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Hello Friends! Welcome new subscribers and thanks for joining!! We've been so busy we didn't have a chance to put out a May newsletter so we apologize to everyone.
Below are a list of this month's contest winners and links to vote for the next month's contests. We've also included an article by the Pet Medicine Chest that we thought you might find 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:

July's "Pup of the Month" Killer, Min Pin

July's "Chin of the Month" Lucy Liu

July "Best Friends of the Month" Mistylee and Sassy

July's "Dog of the Month" Brisco, Labrador Retreiver

May's "Me & My Puppy" Winners Gizmo & Dad

Visit the contest pages today and vote for August's winners!

Congradulations also go out to Helen C who was our winner in the Gift Store Giveaway contest for June 2004. Enter to win your free prize if you haven't already.

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 Anesthesia Toxicity

What most of us lay people don't know or even think about is, that a pet that is undergoing surgery or teeth cleaning is being administered serious toxins. In addition, the body is being subjected to severe trauma that we don't think about either.

Now don't misunderstand, whan an animal needs to "be put under" for fixing a traumatic injury, modern veterinary medicine is usually at its very best with the latest technology. Thank the Lord for conventional vet medicine with their tremendous diagnostic and trauma procedure skills.

What we would like you to think about is the risk involved in elective surgery like for teeth cleaning. We have tons of people call after the fact with all kinds of horror stories. To this day we can't figure out why people want to clean their pet's teeth when good clean food will do it naturally for the pet. Our philosophy is if an animal is getting all the necessary nutritional requirements its bones, hair, teeth, etc. require, then the pet will not need teeth cleaning no matter what anyone says.

Frankly all of us here have had old dogs and old cats and none of them ever had their teeth cleaned and they died with all their teeth in relatively good repair. Granted their teeth were not "sparkly white", but they never acquired gum diseases nor any other mouth diseases just because they didn't brush their teeth.

Nutrition--the right calcium, phosphorous, magnesium and other minerals for strong teeth and gums is what an animal needs, not $200 for a teeth cleaning. Think about how much good wholesome food you could buy for your pet or even the natural nutritional supplements you could buy for $200 and how long they would last.

One of the more grim side effects of anesthesia toxicity is the accumulation of the toxins in the liver and how this ultimately affects other organs in the body as well as the nutritional uptake in the digestive system. Plus a little known side effect is the possible change in the pet's personality. We hear about this a lot. Why does the pet's behavior change? Because the pet's polarity of positive was changed to negative. It is pretty difficult getting the pet back to where it was without all the drugs. Yes, drugs have an extreme negative effect on a pet.

Yes, you can get the toxic effects of anesthesia out of your pet's body by doing a de-toxing (purifying the blood) procedure. But that's not the issue. The issue is why traumatize your pet and your pocketbook in the first place.

Food for thought about the true best interest of your pet's health.

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EXTRA CONTESTS

Since the “Dog of the Month� contest did not begin until April, we have several spots that need to be filled for the “Dog of the Year� running. Therefore starting in July we will be holding six different 5 day contests each week to fill the open months. There will be five contestants running for each of the open months, you will be notified if your dog has been chosen to compete for one of the titles. The following list of months are still up for grabs so be sure to enter your dog today if you would like a chance to have him/her seen in our 2005 AJC Dog Calendar. These contests will not interfere with our normal monthly contests. If you have any questions, please contact contests@ajcwebservices.com
OCTOBER 2003 RUNNING WILL BE HELD JULY 12 – 16
NOVEMBER 2003 RUNNING WILL BE HELD JULY 19 – 23
DECEMBER 2003 RUNNING WILL BE HELD JULY 26 – 30
JANUARY 2004 RUNNING WILL BE HELD AUGUST 2 – 6
FEBRUARY 2004 RUNNING WILL BE HELD AUGUST 9 – 13
MARCH 2004 RUNNING WILL BE HELD AUGUST 16 – 20

There will also be an additional contest to replace the October 2003 winner, Lei-lu who was chosen to start the contest but is not eligible to run for "Pup of the Year" or "Japanese Chin of the Year". There will be an additional contest held for each contest to replace the October winner beginning August 5 - August 15. You will be notified if your dog has been chosen to compete.

There will also be additional contests for the "Best Friends of the Year" running, we will post notice as soon as we have confirmed dates.

PUPPIES UPDATE

It is still too soon to give a notice of puppies yet, but we will hopefully have good news for those waiting in the next few weeks. As always we are at the mercy of nature and it seems this summer its taking its time. We promise to let you know as soon as we have a firm confirmation of a delivery expected.


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