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"Food not to feed your dog"

2012-02-27T05:09:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-10T13:28:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-10T13:24:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-10T13:19:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-10T12:58:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-10T12:41:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-09T14:07:00.000-08:00

"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

2011-11-09T13:49:00.000-08:00

"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

2011-11-09T13:39:00.000-08:00

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

2011-11-04T12:23:00.000-07:00

'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

2011-11-04T12:18:00.000-07:00

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"

2011-10-29T17:45:00.000-07:00

"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

2011-10-29T17:29:00.000-07:00

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!!!"

Malema needs a history lesson CDP

2011-10-29T08:20:00.000-07:00

Malema needs a history lesson CDP: ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema's calls for land claims from anyone who isn't black shows he wasn't taught the true history of the country, the Christian Democratic Party says.

200 year old fig tree to stay

2011-10-29T04:53:00.000-07:00

200 year old fig tree to stay: A wild fig tree due to have been chopped down to make way for the extension of the N4 outside Nelspruit in Mpumalanga will stay, the SABC reports.

Jordanian to hang for raping daughter

2011-10-29T04:44:00.000-07:00

Jordanian to hang for raping daughter: A Jordanian has been sentenced to death for raping and impregnating his daughter and then cutting her open to remove the foetus.

Church worker convicted for child porn

2011-10-29T04:40:00.000-07:00

Church worker convicted for child porn: A former Catholic child protection worker in UK has been jailed for 12 months for possessing and sharing child pornography.

Woman charged with killing sons for insurance

2011-10-29T04:36:00.000-07:00

Woman charged with killing sons for insurance: A mother who told police her son killed three family members and himself has been charged with murdering all of them to get their life insurance money.

Crime violence 'worse' than war

2011-10-27T13:39:00.000-07:00

Crime violence 'worse' than war: An international study has found everyday crime is a far greater source of armed violence than war.

Alleged Limpopo serial rapist stays in jail

2011-10-27T13:31:00.000-07:00

Alleged Limpopo serial rapist stays in jail: The case against a man accused of raping nine women has been postponed by the Mahwelereng Magistrate's Court in Limpopo.

The "best' of Peter de Villiers - Springbok coach

2011-10-16T10:57:00.001-07:00

"If I am the weakest line then we are bloody strong. I am a God-given talent. I am the best I can ever be. I know what I am and I don't give a damn.""I am going to pull a rat out of the hat."

"Why don't we go to the nearest ballet shop, get some tutus and get a dancing shop going? There will be no eye gouging, no tackling, no nothing, and we will enjoy it."
- Reacting to Springbok flanker Schalk Burger eye gouging British and Irish Lions wing Luke Fitzgerald

"There is little difference between winning and losing except you feel better after winning."

"Graham Henry is a good coach, but he is like me, he has a big mouth."
- Commenting on the current New Zealand coach

"No one is born a rugby player. You are born a person who becomes a rugby player and I can enhance this with warmth and reach your soul and make you realise there is life after rugby."

"I always knew I was destined for something big - but I did not realise it would be this big (Springbok coach). Whatever job I did I always excelled at it, and quickly. Time is not a concern to me and I will work 24 hours to get a job done, knowing hard work is always rewarded."

"I will not change my style. If I change my style I will change Peter de Villiers and then I would have to tell God that he made a mistake when he made me."

"We are very organised at the moment (after winning 2009 Tri-Nations). We do not want to become a fruit salad."

"I have got a job to do. I think I am a strong individual, a strong character. I do not care what people think about me. I do not care what people say about me. It is what I think about me and myself - and I love myself a lot."

"It was a brilliant journey. There's a time to come and a time to go and I think the journey for me is over."
- Announcing his resignation as South Africa coach following the World Cup quarter-final defeat by Australia.
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/RugbyWorldCup2011/Divs-most-memorable-sayings-20111011

Funnies – Jokes

2011-10-16T10:55:00.000-07:00

Q - What is the Difference Between Mother & Wife ?
A - One Woman Brings U into this world crying... & the other ensures U
Continue to do so.
***

Wife : Do you want dinner?
Husband : Sure, what are my choices?
Wife : Yes and no.
***

Wife: You always carry my photo in your handbag to the office. Why?

