http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/blog/ Latest Blogs http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/myloves/blog/animal-care/ I just wanted to let everyone know that I am starting a local dog walking/pet sitting business covering the areas from Encino to Thousand Oaks. So if ... Celisse]]> http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/myloves/blog/animal-care/ Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:22:59 +0000 Celisse Hayden http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/adopt-don-t-shop/ Last week I was talking to the Fed Ex Driver at work. As always I got on the subject of Dogs! He was going to buy an Australian Sheppard. I almost ye... http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/adopt-don-t-shop/ Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:07:40 +0000 Wendy Sue http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/dog-quotes/ http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/dog-quotes/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:43:24 +0000 Wendy Sue http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/free-hugs/ http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/free-hugs/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:24:33 +0000 Wendy Sue http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/they-are-my-dogs/ http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/WendySue/blog/they-are-my-dogs/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:53:33 +0000 Wendy Sue http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles-2/ http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles-2/ Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:42:32 +0000 lola4dogs http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/darwinspet/blog/food-for-your-new-puppy-how-to-feed-healthy-and-nutritious/ The most important time to feed great food is when your puppy is young. Great nutrition helps build a solid foundation, upon which your puppy can liv...
Puppies, as a general rule, require high protein, balanced fat, mineral-rich diets (giant breed dog owners should discuss food with their vets and breeders). Not all raw diets are high protein: some popular, lower-cost raw diets are mostly fat, and probably should not be fed to puppies.

The actual fat content of a dog food is not always shown on the label because fat is listed as a minimum. A label can read “6% fat (minimum)” and actually be 18% fat! The best way to tell how much fat is in a raw diet is to go to the company’s website and find out the amount of calories per ounce in the product. Lean, high protein foods appropriate for puppies should have 25 to 40 kcal/ ounce, while the fatty foods, which should probably not be fed to puppies (or any dog, in my opinion), have 50 to 65 kcal per ounce. (Fat has more than twice the calories per ounce than protein).

It's also important to feed puppies a variety of healthy foods, rotating the different meat and fat sources, so they get accustomed to eating almost anything. Many puppies brought up on just one food have difficulty adjusting to variety of foods later in life. Variety is natural and healthy. Just as you would not want your child to eat just one food all the time, you should not feed your puppy one food all the time.

In a future blog, I’ll write more about the importance of rotating meat and fat sources for a healthy brain. That’s the topic of my new book, The Canine Ancestral Diet: One Day a Week to a Healthier Dog, which will soon be published by Dogwise Publishing.

This entry was written by Steve Brown, a blog author at darwinspet.com/blog]]> http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/darwinspet/blog/food-for-your-new-puppy-how-to-feed-healthy-and-nutritious/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:35:48 +0000 Jayson Demers http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles-1/ http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles-1/ Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:10:56 +0000 lola4dogs http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles/ I have been a volunteer with LA Animal Services for almost 4 years now. I was originally lured in by the development of a dog training program that th... http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/lola4dogs/blog/the-shelter-chronicles/ Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:44:45 +0000 lola4dogs http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/Kevin/blog/spreading-the-love-of-dog/
At the shelter I played with several other Dogs while one particular puppy watched me intently. There was something about him, I don't know, but he would not take his eyes off of me. He actually spoke to me through his eyes, but I was still a bit scared of him, having been bitten by a Shepherd as a kid.

Just as I was about to leave Dogless, I looked back, and the puppy with the eyes was still staring, pleading, and beckoning me back to give him a chance. I remember it like it was yesterday. I actually said out loud, "Okay, let's play." We have never been apart since.

I have never made a better decision in my entire life. I named him "Cody" as in Codependent.... Sort of a play on words I guess. And codependent we were.

Some people say that I "saved" him, but in all reality we both know, that he saved me.

It took me 23 years to get another Dog, and Cody reminded me once again what true love and loyalty really is. I rediscovered that the love you give a Dog, will be returned to you a million times over. Trust me. Dogs don't judge. They only know the purest form of love.

Shortly after, in 1998, I started dating again, and was seeing this seemingly cool lady. Things were moving along nicely until she said... "Sweetheart, you know if I move in 'The Dog' has got to go..."I never called her again, nor did I return any of her calls.

It was just Cody and me. Happy and in love.

It was from that moment, I knew in my heart that "Dog people" need to meet, interact, and be connected with other "Dog people."

I remember that day looking at a picture frame with Cody's baby picture in it. The frame said "Qui me amat, amet et Canus meum (St. Bernard AD 1150) Love Me Love My Dog" and I thought, "It's really as simple as that."

Cody and I continued to live our lives in love with each other, sharing every possible moment. We shared the couch, the bed, chips, french fries, green beans, edamame, carrots, and pretty much every minute of every day. I purposely designed my life so that I worked at home so I was able to spend all my time with my best friend.

