Barack Hussein Obama's Plan for Homeless Dogs

An unconfirmed source has advised CoCo the Blogging Dog that Barack Hussein Obama plans to buy every homeless dog a new dog house if he is elected as President of the United States. This project would cost the taxpayers an estimated 10 billion dollars, but will be worth every penny to end the homelessness amongst dogs.

A few naysayers may criticize because we are approaching 10 trillion dollars in national debt. Yet Obama does not seem worried as his supporters chant, "Yes we can!" The dollar is losing value because we do not have the gold to back up the paper anymore, but Barack Obama is not concerned as he just purchased a new printing press. The new dog houses will be placed strategically in all alley ways, parks, and most grassy areas.

Barack Hussein Obama also promises to build up our military, double our foreign assistance, provide free college tuition, invest 10 billion a year to make our medical records electronic, and lower all taxes! I think there will be lemonade in all the water fountains as well. Yay!! When asked where the money is coming from Obama says, "I am asking you to believe!!" *Cough* "Printing Press" *cough*.

SportDOG Bark Collars

Looky here, it is the SportDOG Bark Collar. The ad say this bark collar is quick and easy to use. It may be quick to shock you, but I don't think it would be too easy to be shocked repeatedly. The little old lady down the street talks alot. She says, "Yap, yap, Aaaw you such a pretty boy CoCo mocho big boy blah, blah, blah..." Never once have I considered strapping the SportDOG Bark Collar on her neck. Never once! Ok, well one time I thought about it. Then I tried to remember WWJD and I got over it. Dogs talk. People talk. Sometimes it's annoying. What can you do? Shall we just strap the SportDOG Bark Collar on anyone that get's on our nerves? I am a pomeranian, and geez you know we like to talk. You know, like when strangers are coming by my house. Dog's normally don't go on barking marathons unless they are lonely or bored. How about you don't strap a bark collar on me, and I'll let you tell me all about your day at work. I promise I won't shock you when you have repeated yourself for the third time. K?

Tin Foil Hats for Dogs

Some humans believe in wearing tin foil hats. The possible benefits range from preventing the government from reading their mind, to the protection against alien abduction. Some other humans laugh and make fun of them. I'm not here to do either, I just want to know why dog's are being left out of the equation. For those that may be understandably paranoid, I would like to show you how to make an easy tin foil hat for your dog.

The reason I use the term "understandably paranoid" is because I can relate to that paranoia that may drive someone to place aluminum foil on their head. My lack of trust in government and large corporations has reached an all time high. My questioning began with the war in Iraq and I do not think I will ever return to the dog I once was. If you would like to research some conspiracy fact not theories, google things like MKULTRA, Operation Mockingbird, Project SHAD, Project AJAX, Operation PBSUCCESS, and Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Again, these are not theories and have been admitted by the CIA. As certain CIA documents have become declassified we will all learn that sometimes paranoia may not be so crazy after all.

Currently, I remain tin foil-less. But hey, if you are going to wear a tin foil hat, why leave your dog out? If you honestly believe the government can read your mind without a tin foil hat, what are they doing to your dog? Do you ever notice your dog following you from room to room taking notice of everything that you do? They may be taking mental notes and sending back information to the CIA. It is time to take action, and make a tin foil hat for your dog immediately. Keep in mind that your dog is your best friend and you want him to have the most comfortable hat ever. Do not make a hat that fits awkwardly over his ears, this is uncomfortable. Make your dog a tiny little beanie that will fit on the very top of his head. Take a sheet of regular aluminum foil and shape it to fit the very top of your dog's head. Then use non-toxic glue to add a soft flannel lining to the inside of the tin foil hat. Be sure to get a photo of you and your dog wearing your tin foil hats together. If nothing else, it might cheer you up.

Iams Dog Food Boycott

I never would have learned about the hypocracy of Iams dog food if this boycott had not happened. Corporations are wonderful for putting on their best face for the public. They would like their customer's to trust in them to provide healthy food for your dog. Iams dog food would like you to believe they simply love animals. In the hard light of day, the facts do not match up. This is a GOVERNMENT complaint regarding the mistreatment of animals. If the government gets involved, you know it is major neglect. Why is Iams dog food even involved with the experimentation of animals? On my blog you can find many homemade dog food recipes, feel free to check them out.

Iams Undercover Investigation UPDATE!

