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Winter Weight Control TipsWith the holidays just around the corner, everyone is looking forward to indulging in a number of tasty treats. Naturally, you want your pets to share some of these goodies but it is important to keep your pet's overall health in mind. Here are a couple of weight friendly tips for the holiday season.

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4. It is important for pet owners to maintain their dog's regular exercise program during the holidays. Be sure to take your dog for a 30-45 minute walk before your holiday festivities begin, the fresh air and exercise will keep your pet feeling calm and relaxed and burn off some of the additional holiday calories.

1. If you plan on purchasing special doggie treats for your pets, look for treats that are made from all-natural ingredients and are low in calories. Avoid treats with artificial coloring or flavors. Too many artificial ingredients can cause your dog to become hyperactive or obese.

2. It is often recommended to create healthy treats for your pets from scratch. Every issue we provide easy to follow recipes for treats for your dog or cat using regular food; white meat, fresh veggies and lean gravy can serve as a delicious and healthy snack.

3. No matter how healthy your treat may be, remember, everything in moderation. In order to prevent weight gain or digestive upsets, treats should be given in small portions.

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With temperatures dropping throughout most of the country, now is the time be aware of some common issues that many horse owners overlook during the winter. From routine health care to mouth care there are things that must be addressed during the harsh days of winter.

Routine Health CareRoutine health care must be maintained throughout winter. One common misconception during cold temperatures is that deworming is not required. Winter is actually an excellent time to deworm. The conditions may prevent the hatching of some eggs but there are still some internal parasite eggs that can survive cold temperatures. For this reason horses need to be dewormed throughout the winter. By deworming now, your horse will remain worm-free longer.

It’s also important to maintain a regular vaccination and health care schedule with your veterinarian.

WINTERIZE YOUR HORSENo Hoof, No Horse

Hoof care is often overlooked during the winter as many horses are ridden less frequently. Horse’s hooves should be inspected daily for foreign objects and picked clean, especially during rainy periods when mud and manure can become packed in the hoof. It’s a common practice to remove shoes from horses during the winter, however regular farrier care is still required every six to eight weeks to keep your horse’s hooves in good condition. Some horses may require shoeing year round due to lameness or conformation issues, even if they are not ridden during this period.

It is also recommended to put your horses on a hoof supplement during the winter. The harsh conditions of winter can create cracks in the hooves so a good hoof supplement that consists of biotin, amino acids, zinc and copper will help keep the integrity of your horse’s hooves throughout winter.


Mouth Care Often Ignored

Cold temperatures can often lead to mouth related issues especially for older horses. While additional grain supplementation may be necessary during the winter months, a horse with mouth issues will not be able to efficiently use the extra feed without sound teeth.

Horses with poor teeth may be able to maintain good body condition in the summer but cold weather makes this more challenging. Horses should be examined every few days in the winter to be sure that they are maintaining adequate body condition.

Another issue to be aware of during the winter involves your tack and bit accessories. Riding during the winter is important but using a cold, frozen bit can cause mouth damage.

A cold equine bit not only causes pain but it can create a number of

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Also, don’t overlook routine dental care this winter. It’s essential that your horse be able to utilize feed optimally and good dental health will keep that possible.

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Sometimes we take our pets for granted, and in their endearing way, they do the same. When we awake, their delight is unrestrained, particularly when we reach for their food bowl. When we get home, they’ll greet us as if we’re Santa Claus bearing a sack of chicken cookies and tennis balls. In the evening, they settle at our feet, slumbering away, secure in the belief that we’ll protect them from starvation, the toddler, and the vet. It’s the time of day when even the most incorrigible miscreant looks so cute that we forgive the fact that earlier, she’d shredded a seat cushion, or that we’d had to do an extra load of laundry to wash away copious amounts of drool.

The topic of drooling leads us to the Newfoundland breed—that intrepid, affectionate, and intelligent dog that can flip enough slobber from its jowls to drench your best outfit. These days they are a familiar breed, but once upon a time, they were virtually unknown outside Newfoundland, where they’d been bred to retrieve fishing nets in the sea and pull equipment-laden carts on land. They also turned out to be excellent rescue dogs, able to drag an adult human out of the roughest water.

