tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89447222299859889842024-03-14T11:14:53.628-07:00Natasha Rose Can D'IjumaThe life and times of our Magyar Vizsla as we learn along with her about hunting birds, ribbons, breeding, and more Hungarian Pointers or Braco Hungaros in Chile and beyond.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-48149117085882352892013-09-14T12:04:00.001-07:002013-09-14T12:04:47.643-07:00Un día de despedidas/ A day of farewells<div style="padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 500px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741029423/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7368/9741029423_8183bf69bf_s.jpg" alt="" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9743140946/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="The partridges arrive to Santiago/ Han llegado los perdezes al Santiago de Chile" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7401/9743140946_1a685c9b9a_s.jpg" alt="The partridges arrive to Santiago/ Han llegado los perdezes al Santiago de Chile" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9743143264/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Ready! y ¡Listo!" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7439/9743143264_ecd69e21d0_s.jpg" alt="Ready! y ¡Listo!" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741030501/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Finding the perfect spot / Buscando el lugar perfecto" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/9741030501_691d5d7c41_s.jpg" alt="Finding the perfect spot / Buscando el lugar perfecto" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741030995/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Finding the perfect spot / Buscando el lugar perfecto" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7429/9741030995_8d3c2a1f7e_s.jpg" alt="Finding the perfect spot / Buscando el lugar perfecto" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9743144674/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Ready for release / Listo para el lanzamiento" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7335/9743144674_d088897d63_s.jpg" alt="Ready for release / Listo para el lanzamiento" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741031965/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="In memory of Natash Rose Can d'Ijuma / En memoria de Natasha Can d'Ijuma" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/9741031965_e111c11292_s.jpg" alt="In memory of Natash Rose Can d'Ijuma / En memoria de Natasha Can d'Ijuma" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741032335/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="In memory of Natash Rose Can d'Ijuma / En memoria de Natasha Can d'Ijuma" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7350/9741032335_515dd9805c_s.jpg" alt="In memory of Natash Rose Can d'Ijuma / En memoria de Natasha Can d'Ijuma" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741032983/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Farewell our friend / Adios nuestro amiga" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7307/9741032983_e26abbfd43_s.jpg" alt="Farewell our friend / Adios nuestro amiga" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741033545/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Remembering / Recordando" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353/9741033545_b8baef6af0_s.jpg" alt="Remembering / Recordando" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741034431/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Fly with the birds / Vuele con las pajaros" style="display: block; padding: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7282/9741034431_5d52a36976_s.jpg" alt="Fly with the birds / Vuele con las pajaros" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/9741035113/in/set-72157635511411195/" title="Good by my friend/ Adios mi amiga" style="display: block; padding: 0 0 10px 0; width: 75px; height: 75px; float: left;"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7365/9741035113_3f5a549725_s.jpg" alt="Good by my friend/ Adios mi amiga" style="border:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; width: 75px; height: 75px;"/></a><br clear="all"/></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px"><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_donna_martinez/sets/72157635511411195/">Un día de despedidas/ A day of farewells</a>, a set on Flickr.</p></div><p>Por la mañana, compañeros de caza, amigos Jorge Martínez Alonso, Juan Carlos Castro Rehbein, Andrés Martínez y fui a la estación de autobuses para recoger 3 jaulas de perdices a libertad en los campos de la granja de un amigo con la esperanza de restablecer la población de aves allí. Esta es la segunda vez que lo hemos hecho. Este es un nuevo programa creado recientemente y recién ascendido en Chile. Pero el esfuerzo de hoy tenía un significado adicional para nosotros. Para nosotros no sólo liberó las aves para construir su nuevo hogar, también establecemos las cenizas de Natasha Rose Can d'Ijuma libres de volar entre las aves en el lugar que tanto amaba.<br /><br />In the morning, hunting buddies, friends Jorge Martinez Alonso, Juan Carlos Castro Rehbein, Andrés Martínez and I went to the bus station to collect 3 cages of partridges to set free in the fields of a friend's farm with the hopes of reestablishing the bird population there. This is the second time we have done this. This is a new program recently established and newly promoted in Chile. But today's effort had extra meaning for us. For not only did we release the birds to build their new home, we also set the ashes of Natasha Rose Can d'Ijuma free to fly among the birds in the place she so dearly loved.</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-15745978055998079742013-08-14T22:44:00.000-07:002013-08-14T22:44:06.595-07:00So long sweet Natasha Rose<span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">It is with a greatly tremendous and profound sadness that I report that Natasha Rose passed this evening despite a Herculean effort among friends and family and our vet to save her life. Thank you to all for your prayers and wonderful efforts to help save her life. She was a precious member of our family and will be deeply missed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Es con gran y profunda tristeza que informe que Natasha Rose pasó </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">esta noche a pesar de un esfuerzo hercúleo entre amigos y familiares y nuestro veterinario para salvar su vida. Gracias a todos por sus oraciones y maravillosos esfuerzos para ayudar a salvar su vida. Ella era un valioso miembro de nuestra familia y extrañaremos profundamente.</span><script charset="utf-8" expr:src=""http://feeds.feedburner.com/~s/NatashaRoseCanDijuma?i=" + data:post.url" type="text/javascript"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-62086528635737506112013-04-26T05:25:00.000-07:002013-04-26T05:28:06.597-07:00Vizsla selected as mascot for European Judo Union<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The <a href="http://eurojudo2013.hu/index.php/en/" target="_blank">European Judo Union</a> selected the Hungarian vizsla as their Mascot of the EC. The vizsla's name, <b>Judoggy</b> was selected from more than 200 suggestions after <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judogi" target="_blank">judogi</a> </i>which the vizsla wears. The organizers with the help of Sport TV asked the fans to give name to the Mascot. <br />
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While Jorge and I enjoy the hunt, we enjoy even more the gathering of friends at the dinner table to relive the adventures, brag about the accomplishments of our dogs and perhaps our own skills, and share in great meals of freshly prepared game. With our bird-dog, Natasha Rose at work along side Jorge, we expect to have many great celebratory meals here in Chile. But finding the right recipes for preparation of game can often be a challenge. Hopefully <a href="http://vizslanatasharose.blogspot.com/p/recipes-now-that-she-found-them-what-do.html" target="_blank">Recipes/Recetas</a>, the newly added page on Natasha's blog, will be of some help. <br />