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an official complaint stating that the contract laboratory investigated by PETA in 2002 and 2003, which was employed by pet-food manufacturer Iams, “has shown a lack of good faith.”

The government complaint alleges that the following violations, among others, were documented by government inspectors at the contract laboratory from 2002 to 2005:

Failure to provide pain relief to sheep used in experiments that caused pain or distress.
Failure to ensure that personnel were trained to perform experiments on animals.
Failure to provide veterinary care and to observe animals daily.
Failure to properly ventilate housing facilities for dogs and cats.
Failure to house cats with a sufficient number of litterboxes and resting surfaces.
Failure to keep animal-housing facilities clean and in good repair, resulting in injuries .
Failure to maintain comfortable temperatures in animal-housing facilities.
Failure to provide animals with sufficient space Click here to learn how you can help convince Iams to stop funding animal experiments.

Sign the Pledge Against Animal Testing

China's Dog and Cat Fur Trade

China's dog and cat fur trade ~ This is a video of the heart wrenching and cruel way they treat dog's and cat's in the China fur trade. This video is not for everyone because it is incredibly sad. If you are sensitive do not watch, but please boycott all fur. Many dog's and cat's are being sold to the US labelled as rabbit, raccoon, etc. The Chinese fur trade believes in torturing dog's and cat's for profit. I am not a PETA member, but as PETA would say, "It is better to go nude than wear fur!" I think they are right. Please don't contribute to this cruelty.

Help Stop the Cruel Fur Industry.

Dog with big brown eyes

Dog with big brown eyes
Photographer: snappyjack
morguefile.com

Weird Pet Ads on Kijiji

There are some weird pet ads on Kijiji. Am I just a skeptical cranky old dog, or do some of these ads seem downright suspicious? Here is a person posting a free ad, saying he will rescue any type of animal. He says he will take any type of animal you don't want. Dog, cat, bird or whatever. There is no organization/rescue name. Just some guy that will take any animal. He also warns you about other rescues, saying you should always ask for references. What animal rescue provides references? I don't know, is it just me?

While I am talking about classifieds, do not ever list your animal for free. I see many free dogs and cats on Kijiji. Sub-humans will get animals this way to sell for research. Back to topic, here is someone wanting kittens 6 months or younger. One thing that makes me worry is the plural usage of "kittens" in the title. That would suggest they want a bunch of kittens. Even if I'm wrong, why would you place an ad to try and find a kitten? On the same website there is a bunch of ads for kittens. It just doesn't add up, something smells fishy. Here is someone advertising they need an all black kitten. Must be all black. Best case scenario is you just have a very superficial person who thinks color of cat is more important than personality. Worst case scenario, satanic ritual. Either way not a good choice for adoption.

In this ad the poster said her cat ran away and her 4 yr. old kid needs a replacement. This may be mean, but I cannot help but think what if the cat was running away from the 4 yr. old? I know, I shouldn't have said that. I'm terrible.

Pug Dog Cubby Beacious

Pug Dog Cubby Beacious
Photographer: taliesin
Morguefile.com

Dog's Drinking From The Toilet Bowl

Most every dog knows that the water in the toilet bowl is much tastier to drink. I wonder if the water in the toilet bowl is from an artesian well or perhaps the french alps? No matter, dog's just love it because it is so cool and refreshing.

WizDog Indoor Dog Potty

This poor dog depicted above is a victim of the WizDog Indoor Dog Potty. His humans do not want to invest the time to actually take him for a walk, now he spends his time indoors going potty on a plastic grate. The ad says, "Your doggie needs a WizDog!" Well ok. I guess you would, if you are a dog confined in the house for long periods of time with no one to take you out. The WizDog Indoor Dog Potty is a plastic tray with holes in it. Underneath the plastic grate is a tray that hold newspaper or wee wee pads to absorb urine. The dog urine is absorbed by the paper and the dog feces stays on top of the plastic grate. I think the WizDog Indoor Dog Potty would be a violation of my adoption contract. Contract specifically states in section 3 article 4, "CoCo must go for walks 2-3 times a day where he can run and play, smell the fresh air, and lift his leg on trees." If the WizDog Indoor Dog Potty gets very popular there must be an all out dog revolt. We will not put up with this!