Newfoundlands are a descendant of the St. John’s Dog, an extinct breed that is believed to have been a mix of various European working dogs. In the sixteenth century fishermen began to crossbreed the St. John’s Dog with mastiffs, and by the end of the eighteenth century they’d gained the giant form with which we’re familiar.

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In 1803, the Newfoundland’s size and reputation caught the attention of Meriwether Lewis, who was preparing for the great expedition west. Somewhere—perhaps Pennsylvania—Lewis bought a Newfoundland, named him Seaman, and in doing so, carved a niche in history for a remarkable dog. Today, there’s no known record attesting to how old Seaman was when Lewis purchased him, or what color (although in memorial images, he’s nearly always black); nor do we know if Lewis had any idea how valuable Seaman would turn out to be.

In fact, what we know of him is limited to sporadic entries in journals kept by Lewis, Clark, and a few other members of their Corps. However, those relatively few words create a portrait of a creature sympathetic to humankind and dangerous to the animal kingdom. It’s clear from the written comments that the men never took Seaman for granted; indeed, they protected him as if their lives depended on him, which to a degree, they did.

As Lewis moved west from Pennsylvania toward Missouri (the expeditions’ final staging site), he made his first entry regarding Seaman. On September 11, 1803, while traveling along the Ohio River in West Virginia, Lewis noticed that nut-laden trees supported an abundance of squirrels. He put Seaman to work hunting the scampering little critters, recording the event in his journal (Lewis’s original spelling and grammar are intact): “I made my dog take as many each day as I had occation for, they wer fat and I thought them when fryed a pleasent food— many of these squirrils wer black, they swim very light on the water and make pretty good speed—my dog was of the newfoundland breed very active strong and docile, he would take the squirel in the water kill them and swiming bring

them in his mouth to the boat.”

Three days later Lewis spotted more squirrels swimming across a river. He wrote: “Caught several by means of my dog.” Indeed, Seaman was genetically well-suited for chasing water-borne prey. The breed has webbed paws and an efficient swimming stroke,

which is more like the breaststroke than the dog paddle. So, over the course of the expedition Seaman had great success catching not only tasty rodents, but other prey that made the mistake of thinking they could outswim the determined canine.

Not long afterward, while passing through Missouri, Lewis wrote that an Indian offered him some beaver skins for Seaman, but there was no deal: “The dog was of the newfoundland breed one that I prised much for his docility and qualitifcations generally for my journey and of course there was no bargan, I had given 20$ for the dogg myself.” In those days twenty dollars in a frontier city could have bought ten gallons of brandy, three beaver hats, or provided a month’s pay for an Indian interpreter - but Seaman had already made himself invaluable to Lewis.

Seaman quickly endeared himself to nearly everyone in the Corps of Discovery, and his presence also created a contrast to other dogs the men saw. In late 1804, as the expedition

crossed the Central Plains, they came upon a tribe of Native people (Clark called them “Kanzas” Indians) consisting of “300 Warriers, 500 young people & 300 Dogs of burthen out of this Village.” One of Lewis’s men wrote, “While I was at the Indian camp yesterday they yoked a dog to a kind of car, which they have to haul their baggage from one camp to another; the nation having no settled place or village, but are always moving about. The dogs are not large, much resemble a wolf, and will haul about 70 pounds each.”

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Seaman was an object of much curiosity to the Indians, for while they had many “wolf-like” dogs, they’d never seen one that so resembled a bear. In mid-1805, when meeting the Shoshone people, Lewis noted that “every article about us appeared to excite astonishment in ther minds; the appearance of the men, their arms, the canoes, our manner of working them, the black man york and the segacity of my dog were equally objects of admiration. ..." (The “black man york” referred to was Clark’s slave). Indeed, all across the country, Seaman’s sagacity was to impress all he met.

For man and beast, the journey was a constant test of endurance. Seaman’s long, thick coat sometimes worked against him; Lewis once wrote that Seaman was “heeted and fatigued,” and needed to rest in a cool stream. Along the way sharp grasses and cacti tormented man and beast: “My poor dog suffers with them excessively, he is constantly biting and scratching himself as if in a rack of pain.”

