~ Breeding Articles ~

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These articles have appeared in the foremost dog fancy publications such as Canine Chronicle, RingLeader, Dog World, AKC Gazette, Dog News and Champions.

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Articles on New Research Findings

• Bloat: Risk factors for surgical gastric dilatation-volvulus in dogs.
• Bloat Survey: This bloat survey is the joint effort of Dr. Carmen Battaglia PhD of the AKC and Dr. Cindy Otto DVM, University of Pennsylvania, School of Veterinary Medicine.
• Early Neurological Stimulation (Revised): Learn to give newborn pups a head start on life. Emphasis is on the Primary Period and the first 3-16 days of life.
  Other Languages French, Spanish, German, Hungarian
• Early Neurological Stimulation (Journal article): This article must be requested by email
• Nutrition and DHA: Learn how to gain an advantage and make your dogs smarter through nutrition.
• Nestle Purina Companion Animal Nutrition Summit – 2010: For those interested in problems associated with aging and how stress, nutrition and the environment affect the aging process.

Articles on Breeding

• Breeding to the Great Dogs:The specific steps necessary to making better selections of stud dogs.
  Other Languages French
• Breeding Skill: Breeding the better dogs depends on your learning eight breeder skills. We must remember that it takes one set of skills to breed, another to exhibit and a third set to judge. The eight breeder skills are a necessary part of every breeders education.
• Choosing The Right Sire: Two reasons people hesitate when selecting a stud dog
• Founders Effect: Genetic influence on a breed of one dog. Why it is called the Founders Effect.
• Managing the Carriers Part 1: The basic principles associated with making improvements involves the quality of the information collected about the ancestors and how to use it.
• Managing the Carriers Part 2: The basic principles associated with making improvements involves the quality of the information collected about the ancestors and how to use it.

Articles on Puppies

• Litter Size and Singletons: For those who want to know more about litter size and one puppy litters.
• Early Puppy Training: All dogs can benefit from obedience training as early as seven weeks and also when the puppy enters its new home.

All Other Articles

• A Gathering Storm Part 1: Learn how the animal rights groups have gained momentum to change the dog world as we know it.
• A Gathering Storm Part 2: Learn how the animal rights groups have gained momentum to change the dog world as we know it.
• Be Prepared: Learn how to protect your pet from loss or theft using microchip technology.
• Brackett's Formula: A proven method that can retain certain from a high quality dog.
  Other Languages Spanish
• Breadth of a Pedigree: Knowledge about littermates is the centerpiece of a planned breeding.
• Breed Dilemmas and Extinction: Learn how and why health problems haunt some breeds.
• Breeding for the Difference: Provides insight into the logic of keeping good records and the importance of making notes.
• Calculating the Aging Process: A new way to calculate the ages of canines in "man years".
• Canine Genetic Tests and Labs: Current DNA tests and laboratories.
• Changing Estimates: Why dogs in many breeds are getting larger and what can do about it.
• Continuing Education: A program that gives you the ability to develop the skills needed based on your dreams.
• DNA Sire Program Part 1: DNA technology and the issues required to DNA a stud dog.
• DNA Sire Program Part 2: DNA technology and the issues required to DNA a stud dog.
• DNA Sire Program Part 3: DNA technology and the issues required to DNA a stud dog.
• Fleas and Their Control: By the time most owners discover fleas on their pet; their home is usually part of the problem. Controlling and eliminating fleas requires understanding that the flea life cycle has three working parts.
• I hereby Declare: Chosen by the Dog Writers Association of America as the best article for 2004.
• Long term health effects of Spay/Neuter in dogs What everyone owner should know about the risks and long term health effects of spay and neuter
• Mendel's Puzzle: Mendel discovered the gene. An explanation of the recessive genes and how he discovered them in pedigrees.
• More Than Meets The Eye: Useful information for those who attend dog shows. The focus is on promimity and knowledge - Keys to Observation.
• OFA Tables: OFA serves as a central source of information for breeders and owners based on the standards for evaluation. See two useful tables for risk.
• Old Problems New Solutions: The Internet has brought breeders and clubs closer together, they now are thinking about their problems in new ways.
• Pedigree Analysis: An explanation about the differences between the "Traditional Pedigree", "Stick Dog Color Chart Pedigree" and the "Symbols Pedigree" and how to use each pedigree.
  Other Languages French
• Poor Performance or Prostatic Problem: Prostate problems begin to occur in many males by about five years of age. It occurs in 95% of males by nine years of age.
• Selecting Sires: An in-depth look at what it takes to make a sire popular, why some are breed more often than others and a short case study to illustrate the important elements involved in selection process.
  Other Languages Spanish
• Ticket To Ride: An analysis of declining dog registrations and the effect on breeders and clubs.

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