Pit Bull Dog Saves Family from Intruder

News breaking story from CoCo the Blogging Dog. Pit Bull dog saves entire family from intruder. A woman with two young children was abruptly awakened at 2 am in the morning. It was the sound of her window pane on the door breaking. The intruder apparently broke the window and reached inside to open the dead bolt. She stated, "At that point, all I could think about was my children's safety." She rushed to her children's room. The intruder raced after the woman and faced her with a knife. Seemingly out of nowhere, their pit bull dog Buddy leaped on the man. The intruder tried to stab Buddy, but he was no match for this pit bull dog wonder. Buddy bit his hand, knocking the knife away from his reach. During the commotion, the woman was able to call 911. It took the police 5 minutes to arrive, during this time Buddy pinned the man to the ground. Woman stated if the intruder even tried to move, she is sure her pit bull dog would have attacked. As soon as the police arrived, the pit bull dog seemed to understand and let them take the intruder. Afterwards, the pit bull checked out the children and licked their face. Woman reports Buddy was unharmed and will be loved and spoiled for the rest of his life.

Some things that make life worth living

Boiled chicken skin with the fat still sticking to it. Most any kind of ball, especially the super bouncy balls. Kitty litter covered poop nuggets. Chicken livers and Oscar Meyer bologna. Freshies green dental bones. Chewing on avocado seeds and brocoli stalks. Chasing cats. Licking cats. Snuggling with cats. Going for a walk. The smell of rain. Playing tug of war. A warm bed. Barking at strangers. Peeing on the garbage dumpster. Getting my hair brushed. Running anywhere. Playing tag. Beggin strips.

Dog Birthday Cake

Dog Birthday Cake

1/3 cup honey
1 medium egg
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup shredded carrots
1 cup whole wheat
1 teaspoon baking soda

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a cake pan. Combine the egg, peanut butter, oil, vanilla, and honey in a large bowl; blend well. Stir in the carrots and mix thoroughly. Sift together the flour and baking soda and fold into the carrot mixture. Spoon cake batter into prepared pan. Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes. Let cake cool in pan for 10 minutes; then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Looking For a Lost Dog

Make fliers with dog's photo and your contact info. When advertising your lost dog, it is better to leave out 1-2 identifying marks out of description. This will help you to determine if callers actually have your dog or not. Bring a friend and knock on every door you can within a 1 mile radius. If they are not home leave a flier. Talk to everyone about your lost dog. Ask local places of business to display the fliers for you. Especially veterinarians, pet stores, groomers and trainers. Check with local rescue groups as well and give them a flier. Place an ad in the newspaper. Many newspapers will even let you place a lost dog ad for free. Visit animal shelters within 20 mile radius every day. Don't give up!

PetSafe Stubborn Dog Shock Collar

This is the PetSafe stubborn dog shock collar with remote. If you would use this on your dog, it is safe to say, You Are A Moron. If your dog is not listening to you, perhaps it is because you do stupid things. Umm, you know, like shock him? The good people down at PetSafe want you to know this shock collar makes training a fun and rewarding experience for both the pet and the pet owner. Huh? The PetSafe stubborn dog shock collar also comes with a remote, just in case you are too lazy to get up and walk over to your dog. I give this product two paws down and a Growl.

Love a Dog – Ray Of Hope

Choose your dog or any human at all that might be appropriate for you to give a ray of hope – a loving, that special energy of love from one living, sentient being to another. This may be a zoo animal, a kennelled animal, an animal that you know of and that suffers in the darkness, or it may be a bitter little old lady who lives in your street – structurally and technically, it matters not.

Allow yourself to love them. I know that that is easier said than done, for we too have our fears of loving. Accept what you can give and receive and see if you cannot release some of your old limitations today and love more, more and more until you breach the threshold into total brilliance and love is, indeed, all there is.

Do what you can. I ask never any more of you than you are ready, able and willing to give. If you cannot breach the threshold as yet or if fears assail you at this point, it is as it is and the beginning, not the end. Try this exercise often and be gentle and loving with yourself, allowing yourself the time you need to grow into love.

This concludes the Harmony Program series. CoCo the Blogging Dog has missed writing his daily posts and is looking forward to coming back tomorrow.

Healing Dogs With Love Energy

Behaviour problems in dogs are inherently and structurally different from health problems in many ways. They are often linked, of course, and I would encourage you to remember our planes model and to give serious thought to Hard reasons for behaviour disorders – the usual mismanagement, environmental conditions, bad feeding, underlying health or structural or physiological problems in conjunction with genetic pre-dispositions towards expressing behaviours that are often species and breed-line specific.