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<a href="http://vizslanatasharose.blogspot.com/p/recipes-now-that-she-found-them-what-do.html" target="_blank">Recipes/Recetas</a> hosts recipes of game, including pigeon and dove, rabbit, pheasant, duck, and others that we have enjoyed (or perhaps hope to enjoy next hunting season). As we are an international family living an expat life I hope to gather game recipes from around the world. Ironically, my cousin in Spain shared with me <a href="http://www.interpatagonia.com/recetas/carnes-caza.html" target="_blank">Recetas Patagónicas con carnes de caza </a>, a link to recipes from Patagonia, Chile! I also will be adding photos of food preparation and personal notes. I dare say the page may even grow into it's own blog with any luck. And who knows perhaps my own cookbook, taking me on to another journey!<br />
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And for those days where the aim is a little off or there were no critters to be found and you still want some meat on the table our friend Juan Castro shares this great resource for those of you living in Chile:<br />
<a href="http://www.carnesdecaza.cl/" target="_blank">Carnes De Caza</a>. According to their website:<br />
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The company was founded in 1995, becoming the first hunting ground of the V Region (also known as the Valparaíso Region). It is located in Fundo Los Pheasants Casablanca, which operates as an adventure travel company dedicated to hunting and fishing. They offer organic production of premium meats and fine gourmet haute cuisine and game birds, as well as exotic farming. They have recovered the old traditions of the Chilean countryside along with the true flavors of wild nature. </blockquote>
They are located at: 2 NORTE 1187 (Esquina 5 oriente) / FONO : (32) 2685 529 - 269 2913 - MOVIL 98016399 / TWITTER @avatte / VIÑA DEL MAR, CHILE<br />
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Jorge came home today very happy with how she performed in their first official hunting, bringing 10 doves. However he observed Natasha Rose needs more training to use her nose more than here eyes. After reading this article based on research by Cornell University, perhaps we need to just fatten her up a bit!<div>
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Mar. 27, 2013 — From sniffing out bombs and weapons to uncovering criminal evidence, dogs can help save lives and keep the peace. Now, researchers have uncovered how to improve dogs' smelling skills through diet, by cutting protein and adding fats.</div>
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The study, funded with a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, also found that detection dogs are more reliable detectors than previously thought. The study is the first to be conducted in the world's only detection dog research facility designed in conjunction with a military dog trainer. The Alabama facility, which provides expert detection dogs to police and military forces, flushes out fumes between tests, ensuring a fresh field each time.</div>
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"Previous studies from other facilities, which lack this feature, had suggested detection dogs signaling for suspect substances are about 70 percent accurate," said Wakshlag. "The lower numbers may have been due to study design flaws which our new study overcame. Dogs tested in the new facility signaled with 90 percent and above accuracy. We also found we can push detection performance even further with the right kind of food."</div>
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Bucking conventional thinking, the group found that less protein and more fat in the dogs' diet helped trained dogs perform better in exercise and detection tests. During an 18-month period, they rotated 17 trained dogs through three diets Wakshlag selected: a high-end performance diet, regular adult dog food, and regular adult dog food diluted with corn oil. Measuring how different diets affected each dog, they found that dogs eating the normal diet enhanced with corn oil returned to normal body temperatures most quickly after exercise and were better able to detect smokeless powder, ammonia nitrate and TNT.</div>
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<b>CATEGORIA:</b> 9° INTERMEDIA - HEMBRAS DE 15 A 24 MESES<br />
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NATASHA ROSE CAN D'IJUMA - KCC 381146 - I -<br />
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Our Natasha has no trouble getting her thoughts across to us- especially if we are too slow in offering her a chewy pig's ear treat. Same with our maltese, Samson. He can let it be know clearly that he's just not up for play right now. But how do we know what's being thought, felt, and well yes, said? We just listen, look, and watch. Dogs are very expressive and we must be attentive to their expressions.<br />
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Dogs are a whole body communicator, not just one part or another. It is important to view the whole picture, your dog and the situation or context he’s in, in order to accurately determine what he’s trying to say to get the complete message your dog is telling you. They use facial expressions, ear set, tail carriage and overall demeanor to signal their intentions and feelings to others.<br />
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Each body part makes up the whole very expressive dog. Here is a list of things to remember about a dog's body language:<br />
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<li>Advancing: indicates dominance or aggression</li>
<li>Retreating: indicates fear or anxiety</li>
<li>Facing squarely: indicates confidence, dominance or aggression</li>
<li>Standing sideways: indicates confidence without asserting dominance</li>
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<li>Leaning forward: indicates confidence and interest</li>
<li>Leaning forward with stiff legged stance: indicates dominance or aggressive intention</li>
<li>Leaning backward: indicates fear or submission</li>
<li>Body or head lowered: indicates fear, anxiety or submission</li>
<li>Body or head lowered and twisted: indicates submission</li>
<li>Body lowered on front end only: indicates playfulness</li>
<li>Body twisted upside down: indicates extreme submission or fear</li>
<li>Body upside down and rolling: indicates pleasure</li>
<li>Head turned away: indicates submission or a truce</li>
<li>Head held high, arched neck: indicates confidence or challenge</li>
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<li>Paw placed on another's back: indicates dominance or aggression</li>
<li>Head and neck placed over another's back: indicates dominance or aggression</li>
<li>Shoulder or hip bump into another: indicates dominance or playfulness</li>
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<li>Tail held horizontal or naturally: indicates interest</li>
<li>Tail raised, held stiffly and quivering: indicates dominance or aggressive intention</li>
<li>Tail tucked: indicates fear, anxiety or submission</li>
<li>Tail tucked but wagging: indicates submission</li>
<li>Tail wagging slowly but broadly: indicates relaxation, playfulness or anticipation</li>
<li>Tail wagging quickly and broadly: indicates submission or pleasure</li>
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Ears forward: indicates interest, dominance, playfulness or aggression<br />
Ears back: indicates fear<br />
Ears down: indicates submission<br />
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Eyes</h4>
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<li>Note: Dogs don't like to be stared at directly in the eye. It can frighten a timid dog, or be seen as a challenge to a dominant dog, and either case can end up in a dog bite for you.</li>
<li>Eyes opened wide and staring: indicates aggression</li>
<li>Eyes turned away and squinting: indicates submission</li>
<li>Eyes blinking rapidly: indicates stress</li>
<li>Eyes with dilated pupils: indicates arousal, often from fear or aggression</li>
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Mouth</h4>
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<li>Mouth agape with lip corner forward: indicates aggression</li>
<li>Mouth slightly open with lip corner pulled back, all teeth showing: indicates fear</li>
