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Puppy Training

wldorchidnv@yahoo.com (stephanie schenk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 06:45:05 GMT

Puppy Training Tips

Food or Resource Guarding~ This is a normal behavior for a dog. This is a simple thing to correct when a puppy, not so much when an adult with full adult with established habit. Simply take their food or bone away and quickly replace with a fantastic treat. Repeat until there is no growling and they are looking forward to getting the treat in replacement. I will do this when they are with me so they will be conditioned for this, I am mentioning so you know how they have been trained. To train for messing with their food, just walk up and add treats to their food bowl. When they are conditioned to expect treat when you approach their food you can start doing exchanges and then give back. Always touch puppy before doing exchange. Some pups won’t like being touched while eating. If you have a lap or bed guarder you can do this same training approach. My pups are raised eating from a shared food bowl and my messing with them and their food, so they shouldn’t react badly to any of this. This is how you train for if a issue develops. Frenchies have never been aggressive to people, but they can be aggressive about other dogs getting into their bowl. If this develops as they get older, you can just feed in a crate. This is generally a result of being raised getting their own individual bowl to eat and not having to share.

Biting~ If you roll around on the floor and wrestle with your puppy with your hands, your puppy is going to bite. When you are rough with a puppy it teaches them to be rough back. If you want a more mellow puppy be mellow with them. Be gentle with them. Yes, a lot is temperament and personality, but you can guide that, with the way you behave with them. If playing, ALWAYS keep a toy between your hands and the puppy. Children and puppies can get in a biting loop where the puppy bites, the child screams and then the puppy bites more. It only takes a month or two for puppy to grow out of biting. Teach your children to be calm around puppies. You should never feel teeth on you. If you do, you can lightly pinch nose and chin together and say, “NO bite!” You can squirt with squirt bottle if doing to kids. Even dogs that like water, don’t like to be squirted.

Potty Training~ 10 minutes after start of play session, 15 minutes after meals, and immediately after waking up. Signs of having to go potty, if he is playing or doing something and stops to look around take him out. If he walks near the door, take him outside. They will need to go out at least every hour. You will need to have a grass potty pad or two around. No food 3 hours before bed and no water an hour before. The smaller your puppy the more often they need to go and the longer it takes for them to be able to “hold it”. If you catch a puppy starting to go potty, clap your hands or startle them, so they stop and take them to potty pad.

Introducing To Older Dogs~ When bringing a puppy into a house with big dogs always have higher furniture or places for big dogs to escape to where puppies can’t go and small/short places that pups can escape under to get away from big dogs. This makes for less confrontations. Dogs that are aggressively told off by big dogs are less outgoing and more reserved when they get older than puppies that don’t have adult dogs aggressively telling them off. Or block off areas where the puppy can’t go. The more opportunity you give your older dogs to be able to escape from puppies, the less conflict you will have.

Training- No corrections, it shuts a puppy down and is negative reinforcement with its own lasting effects on a puppy. Always figure out how to solve a problem using positive training. Puppies learn best with VERY short training sessions. The longer you train the less well they will do things. And NEVER correct them, only use treats, your happy voice and petting. Short training sessions of 6 minutes with a half hour rest period/nap in between to learn what you showed them. Nap is preferred. Puppies learn when they sleep on things. It gives their brains time to sort out what you taught them. Best training is throughout the day. Have them do something every once in a while with a treat to reward.

Trainers~ You need to stand up for your puppy. They depend on you to guard them from bad things a trainer might want to do to them. One bad trainer can destroy a puppy for life. NO heavy handedness. ONLY positive reinforcement training. Baiting to get a puppy or dog to do what you want. No prong or shock collars. Under NO circumstances do you EVER “establish your dominance” by putting a dog or puppy on their back. Manhandling or being aggressive with your dog/puppy only builds aggression and creates SO many other behavior problems.

What you should be doing, get that puppy out and experience as many experiences as possible. The first 12 weeks of life are the most important, but you want to continue until 18 months. Use caution if something is too much or a person is too rough with them, it can cause a fear imprint instead of a good imprint. It takes 3-10 good experiences of the same to overcome the one bad experience, depending on how bad. Meet as many different types of dogs as possible without risking your puppy’s health or well being. Meet as many people and friendly trusted dogs as possible. Stay away from dog parks or anywhere that lots of strange dogs have been or don’t set them down in these areas. Teach to come, walking on leash, sit to ask for things and crate training for short period of times. Using lots of rewards for these. No jerking on leashes for corrections. With positive bait training your puppy is never too young to train. My group puppy recall is a very high pitched “Puppy”, if in a pinch/emergency try using this recall to call your puppy.