True behaviour problems always arise as a result from an individual dog having a disturbed map of the world, created by trauma or drop-by-drop chipping away at the dogs original map over time.

Behaviour problems in dogs respond to love energy like a parching man in the desert will respond to the offer of water. Love energy, based on the deepest possible connect and deepest possible regard for the Immortal Beloved as we discussed earlier in the course, is my first choice intervention for any behaviour problem.

Simply, the worse the problem, the more love the dog needs to find a new balance within themselves and to begin to want to really live again. Sometimes, we are the first one in many years, if ever, that could reach into that dogs darkness and loneliness and give it very literally a ray of hope.

The Fear Of Love

"Isn’t it dangerous to strengthen someone’s love connections to a dog? Is it ecological? Doesn’t it make bereavement much worse when the dog dies? Won’t they become ever so upset if they lose the dog or if it is ill?"

These questions come from the presupposition that love makes us vulnerable to terrible suffering and pain and it might be better to not love at all, or at least keep a lid on how much we love, so we need not experiences these awful feelings.

This is a classic Harmony Program style dilemma, only it isn’t a dilemma at all, we were just and once again, taught and entrained to believe that it is. George Harrison had a point when he said, "All you need is love." Oh, for sure, that line has been beaten to death and heard so many times that it has become hardly more than "Coca Cola is The Real Thing" in our neurologies but the fact is that it’s true.

All you need is love. The more you have of it, the more powerful you become, the more centred within yourself, the more unassailable you are to doubt, fear and panic; the more you are able to cope with anything at all the universe can possibly throw at you.

From a place of love, you can do things that you thought were beyond you. You can stand pain, unbelievable suffering and in the end, if you just love enough, you can quite happily allow yourself to be nailed onto a cross, drink from the hemlock chalice or walk voluntarily to the bonfire for burning – this truly is the only way to overcome and find strength, courage, perseverance, dedication, and every single human attribute that’s worth having at all.

Love truly does reach across time and space and it is truly, in that sense, eternal. It is not love that causes pain, it is backing away from it, holding back from it and disturbing its absolutely pure energies with entrained power games, domination games, possession games, punishment games and all the other kinds of games that people play.

Therefore, anything at all that you might do or contribute to strengthen love connections and the flow of this energy form – between dogs, between dogs and owners, between dog, owners and you, between you and the universe, the land, the earth itself - is a holy pursuit of the highest order.

Dog Exercise 4 – The Love Connection

Now, strengthen and nourish that love connection you have brought to the human’s awareness in any way that comes to you.

You could, for example:

• simply add your blessing and love to it in harmonic resonance;

• Send waves of support of a colour, a bright light that restores and cleans the connection or anything that your intuition provides for you;

• gently raise the vibration so that the love connection always remains above and unblemished by whatever happens in The Hard AND the person knows it does, too. Give them a silent blessing and continue the conversation until you have reached a natural exit point.

Do this exercise with at least three different humans and note how the energy of the love reconnection is immediately recognisable in each case.

Dog Exercise 3 – Remember ...

Find a willing human and talk to them about a dog of theirs. Ask them about those two incidences from Exercise 1 and 2. You do not have to make a big deal about it, just ask them conversationally, for example, "Where did you get X dog? When was that? How did you come to choose X dog? What was special about X dog?" For Exercise 2, you can ask, "Did you ever have a special moment with X dog? Something you really remember?" As they think about it and answer you, keep a close track on their states and energy emanations. See if you can guide them to a point where you can absolutely feel the resonance of their experiences with the love connection in yourself.

Dog Exercise 2 – Magic Moment

For this exercise, remember a time when you connected deeply with your dog. A time when you looked into the dogs eyes and it looked back and you knew that something extraordinary had happened, a moment that changed you both in some way and changed your relationship after it had taken place.

Remember and really re-experience this moment of connection as fully and on as many levels as you can. Sit for a moment after the exercise and give grace. The purpose of this exercise is to bring to your conscious awareness as well as setting up your unconscious systems, to recognise that special energy that makes up a "love connection" between two mortal creatures here in the Hard.

Dog Exercise 1 – Falling In Love

Think of an older dog you know, one that may have been with you for many years and might not, at this time, be the total focus of your attention. If you do not have or know of such a dog, a human friend is a perfect stand in for this exercise.

Think back on a time, perhaps long ago, when first you met this dog. Allow yourself to really remember what it was like, then remember details about the meeting, what time of day it was, where it was, what you were wearing and so on. Now, remember the moment when you first fell in love and also then, remember how you felt at that time.

