Weekly Pupdate for 10-13-24

IT’S A FUNDRAISER! To mark 25 years of MAESSR, we’ve launched a t-shirt fundraiser.  You can choose from two t-shirts, a long-sleeve t-shirt, or a crewneck sweatshirt in a variety of colors. All proceeds help MAESSR continue to find homes for Springers in need.

Featured Dogs

Check out our senior/special needs dogs!  Our program, SENIORS FOR SENIORS, charges a $75 adoption fee for adopters aged 60 and over who adopt dogs nine years old and older or special needs dogs.  If interested in one of our senior/special needs dogs, contact Candi Lynn here.

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DOGWISE is another MAESSR affiliate whose mission is to bring humane, understandable & scientifically sound information to people who enrich their lives by working with, playing with & loving dogs. Many of the books, including the booklets, in the MAESSR library can be found at Dogwise.com. You can support MAESSR & get great training advice by shopping. They also sell some training products. Look for the $5 books on sale while you are there!

Training Library

THE ALLERGIC PET: HOLISTIC SOLUTIONS TO END THE ALLERGY EPIDEMIC IN OUR DOGS AND CATS (224 pages) by Deva Khalsa, DVM.  Learn how to help your pet from a pioneer in holistic veterinary medicine!  Cure your pet’s allergies, address symptoms, support their health, and strengthen their immune system the natural way. – Solve dry skin, GI issues, scratching, ear infections, hot spots, ringworm, and more symptoms caused by allergies. – Holistic advice and an integrative approach to health care to get your pet feeling good, energetic, and sporting a healthy, shining coat. – Food sensitivity considerations, how to feed your pet a balanced diet, recipes for pet allergy problems, and more.  Understand what is bothering your cat or dog, why pets have allergies, and what you can do about it! Inside these 224 pages, Dr. Deva Khalsa, VMD, shares her invaluable knowledge on how to alleviate your pet’s allergies and food sensitivities effectively and permanently. You’ll learn how to strengthen your pet’s immune system — not with the use of expensive surgery, invasive techniques, or pharmaceutical drugs, but instead with natural recommendations and holistic solutions. Take Dr. Khalsa’s advice to heal your pet and keep them in good health, happy, full of energy, and showing off their healthy, shining, smooth coat. Our furry friends suffer from allergies as much as we do, and allergy season sadly seems to run throughout the year. For cats and dogs that suffer from allergies, they could have many symptoms from itchy skin and ear infections to severe gastrointestinal issues including diarrhea, vomiting, and constipation. Of course, you can take your dog or cat to a conventional veterinarian who might prescribe expensive supplements and ointments for allergies in pets. But Dr. Khalsa’s book might be the right “prescription” for you and your pet. Having developed her methods over decades of practice and study, Dr. Khalsa combines wholesome nutrition and holistic therapies with traditional veterinary medicine. She uses alternative methods, such as herbal remedies and botanical medicine. The Allergic Pet features detailed explanations of the author’s innovative and life-changing allergy-elimination technique for trying to diagnose the root of the problem in your pet. It offers useful advice for cat and dog owners on food choices, hot spots for infections, ringworm, scabies, intestinal parasites, vaccinations, and more. It suggests holistic health therapies for keeping your pet healthy and strengthening their immune system, thereby avoiding the use of surgery or pharmaceutical drugs. It even goes into detail on food sensitivity and the considerations you should make when it comes to your pet’s diet, along with nutrition advice and recipes for allergic pets. If your dog or cat suffers from allergies, this is a book you will want to refer to again and again! Donated by Cathy Moyer. 

BEING A DOG: FOLLOWING THE DOG INTO A WORLD OF SMELL (323 pages) by Alexandra Horowitz. Guided by her own dogs, Finnegan and Upton, Horowitz sets off on a quest through the cutting-edge science behind the olfactory abilities of the dog. In addition to speaking to cognitive researchers and smell experts, Horowitz visits detection-dog trainers and training centers; she meets researchers working with dogs to detect cancerous cells and anticipate epileptic seizure or diabetic shock; and she even attempts to smell-train her own nose.  As we come to understand how rich, complex, and exciting the world around us is to the canine nose, Horowitz changes our perspective on dogs forever. Readers will finish this book feeling that they have broken free of their human constraints and understanding smell as never before; that they have, for however fleetingly, been a dog. And, as The Boston Globe says about Being a Dog, “becoming more doglike, not surprisingly, can make anyone’s life a little more vivid.” Donated by Cathy Moyer.   

The TRAINING LIBRARY has TWO Wish Lists.  New or used titles can be purchased from the Amazon list; Dogwise has new books and DVDs.  Purchases can be shipped directly to the library.  Pretty quick and easy way to help out MAESSR as well as educate adopters!  

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Submitted by volunteer Cathy Moyer with thanks to those who contributed submissions/info.