Hey Mom, Ernie here. You Think You & Me Are Compatible?

Want to have some FUN? Then this class is for YOU at Pet's Gone Green University.

Each person has matchless qualities of mind and feeling that sets them apart from others; our personality makes us who we are. Identifying those strong suits in the True Colors model makes us "sparkle like the brightest star in the sky."

Would you be surprised to know this same theory can be applied to dogs? Like people, each pooch has a distinct personality. Use Canine Colors to learn more about yourself and your strengths and the equally colorful personalities that make up the Canine World.

This session will bring together you and your canine in a way you never imagined possible. Canine Colors gives a compelling view of how we can find our perfect canine companion. It's a must for every, or soon-to-be, pet parent.

Discovering Your Canine Colors is a 4 hour course which includes learning your True Colors and that of your canine companion or pooch-to-be! Included in the class are the Canine Colors book and color selection cards for you and your dog companion. Cedar dog says, "Don't dilly-dally,"

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This class is March 10th, 2012

Monday, December 12th at 7:00 MST, 8:00 CST, 9:00 EST and 6:00 PST

"The Science of Amazing Molecules webinar for Medical Practitioners."

When an Animal Doc meets a Human Doc and talks about the molecules.
Jean Hove, DVM; Rob Ward, MD

Tonight I'm urging my friends and listeners to get on this call with me! Just do this for us! I talk all the time about how our people impact our health; by the food you feed us, the supplements you give us (or not) and the exercise we get or don't get.

Ongoing reports tell us that pet parents, as a whole, aren't doing such a great job. More of us are getting similar diseases as our humans. Nowadays, many pets are overweight, often eating food that is totally "bad" for them. The problem pet parents just don't know how they can positively impact our health. I am asking that you decide TODAY, this all must change!

You can participate via computer by going to www.DrRobWebinar.com
Sign in as "guest." Be sure to login at least 5 minutes before the hour.
You can also just call in and listen at (712) 432-0075, access code: 635808#.

This call is not recorded

Cedar@petsgonegreen.com

Posted by Cedar Dog

Your Dog's Poop Goes Where?

IMAGINE YOUR DOG’S POOP LIGHTING-UP A DOG PARK

While we didn't WIN this grant for a Denver Dog-Park this time, let's keep believing we can do better, let's find doable options, using dog poop as an energy alternative.

Mom and I agreed this comment from Kate Solisti was powerful and deserved special posting. You might want to read our Doggedness Blog first. Won't you comment?

Kath & Cedar, beautiful, just beautiful. I was told a "story" years ago that continues to touch me. It goes like this,

"In the beginning all forms of life on this planet met around a cosmic campfire. They shared an awareness that each and every life-form carried a Divine Spark and it was their "job" to express that Divine Spark in all ways specific to their form and function, then return to the campfire to share all they learned with all the others in order for Source to experience itself.  So the bees said, "We will explore the Sacred Dance of pollination with the flowers and help spread fertility." The Dolphin said ,"We will celebrate the interaction of Air and Water, spreading joy into every molecule around us." Each creature stated their means of experiencing form and the human stopped to think. "What do I have that is a unique expression of the Divine? My large, inquisitive and creative mind. I will express that to the fullest!"

So humans began to explore all their minds could do, but in the process of this pursuit they began to grow distant from the others. They began to feel seperate /superior and returned less and less to the campfire, keeping their discoveries to themselves and using them only for their own good instead of the good of all.

As the other Earthlings watched with compassion and detachment  the humans falling away, three species stood apart. They said, "We are not willing to just watch our human kin dis-love their connection with all of us. We pledge our Service to the Divine by helping the humans find their way back to connection, back to Source, back to Love."

So with love and High purpose, the Dog, the Cat and the Horse, intertwined their lives and destinies with humankind to help us find our way Home."

So in a very real way, the mission of every dog, cat and  horse in our lives is to reconnect us to who we really are -- a beautiful manifestation of Divine Consciousness in Unity with all Beings.

May we embrace and acknowledge this Sacred Task by engaging our wonderful minds and hearts in loving, caring for and restoring our connection with all our kin all over our beautiful planet.

Thank you Cedar and Kathy for all the ways you support this "noble cause!"

With Love and Deep Gratitude, Kate

Kate Solisti

AKinshipwithAnimals.com
kinshipent@earthlink.net

Over and over again we have opportunities to change lives including our own; what we do in those eras tell a lot about us. What do our lives look like today---from where we began, to where we are going--- all the while assessing our progress and tweaking. Are you satisfied with who you are becoming?