Holding the feeling steady, allow time in your mind to pass as it does and consider the dog as it is today. Reflect on how your feelings towards the dog have changed over time and then as a result of this exercise.

Re-Connecting The Love With Your Dog

In the original Harmony program, I advised my then assistants and trainees to find moments when the owner/caretaker had experienced a "falling in love" with the dog in question – the moment when they chose that one dog in a litter, or from a choice of all the dogs on this planet.

Sometimes, it wasn’t so much an active choice and someone might have just had a moment somewhere and accepted a rescued or unwanted dog into their hearts and homes but unless the caretaker absolutely never wanted the dog in the first place (which is a very rare occurrence indeed and not a one you are likely to come across amongst the clientele that would seek out an animal energy healer) there is always that moment when two creatures met and fell in love.

Now and exactly as it is with people, stuff happens, annoying things happen, bad things happen and that love connection gets plastered over with daily negativity and unhappiness until a point may be reached when you can’t see it shining out any more under all that rubbish that has been piled upon it, and one or the other creature truly believes that "the love is dead".

For one, this is a very sad moment indeed when they think, "I don’t love you any more." But for the other, it is the end of the world as the echo arises in return, "They don’t love me any more."

It is one of the very worst energetic injuries any social creature and a dog is capable of sustaining in the Hard, and can prove to be incurable and fatal, indeed. To take a client back in time to a time when this love was still clear and clearly visible and could be touched just by looking at the dog is a direct energetic effort at clearing away some of the rubbish and reminding everyone concerned about the energetic realities of the situation.

Establishing this baseline or base connection of love, that it is absolutely still there and absolutely still as bright and beautiful as it was the first time they looked upon the dog and made that connection with them, is the most healing intervention you can possibly make in any situation involving behaviour problems of any kind.

With the baseline love connection in place, the human client will:

• Have more patience under all circumstances. Often, behaviour problems and especially the type that has lead to the trance-escape states or even autism, can take a while to undo, re-route and bring back to an even flow of the dog and it’s environment.

• Have more faith & trust. During this time of re-balancing, learning new behaviours and dropping off old and unhelpful ones, the owner/caretaker must support the dog in many different ways and must be willing to accept setbacks and plateaus without losing heart or focus. If you love someone, you can do that and it isn’t even hard.

• Have the desire for change and to keep the relationship alive. Without these two key points, all is lost. Literally. If the owner gives up, there’s nothing you, or I, or even the angels can do to help the dog from thereon in. If you love, you don’t give up easily, if ever at all.

Positive VS Negative Energy Interactions with Dogs

Although for that part of the system which processes attention energy it really doesn’t seem to matter what kind of attention is being given, the kind of attention (positive or negative) has many repercussions on other energetic exchanges and on the systems of both caretaker and dog.

Dog carers know that animals will prefer a shouting at or a beating rather than being ignored. This is also true for children and of course, the delinquents in the prisons and mental hospitals that these children eventually become. Eliciting negative attention (being shouted at, threatened, chased around, reprimanded, punished) is so much easier and so much more freely forthcoming in this society of ours, it is scary.

You might laugh, but I can’t remember the last time a policeman stopped me on the road and commended me on my safe driving skills. I also don’t think I’ve ever had a friendly letter from the taxman thanking me sincerely for paying up every year on time, either. But I guess that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

With the kind of set up that ignores the good completely but crashes into action for bad behaviour immediately, you can see how easily dog fall into thinking that the only way they can get this vital life energy is by resorting to annoying behaviours and escalating to worse and worse ones over time.

The problem with this process is that prolonged negative attention energy exchanges are bad for the self esteem of both the caretaker and the dog/s; they lead to tension, terrible stress, less in the way of touch and over time, less and less desire to interact at all which cannot help but create a vicious downward spiral where everyone involved cannot help but suffer. The end result of this unloving spiral is usually euthanasia or rehoming of the dog in question.

Even way back then, I began to talk about "reconnecting the owner and the dog" and using "natural communication" and "the underlying strand of love" to do so. Energy therapy in action, only I didn’t even know the name then.

