We welcome you to the Mifflin County Dog Training Club's website. Within this site, we hope to provide information on training classes, events and other activities of the club. The menu bar at the top and side provide links to lots of important information.
If you are a member of the MCDTC, we urge you to register in order to receive all the benefits of this site. If you are a non-member, please feel free to peruse our site and, if you like what you see, we welcome you to join up with us.
Pet Fat
from: Health and Welfare
Written by Kathy Molek on Monday, 08 November 2010
Is your dog gaining unhealthy pounds? You might want to rethink tossing too many treats to your dog. Here are some facts about some of the treats you may have on hand.
- Purina BusyBone Dental Bone (large): 600 calories
- Pedigree JumBone (small): 297 calories (that’s almost a whole days calorie intake for a small dog)
- Pup-Peroni: 24 calories
- Purina Beggin’ Strips: 30 calories
- Milk-Bone Biscuit (medium): 40 calories
- Purina Chew-eez Beefhide Chew Strips: 60 calories
- Pedigree DentaBone (medium): 188 calories
Here are some substitutes you could consider.
- Baby Carrots: 2 or 3 calories per carrot
- Cucumbers: 1 calorie
- Celery: 1 calorie per stalk
So to help keep your dog at a healthy weight you may want to use these substitutes, cut back on the amount you feed and don’t forget to exercise your dog. It all helps to give your dog a longer, healthier life!
Calorie counts taken from the October newsletter from the American Miniature Schnauzer Club
CIV – Canine Influenza Virus – N3HN
from: Health and Welfare
Written by Ronde Dalton & Kathy Molek on Sunday, 08 November 2009
The flu virus has long been recognized to cause disease in people and horses. However, the type of flu virus which causes disease has been species specific meaning that the people version of the virus infected people and the horse version affected horses without crossing species. Neither of these flu viruses was known to infect dogs at all. Somehow a change, mutation, occurred in the horse flu virus at a racetrack in Florida in 2003. The horse virus infected a kennel of racing Greyhounds. The respiratory illness that resulted caused fevers, coughing and discharge from the nose and eyes of the sick dogs but the illness was not immediately recognized as a new disease. So, dogs from the kennel were not isolated and as these dogs traveled, the disease traveled and spread with them.
A Puppy For Christmas
from: Health and Welfare
Written by Kathy Molek and Jill Paige on Tuesday, 22 December 2009
Oh, you got a puppy for Christmas? It’s soft and sweet and looks so cute when it sleeps. And it what? Oh, it pees on the carpet and poops just about anywhere! It chewed on your slippers and took your underwear? And it cries a lot?
Well, take a deep breath and hold on. We have some tips that might help you with this cute bundle of fur.
Check out the MCDTC's new photo gallery here. Send yours in today!
Club meetings are the first Tuesday of the month at 7pm. For directions to the MCSA clubhouse, see interactive map below.