Are you a doubter? Have you lost trust in folks and governance? I hear you, some days, so have I! With the uncertainly of our times I have come to know first-hand, more and more people who are unsure and distressed!  I talk to people every day who live in fear.  They have fear of being sick; losing their jobs, their homes and “having enough money” to keep food on the table for their families, including their pets and themselves. I ask; so what are you willing to do about it?

For a sum of years, I have been in partnership with our dogs and cats. Some have passed on but stay attentively connected with us in “spirit.” They have become our guides. As you know, Cedar Dog and I crusade for pets and their people.  As a result, we talk every day to folks about a pet’s impact on the earth; are you courageous enough to hear how you impact your pet’s health and your own and then make the changes required? Are you willing to do better, and who else will you tell? Some choose action, others do nothing.

I was a crusader in the 70’s fighting for civil rights during very threating times of hate mongers. Of course, even these days we know many people still choose hate. What I know is rational people stood then as many do today with belief in each other.  Some act boldly; the end result is a day like yesterday, September 20, 2011, the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” While that may not mean much to you, for those experiencing intolerance and hatefulness, this is their first day of independence. September 20, 2011 is now known as “Repeal Day.”  According to a Washington Post writer the military discharged 14,364 service members since late 1993 for violating the 18-year ban. Today, opportunities abound for thousands?

I am grateful for those self-determined warriors. There are countless ones to acclaim. I remember gathering with Lenny Matlovich in the 70’s, together with Harvey Milk, alongside Del Martin. Del and her partner, Phylis Lyon, partners of 55 years, were legally wed inside the San Francisco City Hall by the Mayor, Gavin Newsom in 2008. Lyons’s work spanned 50-some years; she was an incredible role model. NPR’s interview.

The lesson is pretty simple, the work is not. Things take time, perseverance and trust. Who we become in those moments measures the nerve or cowardice in each of us.

You may wonder where I am going with all of this prattle. I believe it is about our connection with each other, with the animals, all of life and who we come to be. Isn’t it about choice and believing you can matter, then doing the work and enjoying the ride? Who are you willing to become? The world needs your gifts.

Our pets as guides

You see we impact our pet’s lives in profound ways. Sometimes we know it, most often we do not. Our impact on their health and well-being is huge. I trust you will learn what quality care exacts and give them the best.

They can’t speak for themselves and often their ways of showing us what’s going on with them is very subtle (and sometimes not so when they act out); what’s more they take on our doubts and physical ailments; they emulate our emotions. Bottom line we are all very connected, the animals are right there with us. As my animal communicator friend and colleague Kate Solisti reminds, “We are all in this together, for better or worse.”

I want to share a paragraph from her book, Conversations with Dog, an Uncommon Dogalog of Canine Wisdom. It is done with permission. The question comes from a human, “Why do I love you more than most of the humans in my life?” The dog’s answer, “We are uncomplicated.” Dog continues:

“Dogs want us to know, “Our gift to you is unconditional love. We love you no matter how much or little money you make, where you live, what size clothes you wear. With loyalty and devotion, we give you a model of commitment. With absolute trust and uncompromising joy, we show you who you can be. By being the rug beneath your feet which buffers you from all the harshness of life, we help you feel safe in your world. By sending and receiving love, we teach you that you are lovable to others. This is our only agenda.

Most humans have not arrived at this uncomplicated place. Most humans still walk in the world afraid. You are afraid to change, afraid to stay the same. You are afraid to speak for yourselves, afraid to upset the apple cart. You seek prestige and respect, but can’t give it to yourself. You collect things in order to fill up an empty space in your heart. As a result of all of this fear and baggage, you create obstacles between yourself and others. Obstacles create separation.

Separation is loneliness. Loneliness is isolation. Separation leads to neediness. Neediness complicates human relationships.

Embrace life as we do and others will enjoy your company. Share love and enjoy each other unconditionally, just as we enjoy you. Live in the moment and make it spectacular. You will begin to find that one fabulous moment connects to another, and another, and another…”

Cedar Dog, the thirteen and a half Chesapeake has long said, “Mom, people just make things hard and I am here to support you.” So what do we do? Spend time with your animals and heed their wisdom. When life grows hard, open; when trust falls away, hope; when you feel at the end of your leash, love!

