Royal Standard Poodle Health & Welfare

Royal Standard Poodle Health & Welfare

Don'ts & Do's

Don'ts come first because of their danger/possible dangers. Do's are Last but not Least :-)

Last updated 9/14/11

Standard Poodle Health: What is "A Perfect World" in buying your next pet "to your viewpoint?" What can you accept, or not, in health for your Royal Standard Poodles? I do my best to raise and breed a healthy lineage to the knowledge and research I have at the time. It is my goal to help you have a positive outlook on your next pet, not to be "looking" for problems, only know that the information and sites here are for reference to help provide awareness--you decide from there.

NOTE: Please have your dictionary at hand (or online dictionary) to help with definitions to words you may not understand. Or, give me a call to simplify if you'd like help; Tes 218-894-1434.

Thank You to those who have contributed to the research and discovery of this page!

1. DON'T! purchase Cocoa Mulch if you have a pet that goes in and out of the home - this product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats and CAN kill them. They love the chocolate smell and eat it, which...the results you don't want! Click here for information on Cocoa dangers

2. DO! register your Micro-chip information with AKC, Home Again, Avid or other brand your breeder supplies information on.

AKC CAR (Companion Animal Recovery) website and registration

Home Again website and registration

24petwatch.com FREE registration

3. DON'T! dump your dry dog food into a generic plastic container for storage! Use a metal container. It'll protect your Standard Poodle Health.

Oils in the food go into the porous plastic (it really is porous, I was a plastics project engineer) as it stores in the pores causing the food to go rancid causing toxicity in your pet.

One will start to smell an odor over time which is the food going rancid.

Pets eating the food over time will build up toxicity and cause poor standard poodle health issues.

I went to a breeders workshop and brought up the question as my husband a week before had started emptying the food out of the original bag into the plastic container it was stored in and I started to smell the rancidity build. I was using generic plastic garbage cans. Whew, exactly as I thought, the instructor warned everyone never to dump your food into a plastic container. You may place the dry food bag it comes in, into the container, she said. Plastic containers should come with warnings! So many things we have to be alert to.

4. DO Check out these links to find out more for your Standard Poodle Health:

Food FAQs, fats and oils going rancid

Good and Bad plastics

If using plastic, assure it is meant to hold foods for your Standard Poodle Health. Remember, plastic is porous and over time bacteria will build up or chemicals release. Please replace the container after so many years. (should one look into their own cupboards? I have and now use ceramic and glass.)

Keep the food within the original bag and place it in whatever container one decides. I've purchased a metal garbage can. DO Share this information with other pet friends

I also want to recommend for the humans to watch the DVD "King Korn" and read the book "Seeds of Deception," the toxicity in our bodies have been deceptively building due to certain industry giants deceptive practices...and we think other countries are bad :-( Sorry if my age is looking at what might be considered political to some. I am dumb-founded to what has been slipped by the US people as safe. It's your health, not just our standard poodle health I'm considering.

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Royal Standard Poodle health

5. DON'T over exercise your pet with jogging or too long of walks up until a year of age when their hips have had time to finish their growth. This will help stabilize your Standard Poodle Health.

6. DO Chiropractic for Royal & Standard Poodle health.

In 2009, MN passed the law for small animal services to perform chiropractic work on small animals. The chiropractors who wanted to do this had to take their training.

I found a chiropractor from Minneapolis, MN who travels to the upper MN area to work with our pets. It is my viewpoint all our pets should be adjusted and then maintained accordingly throughout their lifetime. This will handle allergies, muscle strains, and much more helping them live a longer happier life.

Our puppies are chiropractic adjusted before they leave to their new homes.

Little Falls, MN vet - Dr. Janell Osborn's www.http://www.wholeanimalcare.com/.html works with Dr. Mark LaVallie, D.C. CVSMT, call 651-332-1633 for your pet's appointment.

Find a vet that you can take your pet to for chiropractic adjustments - you'll be glad you did!

Dr. Mark LaVallie, C.C., CVSMT, cell 651-332-1633, has pet schedules in the following MN locations:

Shoreview, MN

Elk River, MN

Pine City, MN

St. Paul, MN

Brooklyn Park, MN

7. DO swim your pet if possible, it is healthy exercise for their joints.

NOTE: As a breeder, I have done my best to research and determine what is the best information I can provide my customers/potential buyers with on having a healthy hip program for my adult breeders. The side FAQ tab > under "About Health & Grooming" section > question 2. will provide you understanding on this.

Other things we 8. DO for Standard Poodle Health and healthy pups:

The OFFA hip x-ray above shows good Standard Poodle Health, which are registered at 2 years of age for each of our breeding kids.

Hips: Orthopedic Foundation for Animals (OFFA)

VWD (blood disorder): Von Willebrand's Disease is done on each of our breeding pets to assure you receive pups from a healthy line.

9. Do check out these sites for more information on Standard Poodle Health:

Veterinarian data: Vetinfo--a veterinary information service Always find a vet you can work closely with. Yet, I do not believe in taking my Royal Standard Poodles to the vet at every little thing. That is why my gift to you of the FREE used book "Your Dog His Health and Happiness," by Louis Vine.

Umbilical Hernias: Breeder Vet on Umbilical Hernias

10. Do Register your Royal Standard Poodles FREE for one year at www.24petwatch.com

11. DON'T buy your Royal Standard Poodles a cheap dog food.

NOTE: The most important tip I feel I can give is this; Royal & Standard Poodles do have sensitive stomachs, passing gas, flatulence. Pet chiropractic adjustments may help with this yet over the years of business, customers have shared their beloved pet died of bloat. We raised cattle and I can tell you about bloat. Visit with me on this for more information.