Husband: When there is a problem, no matter how impossible, I look at your
picture and the problem disappears.

Wife: You see, how miraculous and powerful I am for you?

Husband: Yes, I see your picture and say to myself, "What other problem can
there be greater than this one?"
***

Son: Mom, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.

Mom: Well, you have done the right thing.

Son: But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.
***

A newly married man asked his wife, "Would you have married me if my father
hadn't left me a fortune?"

"Honey," the woman replied sweetly, "I'd have married you NO MATTER WHO LEFT
YOU A FORTUNE"
***

A wife asked her husband: "What do you like most in me my pretty face or my sexy body?"

He looked at her from head to toe and replied: "I like your sense of humor.

Funny - Joke - Bar Jokes

2011-10-16T10:53:00.001-07:00

"A completely inebriated man was stumbling down the street with one foot on the curb and one foot in the gutter. A cop pulled up and said, "I've got to take you in, pal. You're obviously drunk."

Our wasted friend asked, "Officer, are ya absolutely sure I'm drunk?"

"Yeah, buddy, I'm sure," said the copper. "Let's go."

Breathing a sigh of relief, the wino said, "Thank goodness, I thought I was crippled."

****

An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets stopped for speeding in Connecticut.

The state trooper smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car. He says, "Sir, have you been drinking?"

"Just water," says the priest.

The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

The priest looks at the bottle and says,
"Good Lord! He's done it again!"

***

An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a bar and each orders a pint of beer. When the drinks arrive they notice that all three pints have a fly in them.

The Englishman just looks at his pint in disgust and pushes it away.

The Irishman picks out the fly with his fingers, throws it on the floor and proceeds to drink his beer.

The Scotsman picks the fly out of his pint, and holds it over the drinking saying, "Come on you little git, spit it out!"

***

A woman in the bar says that she wants to have plastic surgery to enlarge her breasts. Her husband tells her, "Hey, you don't need surgery to do that. I know how to do it without surgery."

The lady asks, "How do I do it without surgery?"

"Just rub toilet paper between them."

Startled the lady asks, "How does that make them bigger?"

"I don't know, but it worked for your ass."
http://www.funshun.com/jokes/bar-jokes.html

'Facebook rapist' caught after manhunt

2011-10-10T03:58:00.000-07:00

'Facebook rapist' caught after manhunt: Police have arrested a man believed to be the "Facebook rapist" who kidnapped and murdered women around the country.

Murphy's law - The Origin

2011-10-10T01:36:00.000-07:00

Received this interesting article, courtesy of my sister;

"Murphy's laws originThe following article was excerpted from The Desert Wings
March 3, 1978

Murphy's Law ("If anything can go wrong, it will") was born at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949 at North Base.

It was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, (a project) designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash.

One day, after finding that a transducer was wired wrong, he cursed the technician responsible and said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
The contractor's project manager kept a list of "laws" and added this one, which he called Murphy's Law.

Actually, what he did was take an old law that had been around for years in a more basic form and give it a name.

Shortly afterwards, the Air Force doctor (Dr. John Paul Stapp) who rode a sled on the deceleration track to a stop, pulling 40 Gs, gave a press conference. He said that their good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and in the necessity to try and circumvent it.

Aerospace manufacturers picked it up and used it widely in their ads during the next few months, and soon it was being quoted in many news and magazine articles. Murphy's Law was born.

The Northrop project manager, George E. Nichols, had a few laws of his own. Nichols' Fourth Law says, "Avoid any action with an unacceptable outcome."

The doctor, well-known Col. John P. Stapp, had a paradox: Stapp's Ironical Paradox, which says, "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."
Nichols is still around. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, he's the quality control manager for the Viking project to send an unmanned spacecraft to Mars."

How many times i wanted to get hold of this little F!@#$% "Murphy", when things went wrong?