The AJC Newsletter
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April 25, 2004Updates and Information
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What's New
Hello Friends! Welcome new subscribers and thanks for joining!! This month we just have the regular updates -- not too much is new since our last newsletter. Potential chin puppy owners - We will be contacting everyone soon to update the waiting list. We expect to have a couple of females going into heat early part of May so we will once again be asking everyone to update us with their current situation and if they are still waiting.
Below are a list of this month's contest winners and links to vote for the next month's contests. We've also included part two of our article on flea prevention and we hope you find it informative and helpful. We are always looking for suggestions and comments and encourage everyone to email us at comments@ajc-services.com
AJC's Health and Care Tips
Holistic Alternatives For Your Best Friend
In this month's issue we will cover Part Two of our article FIGHTING FLEAS
If you have switched your dog to the healthiest diet possible and are still having a flea infestation problem you've tried the herbal collars and remedies and your pet is still suffering we can recommend you try a few products.
There are several over-the-counter nontoxic chemical treatments that can you can try but try to look for ones containing citrus-based d-limonene, the ''herbal incesticide". One spray to keep around the home is Quantum's "Flea & Tick" repellant. It contains the herb erigeron (flea bane). "Flea & Tick" also contains rose geranium, which is one of the effective tick repellants.
Garlic and Brewer's Yeast - Two natural substances that exude odors or tastes that discourage fleas. Grate or chop a clove of garlic into each meal, both to combat fleas and for general health and longevity. Add a tablespoon of brewer's yeast (half a tablespoon for small dogs and cats). Every day or two, also sprinkly brewer's yeast on your pet's coat, working it in with your hands. Be sure to get him out of the house at that point, since the fleas may desert him.
Among the many herbal flea preparations that can be useful, I'm partial to Earth's Animal's Herbal Internal Powder, a powdered mix of natural ingredients which contains garlic as well as alfalfa, wormwood and yellowdock, and pennyroyal. Sprinkle the powder liberally into your pets food; it smells so good you may want to sprinkle it on your own! It will repel fleas without hurting your pet. Another product high in garlic and brewer's yeast is Internal Powder (Earth Animal). To roundout the nontoxic approach to flea prevention, Earth Animal also offers everything from herbal collars to shampoo's and rinses to nontoxic products for around the home. The most effective product is a borax powder (Flea Busters) that helps eradicate fleas from the home nontoxically.
In theory, a pet redolent of garlic and brewer's yeast ought to repel all fleas and thus not bring any into the house.
The above was written by Martin Goldstein D.V.M., the complete article can be found in his book The Nature of Animal Healing
Our friends at THE PET MEDICINE CHEST recommend the following for flea prevention:
What we use for all our animals for exterior parasites like fleas, mites
and ticks is a powdered substance sprinkled generously on our dogs
two or three times a week during the worst parasite season is
Worm-Out. Worm-Out is from an organic, food grade deposit of diatoms that
were on this earth millions and millions of years ago during the glacial period.
These tiny little fossilized critters can take care of mites, fleas, ants, roaches,
spiders, worms and other parasites. In addition to sprinkling this on our dogs, we also sprinkle it in and around the places where our pets like to lounge.
To further help with any type of flea or mite infestaion, we sprinkle
Worm-Out all around our house including on the carpets and let it
just stay there for as long as necessary to get control of an infestation
or to prevent an infestation. Tape worms are a direct result of fleas, so it is vitally important to eliminate those fleas as quickly as possible. Worm-Out can certainly help in this endeavor.
As an adjunct to helping keep our dogs completely free of parasites,
we also use Parastem in our dog's water dishes. We use 20 drops
per gallon of water and administer this for thirty days every other
month. Parastem was discovered in Germany over 220 years ago
and has been shown to help eliminate heart worms and keep dogs
free of heartworms by following the above regiment. By coupling Parastem in the dog's water with Worm-Out on the dogs body and in the dog's food, this regiment has been shown to keep a dog parasite-free while NOT poisoning its little body.
Poisoning a dog's body causes renal failure, kidney failure, eye problems,
digestion problems, arthritis problems and on and on health problems.
There definitely is a better way.