<li>Mouth open with lip corner pulled upward, often with tongue showing: indicates relaxation or playfulness</li>
<li>Mouth licking the air or toward you or another dog rapidly: indicates submission</li>
<li>Mouth licking lips: may indicate stress. Or maybe he's just getting ready to eat!</li>
<li>Face, nose or lips wrinkled, teeth showing: indicates aggression</li>
<li>Front teeth showing but no signs of aggression: indicates submission (the "canine grin")</li>
<li>Mouth yawning: indicates nervousness or serves to reduce tension in aggressive situations</li>
<li>Muzzle push: indicates submission, affection</li>
<li>Panting: if not hot or tired, may indicate anxiety or pain</li>
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Hackles</h4>
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Hackles raised: indicates arousal associated with aggression or fear<br />
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Here is a great pictorial chart of doggy messages by Lilli Chin, <a href="http://doggiedrawings.net/" target="_blank">http://doggiedrawings.net/ </a><br />
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Once you know what your dog is telling you, you need to know how to respond back. Important to keep mind, according to animal behaviorist, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2011/05/26/136497064/the-new-science-of-understanding-dog-behavior" target="_blank">John Bradsha, in an NPR article</a>, is to realize" that dogs are neither wolves nor furry humans and that dog owners have certain responsibilities to make sure their dogs are psychologically healthy."<br />
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Learn more about dogs and their body language here:<br />
ASPCA/<a href="http://www.aspca.org/Pet-care/virtual-pet-behaviorist/dog-articles/canine-body-language" target="_blank">Canine Body Language</a><br />
<a href="http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/dog-body-language" target="_blank">Dog Body Language</a><br />
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<b><br /></b><b>An Easier Way to Speak Dog</b></h3>
Wouldn't be so much simpler in the ende to have a translator collar like the dogs in Pixar's movie <b><i>"Up?"</i></b><br />
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Seems you can now purchase one too! It's called<a href="http://www.bowlingual-dog-translator.com/" target="_blank"> Bowlingual Dog Translator:</a><br />
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Now that you've learned how to speak dog, test yourself to see how accurate your are typing a word into the handy canine translator to see what your pooch is trying to tell you: Click here to take the test- <a href="http://talkingpets.ca/en/speakdog.aspx">http://talkingpets.ca/en/speakdog.aspx</a><br />
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What has your dog been trying to tell you lately and how have you responded?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-20693435703043034682013-03-02T04:45:00.000-08:002013-03-02T04:45:47.268-08:00Cornell Vizsla Mast Cell Research Project: Sample Collection on March 16, 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What: Cornell University Veterinary School DNA Bank in partnership with the Vizsla Club of America Welfare Foundation (VCA WF) is collecting blood samples from affected and non-affected (8 years old or older) vizslas to identify a gene or multiple genes that may predict a predisposition for mast cell tumor cancer (MCT). This is the first vizsla-specific study of its kind and could result in a genetic test to detect the genetic susceptibility in breeding stock prior to breeding. This is a free health clinic to gather as many samples as possible for this project.<br />
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FMI: <a href="http://www.vet.cornell.edu/news/vizsla.cfm">http://www.vet.cornell.edu/news/vizsla.cfm</a><br />
When: Saturday March 16, 2013, 9am 4pm.<br />
Where: Cornell University Veterinary Specialists, Stamford CT<br />
880 Canal Street<br />
Stamford, CT 06902<br />
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For more information and directions: http://www.cuvs.org<br />
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+ Any Vizslas who have been previously diagnosed with MCT. Please bring a copy of the affected dog's histopathology report.<br />
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+ Any Vizslas8 years or older who have not been previously diagnosed with MCT. These dogs will be examined by Cornell staff veterinarians to make sure they qualify as controls (non-affected).<br />
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Cost: Blood draws and examinations are free-of-charge.<br />
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Registration: Please register for the clinic in advance by contacting Liz Corey (DNA Bank) by email (<a href="mailto:dnabank@cornell.edu">dnabank@cornell.edu</a> ) or by phone (607/253.3446).<br />
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What to bring: your dog(s), a copy of a histopathology report (if applicable), a three-generation pedigree and any OFA/PennHip information for each dog.<br />
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FMI: vcawf2000@gmail.com<br />
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Yesterday I posted about <a href="http://vizslanatasharose.blogspot.com/2013/02/dogs-and-depth-perception-dog-falls-5.html" target="_blank">Betsy Strachota and her vizsla Gauge</a> who is currently undergoing physical therapy and may need further surgeries after falling from a five story building. I have been informed by Megan Smith, a member of the <a href="http://www.tcvc.org/" target="_blank">Twin Cities Vizsla Cub Rescue Committee</a>, that Betsy is in great need of help with some of her massive vet bills. I encourage you to help Betsy and Gauge as I did by donating to the TCVC Rescue fund. It's simple and easy to do via Paypal or credit card. The donate button is located on the main page, on the lower right hand side of the webpage: <a href="http://www.tcvc.org/">http://www.tcvc.org/</a><br />
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Neutering, and the age at which a dog is neutered, may affect the animal’s risk for developing certain cancers and joint diseases, according to <a href="http://news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10498" target="_blank">a new study of golden</a> retrievers by a team of researchers at the <a href="http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm" target="_blank">University of California, Davis.</a></div>
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The study, which examined the health records of 759 golden retrievers, found a surprising doubling of hip dysplasia among male dogs neutered before one year of age. This and other results will be published today (Feb. 13) in the <a href="http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055937" style="color: #993300;">online scientific journal PLOS ONE</a>.</div>
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“The study results indicate that dog owners and service-dog trainers should carefully consider when to have their male or female dogs neutered,” said lead investigator Benjamin Hart, a distinguished professor emeritus in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.</div>
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“It is important to remember, however, that because different dog breeds have different vulnerabilities to various diseases, the effects of early and late neutering also may vary from breed to breed,” he said.</div>
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While results of the new study are revealing, Hart said the relationship between neutering and disease-risk remains a complex issue. For example, the increased incidence of joint diseases among early-neutered dogs is likely a combination of the effect of neutering on the young dog’s growth plates as well as the increase in weight on the joints that is commonly seen in neutered dogs.</div>
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Dog owners in the United States are overwhelmingly choosing to neuter their dogs, in large part to prevent pet overpopulation or avoid unwanted behaviors. In the U.S., surgical neutering — known as spaying in females — is usually done when the dog is less than one year old.</div>
