Dash For Power

Dogs make us walk; cats and birds we love, but make us sick.

• Dogs have become our closest animal companion for a reason: we found early they were good for us. Helping us forage, learning to bring a bird without eating it from our spear or thrown rock; needing our company, needing walks.

• The desert bred cat of Egypt, in contrast kept his duties inside the palace, or the hovel, eliminating the rodents from the wheat piles at harvest time. More aloof, it chose it’s companions, as long as the food supplier supplied treats with the self serve rodent diet. And into the European plague thousands of years later, cats attacked the rats. But cats are prone to many cancers, and pass some of these potential germs; their feces should never be touched when being removed.

• Birds such as hawks have been hunting creatures for kings and pharoahs, also trained, and forced with a ring around their throat to prevent swallowing.And a very sturdy leather covered arm to land on.

• Otherwise, canaries who can sing down the coal mine were life savers for the men. When the canary stops singing, poison fumes, everone out of the mine.

• Nowadays, the dog, the cat are at our feet by the fire and the bird is nearby in his cage, coughing his own birdie flu coal dust our way.

• Since I and you have enjoyed all this in our childhood and would love to have our children know such fun too- my youngest daughter used to create a bird maze of pillows and toys for her three budgies to walk to; we will still find ourselves, as self appointed tellers of health truths, the truth is:

• DOGS are healthiest pets. If you can only have one pet, this is it. This morning I have paused to sip my coffee at my balcony several times. It is early. So far, the first four humans I have watched jog by have been attached by leash to a dog. Not a cat. Not a bird. Those owners are home, their cats licking them with a tongue laced with blood with cancers, leaving steaming feces or their powerful urine in plant pots, wherever. And above, Tweetie is scatching his mites, sending measurable dusts of them, an infected feather, again, use gloves when cleaning this Avin Flu potential site.

• Walk your dawg. His poops are your responsibility, againn plastic glove or plastic bag inverted around your working hand, make it work and leave the park clean.

• Train your pooch to be nice, not a biter. Choose the least nervous among one of the most people friendly groups: from spaniels to golden retreivers or labradors, people know you, and you pooch, are just out to sniff the flowers and a nice long walk.

• However, studies show that if are seen walking a fighting trained dog that might attack a child, you are a hate filled person who needs help, and enough people such a person passes knows, or should know that. This Rottweiler, or Pit Bull, may appear harmless, but it’s genes, especially if there are two of them, can make this animal snap and revert to it’s killer inside. They were bred for a reason: to kill.

• Your typical SPCA pooch just wants someone to love, and go for walkies with.

• Check our sources for healthy dog food, organic and natural. Such as petPlanet2U, apdempsey, to name two American pet food suppliers who maintained their vital 100% customer satisfaction ratings with Amazon customer reviews. And this, in a year of lead and melamine in our dog’s food, is a merit of excellence indeed. Take a look.

Derek Dashwood

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