Go Magazine Issue4

#4 2013 magazine for Dog lovers

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We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare.

And in return, dogs give us their all.

It’s the best deal man has ever made. M. Acklamcv

ers exercised an average of 30 minutes a day at least five days a week. By comparison, only about a third of those without dogs got that much regular exercise.

The researchers tracked the exercise habits of 5,900 people in Michigan, including 2,170 who owned dogs. They found that about two-thirds of dog owners took their pets for regular walks, defined as lasting at least 10 minutes.

Unlike other studies of dog ownership and walking, this one also tracked other forms of exercise, seeking to answer what the lead author, Mathew Reeves, called an obvious question: whether dog walking “adds significantly to the

amount of exercise you do, or is it simply that it replaces exercise you would have done otherwise?”

The answers were encouraging, said Dr. Reeves, an associate professor of epidemiology at Michigan State. The dog walkers had higher overall levels of both moderate and vigorous physical activity than the other subjects, and they were more likely to take part in other leisure-time physical activities like sports and gardening. On average, they exercised about 30 minutes a week more than people who didn’t have dogs. If you’re looking for the latest in home exercise equipment, consider something with four legs and a tail.

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Several studies now show that dogs can be powerful motivators to get people moving. Not only are dog owners more likely to take regular walks, but new research shows that dog walkers are more active over all than people who don’t have dogs.

One study even found that older people are more likely to take regular walks if the walking companion is canine rather than human.

Just last week, researchers from Michigan State University reported that among dog owners who took their dogs for regular walks, 60 percent met federal criteria for regular moderate or vigorous exercise. Nearly half of dog walk-

Dietary proteins from meat, poultry, fish, eggs, and dairy products are the richest sources of nitrogen and indispensable amino acids which a dogs body requires.

Proteins and amino acids help repair everyday muscle damage and fuel the growth of new muscle tissue whether puppy, adult or senior. As far as the dogs body is concerned, there are two different types of amino acids: essential and non-essential.

Non-essential amino acids are amino acids that your dogs body can create by itself. Essential amino acids cannot be created, and therefore the only way to get them is through food. Animal protein is complete – it contains the right proportions of the essential amino acids your dogs body can’t make on its own. Vegetable sources are usually low or missing certain essential amino acids.

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Every day we see dogs that are not thriving. Overweight dogs, dogs with itchy, flaky skin, dogs with coarse and brittle coats, dogs with poor energy levels and resistance to infection – 95 percent of the time these dogs will be consuming diets low in animal origin tissues and high in grain-based products.

Inexpensive, corn-based diets are some of the worst.

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Dogs need meat! Dogs thrive on meat-based diets. Dogs can and do assimilate grains such as corn, barley, oats, wheat and soybean meal. Remember, though, that grains provide mostly carbohydrates and only limited amino acid (protein) profiles.

Extra carbohydrate intake, above the immediate needs of the dog prompts internal enzyme factors to store that extra carbohydrate (sugar) as fat.

Give that same dog extra protein and it is excreted through the kidneys and NOT stored as fat. Knowing this, what do you think would make a better “weight loss diet” for a dog ... one with grain as the main ingredient or one with a protein-rich meat source as the main ingredient?

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Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Celtic civilizations have all ascribed the dog as a sacred guardian of the other worlds – those realms outside our daily/ mundane experience.

Dogs are a representation of heroism, fidelity, loyalty,

obedience, protection, social, cooperation and perception. They embody heart-pounding attributes such as: courage, persistence and virility.

In Native American wisdom dogs convey symbolism of: Assistance, Fidelity, Community,

Protection, Friendship and Communication. In Chinese symbolism, dogs are also considered a harbinger of friendship.

The legendary Fu Dog is also a guardian of sacred spaces and embodies concepts of protection too. Dogs are considered

very auspicious. In Asian wisdom dogs are symbols of: Good Luck, Loyalty, Obedience and Prosperity.

One of my favorite symbolic associations with dogs is through the field of Alchemy. Mercurial dogs are also symbolic of: transition and intelligence.

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Great Tattoo Artist: Shawn Conn – The Ultimate Tattoo and Body Piercing – Rochester NY

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Dogs have always been popular tattoo images, and are often featured as memorials to beloved family pets. The dog is a powerful symbol of loyalty, vigilance, and intelligence. The modern Dog is descended from the Asiatic Wolf, and the first animal to be domesticated. Our relationship with dogs dates back 40,000 years! Recent genetic research suggests that the first true dog appeared in China about 15,000 years ago. There, the dog is the 11th sign of the Zodiac and represents symbols both positive and negative.

Although not common as a household pet in China, emperors and their tombs had the ‘Foo dog’ as guardian – curiously the ‘Foo Dog’ is actually a lion and not a dog at all!

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Dogs Can’t Lie About Love

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Freud remarked on the fact that "dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of unequivocal love and always have to mix love and hate in their personal relations."

Dogs are without the ambivalence with which humans are burdened. We love, we hate, often the same person, on the same day, maybe even at the same time.

This doesn’t happened with dogs, whether because they are “just” dogs as some believe or, as others know, dogs are absolutely certain of their feelings.

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Once a dog loves you, they love you always, regardless of what you do, in spite of what happens, no matter how much time goes by. Dogs have an elephant’s memory for people they have known. Perhaps this is because they associate people with the love they felt for them, and they draw pleasure from recalling this emotion.

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