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In Europe, however, neutering is generally avoided by owners and trainers and not promoted by animal health authorities, Hart said.</div>
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During the past decade, some studies have indicated that neutering can have several adverse health effects for certain dog breeds. Those studies examined individual diseases using data drawn from one breed or pooled from several breeds.</div>
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Against that backdrop, Hart and colleagues launched their study, using a single hospital database. The study was designed to examine the effects of neutering on the risks of several diseases in the same breed, distinguishing between males and females and between early or late neutering and non-neutering. </div>
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The researchers chose to focus on the golden retriever because it is one of the most popular breeds in the U.S. and Europe and is vulnerable to various cancers and joint disorders. The breed also is favored for work as a service dog.</div>
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The research team reviewed the records of female and male golden retrievers, ranging in age from 1 to 8 years, that had been examined at UC Davis’ William R. Pritchard Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital for two joint disorders and three cancers: hip dysplasia, cranial cruciate ligament tear, lymphosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma and mast cell tumor. The dogs were classified as intact (not neutered), neutered early (before 12 months age), or neutered late (at or after 12 months age).</div>
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Joint disorders and cancers are of particular interest because neutering removes the male dog’s testes and the female’s ovaries, interrupting production of certain hormones that play key roles in important body processes such as closure of bone growth plates, and regulation of the estrous cycle in female dogs.</div>
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The study revealed that, for all five diseases analyzed, the disease rates were significantly higher in both males and females that were neutered either early or late compared with intact (non-neutered) dogs.</div>
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Specifically, early neutering was associated with an increase in the occurrence of hip dysplasia, cranial cruciate ligament tear and lymphosarcoma in males and of cranial cruciate ligament tear in females. Late neutering was associated with the subsequent occurrence of mast cell tumors and hemangiosarcoma in females.</div>
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In most areas, the findings of this study were consistent with earlier studies, suggesting similar increases in disease risks. The new study, however, was the first to specifically report an increased risk of late neutering for mast cell tumors and hemangiosarcoma.</div>
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Furthermore, the new study showed a surprising 100 percent increase, or doubling, of the incidence of hip dysplasia among early-neutered males. Earlier studies had reported a 17 percent increase among all neutered dogs compared to all non-neutered dogs, indicating the importance of the new study in making gender and age-of-neutering comparisons.</div>
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Other researchers on this UC Davis study were: Gretel Torres de la Riva, Thomas Farver and Lynette Hart, School of Veterinary Medicine; Anita Oberbauer, Department of Animal Science; Locksley Messam, Department of Public Health Sciences; and Neil Willits, Department of Statistics.</div>
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For more than 100 years, UC Davis has engaged in teaching, research and public service that matter to California and transform the world. Located close to the state capital, UC Davis has more than 33,000 students, more than 2,500 faculty and more than 21,000 staff, an annual research budget of nearly $750 million, a comprehensive health system and 13 specialized research centers. The university offers interdisciplinary graduate study and more than 100 undergraduate majors in four colleges — Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering, and Letters and Science. It also houses six professional schools — Education, Law, Management, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In contrast to European countries, the overwhelming majority of dogs in the U.S. are neutered (including spaying), usually done before one year of age. Given the importance of gonadal hormones in growth and development, this cultural contrast invites an analysis of the multiple organ systems that may be adversely affected by neutering. Using a single breed-specific dataset, the objective was to examine the variables of gender and age at the time of neutering versus leaving dogs gonadally intact, on all diseases occurring with sufficient frequency for statistical analyses. Given its popularity and vulnerability to various cancers and joint disorders, the Golden Retriever was chosen for this study. Veterinary hospital records of 759 client-owned, intact and neutered female and male dogs, 1–8 years old, were examined for diagnoses of hip dysplasia (HD), cranial cruciate ligament tear (CCL), lymphosarcoma (LSA), hemangiosarcoma (HSA), and mast cell tumor (MCT). Patients were classified as intact, or neutered early (<12 mo) or late (≥12 mo). Statistical analyses involved survival analyses and incidence rate comparisons. Outcomes at the 5 percent level of significance are reported. Of early-neutered males, 10 percent were diagnosed with HD, double the occurrence in intact males. There were no cases of CCL diagnosed in intact males or females, but in early-neutered males and females the occurrences were 5 percent and 8 percent, respectively. Almost 10 percent of early-neutered males were diagnosed with LSA, 3 times more than intact males. The percentage of HSA cases in late-neutered females (about 8 percent) was 4 times more than intact and early-neutered females. There were no cases of MCT in intact females, but the occurrence was nearly 6 percent in late-neutered females. The results have health implications for Golden Retriever companion and service dogs, and for oncologists using dogs as models of cancers that occur in humans.</span></div>
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We live on the 16th floor in apartment that has balconies that nearly surround it. Families of small children often put safety netting around to keep their children from tumbling over the edge. You can see by the photo above that the bar comes just to the top of a chair, about to the middle of a person. There have been times I've worried that a ball tossed may go over the edge with Natasha Rose dutifully following after it. We've been smart to make sure that doesn't happen, keeping all toys inside, training her to stay away from the edge and not to jump onto the balcony bars surround it.<br />
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Gauge a vizsla in the Twin Cities was not so lucky, falling five stories, shattering his hip on impact and sustaining internal bleeding. His owner owner, Betsy Strachota, who brought him into work with her one Saturday explains “We have a rooftop deck on our office. When I let him out to go to the bathroom, he looked across the roof and it looked like it continued. He couldn’t see it dropped off, and he jumped.” <br />
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A dog’s depth perception and field of view are determined by how its eyes are set. Dogs, like humans have eyes set close together. Human eyes are set straight forward while dog eyes, depending on the breed, are usually set at a 20 degree angle. This angle increases the field of view and therefore increases the peripheral vision of the dog.<br />
