006)	Making your own delicious liver treats This is a simple recipe for the liver treats that have outperformed all other kinds of treats in regards to the amount of work most dogs are willing to do for them... Absolutely no preservatives are used - and they store quite well in the fridge or freezer. URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 JUNE 05	Why cooking of dog food can cause allergies and malnourishment Cooking (heating) food will cause a significant chemical change of it. Those change have a dramatic effect of a dog's ability to digest the food: many essential nutrients get destroyed - and others are created that cause trouble.... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 JUNE 05	Why your dogs need to fill its stomach on a regular basis Dogs do not have monkey stomachs! The digestive system of a canine is so completely different from that of a human that you cannot use humans standards for what is good for your dog... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 JUNE 05 (Updated October 22, 2006)	Balancing the Calcium/Phosphorous ratio in a raw diet for dogs Why supplementation can be outright dangerous! Managing difficult chemistry with ease for you and pleasure for the dog! URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 JUNE 05 (Updated October 22, 2006)	Why adding Vitamin C to your dog's diet is not always a wise thing to do... Dogs produce all the Vitamin C they need. If you add it also artificially in large amounts, you need to understand the biological chemical consequences of doing that - otherwise your good intentions will do more harm than good... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 JUNE 05 (Updated October 22, 2006)	The truth about Vitamin E The value of Vitamin E is indisputable - but should not be overestimated. Neither should you ignore the fact of synthetic vitamin E being chemically different from Vitamin E made by Nature. This may or may not matter much - it depends on the effect you want to achieve with the supplementing! URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 13	Why feeding your dog a consistent diet "on time" is a bad idea How misunderstood TLC can create completely unnecessary problems when shifting to a different food or having to change the scheduled feeding times... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 07	How you can avoid problems when shifting your dog's diet from "bad" to "good"... URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 07 (Updated October 22, 2006)	Grain or not in a dog's diet? Although grain is the cheapest available source of energy and it the major component of all commercial dog food, it should not be a regular main component of any dog diet at all. URL for this article: Click here for access
2003 MAR 07	Why fat in the diet isn't "bad" when you are a dog Fat is as important for dogs as carbohydrates are for humans - if they are served raw and not cooked... URL for this article: Click here for access

Articles related to

Maintaining good health for your dog:

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2006 APR 24	The Parvo Hysteria The article calls the bluff in the false pretenses from the pharmaceutical industries' and the veterinary professionals' exaggeration of the danger of Parvo. The true threat is against very young puppies, for whom vaccination simply is not a possible option; it has no effect, other than destroying their immune system! For adult dogs, Parvo is simply no worse than a flue for humans... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 SEP 27	Vaccines 4: What Should We Vaccinate Against? Vaccines are not free of risk; sometimes, their side effects can be outright devastating, crippling, or even fatal…. When considering whether or not to vaccinate, we need to compare a low risk of death with a high risk of misery. That is not easy - and most people unfortunately get so focused on the "worst case" that they create an unnecessary lowering of life quality for their dogs... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 SEP 27	Vaccines 3: Is vaccination worth the risk Vaccines are not free of risk; sometimes, their side effects can be outright devastating, crippling, or even fatal... When considering whether or not to vaccinate, we need to compare a low risk of death with a high risk of misery. That is not easy - and most people unfortunately get so focused on the "worst case" that they create an unnecessary lowering of life quality for their dogs... URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 SEP 26	Vaccines 2: Are vaccines reliable and safe? Vaccines are generally promoted as "safe prevention of disease". It is smart marketing. Although there do exist examples that indicate this could be right in some cases, there are also many examples known to demonstrate the exact opposite. It still remains a scientific fact that proof of efficacy of vaccines simply does not exist…. URL for this article: Click here for access
2005 SEP 24	The Rabies Threat Rabies has existed for millions of years, and it will most likely survive man on this Planet. It is a dreaded and feared disease with a mortality rate that is close to 100% for those that contract it: there are only 7 cases known of survivors - out of 40,000-60,000 cases in total in the World per year. How come, then, that we do not vaccinate people against rabies, but only our dogs? URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 AUG 25	The Immune System - how it works and how you support it This article gives a "layman's overview" of the immune system and the way it functions. The articles explains how the body fights diseases, how it generates auto-immunity, and how you can increase its capability of defending the body against diseases. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 AUG 25	The Salmonella myth Salmonella can attack humans and dogs alike - and it is generally feared, based on some ridiculous scaremonger that is totally out of proportion with reality. This article brings you the cold hard facts of this perceived "danger". URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 AUG 17	Avoiding health risks - or living with them... There is no such thing in life as avoiding risk. When people nevertheless try to do so, they inevitably incur other risks they were not aware of - and those other risks are often much bigger than the ones they tried to avoid.... The article explains what a risk truly is and it uses well-known examples to illustrate the principles of risk management. URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 AUG 01	Vaccines 1: How vaccines work - when they work Many people believe that a vaccine gives instant protection against certain diseases, as included in the vaccine. This is absolutely not the case - and it can be outright dangerous to administer vaccines under that assumption, as even many veterinarians unfortunately do on a routine basis... URL for this article: Click here for access