Seaman was not only adept at chasing down food, but he kept predators at bay. He gained so much respect from the men that they began to refer to him not as Lewis’s dog, but “our dog.” At least twice, Seaman chased off aggressive buffalo when they came too close to camp. When the expedition reached the Rockies, grizzlies (called “white bears” by the men, because of their light coloring compared to the more familiar black bears) became a frequent problem. Lewis ordered his men to stay near camp. Bears approached the group every night, "but have never yet ventured to attack us and our dog gives us timely notice of their visits, he keeps constantly padroling all night.”

After nearly two years on the trail, Seaman had turned into a fast and fierce hunter, able to not only outswim squirrels, but take down almost any potential food source. Antelope were slow swimmers, and Seaman figured out they were easy prey when crossing rivers; the same with deer, beavers, and geese. The men were particularly delighted that he figured out how to invade beaver

mounds and drag out the hapless creatures, delivering them to camp for dinner. On one occasion, when Seaman was bitten in

the leg by a wounded beaver, Lewis and Clark worked together to stop the bleeding and close the wound. Lewis wrote, “I fear it will yet prove fatal to him.” Not only did Seaman survive, but he no doubt made the beaver community pay for his trouble.

For all the affection and respect paid to Seaman, the explorers’ relationships with other dogs weren’t so sympathetic. In late 1805 food became scarce, and frequent journal references begin

to appear about eating dogs. On one date, several of the journals noted that some of the men “ate a fat dog” they’d bought from some Indians. If the men had any hesitation about eating dogs, most soon got over it. By one count, during the expedition they consumed 263 of man’s best (and, as it turned out, delicious) friend. “The dog now constitutes a considerable part of our subsistence,” Lewis wrote, “and with most of the party has become a favorite food; certain I am that it is a healthy strong diet, and from habit it has become by no means disagreeable to me, I prefer it to lean venison or Elk, and is very far superior to the horse in any state.” Clark wasn’t so impressed, and never did acquire a taste for dog meat.

While visiting with the Nez Perce, the explorers learned that their hosts thought it disturbing that the white men ate dogs. According to Lewis, when they were eating dinner, “an indian fellow very impertinently threw a poor half starved puppy nearly into my plait by way of derision for our eating dogs and laughed very heartily at his own impertinence.”

Lewis was so offended that he threw the puppy with “great violence” at

his host, striking him in the face and chest. Lewis then picked up a tomahawk and threatened that if the Indian “repeated his insolence I would tommahawk him,…and I continued my repast on dog [Lewis’s emphasis] without further molestation.” There’s



no record of what happened to the puppy, and no mention in any of the journals if there was dismay at Lewis’s treatment of the poor creature.

While cavalier with other dogs, Lewis was fiercely protective of Seaman. One night in a storm Seaman disappeared, and in the next day’s journal Lewis wrote only: “I was fearfull we had lost him altogether, however, much to my satisfaction he joined us at 8 Oclock this morning.” In April, 1806, while in present-day Oregon, Seaman was snatched by Indians. Lewis sent three men after them, with orders to shoot the dognappers if they didn’t return his dog. Upon seeing their pursuers, the Indians abandoned Seaman and fled.

After being safely returned to his master, Seaman merited few journal entries during the return trip. The last entry about Seaman was on July 15, 1806, a day in which thunderstorms thrashed the expedition, and mosquitoes rose against them. Lewis wrote that mosquitoes tormented the men so badly that they could “scarcely exist…my dog even howls with the torture he experiences from them…”

With those words, Seaman apparently ceased to exist. None of the men who kept journals ever mentioned him again, and some historians speculated that he died during the return trip home. If that happened, however, it seems very likely that Lewis would have written about it, since he’d noted less serious events to befall Seaman. The absence of any more information is more likely an indication that nothing of consequence happened to the dog for the duration of the trip.

However, Meriwether Lewis’s fate is known. He was shot to death in 1809, either by his own hand, or by a murderer—history has buried the truth.

In 1814, in a surprising addendum to Seaman’s history, scholar Timothy Alden found a dog collar in a museum in Alexandria, Virginia. It carried an inscription: "The greatest traveller of my species. My name is SEAMAN, the dog of captain Meriwether Lewis, whom I accompanied to the Pacifick ocean through the interior of the continent of North America." The scholar wrote, “The foregoing was copied from the collar, in the Alexandria museum, which the late gov. Lewis's dog wore after his return from the western coast of America. The fidelity and gattachment of this animal were remarkable.” According to Alden, “After the melancholy exit of gov. Lewis, his dog would not depart for a moment from his lifeless remains; and when they were deposited in the earth no gentle means could draw him from the spot of interment. He refused to take every kind of food, which was offered him, and actually pined away and died with grief upon his master's grave!"

