Category: Dogblogging

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

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As progressive veterinarians declare war on ethical Canadian dog breeders (wake up livestock producers — you’re next), the foreign “retail rescue” imports continue to flood in. And they’re bringing hitchhikers;

New Imported Distemper Strain in Dogs
 

Attempts were made to isolate the virus from the samples submitted for PCR, but with no success. Our next effort was to try to obtain sequence for virus directly from the nucleic acid used for the RT-PCR assay. This was successful for the F and H genes of CDV. Phylogenetic analyses of the sequences against various clades of CDV, indicated the imported dog was infected with the Asia-1 strain of CDV. We have no information on the existence of this clade of CDV in North America.
 
While we have been most concerned with the importation of canine influenza virus from Asia to North America by improper procedures by various “rescue” groups, the importation of CDV may be more significant in that CDV once it enters an ecosystem cannot be eradicated even with effective vaccines. Once again the North American dog population is being put at risk by those who have no regard for the importation of foreign animal diseases.

That’s right. They’ve imported a new form of distemper for which there’s no vaccine.

Update: …one dog out of a group of 26 dogs that were imported from Egypt by Unleashed Pet Rescue and Adoption in Mission, Kansas, tested positive for rabies.

Touched By Greatness

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I was getting dogs ready at a show in Sacramento a couple of years ago when a nicely dressed couple approached and asked if they could meet the black dog I was grooming.

It was a really bad time, I explained, “I have to leave for the ring in a couple of minutes, please come back later.”

There were a pair of raised eyebrows, but they respectfully walked on.

My friend Julio, who was getting his dog ready at the table beside me, grinned.

“You just threw Barry Bonds out of your set-up.”

(I showed Apollo to his Canadian championship title earlier this year.)

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism Retail Rescue 8 Comments

Pilots N Paws…

… is a non-profit charity that exists simply to coordinate flights for rescues making their trafficking statistics much harder to trace. Just like HSUS which doesn’t run a single pet shelter in America, Pilots N Paws is also merely a cover. They don’t actually ship a single dog but they rake in the glory and donations. Like Wings of Rescue, they have a trademarked brand and corporate logo to protect and promote.
 

Backlash hit in 2016 when the real rescue volunteers who do the work that they take credit for went public with the truth. Now the Pilots N Paws website features the disclaimer below, still hiding the fact that they have $700,991 in assets, money donated to them by a public that doesn’t know they don’t rescue a single animal.

Diversity Is Our Strength!

Climate Cult Dogblogging More Pavilions At Folkfest Retail Rescue 13 Comments

They’re coming for the “climate”:  This parasitic worm can be deadly – and it’s coming to Europe

Not so long ago, human diseases caused by parasitic worms were thought to be confined to resource poor communities throughout Africa, Asia and South America. But in this age of global travel and changing climate, parasitic worms are slowly but surely moving into parts of Europe and North America. The long-term consequences of increased parasitic worm distributions are difficult to predict, but the harm that infection causes highlights the need for developing control strategies that can mitigate this 21st-century threat to global health.

Related.

h/t A Canadian

The Sound Of Settled Science

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This large scale data collection involved 9938 dogs;

 In many countries, the vast majority of male dogs are castrated routinely to prevent the overpopulation which has crowded many shelters and forced them to euthanize countless numbers of dogs. However neutering male dogs has also become a routine suggestion of many veterinarians when their clients tell them that their dog has shown aggression—especially toward family members, or for a variety of large or active breeds. So this recent study sought to see if there were any behavioral benefits or problems associated with neutering, and to see if the age at which the dog was neutered made any difference. […]

 

As in previous studies, the new data clearly shows that the positive behavioral effects that were expected from neutering dogs did not occur, and if anything, the behaviors of neutered male dogs tended to be considerably less desirable. Of the 100 behaviors assessed 40 showed statistically significant differences between the castrated and intact dogs. Only four of these behaviors showed a more positive outcome as a result of neutering. Neutered dogs were less likely to urine mark indoors, or to howl when left alone. Neutered dogs, when off leash, were also more likely to return when called, and also tended to reliably fetch tossed items. That’s it for the positive effects of neutering. The other 36 behaviors were all more negative in neutered male dogs.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

Animal Rights Extremism Retail Rescue 3 Comments

More:

“We have breeders that breed for the auction,” says Will Yoder, a commercial breeder of Cavalier King Charles spaniels in Bloomfield, Iowa. “It’s a huge, huge underground market. It’s happening at an alarming rate.

The crazy Cavalier people were among the first to launch this insanity about 20 years ago, buying up Cavs for exorbitant prices to the glee of commercial breeders. Now it’s grown into a fundraising scam.

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

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More canine influenza;

According to Weese, the outbreak likely stems from a shipment of rescue dogs from Asia.
“We’re suspicious that this group of dogs, these infections, trace back to the importation of a dog from China,” Weese said.
The outbreak follows two earlier but smaller clusters of cases in southwestern Ontario’s Windsor-Essex County, which were also linked to imported rescue dogs from Asia. Weese cautioned that dogs in the vicinity of Grimsby, Ont. may also be at risk.
Also known as dog flu, canine influenza is a highly infectious virus that, much like its human variant, causes fever, coughing, lethargy, loss of appetite and runny noses and eyes. While relatively common in Asia, the virus is extremely rare in Canada. It cannot, however, be transmitted to humans.
“I’ve never seen anything like influenza like this,” Orillia-based veterinarian Dr. Joanne Olinyk told CTV Barrie. “These dogs do get sick, they cough. It’s scary.”

And some die.

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