by Jan Irving | 7 Oct 2007 | Top Dog Journal
Recently we have received several enquiries from overseas sources regarding our tracking dog training regimes for search and rescue and law enforcement. These enquiries were aimed at being able to train better tracking dogs to deal with more contamination successfully...
by Jan Irving | 1 Jan 2005 | Top Dog Journal
twenty basic but sound tips and helping your dog enjoy summer! 1. The dog run should be shaded with shade cloth and/or fast growing vines, for example pumpkins or chokos. 2. Sand, earth and grass runs should be kept constantly damp to prevent them becoming dustbowls....
by Jan Irving | 1 Oct 1997 | Top Dog Journal
In recent years Australia has witnessed a huge increase in the number of dog dry foods readily available. The bulk of the products are actually imported, the produce of foreign countries, and in most other cases the companies are actually based overseas although using...
by Jan Irving | 1 Oct 1996 | PHOTOS NEED TO BE ADDED, Top Dog Journal
Congenital heart defects are relatively common in dogs, a study in excess of 34,000 found that about 0.9% were affected. The worrying thing was that more purebred dogs were affected than were crossbred dogs. There is much evidence that many conditions are heredity....
by Jan Irving | 1 May 1996 | Top Dog Journal
Yeast is often used as a supplement for dogs. What does it do? Yeast is a high energy food that is extremely rich in the vitamin B group. Its beauty is that it occurs naturally and hopefully the vitamins are contained in a useful proportion, rather than some arbitrary...
by Jan Irving | 1 May 1996 | Top Dog Journal
There are two different manges that affect dogs. These are sarcoptic mange or scabies and demodectic mange, often known just as demodex. Both diseases are caused by mites, tiny eight legged organisms that burrow into and live in the layers of the skin. SARCOPTIC MANGE...
by Jan Irving | 1 Jan 1994 | Top Dog Journal
The nutrition of a dog starts with the nutritional status of his dam, with particular emphasis on her mineral status. It has truly been stated that half the breeding is in the feeding. So what do we do to ensure that the nutrition is right. Dogs need nutrition to...
by Jan Irving | 1 Oct 1993 | Top Dog Journal
Echinococcus granulosus Hydatid disease seems to be a forgotten potential. Its presence in the dog is of no threat to his health; its presence in man is potentially extremely dangerous; its presence in carcases could ruin the Australian meat market. Dogs acquire...
by Jan Irving | 1 Oct 1993 | Top Dog Journal
Dirofilaria immitis and Dipetalonema reconditum Heartworm has become established across much of the world. The life cycle of this parasite requires just two hosts; the dog and the intermediary host, the mosquito. Infection occurs when a mosquito carrying developed...
by Jan Irving | 1 Sep 1993 | Top Dog Journal
Meat is a valuable food source for ourselves and our canine companions. The smallest baby puppy can begin to successfully digest meat from about ten days of age. The oldest dog, with a healthy digestive tract, can digest meat; meat is an integral part of the...
by Jan Irving | 1 Sep 1993 | Top Dog Journal
The natural or wild diet of a dog reflects its ability to hunt and/or harvest. The ferasl packs of dogs may adopted several ploys for food gathering, hunting as a pack, hunting as pairs, hunting as individuals, scaveraging from other pack kills, scaveraging from human...
by Jan Irving | 1 Jun 1993 | Top Dog Journal
How many times have you heard or said the following: My dog is always scratching but I can’t find any fleas. Fleas are very adept at avoiding detection, it is often easier to look for flea dirt on your dog than the fleas themselves. Flea dirt is actually flea...
by Jan Irving | 1 May 1993 | Top Dog Journal
Meat is usually taken to be the skeletal muscle of cattle, sheep, pigs, and poultry. Heart is usually included with offal. It is also muscle, but not skeletal muscle from the bones of the animal. Various muscles have varying amounts of water and fat associated with...
by Jan Irving | 1 May 1993 | Top Dog Journal
Supplements are generally not required if the owner is feeding a prepared dog food specifically suited for the average dog doing the average thing. Dogs constantly performing, competing, breeding, etc, need more than the average commercial dog food will provide....