Crate training- 6 months old, make sure you take away food and water for a couple hours before. Give a nice treat like a kong filled with yummy and lock in crate for a short time and let out BEFORE puppy starts complaining. Put in for naps and take out when pup wakes up and before it starts complaining. You’ll be using an Xpen for any length of time. A mini Frenchie usually can’t be locked in a crate all night. Thus the Xpen, crate for bed and potty grass.

Leash training- starts with no collar or leash. Start by walking, anytime the puppy comes up to walk next to you treat. Work up to walking a few steps next to you before treating. When puppy is walking next to you all the time put on a collar and walk, when good with that add the leash. No pulling on the leash, it teaches a puppy to tug. Treats are ALWAYS good, no matter how old. If you already have a puppy that sticks to you like glue, you can skip the first two steps and go ahead and put on the leash and collar and start walking being sure to keep the leash loose at all times with no chance of pulling while doling out the treats so they are walking on a leash without noticing they are. When they are walking real good with no stalling or pausing you can slow a little on the treats, but keep treating at regular intervals. It usually just takes one time of this for them to be trained. Leash training is one of the easiest things to train.

Puppy class is structured and much more safe than a dog park if looking to socialize your puppy. A good puppy class teacher would never ask you to force or manhandle your puppy. Puppy play time should be with similar dogs in their activity and playfulness, not so much size or age. And remember your 6 minute rule. If you have to step away with your puppy to take a break from training, have a Kong or something to keep him occupied, while you keep an eye on what is going on to take notes for later.

Poop Eating-

Poop eating may be something as simple as boredom or curiosity that most puppies grow out of. My best remedies for stopping this behavior from becoming a habit is to sneak up behind pup while eating poop and pour Tabasco or lemon juice on poop and let continue eating. The other way to stop it, is to arm yourself with a small squirt bottle. When he/she turns to start checking out poop, squirt and hide squirt bottle if possible, so doesn’t know where it came from.

It isn’t: Your pup doesn’t have a health issue. Hasn’t been raised in a dirty kennel cage. And it isn’t a diet deficiency, because you should be feeding a good food with a multivitamin added like Nature’s Farmacy Ultimate.

Puppy Training & Socialization

wldorchidnv@yahoo.com (stephanie schenk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:13:47 GMT

Your Puppy's Beginning To 12 Weeks

By the time a puppy is 5-6 months old it takes a lot more repetitions for them to learn something. It can take months to make up for what you could get with just a couple exposures when young. There may be practical limits to what can be made up for whatever was missed when young. Socialization only lasts until 12 weeks old, which is why we welcome owners and as many visitors as possible at my house. After 12 weeks you have missed that window and it becomes much harder to socialize a pup the older they get. The first 12 weeks of your puppy’s life are the most important which is why carefully choosing your breeder is so important.

Womb~ Our program starts while they are still in their Dams belly. Puppies react to being petted and rubbed while still in the belly. Lots of rubbing and petting of them while still in the womb creates docile pups that like to be petted. My girls always get as much attention as they want, when pregnant they want extra lap time and they get it.

Birth to 16 days~ Once pups are born and until their eyes and ears open I will be practicing early neurological stimulation on them also known as the “Super Dog” program. Only about 35% of a puppy is controlled by heritable factors, the remaining 65% is attributable to other influences, such as training, management and nutrition. EEG measures show that pups and kittens when given early stimulation exercises mature at faster rates and perform better in certain problem solving tests than non-stimulated mates.

Studies confirm that there are specific time periods early in life when neurological stimulation has optimum results. The first period involves a window of time that begins at the third day of life and lasts until the sixteenth day. It is believed that because this interval of time is a period of rapid neurological growth and development, and therefore is of great importance. The "Bio Sensor" program was also concerned with early neurological stimulation in order to give the dog a superior advantage. The handling of each pup once per day involves the following exercises:

1. Tactical stimulation (between toes)

2. Head held erect

3. Head pointed down

4. Supine position

5. Thermal stimulation

When eyes open~ Is the startle period. I will startle the pups in any way I can think of. Slamming doors, Rob Zombie radio, dropping books, etc. Startled pups recover faster and learn to not be fearful and it makes for easy going adults that are less likely to react out of fear or from loud noises.

4 weeks~ Communication training. I add a potty area and start potty training. I start letting run around, meeting other dogs and puppies. Lots of interaction, talking to and they start learning experiences like how to climb over things. They’re old enough to start playing with toys, so lots of different toys are added to environment.

5 weeks is Fear Period~ This is a single imprint period which means a single bad experience will imprint. No bad experiences during this time. Encounters with other dogs or people need to be very structured. I’ll let the puppy deal with things on his/her own. I’ll keep introducing new things. Small startle responses with fast recovery. No coaxing, just praise when fears are overcome. No comforting a fearful pup UNLESS it is a truly horrific or scary thing that happens.

6 weeks Socialize~ I want lots of visitors, but absolutely NO bad experiences. Visitors wearing hats and glasses and various things. Pups are walking well by this time, so they are introduced to outside around this time. Everything builds confidence by new experiences. Puppies will learn to use steps and overcome things. Running around trying new things are learning and problem solving exercises. Animals who are given problem solving and learning exercises in addition to toys and social interaction grow up to be more stable, less easily stressed, less easily frightened with better learning and memory. Overcoming tasks will make them more confident and calmer in the future.

8 weeks~ is a fear period too~! Be EXTRA vigilant and allow no negative experiences. One bad experience during this time, takes 10 good experiences to erase. This is why I prefer not to let pups go to new homes until 9 weeks, unless specifically requested.

9-12 weeks~ get out and take your puppy places. Drive in car, so won’t get car sick as adult. Swim in baby pool or bathtub with them, so they will like water in Summer months. Just because you don’t want to set your pup down where strange, possibly sick dogs have been, doesn’t mean they can’t be socialized while being carried or in a stroller. Never allow a stranger to manhandle your puppy scaring them. People have strange ideas that manhandling a puppy, scaring the crap out of them, toughens them up. A scary experience takes many good experiences to undo.

Ester C For Injuries And To Avoid Surgeries

wldorchidnv@yahoo.com (stephanie schenk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:04:11 GMT

Ester C For Life

Most (if not all) Frenchies are IVDD. They are dwarfs. Humanly bred to be abnormal. They generally require artificial insemination and American Frenchies require C sections. They aren't anything like wolves or other breeds. They have weird spines. If a vet Xrays a Frenchie, expect weirdness! Don't EVER let a vet talk you into killing your Frenchie or a $7000 - $8000 unnecessary surgery!! EVERY Frenchie should be on Ester C from the time they are born to prevent injuries later. 500mg daily. If injured 1000mg morning and night for at least a week (the longer the better), even if seem cured and seem normal after two days. Then 1000 MG maintenance for life. If old age dog that can barely move, this will help them also. After any surgery or injury any dog should be treated like this. Athletes or working dogs should also be on 1000mg a day. Pregnant dogs should be on 1000mg a day. This is a miracle supplement that is underutilized. This comes in Puppy kit, but you can buy anywhere. This is the capsules you want. Open into food, doesn't taste bad. Don't use the 1000mg tablets. This also works for people with a much larger dosage. Isn't acidic like regular vitamin C and won't upset stomachs. Is more easily absorbed and utilized.

What to remember about Ester C: Ester C is for tissue. That means healing twice as fast from any muscle and tissue damage, developing strong tissues in developing puppies, strong placenta to carry puppies/humans, strong tissue to support joints and stop pain in old age, increases sperm count, will build strong tissue to support hips and patellas to prevent issues later or not get surgery on them. Incredibly important as a daily lifetime supplement. Especially for puppies.

Ester C may support the immune system; help produce collagen; support tissues, gums, teeth, and cartilage; and assist in synthesizing carnitine, which speeds up recovery time during exercise and help support healthy metabolism.

Ester C is an antioxidant and may slows the progress of free radicals in the body. It also has an important role in the production of collagen, which is necessary for keeping the body flexible and fortifying the joints. It helps support the health of intervertebral discs (IVDD), bones, gums, and cartilage. It also assists in the healing of minor wounds and cuts.