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However, with a dog's increased peripheral vision their binocular vision is compromised. Binocular vision occurs where the field of view of each eye overlaps. Binocular vision aids in jumping, leaping, catching, and many other activities fundamental to predators' survival. Dogs with wider-set eyes have less overlap and less binocular vision -- thus less depth perception. Dogs’ depth perception is best when they look straight ahead. This is not an ideal situation as their nose often interferes. While a dog's binocular vision provides them a sense of depth, as to recognizing danger, that would probably depend on the strength of their prey drive, training, and experience.<br />
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He was lucky to be saved by veterinarians at the University of Minnesota. Using their new 3-D CT scan the surgical team was able to have a much more in-depth picture of his injuries and save his life. Currently the dog continues to undergo costly physical therapy and will be evaluated for possible further surgery. His owner says it is worth it.<br />
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<a href="http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2013/02/13/dog-falls-5-stories-survives-thanks-to-u-of-m-technology/#.URzkn38bDjE.blogger">Dog Falls 5 Stories & Survives Thanks To U Of M Technology « CBS Minnesota</a><br />
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What a site to see so many beautiful vizslas --25 of them vying for title of Best of Show at the Westminster Dog Show February 12, 2013<div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-49868175640110856402012-10-24T20:14:00.000-07:002012-10-24T20:14:49.644-07:00Research in the Role of Dogs- A study to learn the outcomes of living with service dogs <div>
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Of course as someone who has done research before, I am always eager to promote another researcher's project. But this research study has a deeper significance for me. I have a sister-in-law who uses a beautiful yellow lab named Mia, as a service dog. She use to raise them as well for <a href="http://www.pawswithacause.org/" target="_blank">Paws with a Cause</a>. In fact, we once thought of getting a service dog for our son, who has Down syndrome, but discovered he did very well with a pet. Service dogs encourage independence for people with disabilities. They are an essential means of moving about and accessing the world. I hope that you will participate in this research study if you have a service dog or know of someone who does. </div>
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I am Mariko Yamamoto, working at University of California Davis, USA, as a postdoctoral fellow from Japan. I would like to let you know our research: "Role of dogs".</div>
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This study is to learn the outcomes of living with service dogs or pet dogs for their partners/owners and their family members.</div>
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<b>Influences of service dogs and pet dogs for people living with disabilities and their family members, as compared with those who have no dog.</b></div>
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In the light of a serious incident that took place in Zalaegerszeg (Hungary) during the training session on the occasion of the 2012 FCI World Championships for Utility Dogs (from 20 until 23rd of September 2012), the FCI and its General Committee have agreed with the disqualification pronounced by the FCI Commission for Utility Dogs against the author of the very unfortunate and unacceptable behaviour. According to its mission statements, the FCI wishes to reiterate its firm opposition against any dog cruelty and any person committing such abuses will be penalized.</blockquote>
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A continuación de un incidente grave que ocurrió en Zalaegerszeg (Hungría) durante un entrenamiento para el Campeonato del Mundo 2012 de la FCI para Perros de Utilidad (del 20 al 23 de septiembre de 2012), la FCI y su Comité General aprobaron la descalificación dictada por la Comisión de la FCI para Perros de Utilidad en contra del autor de este comportamiento especialmente lamentable e inaceptable. Conforme a su política y misión, la FCI desea repetir su oposición firme contra cualquier tipo de crueldad hacia los perros. Cualquier persona culpable de esos actos será sancionada.</blockquote>
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Aufgrund des ernsten Zwischenfalls beim Training anlässlich des FCI-Weltchampionates 2012 für Gebrauchshunde (20. - 23. September 2012) in Zalaegerszeg (Ungarn), heissen die FCI und der FCI-Vorstand die von der FCI-Gebrauchshundekommission ausgesprochene Disqualifikation eines Hundeführers wegen seines nicht akzeptablen Verhaltens gut. Aufgrund ihrer "Mission-Statements" betont die FCI, dass sie jede Art von Grausamkeit gegenüber Tieren strikte ablehnt und dass Vorkommnisse dieses Art von ihr sanktioniert werden.</blockquote>
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A la lueur d’un sérieux incident ayant eu lieu à Zalaegerszeg (Hongrie), lors de la séance d’entraînement à l’occasion du Championnat du Monde 2012 de la FCI pour Chiens d’Utilité (du 20 au 23 septembre 2012), la FCI et son Comité Général ont marqué leur accord quant à la disqualification prononcée par la Commission FCI pour Chiens d’Utilité à l’encontre de l’auteur de ce comportement particulièrement malheureux et inacceptable. La FCI souhaite réitérer sa ferme opposition contre toute forme de cruauté envers les chiens et toute personne se rendant coupable de tels actes sera pénalisée. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I recently received an email from a parent with toddlers looking for information to purchase a vizsla “just as a pet” for her family because, “</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">after some research we found out that vizslas are great with children.”</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perspective owners’ often explore breeds to see if a particular breed will be good for them. A quick look online might appear to verify her research on the surface, however reputable breeders and actual vizsla owners cringe when they hear those phrases. I insist that the research must be reframed to examine honestly their own personal and family attributes to determine if </span><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i>they </i></b><span style="font-family: inherit;">are good for the vizsla.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Reputable breeders alarms go off when they hear from a prospective owner that they want their vizsla to be “just a pet.” Vizslas are more than a household animal kept for a person's enjoyment. These are animals whose breeding characteristics include being a very intelligent, sporting breed that exudes high energy that must be expended through freely running and playing. They are a breed that will become neurotic, high strung, or destructive without sufficient attention, exercise, or playtime. For that reason, vizslas cannot be left alone for long periods of time without activity, training, or attention. Vizslas tend to chew- fingers, table legs, floorboards. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We learned too late about Natasha's chewing habit<br />
<a href="http://vizslanatasharose.blogspot.com/2012/02/please-please-dont-eat.html">http://vizslanatasharose.blogspot.com/2012/02/please-please-dont-eat.html</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Vizslas mature slowly, taking up to three years. Training sessions will need to be short, frequent, and POSITIVE. Called the “Velcro dog,” they crave the physical closeness of their human owners and will follow them everywhere always making physical contact and snuggling with their owner whenever possible—whether into the bathroom, in bed, or on the sofa while watching TV. Owners must be prepared to make time for daily outdoor exercise at parks, trails, running, swimming, biking or hiking with their new puppy/dog. When vizslas are purchased “just as a pet” and raised by unprepared owners the consequences are often sad for both pet and owner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Are <b><u>YOU</u></b> a good candidate for a vizsla?</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Being a good candidate for a vizsla requires a lot of commitment and work on your part. Caring b</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">reeders will ask many probing questions to learn of your </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">commitment</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> to their puppies such as:</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you can say yes to the following criteria then you may be a good owner for a vizsla. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a vizsla owner I will:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Embraced it as my personal companion.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Enjoy being continually touched by my dog and look forward to snuggling with it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Give it a daily job or mental stimulation such as learning new behaviors, obedience training, agility training, pointer training, fetching.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Display positive leadership (be the “pack leader”), discipline and training to e</span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">nhance its natural talents of hunting, retrieving, guarding, and loving its family members.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Run it off leash and exercise for a </span><b style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>minimum</u></i></b><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"> of 1-2 hours </span><b style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>daily.</u></i></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Provide it with heavy socialization opportunities to new sights, sounds, places, other animals, other people- </span><b style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"><i><u>especially children</u>.</i></b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 7pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;">Have chew toys, digestible chewing food available daily.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Just as the new owner must look inward to determine if they are good for the vizsla, they must also do the same for their children. It is not an issue of whether the breed is good with children; it is an issue of making an appropriate decision while their children are young. Some breeders refuse to sell their pups to parents of infants or young children who are not toilet trained, knowing full well that their attention to the dog will not be readily available. Parents must look at the dynamics within their whole family before bringing a vizsla, or any other dog, home to their children. Vizslas can be good pets for children, but vizslas, like children, do not come with good manners. Puppies and children both require training and education on how to interact with each other. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b><span style="color: #990000;">UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD ANY YOUNG CHILD BE LEFT UNSUPERVISED WITH ANY DOG.</span></b> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">The parent must realize that puppies, like young children are teething, and may mouth or bite small children, steal their toys, and bump them over. Children must be taught and be able to handle these situations calmly. Screams, tantrums, or running after the dog, often an immediate reaction, can only exacerbate the situation. Children must know the boundaries of the dog. The puppy's crate must be made off limits, as it is the safe haven for a puppy. Parents must be willing to provide the time, energy, and effort to train the puppy that will require 15-20 minutes daily, then at least hourly for house training as well as work with their own children to learn their responsibility to their pet.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Parents need to be aware that puppies and adult dogs as pack animals may attempt to move up the ladder in the (family) pack, especially trying to seek a higher order over young children. Even sweet, gentle vizslas may exhibit protective behaviors against the children towards the parents. Sometimes puppies that sleep in the parents’ bedroom will develop a sense that they are holding a higher position over the children. If you are bringing home an older dog or a rescue dog extra care needs to be taken to be certain the dog’s behaviors are well understood. Stories of children requiring 85 reconstructive stitches to repair the children’s bitten cheeks, arms, legs are not unheard of leading those parents and past owners to warn: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>NEVER ALLOW TODDLERS AROUND A DOG EXHIBITING ANY FORM OF PROTECTIVE OR POSTURING, NEGATIVE BEHAVIORS.</i></span></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The VCA Welfare Foundation (VCA WF) issues a call for sample submissions to a NEW Cornell Vizsla Mast Cell Tumor (MCT) Pilot Study, as of August 1, 2012. <br />
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This pilot study will initially analyze-- from blood samples-- the DNA of 25 affected Vizslas (diagnosed with MCT) and 25 control VIzslas (unaffected). All submissions will be kept confidential and require an owner/guardian's commitment to participate in the study for the life of the submitted Vizsla; i.e., agree to update every submitted dog's health records.<br />
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Our goal is to collect DNA samples for 50 Vizslas (25 affected/25 control) as soon as possible. Time is of the essence to better understand how Mast Cell cancer occurs in the Vizsla.<br />
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To participate and request a sample submission kit, please contact Liz Corey at the Cornell University DNA Bank by email (<a href="mailto:eg33%40cornell.edu"><span class="s1">eg33@cornell.edu</span></a>). For general questions, please contact the Cornell University DNA Bank by email (<a href="mailto:dnabank%40cornell.edu"><span class="s1">dnabank@cornell.edu</span></a>) or by phone (607/253.3446).<br />
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All questions about the parameters of this study and/or about how to participate may be directed to Lynda Ruffini, VCA Health Committee Chair (<a href="mailto:thebirdhuntress%40stny.rr.com"><span class="s1">thebirdhuntress@stny.rr.com</span></a>) or to Elise Wright, VCA WF Board Member (<a href="mailto:olympicvizslas%40gmail.com"><span class="s1">olympicvizslas@gmail.com</span></a>).<br />
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Please see the Press Release and Submission Checklist for more information. They are posted at <a href="http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/VizslaTalk/files/Cornell%20Vizsla%20MCT%20Pilot%20Study/"><span class="s1">http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/VizslaTalk/files/Cornell%20Vizsla%20MCT%20Pilot%20Study/</span></a> and may also be found on the VCA WF "Research" page on the VCA website: <a href="http://vcaweb.org/welfare/research.shtml."><span class="s1">http://vcaweb.org/welfare/research.shtml.</span></a><br />
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Thanks so much in advance for your participation and support for this important project.<br />
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For the art collector the <a href="http://store.bigtalldog.com/categories.aspx?Keyword=vizsla" target="_blank">Big Tall Dog</a> site has many bronzes that pictures Vizslas as the hunters they are. Prices are in the $100- $200 price range : </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;">The <a href="http://www.wearethecure.org/" target="_blank">National Canine Cancer Foundation</a> has announced</span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;"> to all dog owners and veterinarians, the </span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;">availability</span><span style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;"> of a new tool to assist in the management of canine cancer. It is a blood test called</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><strong style="color: #333333; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI-TKcanine+.</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;">The mission </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;">statement</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"> of the </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;">National Canine Cancer Foundation</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"> is to save dogs lives by finding cures, better treatments and accurate, cost effective diagnostic methods in dealing with canine Cancer</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;">.