Harmony In Action - Energy Healing for Animals

I would go upstairs and at the first scratching of the puppy, I would go back down again, open the kitchen door, cuddle the puppy ("Oh no!" the old fashioned dog trainers and nursery nurses began to shout, "you’re making a rod for your own back! The puppy will grow up a monster!!!"), put it back in it’s bed and tell it with full eye contact and meaning, "Now then, little one, all is well. I’m upstairs and if you need me for anything, just call me and I will come. Good night now. I love you."

Then I would turn off the light, close the door and sit at the bottom of the step until the scratching and first little whimper would start up again, and I’d repeat the self same thing. With this particular puppy, a very sensitive 8 week old poodle cross God-alone-knows what, it took 8 repetitions and a total of 1 hour 12 minutes for silence to reign and for me to go to bed. It called me twice more that night, and once or twice a night for another 3 days. After that, it did not call me any more apart from one occasion about a week later and when I went to see it, it was distressed and a little while later, threw up something that looked like an old fish skeleton.
I wrote down my findings in a note book and mused for some considerable time on the last puppy in my house, that had howled for hours on end and finally got to sleep in my bed in the end anyway simply because the neighbours sent the police round repeatedly. Realising of course that one puppy doesn’t make a paradigm shift, I then went back to my referring trainers and assistants, told them the whole story and asked them to try it out.

They listened with both eyebrows raised but luckily enough, I had an excellent reputation and track record for being sensible and practical in all my dealings and innovations, so they gave me the benefit of the doubt and a rather half hearted, "Ahm, ok Silvia ... we’ll try it ..."

One of these, a very conservative lady, had taken receipt of a rescued GSD bitch that very afternoon and in the night, grew fearful that the bitch would break through the glass kitchen door and injure herself severely, as she was throwing herself against it senselessly in absolute panic of separation.

As the lady, who happened to be a highly qualified and supremely experienced dog obedience instructor and trainer’s trainer, didn’t know what else she could do (and sleeping with the dog in the bedroom was not an option on account of her husband and his views on the topic), she half heartedly tried "Silvia’s new fangled theory".

She went back into the kitchen and told the dog that she needed to sleep and that she was just upstairs, feeling very foolish by her own admission for doing so. Guess what. The GSD bitch calmed right down and called the lady three more times before in that household too, peace and silence reigned that lasted until 7am the next morning when the bitch began to bark to be let out into the garden. The rescued bitch never called again after that – not once and to this very day in 2001.

From mad separation anxiety to total peace in one single night. The good people who tried out the Harmony Programme on their cats, dogs, horses, husbands and in their boarding kennels, rescue kennels, wildlife parks, you name it, were absolutely astonished how easy it was to calm a creature in this way and how it did the exact opposite of what we all had believed it would do – instead of a needy monster that would haunt you all your living, breathing hours, what we were creating were balanced, satisfied individuals that seemed to find a sense of confidence in their environments, in us, and most importantly, within themselves.

Before we go on to Harmony Programme exercises, I would like to tell you why I am taking my time in this assignment to tell you all of this. The Harmony Programme is not something that we can use as healers from the outside to make "everything all right" in behaviour problems that are rooted in attention seeking. It is something that the caretakers need to be told about and need to at least try, no matter how half heartedly, to get an understanding of the benefits for everyone involved.

The "need for attention energy" is a daily one, and it is important that the owners make changes in their interactions with the animal in question to supply at least a baseline of positive attention energy and begin to find ways of backing away from negative attention energy exchanges.

The Harmony Program In Brief

Let us back up here and go through the main points of the energetic circumstances and causes and effect of "attention seeking behaviour disorders" in dogs (and this includes people too) step by step.

•There is a form of energy that is exchanged between dogs and all social creatues that is derived from the attention of another. This attention is focussed, direct and involves eye contact, no matter how fleetingly this takes place.

•This energy form is as important to a dogs and all social creatures as is sleep, or food. In experiments, human babies died when attention was withheld (although the babies were fed and their physical care taking proceeded as normal). Adults develop severe behaviour disturbances including rage, deep trance type repetitive behaviours, antisocial behaviours and autism under similar conditions.

•Western humans have been trained from birth to withhold attention, especially when it is being "demanded" – possibly a learned response and set up that occurred in their own energy systems when their energetic attention needs were repeatedly and systematically refuted when they themselves were young.

•Dogs and other companion animals vary widely in how great their tolerance is to living with "not enough attention energy" being supplied.

•It seems to be also specific to an individual if their first choice response to a shortfall of this form energy is withdrawal towards autism or escalating fiercely in their "attention seeking behaviours" before systemic collapse and those, too, falling into autism.

