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Jamie Dolan Blog : Fast Growing Tree -- Niobe Golden Weeping Willow

Mon, 5 Sep 2011 15:03:04 +0000

Cutting it back will stimulate new additional growth, but is generally considered to weaken the tree.

Jamie Dolan Blog : Raw Dog Food Recipes

Fri, 13 May 2011 19:29:01 +0000

Hi; Yes, you just want to cut them up into whatever size pieces make sense for your dogs. I've fed beaver in the past, but the only way I could get it was ground. I suspect overall it is going to be on the fattier side, so depending on how your dogs do with fat, you may need to limit the amount you feed at one time. The fat isn't bad for them, some dogs just don't handle larger percentages of fat very well and will end up with some digestive upset / loose stools from a meal that is too fatty. If they are not already dressed, you may want to remove the guts before feeding, depending on how your dogs do with them and if your feeding somewhere that a mess could be a problem. The guts are fine for them to eat if they want to. I don't know of any parasite problems with beavers; it wouldn't hurt to have them frozen for a few weeks prior to feed them, if they haven't already been frozen that long. Most parasites if present die off with a couple weeks of freezing; the only thing I know that is really resistant to this is a strain of Trich found in some wild bears, I would personally suggest avoiding bear. Let me know if you have other questions. I have a pet forum setup called PawDogs. It has a section on Raw Feeding here: http://www.pawdogs.com/prey-model-raw-feeding/ Thank You! Jamie

Akiva The Dog Blog : February 2011

Mon, 7 Mar 2011 03:04:21 +0000

Nice looking site. Thanks for sharing your site with us. If you would like to submit a guest article about your site, I'd be happy to publish it here for you. You can contact me and / or submit an article to me at: http://jamiedolan.com/contact/ Thanks Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : Moka Kadir Blend from Sweet Maria's Coffee

Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:12:55 +0000

I have this entire roast recorded here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWBqjYIUUHw&fe... I did not hold the door open at all. I find it cools just find on it's own. Yes, I do think that this is a Full City +, I had called it light Vienna also but now that I have seen it sit for a couple days, I've going with City+. Let me know if that video doesn't answer your questions. Thanks Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : The Jade is Re-Potted!!!

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:38:52 +0000

Thank You!

Jamie Dolan Blog : The Jade is Re-Potted!!!

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 23:33:06 +0000

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Jamie Dolan Blog : The Jade is Re-Potted!!!

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 02:46:23 +0000

Thank you for all the great information. Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : The Jade is Re-Potted!!!

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:28:08 +0000

Thank You. The turface mix does drain very fast. When we re-planted it, I got off as much of the dirt from the root ball as I could. It was just junk top soil, but had apparently adapted well to it, as represented by it's size. I mixed in about 10% compost with the turface. I'm quite confident that the new soil mix is at least as fast as what it was growing in. Have you had bad luck with turface MVP holding too much water?

Jamie Dolan Blog : The Jade is Re-Potted!!!

Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:42:46 +0000

Thank You!

Jamie Dolan Blog : Our Pretty Boys 3-31-2010

Sat, 22 May 2010 04:10:19 +0000

Thanks for your comment. :-) My Shih Tzu Akiva goes with me everywhere too. Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : Akiva Goes to Madison

Sat, 22 May 2010 04:05:04 +0000

Thank You. Akiva is doing much better. He is still recovering, but has made a lot of progress over the past 3 weeks. There is a new video on his page that shows him walking for over 3 minutes last week. A month ago, he could not even walk for more than 12 seconds. http://www.akivathedog.com.

Jamie Dolan Blog : Akiva Goes to Madison

Sat, 22 May 2010 04:02:42 +0000

HI, Akiva is 7. He has been diagnosed as having neuro-muscular disease. Fortunately with supplements and some alternative medicine care, he had gotten much better. On the Blog for Akiva http://www.akivathedog.com There are a couple videos, one from early April and one from about a week ago. In early April, he could only walk about 10 seconds at a time. Now he can walk over 3 minutes at a time. He has made amazing progress with a disease that is very often extremely difficult to treat. Thank You.

