"Food not to feed your dog"

I found this article interesting and I bet we have all made one of rmore mistakes when feeding or "spoiling" or best friends?

 

"Last updated: Monday, February 27, 2012

Feeding your dog 'human food' may be detrimental to its health. Here are some of the dangers for dogs that lurk in everyday food:

• Cooked or boiled bones from poultry, fish or other meat sources
  Can cause obstruction or laceration of the digestive system, as well as painful constipation. Some bones can get stuck on teeth and across the roof of the mouth, causing injuries. Occasionally giving your dog a raw marrow bone, bought from your butcher, is fine.
• Cat food
  Generally too high in protein and fats.
• Chocolate, coffee, tea, and other caffeine
  These foods contain caffeine and theobromine which can be toxic and affect the intestinal, heart and nervous systems. Consider that what would be a small piece of chocolate to a human can be proportionally large for a small dog or cat.
• Fat trimmings
  Feeding your dog fat trimmings could lead to weight gain and all its associated health problems (heart and joint problems, etc.) In rare cases it may cause pancreatitis in dogs that are predisposed to it.
• Grapes and raisins
  Contain an unknown toxin, which can damage the kidneys, however, there have been no problems associated with grape seed extract.
• Hops
  Unknown compound causes panting, increased heart rate, elevated temperature, seizures, and death.
• Human vitamin supplements containing iron
  Can damage the lining of the digestive system and be toxic to the other organs including the liver and kidneys.
• Large amounts of liver
  Can cause Vitamin A toxicity, which affects muscles and bones. It can also cause copper storage disease, which is invariably fatal.
• Marijuana
  Can depress the nervous system, cause vomiting, and changes in the heart rate.
• Milk and other dairy products
  Some adult dogs do not have sufficient amounts of the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the lactose in milk. This can result in diarrhoea. Lactose-free milk products are available for pets.
• Moldy or spoiled food, garbage
  Can contain multiple toxins causing vomiting and diarrhoea and can also affect other organs, especially the liver.
• Alcoholic beverages
  Can cause intoxication, coma, and death.
• Wild mushrooms
  Can contain toxins, which may affect multiple systems in the body, cause shock, and result in death.
• Onions and garlic (raw, cooked, or powder)
  Contain sulfoxides and disulfides, which can damage red blood cells and cause anemia. Garlic is less toxic than onions. Cats are more susceptible than dogs.
• Potato, rhubarb, and tomato leaves; potato and tomato stems
  Contain oxalates, which can affect the digestive, nervous, and urinary systems.
• Raw eggs
  Contain an enzyme called avidin, which decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Frequent or regular intake can lead to skin and hair coat problems. Raw eggs may also contain Salmonella.
• Raw fish
  Can result in a thiamine (a B vitamin) deficiency leading to loss of appetite, seizures, and in severe cases, death. This is more common if raw fish is fed regularly.
• Salt
  If eaten in large quantities it may lead to electrolyte imbalances.
• Sugary foods
  Can lead to obesity and dental problems.
• Table scraps (in large amounts)
  Table scraps are not nutritionally balanced. They should never be more than 10% of the diet. Fat should be trimmed from meat and you should never give your dog any cooked bones.
• Tobacco
  Contains nicotine, which affects the digestive and nervous systems. It can result in rapid heart beat, collapse, coma, and death.
• Yeast dough
  Can expand and produce gas in the digestive system, causing pain.
• Walnuts
  Particularly the seed hulls of black walnuts as they can cause intestinal obstructions and mouldy ones can cause seizures.
• Sugarless candy and other items that contain xylitol
  can cause liver damage and death.

-(Hilda Geyer/Health24, updated October 2010)

Reviewed by veterinarian Dr Katja Bier."

I'm part of history, defiant Malema says

I'm part of history, defiant Malema says: Defiant ANC Youth leader Julius Malema has insisted that he is part of the country's history, and "victory will be ours", despite the five-year suspension meted out to him by the ANC.

Xingwana: End violence against lesbians

Xingwana: End violence against lesbians: Urgent action is needed to stop the "scourge" of violence against lesbians, Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities Lulu Xingwana says.

Steak and Kidney Pie

I just had the most amazing steak and kidney pie, thanks to my mother in law. Hoping to get the recipe written down next time with photos and "how to" - look out for it, it was so good that i will get her to make some more within a week or so and i will post full details.

Shivambu suspended from ANC for 3 years

Shivambu suspended from ANC for 3 years: The ANC Youth League's "arrogant" spokesperson, Floyd Shivambu has to vacate his position, the party's national disciplinary committee says.

And it gets even better...!
Thought i would never see justice?

Julius Malema suspended for 5 years

Julius Malema suspended for 5 years: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has been found guilty of bringing the ANC into disrepute and will vacate his position after being suspended for five years.

Jippee... As the saying goes; "Every dog gets his day and a mongrol gets a week". In this case, 5 years!

Cops bust baby trafficking ring

"Beijing - Police in eastern China have busted a human trafficking ring involving poor migrant couples who were selling their babies.

The state-run Global Times newspaper says police in Shandong province's Zoucheng city found last month that 17 infants had been sold in the city.

The paper says police rescued 13 of the babies and sent them to welfare centres. A search is under way for the other four.

Friday's report cites an investigating police officer as saying the couples were mainly migrants who moved from poor areas in Sichuan province in southwest China to Zoucheng to seek work.

It quotes the officer, Chen Qingwei, as saying the husbands would go out to work while their wives sold their babies to raise money."

Shocking - It seems the human race has not "moved" forward in thousands of years. How can anybody sell their children?

Dog stabbed, left to die in PE

"Port Elizabeth - The search is on for the person who half-strangled a dog, sliced it open with a panga, broke its legs and left it for dead, according to a newspaper report on Wednesday.

The dog was found lying helplessly in a bog of mud and sewage effluent, its gaping wound infested with maggots, near Missionvale Primary School, Port Elizabeth, the Herald reported.

Patricia Vilane, 52, was walking home when she heard a whining sound.

“I saw the dog and at first thought it was dead. Then it lifted its head and it looked at me, as if it was asking for help.

“There was a thin string that was pulled tight around its neck. It was not like what you would use to take the dog for a walk. It was like someone tried to strangle it, but God did not allow it. Its nose was bleeding, and it could not walk."

Put down
Vilane called the Animal Anti-Cruelty League for help.

League volunteer Karien van Schalkwyk said she had been working in the field for three years and had dealt with some terrible cases.

“But this one broke my heart.

“The dog had what looked to me like a panga wound on its one side. It must have been lying there for some time because the maggots were starting to eat the wound.”

The league vet who examined the dog established that at least one leg was broken or dislocated but it appeared the others might also have been broken as it was totally unable to stand, she said.

"It was anyway so far gone that nothing could be done to help it, so it was put down," she said.

The league has offered a R200 reward for any information that would lead them being able to find and charge the culprit, she said.

"A person capable of this is just as capable of raping or murdering a human, which is why the community needs to come together to identify and punish [this person].”

I hope this person/s suffer the worst pain for doing this to a poor animal! This is cruel and inhuman. What person carries a panga (see long sugar cane knife pic. above).  

D Day for absent Julius Malema

D Day for absent Julius Malema: The ANC is set to announce a verdict of a disciplinary hearing that could derail the political career of the outspoken Julius Malema, but the man himself won't make an appearance.

I hope he gets what he deserves..., for inflaming racial tensions and for his obvious corrupt tenderpreneurship activities.

'Shoot the white' not our song – ANC

'Shoot the white' not our song – ANC: The ANC and its youth wing have distanced themselves from the “shoot the white” song sung by one of ANC Youth League president Julius Malema’s supporters at Wits University.


Well at last they are saying ("singing") what they really meant with "Shoot the Boer". They really meant kill the white's..., and now they are singing it LOUD AND PROUD. All the ANC can do is stand by and say "it is not our song".

Malema loses bid for ConCourt appeal

Malema loses bid for ConCourt appeal: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has lost an application for leave to appeal directly to the Constitutional Court against a hate speech ruling.


I wonder if that will have any impact or make any difference as to how this clown behaves?

Weird Jokes, Funny Jokes - "Battle of the Sexes"

"Married 25 years, I took a look at my wife one day and said, "Honey, 25 years ago, we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and watched a 10-inch black-and-white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot 25-year-old blonde. Now, we have a nice house, a nice car, a big bed and a big-screen plasma TV, but I'm sleeping with a 50-year-old woman. It seems to me that you're not holding up your side of things."

But my wife is a very reasonable woman.

She told me to go out and find a hot 25-year-old blonde, and she'd make sure that I would once again be living in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car and sleeping on a sofa bed."

"LIFE IN THE 1500'S" - Interesting Facts

Interesting article courtesy of my Sister;

  

"The next time you are washing your hands and complain because the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things used to be. Here are some facts about the 1500s:

These are interesting...
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and still smelled pretty good by June.  However, they were starting to smell, so brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour.  Hence the custom today, of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water.  The man of the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the children last of all the babies.  By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water."

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw-piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof.  When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and off the roof.  Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house.  This posed a real problem in the bedroom where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.  Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection.  That's how canopy beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt.  Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.  Hence, the saying "dirt poor."  The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on the floor to help keep their footing.  As the winter wore on, they added more thresh until when you opened the door it would all start slipping outside.  A piece of wood was placed in the entranceway. Hence the saying, a "thresh hold."

(Getting quite an education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle that always hung over the fire.  Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot.  They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much   meat.  They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight and then start over the next day.  Sometimes stew had food in it that had been there for quite a while.  Hence the rhyme, "Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in  the pot nine days old."
Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a man could "bring home the bacon."  They would cut off a little to share with guests and would all sit around and "chew the fat."
Those with money had plates made of pewter.  Food with high acid content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead poisoning death.  This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided according to status.  Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or "upper crust."
Lead cups were used to drink ale or whiskey.  The combination would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days.  Someone walking along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.  They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if  they would wake up.  Hence, the custom of holding a "wake."
England is old and small and the local folks started running out of places to bury people.  So they would dig up coffins and would take the bones to a "bone-house" and reuse the grave.  When reopening these coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they realized they had been burying people alive.  So they would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, lead it through
the coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.  Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night (the "graveyard shift") to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be "saved by the bell" or was considered a "dead ringer."
And that's the truth ... Now, whoever said that History was boring!!!"