• Fortifies the immune system

• Supports healthy tissue and cartilage

• Helps support healthy metabolism

• Supports the joints

• Contributes to healthy bones & teeth

• Antioxidant

Roar & Ester C

��Roar is homeopathic remedy (can be customized) in a Nano Silver (kills viruses and bacteria) energy/electrolyte mix. It can be easily customized for specific health issues and help with pain. It completely removes my back pain. It's response time is 15 minutes. In my experience, Homeopathy is more effective than most herbs or prescriptions, faster acting and doesn't have any drug interactions or side effects. Where prescription mask symptoms, homeopathy cures the cause. It DOES NOT take the place of Ester C. Nothing will EVER take the place of Ester C. I'm working on making a more potent Ester C that is even more absorbable to be used when high dosage is called for. 500mg daily in capsule form supplied in the Care and Rescue Kit is recommended to prevent injuries, fake IVDD diagnosis and create strong joints so no arthritis in later years.

For immediate issues, I'm sure you've seen me post cases on their Facebook page where a dog couldn't even stand on legs and vets said to put down or $8000 surgery, dogs up and running around in 2-7 days back to normal. It is my miracle worker for soft tissue in the body. Anything tissue related! It doesn't heal bones, it makes strong tissue to support joints and removes pain. Thick placentas to carry babies and puppies, healthy tissue to developing fetus. After any surgery cuts healing time and pain in half. Nothing will EVER replace Ester C. It's worked too many miracles!

MANY studies proving Vitamin C effectiveness in curing deadly viruses when getting intravenously in high dosage. EVERYONE is low on vitamin C, everyone! And if any sickness, this is especially true. When taken in high dosage it is used or expelled from the body every 12 hours. So when looking to cure or heal, you need to administer every 12 hours. These two things (Roar and Ester C) can work together for illness, but one doesn't replace the other. They're completely different. Ester C in kit is for daily dosage. Roar is for any illness and specially customized for people or animals.

Treating Aspirated Pneumonia and Respiratory Issues

wldorchidnv@yahoo.com (stephanie schenk) — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 03:13:00 GMT

My Treatment For Aspirated Pneumonia

Treating viral issue like Kennel Cough

Fill Nebulizer cup with Bronchial Rescue and run 40 minutes holding on lap and pointing mist to nose or using mask.

My Treatment For Aspirated Pneumonia

I've been using this for over ten years with no fatalities. Frenchies and all short nosed breeds are much more susceptible to getting aspirated pneumonia. Aspirated pneumonia can happen at any time in their lives and at any age. It quickly becomes life threatening and can kill in a matter of days. You won't have time to get this last minute, you either have the cure on hand or you don't. Risking their lives leaving their treatment in the hands of vets who use IV antibiotics and then just wait to see if there's enough time for them them to be effective. If not, your bully dies and they're "Sorry, but pneumonia was too advanced". Vets and people doctors all treat aspirated pneumonia with antibiotics through IV. It is a completely ineffective way to treat a bacterial infection in the lungs. They supply fluids and just wait to see if your system can fight it off on its own. If it's a bad case of pneumonia, there's no way for the antibiotics to circulate through whole system fast enough to kill off the bacteria in lungs enough to save life. A vet will tell you your dog probably won't make it. Take them home and treat them with this and they will. In twenty years, I have a 100% cure rate with this treatment. You can bring a dog back from certain death with very first treatment.

Nebulizer Mixture

Linc100 use needle syringe for 1cc + 10cc Saline (two pink ampules)= 11cc volume

can add ONE drop of bronchial dilator in tiny dropper bottle in kit. (Caution in using straight Eucalyptus oil as it ruins the nebulizing cup!)

NEBULIZER aspirated pneumonia and Kennel Cough treatment

If your Frenchie ever gets Aspirated Pneumonia, this can save their life. Vets have a VERY low cure rate using IV antibiotics. This puts antibiotics directly into lungs. Helps with kennel cough too. Can’t get antibiotics to CA, will have to ship to friend and have them send to you. If your Frenchie gets Pneumonia, you can’t get this stuff last minute, you either have on hand to save their life, or you don’t. They can get at ANY age and immediately life threatening. A simple Xray will confirm Pneumonia. Rapid shallow breathing, loss of appetite and lethargy are a good sign to do a nebulizer treatment. Place in crate and cover well to keep mist in. I always run for forty minutes.

How Long to Treat

It's most effective if you just hold dog and point vapor to nose if tiny pup, if larger use mask, to be sure breathing as much as possible. Run unit for 20 minutes. You can setup with dog in a covered crate and run for twenty minutes, then shut it off and leave in the crate for an additional 20 minutes. If not well contained, run for forty minutes and remove from crate. You will see improvement after very first treatment if bacterial infection. If not use colloidal mix for viral infection.