Jamie Dolan Blog : Raw Dog Food Recipes

Wed, 7 Apr 2010 01:07:35 +0000

Hello, In general raw meat is not considered a high protein diet. Raw duck with skin is only 11% protein, the rest is fat and water. Where the vast majority of commercial dry foods will be much higher than this in protein content, you can find commercial foods at 44% protein and perhaps even higher. If he does well with duck, then I would stick with it. It's always best to rotate some other meats into the mix, but if you can't find anything else he will tolerate, then just using duck isn't going to be that bad. I would make sure you are feeding liver and either bones or a calcium supplement. I would add a high quality fish oil if he can tolerate it. You can check the USDA nutrient database to find out how much fat / protein / etc is in a food. Just type "raw duck" into the search box and it will have a listing for raw duck. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

Jamie Dolan Blog : Grinding Raw Food Diet for Akiva on 3-25-2010

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:21:03 +0000

Hi James; Yes, with the grinder you see in the photos, I can grind all chicken bones. I have ground most turkey bones and some small pork chops. I believe I did jam it a few times with the large turkey bones. I grind meat, skin, and as much bone as the grinder can handle. I add in organ meats; liver, heart, and gizzard to the mix as well. Sometimes I will add eggs and salmon oil right into the mix, but most of the time I just add these at meal time. Thanks Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : Raw Dog Food Recipes

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:11:33 +0000

Hi Robert, Great to see you here. I just posted this article a few hours ago, and already got a couple comments (any noticed it got copied by at least 3 parrot sites within 2 hours). I\\\'ve been using that avatar of me and my dogs for the past several months, and it is on hundreds of sites now. :-) Yes, I absolutely do believe that a raw diet if better for your dogs. Any kind of kibble, no matter how high quality is processed, cooked and extruded at high temperatures into the kibble shape. While some preservatives are more natural than others, kibble still has to have some kind of preservative(s) in it to keep it stable at room temperature. On top of that, any kibble is going to have some manner of plant ingredients as part of the formula, often a significant part. While some dogs appear to do find with vegetables and grains mixed in, I feel like it is not only unnecessary, but has the potential to lead to allergies down the road. If we were to look at kibble vs fresh meats for a dog, and try to come up with an analogy along those lines for human food, it might be something like Whats better for me the fresh chicken breast of the bag of preserved Big Joes Jerky? You going to choose the fresh food that hasn\\\'t been sitting on a shelf filled with extra stuff to keep it fresh. I agree that kibble is a very convenient option. Once your dogs are established on a raw diet, they can easily eat on an every other day plan. You just feed one good size meal one day, the next you can give them a few bits of something if you want, maybe an egg, but that isn\\\'t necessary, then the following day they get a regular meal again. That makes it even more convenient in my opinion, and that works well for all but the very very smallest dogs. I have a 9 pound dog that does well on this eating schedule. In terms of how complete it is, I\\\'ve been involved in multi-day debates with many highly educated people who have scrutinized everything that is in kibble vs what is found in real raw meats and referenced that against the Merck veterinary manual. I\\\'ve never seen someone who has really educated themselves on the topic decide that there are things that kibble provides that you can\\\'t get from a raw food diet. The one item that many people strongly feel should be added to most diets is some salmon oil. Factory farmed meats (and this applied to the mean in kibble as well) are higher in omega 6 due to the diets they are fed (grains being fed to cows). A cows natural diet is grass, and when fed grass that cow will have far more omega 3 fatty acids in it\\\'s body. Using some salmon oil which is high in omega 3 helps compensate for this shortfall of modern meats. I do feel that heart, liver, organs are an important part of a healthy raw diet. Almost all groceries carry beef liver, chicken hearts and livers are common as well. Walmart often has beef kidney and I think I even saw lungs and there. I know I saw some beef heart locally, I think that was at walmart. If you find a local meat market, they will likely be able to set you up with even more variety. I like to keep the food as varied as possible, to me that seems like it does a much better job of mimicking nature, as wild dogs / wolves would eat numbers kinds of prey from rabbits, to birds, to wild boar, to beaver to deer. If you ever get so inclined, it is not difficult to obtain whole complete (unprocessed) rabbits, chickens, rats and mice that you can feed as a more complete meal. So you defiantly don\\\'t want to just put them on a diet of only clean chicken breasts, that would not be adequate on it\\\'s own, but you will find that you have many options just by looking at a local grocery store or two. I\\\'ve noticed that my dogs have far better teeth than dogs that eat kibble, my oldest who will be 7 this month will need some dental work, but I feel the raw diet has delayed the need for that work, and has kept many of his teeth in really good shape overall. I\\\'ve also noticed that my dogs don\\\'t have those little bumps all over there skin that dogs often seem to get after they are a few years old. My parents dogs, some from the same family lines as my dogs all seem to have developed those fatty bumps / growths on their bodies. I stopped using flea and tick meds a long time ago, so that may be part of it also. My dogs do have allergies to some meats, but I feel that these allergies developed primary from earlier in their lives when they were eating their premium kibble. I will find they get a little itchy / licky from a meat, and if I do, then I try to use a different brand next time or stick to a different meat source. I\\\'m really considering devoting more time to writing raw feeding / dog health materials again, possibly setting up a forum. My first forum, the Jeep forum was quite disappointing, as the status from google keyword tool were very very far off from the real world. So I am being a little more cautious this time before I put in the level of effort required to really setup a nice forum. I hope I was of some help, feel free to write back with other questions, and I apologize in advance if any of this doesn\\\'t sound right, it is quite late for me, about 2:30am here. Best Regards, Jamie