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Other Issues Pertaining to Dogs:

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2006 JUN 10	Breeding Dogs without Bite Inhibitors? There are many misperceptions about dog fights. In addition to plain ignorance, a main reason is that there are many different types of fighting behavior embedded in the genes that control the instinct behaviors of our dogs. These behaviors are very carefully balanced with each other, so that they together support the survival of the species. The problem is that, when some of those instincts are no longer there, the balance of that puzzle becomes a very dangerous cocktail… URL for this article: Click here for access
2004 FEB 15 (Updated OCT 22, 2006)	Why your veterinarian cannot afford to always tell you the truth... You need to understand your vet's conflict of interest between taking good care of your dog and making a living! If you value our fundamental rights to free speech, this article will shock you! URL for this article: Click here for access

Date issued:

Title
and topics:

2006
JUN 10

Breeding Dogs without Bite Inhibitors?

There are many misperceptions about dog fights. In addition to plain ignorance, a main reason is that there are many different types of fighting behavior embedded in the genes that control the instinct behaviors of our dogs. These behaviors are very carefully balanced with each other, so that they together support the survival of the species. The problem is that, when some of those instincts are no longer there, the balance of that puzzle becomes a very dangerous cocktail…

URL for this article: Click here for access

2004
FEB 15

(Updated
OCT 22,
2006)

Why your veterinarian cannot afford to always tell you the truth...

You need to understand your vet's conflict of interest between taking good care of your dog and making a living!

If you value our fundamental rights to free speech, this article will shock you!

URL for this article: Click here for access

More information about solving dog behavioral problems

Got a "dog problem"?

If you have a problem with your dog, chances are that your dog also has a problem with you...

You can contact Mogens Eliasen about any behavioral problem you experience with your dog and get answers on the phone (no matter where you live!):

Mogens' phone consultation service - a prepared consultation where you submit a description of your problem for review first.

Mogens' advice service via INGENIO - a direct way of getting instant answers to urgent problems.

Boot camp for you and your dog,
with training of search, tracking, tricks, and general manners!

Want to bring the family along also? If so, please do!
This is a chance for you to get your relationship with your dog
developed and consolidated, by learning and practising
how you can improve your personal pack leaderhip skills,
so you and your dog can enjoy each other much more.

If we have fun? You bet! Both people and dogs.
And, towards the end of the course, we guarantee
you have a dog that is happy to take a nap!

Details on the campcourses
here!

Titles available from K9joy^®:

Anders Hallgren:
"The ABC's of Dog Language" (140 page book - 1996)
Understand what your dog is telling you - and communicate with it on its own terms. A must have for all dog lovers. Easy to read. Easy to use as reference.

Mogens Eliasen:
"The Dog's Social Behavior" (2.5 hr. video - 1998, updated on DVD 2006, with support materials on a CD)
How the dog's behavior is linked to its instincts and needs. What you can change and what is "for life". How you use this information to dramatically improve your relationship with your dog.

Mogens Eliasen:
"BrainWork for Smart Dogs" (380 page e-book - 2003)
How you get a happy and well-behaved dog, stimulating its brain with 15 minutes of fun per day. Dogs need to work and use their instinct in order to be in mental balance. Everyone can do it with these instructions. More than 40 exercises to choose from!

Mogens Eliasen:
"Don't Pull on the Leash!" (40 page e-book - 2005)
The 5 simple steps in this complete training manual will effectively stop any dog from pulling on the leash, with no pain or abuse and no special equipment - and make the start of a much better relationship with the dog.

Mogens Eliasen:
"Is Your Dog's Drinking Water Safe?" (30 page e-book - 2005, updated 2006)
A layman's overview of how and why drinking water gets contaminated - and what you can do about it.

Mogens Eliasen:
"Feeding Your Dog - the Natural Way" (1 hr. video - 1998)
The fastest introduction to get you started on feeding your dog a natural diet. It explains the dog's physiology in simple terms, so you also understand why you should do this.

Mogens Eliasen:
"Canine Choice - by Nature" (80 page e-book - 1999, updated 2005)
The simple "how-to" about feeding a natural diet for optimal health.

Mogens Eliasen:
"Raw Food for Dogs - the Ultimate Reference for Dog Owners"
(340 page e-book - revised/expanded 2006)
Everything you need for making your own informed decisions about what to feed your dog, and why and how. Includes numerous examples of feeding plans plus two chapters on how to work with your vet, also if he/she does not approve of your feeding...

Mogens Eliasen:
"The Wolf's Natural Diet - a Feeding Guide for Your Dog?"
(125 page e-book - 2004 updated/revised 2006)
What we know and don't know about the wolf and its natural feeding, and about the dog and its domestication, and what we can and cannot conclude from wolf to dog... this is the big "why?" behind any responsible approach to feeding your dog.

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Articles about dogs,dog training, dog food, and dog health

published by Mogens Eliasen through K9joy®

Titles available from K9joy®:

Articles about dogs,
dog training, dog food, and dog health

published by Mogens Eliasen through K9joy^®

Titles available from K9joy^®: