Kayye Nynne - Articles

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Flock Guardian Dogs
What is a Flock Guardian Dog and which dog breeds are best suited for this type of work? Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 28/12/2007 | Pets
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Having Pet Insurance Could Save you Financial and Emotional Grief!
With escalating veterinary fees having pet insurance could be the difference between having to see your pet euthanized or bounce back to the lovable furball you know so well! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 09/11/2007 | Pets
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Pet Insurance Could Save your Pet's Life Some Day!
New advances in veterinary medical care now mean that many pet medical emergencies and conditions that used to be untreatable no longer need be so! The flip side of this coin however is that managing a vet clinic is more expensive than ever and the only way vets can offset these rising costs is by raising their fees...never was there a better reason to get pet insurance if you don not already have it! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 09/11/2007 | Pets
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Dog Breeds: Hybrid Dogs, Mutts and Purebred Dogs
What's in a breed? That's the controversial question that has plagued the dog world ever since dog breed development! The issue at hand is really a matter of maintaining breed purity and keeping those dastardly mutts at bay! But what if I was to tell you that the lowly mutt can hold its own and more against the refined so-called purebred dogs or that purebred dogs are really nothing more than strain-refined mutts! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 30/10/2007 | Pets
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The Greyhound Dog's Tale of Tragedy
Each year more than 100,000 Greyhound dogs are killed! Why? The reason is simple...a cruel sport called dog racing! It truly is hard to imagine how so exalted a dog breed could end up where it is today—slaughtered in the thousands each year. This is all the more shocking when one considers that at some point in Greyhound dog history it was a crime punishable by death to kill one (during the reign of King Canute). Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 30/10/2007 | Pets
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Caucasian Mountain Dog: Dog With the Uncanny Resemblance to the Bear
In 2004, a very irresponsible documentary by none other than a well-established and esteemed company such as National Geographic on the subject of so-called designer dogs went on air. That particular episode which was grossly and factually incorrect depicted the Caucasian Mountain Dog as a lethal weapon and a menace to society! The fallout was the killing-deaths of several of these wonderful dogs, many pets being thrown out of their homes overnight and mass hysteria by an ill-informed public! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 17/10/2007 | Pets
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Dog Smarts: the Tricky Issue of Defining Dog Intelligence
Less than 500 years ago, much in part to the renowned French philosopher Rene Descartes, animals were considered incapable of intelligent thought, expression of emotion or for that matter the ability to feel pain; the result was widespread and wanton cruelty to animals! Luckily over time this fallacy was corrected and today it is the rare individual who still believes that animals don't think or are incapable of expressing emotions. Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 17/10/2007 | Pets
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Dogs: Did the Wolf Tame Itself to Evolve Into the Domestic Dog!
It has widely been assumed that humans tamed the wolf and bred it for selective traits to become the dog. The flaw in this theory is that it assumes that humans from 15,000 years ago had both the smarts, the time and enough tame wolves from which to conduct their selective breeding program. A more reasonable theory is that the wolf initiated the taming process and self evolved into the domestic dog! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 17/09/2007 | Pets
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Dog Evolution: How the Dog Evolved so Rapidly Into a New Species
Evolutionary change is by nature slow paced and usually it takes many thousands of years before one species evolves into another; but in the case of the transformation of the wolf into the dog comparatively speaking, on an evolutionary scale it happened overnight! Why and how did that happen? Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 17/09/2007 | Pets
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Dog Socialization: How to Avoid a Problematic Canine That Attacks Other Pets and People!
Ever wondered why some dogs just don't get on with other dogs? Why is it some dogs get on with cats and others don't. Why are some dogs friendly towards strangers while others are downright aggressive. Does it all boil down to the breed of dog or are there other factors at play! Read
By: Kayye Nynne | 17/09/2007 | Pets