12. DO feed a researched healthy diet:

With permission, the site where I began my research to find the best dog food for Royal & Standard Poodles. I purchased this book and went from there... Poodle dog food data And if you're interested in finding out more of what he writes, visit W.D. Cusick site

When I switched to:

Dick Van Patten's Ultra Premium Natural Balance(TM) (DVP) dry dog food, it pretty much eliminated the problem 90% and their hair is much healthier.

With MN winters, I also blend 1/3 DVP's Sweet Potatoe and Fish to provide more oils for the Standard Poodle Health after the pups turn 1 yr old.

Omega 3s for healthy skin and more: OmegaDog(TM)

Squirting on top a liquid Omega Dog oil or Salmon oil. This helps alleviate calloused elbows that may develop from your pet laying on hard surfaces as well as helping the pets skin stay soft and moist. (us humans can benefit from additional fish oils too :-)

So the dish is filled with 1/3 of Sweet potato & Salmon dry dog food and 2/3 Ultra Premium - blend and oil squirted on top. Petco stores is where I am able to purchase DVP's dry dog foods,treats and oils. your Standard Poodle Health will increase.

So, in agreeing to get a pet from us, it is in our contract that we will guarantee a healthy pet for two years as long as DVP Ultra Premium dog food is fed to your pet.

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13. DON'T feed your spoos chicken or pork bones.

14. DO give them beef bones...that's why "A Perfect World Club" where I send you bone money at Christmas time...take a look at these pictures...

Here is a 10 month old standard poodle who has had no beef bones to chew on....tartar build up is starting on the teeth...as well as while in the womb, there were health issues for the mom that reflected on the pups mature teeth.

Remember - only 10 months old!

Next we have our 3 year old Bruno who has been chewing on beef bones his life with us...notice the nice clear very little tartar buildup...which I clean once a year with a dental pick...

15. DO put aside a savings account for your Standard Poodle Health, a cracked tooth from chewing bones may occur - pull it, let them chew! It's that or major gum and teeth health bills later in their life.

16. DON'T worry too much if in the spring/summer your pet comes up with diarrhea -- read on...

17. June Bug Season + 18. The Scoop on Poop!

17. Does your state have June bugs? What I've observed and validated by the vet is the fact during the months of May - July these flying protein bugs love to be eaten by the Poodles and puppies.

Look at them go in the pictures, trying to find every bit of protein bug they can! So, if you have these bugs and your pet's (cats or dogs) have loose stools, or you get a pup from us during this time - look to see if they're eating high protein bugs. After the bugs are gone their stools WILL harden up again...see pictures below...

Don't feed them canned dog food at this time

Don't feed them anything other than their normal dry dog food to assure it doesn't get worse

Use a vaccuum, sweep, or disintegration techniques on your lawn when the season comes around -- it might work :-)

Check their stool for bug residue and you'll know for sure! They don't digest it all.

Monitor their eating habits to assure their not eating anything other than dry dog food until they balance out.

DO check with a vet if their might be a parasite if you don't see them eating bugs!

18. The Scoop on Poop with a scale of 1-5, 5 being good...

1. Diarhea - like water :-(((

(no picture - imagination)

2. Not water but not solid (picture below)

during June bug season one would see their stools on the scale of 2-3, and their is June bug dark shells in the stool.

if pups are stressed out from traveling to their new home their stools may be from 1-3 on the scale. Give them time...up to several months even...

the bacterial enteritis coccidiosis could be the culprit, sometimes blood in the stool, may show as negative in the vet stool checkup. My vet has given them Albon to resolve this. May take a week or more.

3. Getting more solid.

4. Gradually firmer...

5. Firm stool.

19. DON'Tfeed grapes, chocolate or milk products, they are poisonous to their Standard Poodle Health!

20. DO treat with:

Popcorn; unsalted, unbuttered--purchase a dry popcorn maker

Carrots; not the baby carrots as these are washed with certain agents we should be cautious of. Use a big carrot, washing and dicing them as treats.

DVP treats are great too!

Why you 21. DON'T kiss your puppies nose ;-)

22. DO check on things that might be in your breeder's state that might reflect in your pups health down the road. If you didn't, and something comes up with your pet, call the breeder and share any symptoms. This way you can inform your vet to look out for "_____" that may be from the state you received your pet from.

Like some states have mosquitoes which can carry heart-worm. Make sure they have been (if an older pup)/will be (by you) treated for this.

Make note if there are/were any bugs they may tend to eat creating diarrhea for a time frame.

Do they have wood-ticks that could carry Lymes disease or Antiplasmosis, another tick carrying disease. Once symptoms of aching movement show up, call ASAP to get your pet in as this is treatable with drugs and shows a turn around within a week! Sure wish us humans could turn around from Lymes disease like that!

Spiders or bugs that could bite and cause other infections...so you see there is always risk involved. Be watchful, ask your breeder, but PLEASE don't create anxiety for yourself...live and love while you can :-)))

22. Do have your pets eyes checked out by a specialist if you find them giving them issues.

Ciwa at the eye Doctor being tested for CERF - which her eyes are good :-)

23. Don't - over vaccinate yet at the same time assure you are aware of what to do! The following web page, given permission to link to by Bijou Poodles in Canada, has one of the better informative pages out there. In the end it is your decision along with state laws...Information on Vaccinations

Standard Poodle health in our puppies for sale

Let me know if you have Don't s and Do's and I'll place them here for awareness!

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