There’s no evidence that Alden’s account of Seaman pining away was true, or if it was a bittersweet projection of the human

spirit. In any case, we’ll never know the truth, for in 1871 a fire destroyed much of the collection in the museum, including the collar that had possibly belonged to Seaman.

As a member of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery, Seaman had lumbered across prairies, scrambled through forests, charmed both the expedition’s members and Native people, and proved to be the most versatile hunter in the group. He suffered from heat and insects, injury and sickness, yet he made valuable contributions through his hunting skills and good nature. While the only evidence of Seaman’s life existsin the writings of his master, his courage, strength, and good nature live on in the Newfoundland breed. They are true gentle giants—unless you are a squirrel.

Footnote: These famous people owned Newfoundland dogs: Robert Kennedy, Emily Dickenson, Ulysses Grant, J.M. Barrie, Richard Wagner, and First Officer William Murdoch of the Titanic (Murdoch perished, but his dog, Rigel, survived). When Napoleon Bonaparte was swept into the sea while trying to escape exile on St. Helena, a Newfoundland jumped in and kept him afloat for three hours until the deposed Emperor could be rescued. Although Newfoundland dogs are a breed of high intellect, in this case the dog clearly had no knowledge of European affairs.

About the author: Don Cutler and his wife, Cyndi, own the Prairie Dog Pet Mercantile in Spokane. They have four dogs: two Labs, Rosie the one-eyed wonder-mutt, and a Scottish Deerhound (which is basically a cross between an Irish Wolfhound, a Greyhound, and a couch).


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TEMPERAMENT:Ferrets are inquisitive, fearless, and capable of getting into places that you never imagined. If their head can fit into something, then the body can follow. To ferret proof your home, we suggest that you start with getting potted plants out of their reach. Ferrets love to dig in dirt. Ferrets can not climb in the sense that cats can. If they can jump and get a grip on something, they will either pull themselves up or pull objects over and down. Items such as trash cans, tablecloths, laundry baskets, drink glasses, etc., are fair game. Adult ferrets sleep around 15 hours a day. They usually coordinate their sleeping habits to conform to their owner's schedule.

FUN FACT: Male ferrets are referred to as hobs, female ferrets are called jills, baby ferrets are called kits, and a group of ferrets is called "a business of ferrets".

HOUSING:We recommend that you keep your ferret caged or confined to a single room of the house while no one is home. Wire cages with levels are what ferrets prefer. DO NOT use aquariums and cedar chips! Caging protects the ferret as well as your house.

LIFE SPAN:Ferrets reach adulthood rapidly in around six months and live an average of 6 to 8 years. The age rule for ferrets is 1 year of a ferret's life = 12 years of a human's life.

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Delta SocietyPet Partners® (therapy animal program)Delta Society's Pet Partners program trains and screens volunteers with their pets so they can visit patients/clients in hospitals, nursing homes, hospice and physical therapy centers, schools, libraries and many other facilities. Over 10,000 handler/animal teams bring joy, comfort and compassion to those in need and we are lucky enough to have over 40 teams certified in our area. These dedicated volunteers and their pets have been credited for helping people forget about their pain, providing distractions so nurses can perform medical procedures on pediatric patients, inspiring patients recovering from strokes to perform more physical therapy exercises than when they work with just their human therapists, and even bringing people out of comas! Here's how Delta impacts our community:

Animal-Assisted Therapy Professionals ResourceDelta Society provides resources for healthcare, educational and other professionals so they can learn how to safely and effectively incorporate therapy animals into their practices. We often hear from professionals how once they've implemented the tools provided, they are able to improve their patients/clients experience and are better able to help their patients/clients.

Sometimes it takes an animal to do the job

Service AnimalsDelta Society’s National Service Animal Resource Center provides information and resources for people with disabilities, as well as their friends and family, who are considering getting a service animal or who are currently partnered with a service animal. One of the most comprehensive sites available for people with disabilities who want to gain more independence though the help of service animal at their side.