Jamie Dolan Blog : Raw Dog Food Recipes

Sat, 6 Mar 2010 05:15:37 +0000

Hi Kaylani; I am in the process of writing more articles for my blog, which will make these subjects much easier to understand, tonights article must seem like just one piece to the puzzle. I have written hundreds of pages of information on raw feeding over the past 4 years on various forums and newsgroups. I\\\'ll try my best to answer your questions here, but your welcome to respond with more questions if I am not clear. There are 2 methods that can be used, one is what I was getting at with this article, where you grind the ingredients together, the meat, bone, and organs. I do this most of the time for my cats because it can be very hard to get cats to eat whole food. The same food I make for the cats can be used for the dogs. I have a grinder with a 2 -1/4\\\" throat, is all metal from Fleet Farm in Appleton, WI. They are around $400. I\\\'ll have to go dig it out if you want to know the brand. It works well, but you do have to get the meat / bones cut down to the size of the grinder opening. That can be quite a chore if you start with say whole chickens or whole turkey. Once the food is the right size to feed to the grinder, the process is quick and you can grind hundreds of pounds per hour. The other method of raw feeding, which is what I use with my dogs now is where I just give them the food whole and allow them to eat it. It is much easier and the majority of dogs adjust to it easily. For example, tonight my dogs has a chicken quarter (leg and thigh). I just handed it to them and they ate it raw. That is actually what the dogs are eating in the photo on this article. I would also feed my dogs meals of beef roast, pork roast, fish, basically all of the items I listed in the article, as I am able to obtain them. I cut off the size piece I want my dog to have, and give it to them to eat. In the beginning, you go slow and supervise to make sure they don\\\'t choke or anything. I\\\'ve helped hundreds of people switch over to this method of feeding and the dogs all just figure out what to do, some need a little guidance, but it has all worked very very well. Feel free to post more detail questions, I\\\'ll be happy to respond, and in the morning I will work on getting some more articles written up. Regards, Jamie Dolan

Profy : 7 Tools To Make An RSS Feed Of Any Website

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:52:25 +0000

The Page2Rss feed tool works perfectly. I'm looking at the other ones thought, as I really want one where I am not dependent on another sites service being available. However, if you are looking for a webbased tool the Page2Rss tool was extremely easy and worked on the first try.

Jamie Dolan Blog : Top 3 Must Have services for your Business in 2010

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:10:56 +0000

Thanks Jaylin, I've noticed a few glitches with this WP theme also. Hopefully when am update is released that will correct a few of the problems I have seen. Thanks again. Regards, Jamie Dolan