Eventually I got married, moved to a lakefront home in Canada, adopted my other two amazing boys Skylar, then Dylan, spent as many months as possible swimming in the lake with my Boys, the rest of the time freezing, got divorced, and made sure that in the divorce settlement that I got the Dogs. Nothing else mattered. Nothing.

Then, the stock market crashed. The housing market crashed. I lost my business, sold my home, all the furniture, and all my material possessions at a loss, and took what was important to me. My Dogs Cody, Skylar, and Dylan, my photos, my laptop, my bronze Buddha, a few pairs of 501s, some tees, and the few bucks I had left in my pocket. I bought a small RV and headed off "home" to Los Angeles to restart my life.

I had been working on developing LoveMeLoveMyDog.com for quite some time and wanted to launch it from the Dog park in Marina Del Rey that I had taken Cody to as a puppy. Sort of a "rebirth" I guess, at 46.

I thought I would live in the RV, traveling around happily "Spreading The Love Of Dog" as the site slogan says. Bad idea.Bad, bad idea. Living on the streets of Los Angeles in an RV is not easy. It was quite eye opening to see so closely, and to some extent be a part of the suffering of so many that are homeless, and on the streets, especially those with Dogs who they love, and who in return love them unconditionally.

Living like this took it's toll on me. Mentally. physically and spiritually. But we had nowhere else to go. We were stuck in the RV on the streets of Los Angeles. Absolutely nobody would rent to us. At times I would awaken in the middle of the night in a panic, parked on some side street that in the past I would have casually driven by. I often felt hopeless and wanted to quit. The depression was severe. But I knew in my heart that my Dogs relied on me to survive, in order for them to survive. Because of this love and sense of obligation to them, LoveMeLoveMyDog.com had to launch and flourish.

This painful experience on the streets only strenghtened my drive to make this site a reality. Whatever the personal cost, I owed it to Cody, Skylar, Dylan, the memory of Midnight, and all the other Dogs and their Dog loving humans to make this a reality. We needed a targeted, cruelty conscious, forward thinking, social network, not motivated by greed, but motivated by a true and honest, love for Dogs. A site of our own, in order to meet and network with other like minded Dog lovers to promote rescue, encourage spay and neutering, make friends, show off our Dogs, learn about cool new products, exchange ideas, interact, and help Dogs. I felt the need to create a single voice and visibility for Dogs on the whole, in order to increase awareness of the situations and suffering that they face in our modern, and all too often cruel world.

Even though I felt that the site was not quite ready I decided to launch it anyway from the RV, on the streets of Marina Del Rey, parked where Cody played as a puppy. Sink or swim, I clicked the button and we went live.

My whole life has led up to "just one click." LoveMeLoveMyDog.com had begun. If the Universe is kind enough to allow my dream to reach it's fruition, LoveMeLoveMyDog.com will be the only place one needs to go to find out everything about helping Dogs, making friends with other Dog lovers, being there for dogs in need, and learning responsible Dog guardianship.

If just one Dog is rescued with the help of LoveMeLoveMyDog.com then the site is a success, and all the risk, time, and financial loss was worth it. If a million Dogs are rescued, then all the better. All in all though, it is about creating a better life for Dogs and the humans who love them, and who they love in return. Whether they are in a home or homeless, skid row or death row, the penthouse or the poorhouse. We brought them into our world and we owe them a life worth living. Hopefully LoveMeLoveMyDog.com can be of service to reach that goal.

I will also be looking to find and promote great smaller companies who create great Dog products not because they see big dollars as part of the "Pet Industrial Complex", but because they love Dogs. And because they love Dogs, they saw a need for a particular product or service to make life better for Dogs, and they created it. If their heart is in the right place, they deserve to succeed, and I would like to help them.

So here I am, at the beginning of my journey, which has taken me years to get to, looking to the stars, and to people's hearts to help me create the largest philanthropic, cruelty free, Dog lovers community and rescue network on the planet. A site dedicated to the love of dogs, and a loving lifestyle towards all living sentient beings. Hopefully this site will outlast me for many years to come. I thank you all from the bottom of my heart for being a part of this journey.

Lastly, I need to say that this site will forever be the legacy of its inspirations, Cody, Skylar, Dylan and my long lost love Midnight. To them I owe the gratitude of feeling what true undying dedication and love is. Whether I was rich, poor, fat, thin, healthy, sick, happy, sad, or whatever, my Dogs always loved me. Unconditionally.

I am honoured to attempt to repay that love to them, and all Dogkind with this site.]]> http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/Kevin/blog/spreading-the-love-of-dog/ Sat, 10 Oct 2009 02:46:27 +0000 Kevin Lawrence http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/Junglefari/blog/junglefari-animal-training-tip-of-the-week-9-6/ Puppy Play! And how it relates to Puppy Nipping...a brief overview. New dog owners are often terrified of the first time their new pal gets together ... http://www.lovemelovemydog.com/Junglefari/blog/junglefari-animal-training-tip-of-the-week-9-6/ Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:49:43 +0000 Julie