Pet Loss & BereavementThe loss of an animal companion, whether due to death, being lost or stolen, or placement in a new home, may be one of the most devastating and painful experiences we ever face. For many, such a loss is as traumatic as losing a family member or a dear friend and can trigger an intense grieving process. That is why Delta Society has created an easy-to-use directory of resources to aid people through their grieving process.

To donate or learn more about the wide variety of health benefits for people of all ages through their library of articles, abstracts and other resources visit www.DeltaSociety.org

Submit your Pet with Purpose at www.NorthwestPetMagazine.com

At the heart of all Delta Society programs is a research

foundation which demonstrates that when animals are around, people's blood pressure goes

down, stress and anxiety levels are reduced, people feel less

lonely and less depressed, and they tend to be more social and

community oriented.


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How to Share Safely • A sudden change in diet, like a big bowl full of turkey and all the trimmings could cause an upset stomach and diarrhea. • Add a few pieces of boneless, skinless turkey meat to their regular food. • Make something special ahead of time to give your pet on Thanksgiving Day - like Turkey Gobblers or Turkey Nibblers (check out the recipes on pg. 27).

During Thanksgiving Dinner • Give your dog a special new chewy, or a treat filled Kong toy to keep him occupied during the meal. • Some well-meaning guests may not know that you don't want anyone to share food with the dog. Before serving, let everyone know that they should not give anything to the dog. • Keep a watchful eye on children who might want to feed the dog anyway. • Keep a watchful eye on dogs who can't resist the opportunity to steal food from little hands or counters!

Tips to make Thanksgiving Pet Safe!While cooked turkey meat is safe for dogs to eat, be extremely cautious when discarding items used to cook the turkey. Skewers, string, pop-up timers, and roasting bags/pan can tempt pets and swallowing such things can cause an intestinal blockage or perforation.

No bones about it! Turkey bones should never be fed to pets! All poultry bones splinter easily. They can lodge inside or perforate a pets intestines. Place turkey bones and other garbage in cans with tight fitting, pet-proof lids.

No skin please! Turkey skin is something pets love to eat, but consuming fatty food like poultry skin can lead to gastric distress and Pancreatitis, a serious inflammatory condition of the pancreas that causes vomiting and dehydration.

compiled by Laura Olson


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Leftover Turkey LoafDog Treat

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1 lb. of left over Turkey Meat1/4 cup of grated shredded carrot

1 cup of cooked brown rice1/2 cup low sodium chicken broth

3 tblsp. chopped parsley

Preheat your oven for 350 degrees. Lightly grease sides and bottom of a loaf pan. Take the turkey meat and finely chop it up and then mix all the ingredients together well in a bowl. Scoop the mixture into the loaf pan. Press the mixture into the loaf pan. Bake the Turkey loaf for approx. 45 minutes. Remove and let cool completely. Cut it into bite-sized pieces for your dog. Left overs should be stored in the frig for no more than 4 days or frozen.

Turkey NibblersCat Treat

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12 thinly sliced strips of dark turkey meat

Spray a cookie sheet with non-stick spray. Remove any fat and skin from the turkey meat. Cut turkey into ½ to 1 inch slices. Place turkey strips on a baking sheet in a 300 degree oven, for about three hours. This is something you will want to keep an eye on so the meat doesn't char or burn. After about 2 ½ to 3 hours, turn your oven off, leaving the turkey inside. The turkey will continue to dry as the oven cools. After cooling, you should place the strips in an air-tight container. You can keep them fresh even longer by placing the container in your freezer and just pulling out treats as you need them.

Dog Treatwww.dogblog.ruffwear.net

2 cups cooked turkey, cut up or shredded4 tsp. grated parmesan cheese

1 T. parsley , finely chopped2 eggs, beaten

2 cups whole wheat flour2 T. brewers yeast

(check with vet if your dog is diabetic)2 T. vegetable oil

In a large mixing bowl, combine the cooked turkey, grated cheese and parsley. Mix well. Add beaten eggs; mix again. Add flour, brewers yeast, and oil and mix until all ingredients are well-blended. Drop by rounded teaspoons full onto ungreased cookie sheets. Bake in a preheated oven at 350º for about 20 minutes or until nicely browned. Move to wire racks to cool and harden. Store in a covered container in the refrigerator.

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