</span><span style="color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">VDI-TKcanine+ test is a very good adjunct to assess if cancer might be present in dogs where there are other signs of the disease. A positive test should always be followed by additional confirmatory tests, including imaging, biopsy, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">If you want to know more about if this test is the right tool for your dog, you are encouraged to contact your Vet and discuss the all the options available to you and your dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may order tests direct from VDI Laboratory by filling out the Lab Testing Services Agreement. Once you fax back the completed agreement, VDI will ship you the required specimen shipper kits <em>free of charge.</em> To access the agreement form, please </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://vdilab.vdxinstitute.com/pdf/8_VDI%20Direct%20Customer%20Agreement%20v4.pdf"><em><strong>click here></strong></em></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The tests <strong>INCaSe, VDI-TKcanine+ </strong>and <strong>VDI-TKfeline</strong></span><span style="font-size: small;"> may be ordered from Webster Vet Supply. For more information on ordering from Webster, please <a href="http://vdilab.vdxinstitute.com/page.php?id=61"><em><strong>click here></strong></em></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI-TKcanine+</strong> is a blood test for dogs, used to help aid diagnosis when cancer is <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">suspected, </em>and to monitor the course of treatment once the presence of cancer is <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">confirmed</em>. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI-TKcanine+ </strong>is a test run by veterinarians and is made available to all veterinarians in the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI -TKcanine+</strong> is very good at confirming the presence of cancer when the test returns a ‘positive’ result (a result above the range of normal). The test is also good, but not perfect, in confirming that cancer does not exist, when the result falls in the normal range. There is a possibility that certain types of cancer, or cancer in very early stage, might still result in a ‘normal’ result. No diagnostic test is perfect. Like most diagnostic tests, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI-TKcanine+</strong> is most effective when used in combination with the other established procedures veterinarians have available to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A: Contact your veterinarian if you suspect your dog might have cancer. Discuss the reasons for your suspicions and ask whether the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">VDI -TKcanine+</strong> blood test can assist in the diagnostic process. If your vet is not familiar with the test, they can obtain information by contacting the laboratory that provides the test,<a href="http://vdilab.vdxinstitute.com/page.php?id=75" style="background-color: inherit; color: #18507c; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">Veterinary Diagnostics Institute (VDI)</a>..</span></div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">SYNOPSIS </b><br />APHIS proposes to revise the definition of "retail pet store" to bring more pet animals sold at retail under the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) licensing and regulations. APHIS will narrow the definition of retail pet store so that it means a place of business or residence that each buyer physically enters in order to personally observe the animals available for sale prior to purchase and/or to take custody of the animals after purchase. Under the proposed rule, no dog or other pet animal will be sold at retail without either public or APHIS oversight.</div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">WHO WILL BE AFFECTED? </b><br />Anyone who sells the following animals to the public for use as pets: Dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, gerbils, rats, mice, gophers, chinchilla, domestic ferrets, domestic farm animals, birds, and cold-blooded species.”<br /><br />APHIS plans to license and regulate these retail sellers unless they can meet the exemption requirements in the revised definition of retail pet store. A breeder may gain an exemption by selling only to buyers who physically enter the premises to observe the animals available for sale prior to purchasing them. A breeder can be exempt from regulation if income from sales (for listed species) is less than $500 a year; this does not include wild or exotic animals, dogs, or cats. Finally, a breeder may be exempt if he/she maintains a total of four (4) or fewer breeding female dogs, cats, and/or small exotic or wild mammals, such as hedgehogs, degus, spiny mice, prairie dogs, flying squirrels, and jerboas,and who sells only the offspring of these dogs, cats, or small exotic or wild mammals, which were born and raised on his/her premises and sold for pets.</div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">FILES FOR PROPOSED RULE CHANGE</b><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/docket_APHIS_2011_0003.pdf" target="_blank">Docket No. 2011-003</a><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/retail_pets_faq.pdf" target="_blank">APHIS FACTSHEET. Questions and Answers on Proposed Rule – Retail Pet Sales</a><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/Title9.Integrated.2012.pdf" target="_blank">Title 9 Integrated with proposed rule</a><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/Title%209.pdf" target="_blank">TITLE 9 - Complete including Part 3 Standards of care</a><br /><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/APHIS-2011-0003-0002.pdf" target="_blank">Regulatory Impact Analysis & Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis</a><br /><br /><a href="http://saova.org/news/APHIS/Aphis_May_10_2012.pdf" target="_blank">TRANSCRIPT APHIS TELECONFERENCE MAY 10. QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION ON PROPOSED RULE</a></div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">SEND COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED RULE</b> <span style="color: purple;"><br />It is IMPERATIVE that dog, cat, and small animal breeders submit comments on this over zealous proposed rule. Hobbies and livelihoods are at stake. APHIS needs to hear from breeders and rescuers how this impacts your hobby. APHIS needs to hear how this proposed change impacts breeding programs if you cannot ship dogs/puppies/cats between friends and fellow breeders.<br /><br />POST A COMMENT ONLINE via Federal eRulemaking Portal. <a href="http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2011-0003-0001" target="_blank">GO TO THE PORTAL.</a></span></div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">SEND THE COMMENT YOU SUBMITTED TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN</b><br /><br />This is a proposed rule by an agency, not a law Congress will vote on. However the impact on the retail sector, economy, and the agency's budget is enormous and has far reaching affects. This proposed rule over-regulates responsible home breeders and small private entities, threatening to drive them out of existence. If enforced to its full extent, rescue organizations and their efforts will also be severely weakened.<br /><br /><a href="http://the-cavalry-group.rallycongress.com/6980/urge-congress-take-action-to-support-cavalry-group-mission/?src=widget" target="_blank">Send a copy of your comment to Congress reference Docket No. APHIS-2011-O0003. </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.thecavalrygroup.com/letter1.php" target="_blank">Send a letter to Secretary Vilsack opposing the rule</a></div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">IMPACT ON BREEDERS AND RESCUE </b><br />Basically the new rules present breeders with few choices. Sell all animals only to buyers who physically enter your premises, reduce and maintain the number of breeding females to four (4) including co-ownerships and dogs shared with family members; or obtain a license under the Animal Welfare Act, have a federally compliant facility, and allow APHIS inspectors to inspect your homes and facilities.