Kathy Deitsch, and my ever faithful and wise companion, Cedar Dog

Cedar Dog here. We are making it happen once again at Pets Gone Green University (PGGU). This is the place to be! We teach sustainability. Do you know your pet's impact on the earth and your impact on your pet's health (and your own)? What are you gonna do about it, and who will you tell? We advocate action; learning and doing, practicing sustainable behaviors in your own backyard. Then telling others, your neighbors, friends and family.

On July 23 we're holding another class; What's in Your Pet's Lunchbox, the Basics. It's all about finding quality pet food and learning to read ingredient labels. I remind pet parents, “If this were easy our pets would be healthier.”

According to Banfield Pet Hospital “rates of diabetes in pets are rising faster than for humans.” (From 2006 to 2010, diabetes rates in U.S. dogs increased by over 30 percent, and by 16 percent in cats. In humans, the rate rose 10 percent over the same four year period) They rank the three top diseases in cats and dogs as diabetes, dental disease and flea infestations. All are preventable conditions.

Sorry to say, today's pet food industry is going the way of “greed" and big biz. It is a $16-billion dollar industry. The trade is highly secretive. Simply put in Cedar Dog’s first book, Doggone Green, a Call to Action to Save Our Earth it is “an extension of the human food industry.” Pets should not be eating wastes. That is food waste from restaurants, supermarkets and slaughterhouses, throwaway product (better known as by-products) not fit for human consumption but sold to pet food manufactures.

It gets worse, “meat meal can include dead zoo animals, road kill to large for burial at the roadside and 4-D animals that include dead, diseased, dying and disabled and euthanized dogs and cats.” Author Ann Martin, an authority on commercial pet food blew the lid off the pet food industry in her book Food Pets Die For.

Cedar and brother Ernie Dog talk in their book, Doggone Clean & Green; Eco-Solutions for a Pet’s Daily Life about helping pet parents decide what is the best food for their pets. Their woof,  “We are what we eat, a high-quality diet can save hundreds of dollars on vet bills and keep us spry.” The two Chesapeake Bay retrievers explain "the pact every pet ought to have with their humans." It is as follows:

• We depend on you to read food labels.
• You will need to know what is a quality ingredient.
• A diet of table scraps and “junk food” is out. If you won't eat it, why should I?
  Bottom line, we are “gung-ho eaters of meat and poultry, feed us quality.”

• Eating veggies and fruit, like carrots and apples is great, remembering cat and dogs are not vegetarians. (Do watch out for poisonous plants & food, we list them in the book).
• Feed organic when possible.

Bottom line, if you feed a quality homemade diet that you prepare and trust your ingredient-source you probably don't need this class although it would be nice for others to hear your experience.  I'll bet you know some people who could use the course information? An infamous Cedarism, “Is it any wonder food literally adds or subtracts years, not only to the span of our lives, but to the quality of our lives.” So, while “crusin' down the grocery aisle may be easy, it is not best for your furry ones.”

There is homework for this class July 23^rd and everyone will receive Cedar's Paws-Up & Paws-Down food label ingredients list.

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Read about the last PGGU course in June with Distinguished Professor Kate Solisti

My travels with Pets Gone Green University  (PGGU) recently took me to Albuquerque, New Mexico (NM); yep you got it, just when wild fires were blazin'. The day Los Alamos residents were leaving their city (6/27/2011) we were on the road to northern New Mexico and Taos. In fact, our Taos hotel put out a call to evacuees, their rooms would be free. Dogs and their people (along with a few felines) took up residence not knowing how long their stay might be. Of course, my transcriber Mom met a few people (and some of their misbehaved dogs) taking note of their stressful fire and smoke accounts. Most had packed what they could in their cars and left, doubtful they would ever see their homes again or be able to return to work at the Los Alamos National Labs.

It likely an aspen tree - that blew down in a windstorm, which in turn knocked out  nearby power lines - set off the Las Conchas (Los Alamos)  
fire. The fire advanced rapidly due to strong winds, a week later rains fell allowing firefighters to make giant strides in containing it. This is already the largest fire in NM history. As of this writing, the fire is still burning. Los Alamos residents have been able to return home as fire growth has slowed down.

According to NM forestry division reports, the last three of New Mexico’s largest forest fires have taken place in the past 10 years. According to the Christian Science Monitor(CSM), “While big fires have happened before in New Mexico, scientists see a recent pattern that may be the most severe since the last Ice Age. Among the causes: fuel buildup due to fire suppression, a decline in annual snowpack, and a warmer climate.” This was the conclusion of University of New Mexico geologist, Grant Meyer, who studies climate interaction and weather conditions. He said, part of it as well and the data is very good on this, “it's climatic warming – human industrial activity and land-use changes have pumped increasing amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

At the end of the day I say, “This is just doggone common sense” from CSM, “a long-term average decline in annual snow pack provides the bulk of the region's water, along with rising average temperatures means the fire season is longer and fuel is more dried out.” Who can argue with that?