•Attention Energy is Attention Energy – in general, dogs do not seem to care one way or the other if the attention energy they receive is of the loving or of the non-loving kind. Indeed, with the set up amongst the Western Human caretakers, dogs find it far easier to obtain negative attention through disturbing/annoying/naughty behaviours than to obtain positive attention. Indeed, a great many caretakers "train" their dogs into ever more outrageous behaviours by firstly, failing to give attention of the positive kind and secondly, trying to ignore developing behaviour escalations in the beginning stages when they are still fairly mild.

•Giving focussed attention in the beginning stages of any escalation pattern does not only stop the escalation pattern dead right there but over the long term, actually cures the individual and re-sets their energetic exchanges with everyone and not just with the owner to a natural and sociable status.

•With the energy system balanced that needs this social love energy, a dog truly blossoms, becomes more self assured, self balanced and gains access to sleeping resources of problem solving, interaction, communication, thought and experience that were previously out of reach.

•With this part of the energy system balanced, an individual will be radically better placed to face any kind of stress challenge including showing a greater tolerance to environmental poisons, toxic energy systems and all immune system stressors.

Turning The World Upside Down

Back in 1993, I formulated the appalling idea, based on my theoretical musings and practical observations, that instead of playing power games with a dog, one should try and give positive attention right away, as soon as the dog would indicate a need by a small behaviour such as coming up, looking at the owner, or trying to make contact in any other shape or form.

This contradicted about everything I had ever been taught or learned to do; for example, it was common practise to let small puppies howl and cry all night until "they had learned that no-one would come" and "thus never to reward this appalling attention seeking behaviour".

So it must be said that it was not without trepidation that I began to experiment in earnest and put my theory to the test. And I will tell you how it worked out in tomorrows post...

Dog Trance Behaviours & Repetitive Behaviours

A safety mechanism of a social dogs neurological set up is to induce autistic-like deep trance states to protect themselves from the systemic catastrophe. Repetitive rocking in small humans and monkey babies who are left to themselves, head weaving in elephants, flank sucking in Doberman dogs, shadow chasing and tail chasing in collie dogs, crib chewing in horses, pacing endlessly in a ritualistic way in caged cats are just amongst the many, many examples of this.

In pet dogs, spaniels and crosses thereof are highly pre-disposed to enter these trance states in moments of stress and there are many variations on the theme. Self mutilation and ritualised howling/vocal expressions also lead to the security of a deep trance state where the dog may rest inside when external environmental conditions have become unbearable – these external conditions being systemically, a short fall of energy of the correct kind to re-balance the stressed and hungry system.

It is my supposition that the individual dogs choice of which route into trance they will take is a mixture of genetic pre-disposition and chance; I have seen many dogs who have developed a chance behaviour into these rituals and the behaviours themselves,which may be quite bizarre to an unsuspecting onlooker, are, indeed, secondary to the trance state they are designed to induce.

Dog Autism - Energy Healing for Animals

It is one of the saddest things I personally find to have to deal with a dog that has entirely shut down within itself and is no longer able to make attention energy exchange based relationships with others.

Dog autism is a rainbow scale of a naturally existing neurological function, not an on and off switch and autistic behaviours in dogs are often and once again, very sadly mistaken for "being stubborn" or "wilful" or "disobedient".

As autistic dogs cannot provide the owners with "attention energy" in turn (as they are trapped within themselves), the owners may actually go through the same attention seeking escalations that can end up with attacking the dog just so it will take notice, respond at last and acknowledge their existence.

The Cure For Attention Seeking Behaviour Dog Disorders

It is so simple – following the "crying baby" model for filling the need as soon as it arises, ASBDs can be entirely avoided as well as cured by giving focussed attention immediately and as soon as the request has been received.

This does not mean one has to put one’s entire life on hold or "run rings around the dog" – it is literally a simple little flash of attention at the right time and when first asked for it; the classic "a stitch in time saves nine" principle.

Rather than "rewarding" attention seeking behaviour, it never gets to escalate, the dogs energy system remains balanced and the disturbed behaviours never need take place at all.

As the babies who are fed when they are hungry cry markedly less or not at all, dogs who receive attention energy (or love or recognition energy) when they ask for it, their attention seeking behaviours become markedly less frequent, markedly less dramatic and may cease altogether once the system has been in operation for a while and the dog has understood that not only can it get what it needs just for the asking, but also it’s energy system has become more robust, more healthy, more resilient and won’t collapse when there is a time when attention is in short supply.