More to come in next month's newsletter! Thanks for all of your comments and support! We wish you all the best! AJC
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AJC Contact Information - 4444 W Point Loma Blvd. #111, San Diego, CA 92107 - ajc@ajc-services.com
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The AJC Newsletter
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March 25, 2004Updates and Information
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What's New
Hello Friends! Welcome new subscribers and thanks for joining!! We've been very busy here at AJC this month with our ever growing collections and contests, thanks to everyone for their participation. Below are a list of this month's contest winners and links to vote for the next month's contests. Check out our brand new contest too! We've also included our health and tips section of the newsletter and we hope you find it informative and helpful. We are always looking for suggestions and comments and encourage everyone to email us at comments@ajc-services.com
Contest Winners
Congradulations to:
April's "Pup of the Month" Andrew, Cairn Terrier with a little help from his rescue friends lead the race the entire month. Well done!!
April's "Chin of the Month" Mickey
It was a neck and neck race all the way between Mickey and Wally but in the last few hours Mickey fans helped him take the win with just a couple of extra votes! Way to go!
April's "Dog of the Month" Bert, Rottweileralso took an early lead and kept it all month long. Good job!
Visit the contest pages today and vote for May's winners!
Congradulations also go out to Lorri Hodder who was our winner in the Gift Store Giveaway contest for March 2004. She won a I Love My Japanese Chin license plate. Enter to win your free prize if you haven't already.
MY BEST FRIEND PHOTO CONTEST **NEW** Since we have received an overwhelming number of contest entries that included cute pictures of more than one dog we've decided to start a "My Best Friend" monthly contest. Enter photographs that contain pictures of at least two pets being best friends along with a story of why they should be voted Best Friends of the Month! Monthly winners will compete for "Best Friends of the Year". Contestants will be competing for photo spots in our 2005 BEST FRIENDS FOR CHARITY calendar which proceeds will be donated to PNW Animal Adoptions. click here to visit PNW's web site The winner of the year will receive the cover spot plus over $100.00 in gift prizes from www.dogloversgift.com; monthly winners will receive a free copy of the calendar. Help out pets in need at the same time receive the opportunity to make your pets famous and win prizes!!
click here for the My Best Friend Contest
click here for the Me & My Puppy contest
click here for the Pup of the month contest
click here for the Japanese Chin of the month contest
click here for the Dog of the Month Contest
AJC's Health and Care Tips
Holistic Alternatives For Your Best Friend
In this month's issue we will cover FIGHTING FLEAS
For both cats and dogs, fleas are an almost inevitable irritant. Scarcely a pet owner hasn't had to confront the sight of his animal companion miserably scratching at the little pests. By the time that happens, chances are the house or apartment is infested too. An entire industry is dedicated to controlling and eliminating these pets. Racks of chemical flea products line the shelves at your local pet store. Many of the products appear to work; the fleas do vanish, at least temporarily. So why not use them? Lets take a closer look - because only when you appreciate what these products contain will you do the harder work of keeping your pet flea-free without them.
Most commercial flea products contain one insecticide or another. And while it is true that flea collars no longer contain diclorvos, a chemical used in nerve gas, most products on the market today still contain insecticides ranging in toxicity up to the organophosphates. This chemical which acts like a nerve gas in that they paralyze the nervous systems of fleas - at doses low enough , ostensibly, to do no harm to pets. Another highly toxic group called the carbamates includes propoxur, the principal ingredient in Vet-Kem flea collars. The "precautionary statement" on the back of the Vet-Kem advises users not to get the dust that coats the collar in his mouth or eyes; if swallowed, he should call poison control center. Is a poison that might kill you a substance you want around your pet's neck twenty-four hours a day, month after month?
As a supposed improvement on collars, the industry began to offer new kinds of protection a few years ago. With Proban, dogs ingested tablets which main ingredient was the very toxic chemical cythoate. The idea was that the dog would exude the chemical through their skin, killing the fleas in the process. The label also warned, "If swallowed by a human, IMMEDIATELY call a poison control center or hospital emergency room" Soon reports of side effects - vomiting, seizures and acute liver toxicity began to accumulate. Proban has been superseded by Program, supposedly a more benign flea fighter. Many reports of coma's, brain damage and other side effects have surfaced about the use of Program, which main ingredient is Lufenuron, which is listed as causing an alarming incidence of reactions and death. Among 639 dogs treated, there were 189 cases of vomiting, 96 of depression, 92 of diarrhea, 84 of pruritis and 54 of anorexia and in all 27 dogs died. Yet Program is still a d
ominant product in the commercial flea-control market and continues to be promoted as nontoxic.