Read my Examiner post on how a Taos citizen action effectively shut down a giant consumer fireworks sales tent.

Cedar Dog

 

 

 

 

If you missed the Pets Gone Green University (PGGU) class on pet nutrition Saturday June 18, 2011, "It was "paws-itively amazing, hands-on goodness; a treat for any human with cats and dogs," explained one Colorado attendee. 

"Our cats and dogs are in serious trouble," warned PGGU Distinguished Professor Kate Solisti. "A major reason for the increase in disease and early deaths is the toxic ingredients used in most commercial pet foods," the fiesty instructor explained.  Even "natural" or "premium" brands, she said, "do not provide the most important ingredient that our pet's bodies crave -- "raw, life force energy." Wheat Ridge, Colorado is home to Pets Gone Green University. 

Cedar Dog founder and chief visioning officer along with her transcriber Kathy Deitsch opened the meeting by explaining their eco-friendly agenda. Deitsch asked, "How many of you know your pet's impact on the earth, your impact on your pet's health (and your own), what you are going to do about it and who you will tell."

Deitsch laid out the courses of study currently being offered at PGGU. We have high quality instructors, leaders in the field wanting to teach here.  Solisti and Cedar Dog will make more news in coming months as they announce more break-through initiatives.

Deitsch reminded attendees that Cedar Dog's urban poop-to-power initiatives, research and leadership around diverting pet waste in plastic bags from landfills is cutting-edge. It is our intention said Cedar's transcriber, " to set the pace nationally, encouraging people to learn and use pet waste options; like flushing, composting, doggie in-ground septics, worm bins and bringing community digesters to your neighborhood. Remember too, high quality food in means less quantity out in the yard. We are totally committed to teaching "green principles and practices" at PGGU, said Deitsch. Pet parents need to know how to sort through the "how to be greener" challenges families face everyday.

Read more on instructor Solisti

 

 

I believe “our humans are clueless when it comes to knowing what to feed us.” Human companions, including pet food manufacturers expect us to love the dreadful stuff in our bowls.  Bottom line nourishing, high quality pet food will save hundreds of dollars on vet bills. That’s why I asked Professor Solisti to come on board and “tell it like it is; our people need the truth.”

In March, I named Kate Solisti, the first distinguished professor at Pets Gone Green University (PGGU). Solisti is an internationally known speaker, author, educator, and expert in dog and cat nutrition and an illustrious animal communicator. 

Below is a question and answer Mom and I did with PGGU professor Solosti:

Why are you teaching Cat & Dog Nutrition at PGGU?

Kate Solisti: Teaching dog & cat nutrition and introducing people to interspecies communication fits well with the mission of PGGU. Cedar's agenda is all about a healthy environment = healthy pets + educated guardians. I have been educating companion animal guardians for almost 20 years, which has made an impact on countless animal's lives.

 How is cat & dog nutrition an eco-agenda item?

Kate Solisti: Dog & Cat nutrition is "green" because I teach based on Nature's designs. I start with how dogs and cats are built to eat, next we look at what they are designed to eat and next we create the simplest, minimum waste meal plans as possible for each companion. Less waste in the meals = more useable nutrients = more absorption by the animals = less waste in the yard. I also share the reasons for and the importance of providing as many organic ingredients as possible.

How does good nutrition affect our pets?

Kate Solisti: Good nutrition is the foundation of health. Plain and simple. 75% of dog, cat and human immune systems are governed by the gut. What we eat and how well we absorb nutrients has a tremendous impact on our immune systems and therefore, our overall health. Without wholesome foods, healthy gut flora and receptive cells, our bodies weaken, become diseased and die prematurely.

 Why come to this course, what makes it different.

Kate Solisti: This course is different because of all the bases I cover. Students will leave with a working knowledge of their animal's digestive systems and their perfect design for specific foods. They will be able to intelligently discuss nutrition with their veterinarians so together, informed guardian and vet can make the best diet and treatment decisions for each animal for the lifetime of that animal. Guardians will receive knowledge to enable them to choose wholesome prepared foods, or to create balanced diets themselves with the ingredients best suited to their own animals. This course really should be part of every guardian's education.

Why would you miss this? Register Now, Early Worm registation still applies.

Woofs,  Cedar Dog