Attention Seeking Behaviour Evolution in Dogs - Energy Healing For Animals

Attention Seeking Dog Behaviour progresses through the following stages as the need becomes more and more acute and more excruciating to the dog who is experiencing the energetic shortfall in a visceral, whole body experience:

1. Awareness

Here, the dog (child, dog, cat, horse) first becomes aware that the shortfall exists and begins to look around for a likely "other" who may fulfil this need.

2. Approach

The dog will get up and start approaching the other and make some minor signs that it is in need of some attention. In a dog, that would probably be just coming over and presenting themselves whilst looking at the other.

3. Escalation

If the other ignores (read "refuses to provide the attention energy") this subtle approach, dog will now escalate its behaviours to "break on through" the barrier of ignoring...

– make sounds, push physically, engage in behaviours that have previously worked to
"gain attention".

4. Extreme Escalation

If these higher level behaviours are also ignored, the need turns to a pain and will now drive consecutively more extreme behaviour in turn in a direct cause and effect relationship. If the need is high enough, the dog may even attack.

5. Catastrophic Collapse

If still no energy is forthcoming, the system collapses in on itself in a catastrophic implosion which causes severe neurological damage; the stage beyond rage is autism, where the dog can no longer elicit the energy required nor process it when it is being offered because of the damage sustained by the receptors of the energy processing system during the catastrophe.

Depending on the severity of the neurological/energetic catastrophe and the age of the dog at which the catastrophe occurred (obviously the younger the dog, the greater the impact on the system overall), some individuals may never come back from the autism stage and remain there forever.

Attention Seeking Behaviour in Dogs - Energy Healing For Animals

With the caveat that you can "drive any creature crazy" if you put it into insane environments (such as a panther in a small enclosure), feed it with poison, or torture it continuously with actions, substances, and behaviours from the outside, all the rest of the behaviour problems you might come across can be chunked up to versions of "attention seeking behaviour".

This is a very, very interesting phrase. Just run it through your mind and apply it to a creature of any kind, a dog, a child perhaps: "She was attention seeking all the time." What response, what gut response do you have to that phrase?

It’s not a good one, I would wager. It’s along the lines of, "Dear oh dear. Tut. Shake head. Naughty child. Ah, she’ll learn to keep herself quiet eventually. Her parents probably "spoiled" her. She thinks she’s the centre of the universe. Ah, we’ll beat it out of her ..."

It is extraordinary to me just how we have come to that. Where did this come from? Who was the first to think it was a good idea to leave a child crying for hours in the dark and expect this to be "good for them"?

At least now (in the last 30 years or so, to put it in perspective, and by all means not in all Western parent’s thoughts) it is held to be the right thing to feed a baby when it is crying and as soon as possible because...

• The baby doesn’t cry because it is naughty or evil but because it is using a feedback device that is programmed in to alert the care takers of a shortfall of food supplies.

• A baby fed immediately has a better immune system, less sleep disturbances, even more intelligence as umpteen scientific studies now decree.

• The caretakers of a baby that is fed immediately experience massively less stress, less psychological disorders and less psychosomatic disease because the baby is easier to satisfy and cries markedly less overall.

This process is the exact template for energy exchanges of the "love" kind. Dog attention seeking behaviour is a feedback device designed to alert those who can do something about it that there is a shortfall in an energy system that cannot be alleviated by other forms of energy but specifically needs to be fed by the attention of others.

As an aside, it is my supposition that even universal Christ love cannot satisfy the human circuitry set up to process and utilise human energy input. It can, however, feed the overall system enough to stave off full collapse if it can be successfully received on a regular basis.

Dog attention seeking behaviour is set up so that reflexively and unless there are mitigating circumstances, western humans will automatically draw back and refuse to give that attention.

It is extraordinary how we have been programmed to think of "neediness" as a terrible character flaw and to jump on it viciously and trying to extinguish it at every possible opportunity, no matter how insane and totally crippling such behaviour may be.

For example, you may have come across the way that young medical doctors are kept awake due to an insane rota system for days on end. Here the "need that must not speak it’s name" is sleep. Everyone needs sleep for maximum functioning. No-one whatsoever is served by a tired, unconcentrated doctor – not the system, not the doctor, not the nurses, and most totally not, the patients. Yet that system is still in place and there is tremendous resistance to changing it.