Along with tablets there is the "droplet" approach, in which a small plastic vial containing just a few ounces of highly concentrated chemical flea repellant is squeezed about between the shoulder blades. Many droplet products contain pyrethrin, less toxic than the chemicals mentioned above so its actually labeled non-toxic. But overuse can still lead to vomiting, headaches and neurological dysfunctions, among other symptoms. And to other creatures it can be lethal. In one case a pair of dogs who had recently been treated with "droplet" pyrethin swam in a pond and the next day all of the fish were found laying dead on the surface. How can a few drops of a chemical that kills fish not be harmful to dogs? Yet the trend continues. The latest "droplet" product, BioSpot, contains a chemical called permethrin, which is in the same group of insecticides as Defend's pyrethrin, though more powerful. Along with the standard warnings about how it can poision humans, the label conta
ins the following caution: "This product is extremely toxic to fish. Do not add directly to water". In fact BioSpot, which is made for dogs, is even harmful to cats. This is progress?
For all of the advances made in chemical flea treatmetns, pets in my experience seem plagued more today than they were a decade ago. Partly due to global warming, fleas having more hatching cycles before the frost, if it comes at all. Fleas like most parasites seek out weak hosts on which to land, those whose immune systems won't repel them. They're like little vultures, circling overhead, eyeing the stragglers in the herd. When we douse our pets with chemicals to repel their fleas, we further weaken their immune systems, rendering them even more vulnerable to next year's hatch. When at the same time, we call in the chemical sprayers to deflea our homes, we solve an immediate problem - but at the cost of having our pets, and our families, ingest particles of industry-grade insecticides further degrading theirs and our immune defenses. Given how awesomely adaptable fleas are to toxins, we also know that sooner or later they'll develop a tolerance to - and perhaps even thr
ive on - whatever chemical we hit them with next.
The first step to dealing with fleas is to realize they aren't leaving and that the right approach is not to address the symptom but to get to the cause of the allergic reaction that a flea bite stimulates in a vulnerable pet. It means getting your pet healthy enough that fleas will cause no reaction to him - and ultimately the fleas will have no interest in him. Some time ago I went to Switzerland to research holisitic pet remedies. I stopped by one of the veterinary schools and asked one of the professors what he used for flea problems. "Flea problem? What flea problem?" He had two golden retrievers who roamed freely in woods thick with fleas and ticks. Yet when they came home, the few fleas and ticks they brought back with them just dropped off within minutes. The dogs were healthy enough not to be targets. For your own pet, that suggests the obvious: the good, nutritional diet we've discussed in our previous newsletters and no flea-fighting chemicals.
Fine you say, but what about the flea infestation my pet has right now? In our next newsletter we will discuss alternatives to chemical flea control products.
The above was written by Martin Goldstein D.V.M., the complete article can be found in his book The Nature of Animal Healing
More to come in next month's newsletter! Thanks for all of your comments and support! We wish you all the best! AJC
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DOG JEWELRY COMING!!
AJC's Dog Lover Gift Store has teamed up with DAP Jewelry and will soon be offering beautiful high-quality unique dog jewelry. Like:
Japanese Chin Dragon Pin in Sterling Silver
Westie Standing Pin in Sterling Silver
Boston Terrier Mush Face Pin in Sterling Silver
Shih Tzu Standing Pin in Sterling Silver
Cocker Spaniel Pendant in Bronze and Moonstone
Dachshund Loop Pendant Necklace in Bronze and Silver
Papillon Butterfly Necklace in Bronze
Pug Lying Ring in Bronze
CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO VISIT THE JEWELRY STORE
JEWELRY WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ON APRIL 1st!!
AJC Contact Information - 4444 W Point Loma Blvd. #111, San Diego, CA 92107 - ajc@ajc-services.com
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