Thursday, March 26, 2020

WE STILL HERE......

🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 Started Scattered Bred, Now I'm Here I bred everything but Ragnar, my bitches gave me the consistency. You looking at generation 2 part 2, as well as generation 3. Yea yea yea many have more dogs bred, yet can't pick they own dogs out of a line up. Don't need a ton of offspring to prove what I say, ya dig..........












Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Still Focused

You'll never understand the true size of my animals without seeing them in person. Ragnar is big and Apache is short and compact both solid animals. But boy is it a major difference in size. When looking at the past 2 litter they are averaging in height around 18 inches to the withers, with the exception of 2 males Ronin and Achellies around 19 inches to the withers maturing closer toward the 20 inch mark, bigger than their sire, and 3 others Apache, Queen, and Lil Bay on the shorter end that will mature around 17 inches. Over all the pups look very very similar as they should, while being some beast in their own right, as it was bred into them. I'm truly pleased with what we have accomplished thus far and can see how we'll be doing in the future already. I'm about to lock some things down and best believe if you salty now, prepare to be in the dead sea, so take some water with you. Oh yea I rarely pull my females out when showing the animals, these bitches are sacred to me.

The Doubting Concern

Just a thought......

(Drumsticks)
There are many myths about feeding a Natural diet that will have you doubting every aspect of it. Honestly from the concerns of nutritional requirements not being met, or the fear of an overabundance of germs or bacteria becoming present, to the biggest one of them all; that dogs can not eat bones, should all simply be done with. The overwhelming proof from breeders whose animals have begun to live longer, while becoming less susceptible to ailments and disease, and overall simply a stronger healthier more vibrant animals should be the reason all veterinarians should start to recommend the switch to a Natural Diet. Although that is a big wish, that all veterinarians would recommend a natural diet, many have seen the light by way of us breeders who are steadfast with feeding our animals appropriately. Yet it is truly on us breeders to apply the knowledge we gain, while truthfully documenting the results, in order to inform our veterinarian of our findings with feeding a natural diet backed with straight facts.
(Heart, salmon with bone and skin, uterus, quarter leg, spleen, kidney)

When it comes to feeding a natural diet, providing your animal with the essential nutrients required to thrive are more easily met than one may think. Many years ago and still today they have classified the canid species as carnivores, and that simply means one who feeds on flesh. Today we have the advantage over those who came before us because we have the ability to provide more and pretty much shop world wide. Researching and connecting people locally and internationally using resources that they may have never known about. While we remember the knowledge they share with us on what and how vegetables, fruit, herbs, spices, and roots that are extremely beneficial to the health of all mammals. All of this makes it possible for me to say “meeting your animal's nutritional requirements are more easily met than you may think”. The first proof of nutritional requirements being met, is the most sought after relief from skin allergies, which is why most people consider making the switch to a natural diet anyways.
(Skin off Turkey Neck)
(Skin on Chicken Neck)
When it comes down to the consumption of bone by our animals we have to take a couple things into consideration. First your dog should never be given cooked bones. Cooked bones splinter and are extremely dangerous for the animal from nose to tail, becoming hard little spears because of the pressure under high cooking temperatures. Instead your animal should be provided with the naturally, uncooked, softer, digestible, non splintering, highly nutritious bone. And second, you should never make your animals weekly diet more than 50% to 60% (for young pups) max bone consumption. Feeding a stupid high bone diet daily thought out the week turning into a month, can cause an unsightly blockage in the intestine, which will require expensive surgery to correct, likely removing some intestine as well. My simple rule is, “never add extra bone without good reason. Yet it must be a skinless birds neck if needed, because the meat to bone ratio is already correct”.
(A blend with rabbit, duck, and beef)
Now when we think about germs and bacteria, the rules are the same rules that we apply for our own raw food handling. Just as you would wash your hands, your dishes, your counters and so on with a disinfectant, that same exact thing applies to your naturally fed animals. Wash their bowls and wipe down their feeding area with some form of disinfectant daily. Now if your true concern is the animal getting salmonella or e coli; the canid species has an extremely acidic guts which helps prevent bacteria from colonizing. This acidic gut united with enzymes in their saliva are known to have antibacterial properties, yet this makes it possible for their higher bacteria tolerance than you or I.  So in other words, it’s highly unlikely that your animal will get sick from a natural diet, unless they are already ill or their immune system has already been compromised. I often tell people, “ practice good hygiene and use your common sense, simply no spoiled, rotten, or molded meats or produce.
(Ribs)

Welcome To 20/20

Just a thought...........Just a Thought.............

When we think about feeding a natural diet, and how it heals the body, we must also look at what I call prevention. If the goal of a natural diet is to help bring forth better or the best health out of our animals, we should also be looking at the long term effects of feed. How is the feed we’re providing our animals, actually helping or is it harming them in the long run. I strongly believe that at least 85% of all serious health issues are directly the results of how and what we are feeding the animal. These issues are so vast that we are seriously talking about from skin issues all the way to cancers, which are in my opinion diet related.

What makes me say its diet related, look into how animal feed is processed and what has to be put back into it, just to be press out into a pellet to be considered safe and “nutritionally appropriate” for animal consumption. It’s said, “the number one ingredient is meat”, meaning “meat” is the most used ingredient in the bag. Then it’s followed by a lot of plant based material, with vitamins, minerals, and at least one preservative added back in to “lock in freshness”. To sum it up, all of these ingredients have been destroyed by killing the natural nutrients during cooking, hence the reason things have to be added back to make it “complete”. Enough said!
(Early Spring 2011)
All of this weakens the immune system because we are simply feeding it crap. Over processed food with added ingredients, which require the animals body to over work, just to process the food for viable nutrients, hence why you have to feed so much and why they poop so much. Just look at it, the majority of bad health problems stem from a compromised immune system like skin, gut, and so on. My goal has been and will remain to be, how can I feed my animals today to prevent a health issue tomorrow, and knowing all that goes into making kibble the first thing I can do is make the switch, so my animal can benefit from the natural nutrients provided in its whole unaltered form.
The next thing is essentially rebuilding a broken and damaged body, by incorporating the right balance of nutrients daily building into a lifetime. Providing the animal with a vast abundance of whole nutrients over time will begin to manifest. 1. bodies that are more resilient to illness and disease, supporting the fact that the immune system is now working at its optimal peak throughout the animal, after successfully going through detox. 2. offspring who display better brain function, mobility, and overall better vitality than its ancestors. 3. The unsurprising gain of longevity accompanied by durability, granting our beloved animals a puppy like mind and vigorous zest for life well into the senior years, just to mention a few.
(King Cain in the fall of 2014)
All of this can only become possible when we begin to look exactly at, how, what, and why we are feeding the choices we’ve made for the animal. By incorporating the right foods today, that destroy, extend, fight, prevent, and yet so much more, to overall help build a stronger, illness, and disease free animals, why not start today, to prevent tomorrow?

Christopher W. Jones

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