First day, you may do this twice, then once a day for five to seven days. Most are normal by the third day, but do not discontinue at this point or the puppy may relapse. It is important to go two to three days past normal.

If you don't see immediate and noticeable improvement with antibiotics and don't have a vet confirmation of pneumonia from an Xray, then the infection is viral and Colloidal Silver mix in nebulizer is effective. Always start with treatment for pneumonia if any chance of having. It's easiest and quickest to resolve, but very quickly deadly. Viral infection should always go hand in hand with doses of olive leaf.

History- Vaporized opium was used as a treatment for cough. Anticholinergic properties of inhaled herbal preparations were used to treat asthma and inhaled epinephrine was first used around 1910. Aerosolized therapy is used for many therapies now including bronchodilators and corticosteroids, with a particular interest in antibiotic administration re-emerging recently. Although there are references to the use of inhaled penicillin as early as 1946, the first randomized controlled trial of inhaled antibiotics was first reported in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients in 1981. In critical care, endotracheal antibiotic administration was first reported in the 1970s, when Klastersky et al. reported that endotracheal (by way of trachea) polymyxins (antibiotics) effective for prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in tracheostomized patients. *www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Colloidal and Electrolyte Reboot Drink

Wed, 02 Sep 2020 05:06:00 GMT

Roar, Colloidal and Electrolyte Drink

After doing yard work all day, my brother and I were both feeling it. He came up with the brilliant idea of making our own energy drink. So we excitedly started throwing ideas together and came up with this. A combination of herbs and homeopathy. It’s incredible and works in about 15 minutes to remove pain, especially our horrible lower back pain and everything else. Just pour into any 8 ounce drink for people or add to water for dogs. It has a very slight sweet herbal taste. Can’t taste at all if drink has any flavor. Like all of our products people have tried so far, you’re going to LOVE it. You can experience the same benefits your fur baby does.
Here is a list of ingredients:

Horney Goats Weed- Aphrodisiac, Erectile dysfunction, increase libido, pain in lower back/knee/joints/arthritis, mental/physical fatigue, increase testosterone/estrogen especially for menopause, prevent bone loss, heart health, reduces aging symptoms, anti cancer, antioxidant, immune boosting, anti inflammatory, enhance brain/memory/cognitive function, anti inflammatory, build/repair bones

Honey- heart disease, reduce ulcer, ease digestive problems, regulate blood sugar, sooth coughs/sore throats, increase athletic performance, ease acid reflux

L-Carnatine- boosts metabolism, burns fat, increases energy, enhanced recovery and prevent muscle fatigue

Lion’s Mane- mental clarity, antioxidant, dimencia, nerve regrowth, prevents cancer/Alzheimer’s/Dementia/MS, cognition, memory, alleviate anxiety/irritability

Ginseng- immune system, brain function, fight fatigue, erectile dysfunction, blood sugar, cholesterol, treats diabetes, increase energy, increase libido, heals all aspects of the body

Hydrogen Peroxide- increases oxygen to system to fight all diseases/AIDS/lupus, cancer/sore throat/arthritis/diabetes/viruses

Colloidal Silver- anti-viral, anti-fungal, immune booster, allergies, inflammation

Electrolytes- regulate nerve and muscle function, hydrate, balance blood, rebuild damaged tissue, move nutrients into cells

Ruta Grav- connective tissue pain, strain pain, injury of joints or tendons, eye problems, soreness, stiffness, bone/joint problems, sprains, back pain, weakness, bursitis, tendinitis, sciatica, teeth/dental pain, bruises

Taurine- lower blood pressure, heart/brain/kidney health, nerve growth, stimulate metabolism, protects heart/muscles/brain/immune system

Rhus Tox joint/muscle pain, aches, soreness, bruising, stiffness, restlessness and even irritability and fear

“I ordered some of Derek and Stephanie’s energy drink. I poured it into my lemonade and thought, here I go down the proverbial rabbit hole. What happened was something entirely different. About five months ago I took two very bad falls, leaving me with aches and pains in various parts of my body. Also, that day my son and his family moved to a foreign country far away. Needless to say, I was a mess! After drinking the energy drink pretty amazing things began to happen. When I walked my knee and back didn’t hurt anymore. Even my shoulder stopped hurting! And mentally, I came out of my funk after awhile. I felt more hopeful. I was amazed by all these changes! I have decided to order more, since herbs are definitely better than pills!!!” *Georgia

Injury_Recommended Surgery_Elderly=Ester C

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 22:14:00 GMT

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