CANINE HEALTH CARE
I recently had the opportunity to travel to College Station, Texas to attend a three day seminar on Canine Reproduction. This course featured detailed information on ovulation timing in the bitch, and stressed the importance of doing prebreeding vaginal cultures to insure conception. The bitch has a limited number of viable heat cycles in her life, probably no more than twelve, and once we decide to breed, we should do everything in our power to ensure conception. This will involve culturing the female once she comes into heat, treating her if she is infected, testing her for brucellosis, and timing her to detect ovulation. This must be followed up by breeding at the appropriate time, with semen of adequate quality to ensure fertilization. 
The advantages of Artificial Insemination, with fresh, chilled, or frozen semen are numerous. First, we can evaluate the semen for quality of sperm, and check for infections in the male. Second, we can be sure the semen is deposited in the reproductive tract of the female, at the appropriate time. Third, by using chilled or frozen semen, we can breed to superior stud dogs that we might not be accessible to us on the basis of geography, or their availability due to training or competition. The course covered techniques for collecting and processing chilled and frozen semen. I plan to incorporate these ideas both into our own breeding program here at Deep Run, and into the breeding services we offer to you, our clients.
A method of health care that treats the biomechanics of joint functions. Chiropractic care corrects a misalignment of vertebral bones and restores proper functioning of the nervous system.
To keep your dog functioning as a canine athlete and operating at peak performance. Your dog may have suffered a trauma such as a slip, fall, automobile accident, or blow which caused a vertebra misalignment in its spinal column. (Even stresses during the birthing process could create misalignment.) The symptoms of even a very slight misalignment may include lameness, neck and back pain, epilepsy, stiffness and pain in older animals, bed wetting, and many other diseases.
Your dog is first given a physical exam to determine if any health problems require surgical or medical attention. Then your dog undergos a chiropractic analysis to determine the health of its spine and any spinal vertebrae that may require adjustment. You will be notified of recommendations to pursue medical attention or chiropractic care.
Owners tell us all the time about how good their dog feels after receiving chiropractic care. One of the most exciting things that happens in almost all the dogs we treat is an improvement in the dog's attitude.
Animals recover very rapidly as a rule, but older dogs and more serious problems take more time. Age and physical condition, extent of damage, duration of the problem, and owner cooperation are all factors in 'get well' time.
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Vaccinating Your Dog
Health Tip
Your dog's teeth are just as important as your own. You should brush them
daily, with a toothbrush and doggie toothpaste. Most people toothpaste
contains fluoride, which can be upsetting to your dog's stomach if swallowed.
Dog toothpaste is flavored to improve its acceptability to your dog, as well
as containing enzymes that help break down the plaque and tartar on the teeth.
Regular chewing is also helpful to keep teeth clean. Rawhide chews are good,
and there is a product available from your veterinarian called CET Chews which
is rawhide chews impregnated with toothpaste that contain the type of enzymes
mentioned above. Use of these chews can clean teeth that are caked with
tartar, and their regular use will prevent it from building up. If you prefer
not to use rawhides, RAW bones are good for your dog's teeth. User the long
shank bones or knuckle bones. Cooking will tend to make them hard and
brittle--more apt to splinter or fracture your dog's teeth. Of course if you
buy them raw, keep them frozen until you are going to give them to your dog,
so they won't spoil.
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