<br /><br />Selling even one pet off premise via shipping, at a friend's home, at a show, at a park, will result in loss of an exemption from licensing, placing limitations on both buyers and sellers. The narrow limits of the exemption restrict the ability of hobby breeders to work together remotely, sharing dogs from litters in order to implement their breeding programs and/or increase diversity in their lines.<br /><br />This Rule would have dire consequences on the ability of rare or uncommon breed breeders to sell their puppies. Generally, if a purchaser desires a puppy of a more unusual breed, they probably will not find one within easy driving distance, and the puppy must be either shipped commercially or otherwise transported, or the breeder will meet the buyer half way. If each purchaser is required to visit the breeder to observe the animals or pick up his/her purchases, the number of buyers who are able to do this in the case of the more uncommon breeds is very low. Without a ready market to sell pups, these breeds will quickly die out.<br /><br />In the case of rare or uncommon breeds, this Rule would make it difficult to maintain genetic diversity, since a breeder could not ship a puppy cross country to another breeder for the purposes of improving the genetic diversity in that person’s breeding program.<br /><br />Breeders will no longer be able to assist rescue by fostering and/or selling dogs unless they are willing to lose their exemption from licensing. This will have a severe impact on purebred rescue.<br /><br />Rescue organizations have long enjoyed the same retail pet store exemption that excluded breeders from federal licensing requirements. It has been the practice of USDA/APHIS to interpret that regulation falls within the commercial/wholesale sector. The Rule removes that previous commercial/retail dividing line for pet sellers and proposes only a very narrow exemption for retail pet sellers.<br /><br />It has become common practice today for rescue organizations to utilize the Internet to locate buyers, along with transporting dogs from high volume shelters to areas with shortages. The new Rule being proposed will apply to all retail sellers of dogs, cats, and small animals without special exemption for rescue. Rescue organizations would therefore be at risk of losing their current retail exemption for multiple reasons: (1) transporting dogs or other animals for sale to buyers who did not physically visit their primary location; (2) selling rescued animals, which are not born/raised on premise thus failing to meet exemption criteria; (3) selling animals off premise, i.e. adoption days, thereby failing again to meet the exemption criteria that buyers must physically enter business or residence. The proposed rule could end most rescue organization efforts.</div>
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<b style="color: #336699;">FINANCIAL IMPACTS </b><br />The FY 2012 federal Budget contained appropriation for APHIS programs of $837 million, which was 8.3% or $76 million lower than the amount appropriated for APHIS in FY 2011. For the past several years, APHIS’ budget has been shrinking; since 2010 the budget has decreased by approximately $87 million, or roughly 10 percent. In a recent February meeting, APHIS administrators discussed agency changes in response to reduced funding and how the agency plans to preserve core functions while challenged by annually decreasing budgets.<br /><br />Budget cuts are likely to continue into the foreseeable future. The President's 2013 budget request submitted in February to Congress calls for a decrease in APHIS’ funding by an additional $54 million, or 6.6 percent.<br /><br />The massive expansion of regulatory responsibilities into the private sector outlined in the proposed rule is not only impractical but unaffordable within an agency that is currently addressing serious budget challenges.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Natasha Rose </span><span style="background-color: white;">Can d'Ijuma</span><span style="background-color: white;">,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> with her handler, Fernando Burgos, leads the pack followed by her sister India Can d'Ijuma with their breeder and India's handler, German Rodriquez. Despite her recent surgery to remove a benigne tumor on her flank she was still able to come in third. </span><br />
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Today the <a href="http://www.vcaweb.org/index.shtml" target="_blank">Vizsla Club of America</a> announced the good news that their<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="http://www.vcaweb.org/breeder_dir/display_dir.php" style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">VCA Breeder Directory</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has now gone live. The interactive </span>directory<span style="font-family: inherit;"> listings are paid classifieds from VCA members who have been in the club for a minimum of two years</span><span style="background-color: white;">. As a member of the VCA, the advertiser agrees to abide by the Code of Ethics (http://www.vcaweb.org/about/code_of_ethics.shtml) adopted by the Vizsla Club of America. </span></div>
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Breeders wishing to be included may find the forms <span style="background-color: white;">in the next issue of the Vizsla News. They are also posted on <a href="http://www.vcaweb.org/">www.vcaweb.org</a> under resources>useful forms: </span><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.vcaweb.org/resources/forms.shtml">http://www.vcaweb.org/resources/forms.shtml</a></span></div>
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</script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18034618578920239561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8944722229985988984.post-18175005901395521892012-06-23T19:30:00.002-07:002012-07-31T12:48:57.828-07:00On the mend and moving up in the worldHappy to say that Natasha is recovering well from her minor operation this last Tuesday to remove a tumor growing on the top of her mid-right flank. It will take about two weeks before we get official word back from the biopsy. In the meantime we keep our fingers crossed.<br />
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It hasn't slowed her down a bit, though, which has been a challenge as we try to keep her from popping her three stitches. Unfortunately we had to pull her from this weekend's show to give her stitches a chance to heal. But keeping our spirits high was finding her listing in the<a href="http://catalogo%20chile/" target="_blank"> Cinofilia Sudamericana Catologo Chile (Chilean Catalogue)</a> for the June 23 show. Located under Group 7 we found in black and white:</div>
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Raza: VIZSLA </div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Categoria: Campeón Joven Hembra </b></span></div>
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478 <b><span style="color: red;">CH.JCHI.</span> NATASHA ROSE CAN D'IJUMA</b> KCC 381146 Nacido el 22/08/2011</div>
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Por ROCKY OF BANFIELD y CEILA CAN D'IJUMA</div>
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Criador: - GERMAN EZEQUIEL RODRIGUEZ</div>
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Propietario(s) JORGE MARTINEZ .</div>
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And to think I was proud of my little group of letters (Ed.D.)! I think she has me beat! </div>
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With luck she will be healed and ready to go to Argentina in July. The good thing is the left side facing the judge looks wonderful. Hopefully our talented handler will show that side to her benefit. The competition will be stiff I'm told. We will be pitting our 10 month old against four other young dogs with great titles including Argentina's champion. This is when Jorge reminds me we got her first for hunting- the showing is just the icing on the cake, a time filler while she develops her skills in the field. </div>
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One could hope nonetheless.</div>
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