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		<title>Problematic Trends and Obstacles to Adaptive Coping and Attunement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to avoiding training procedures that are needlessly aversive, cynopraxic trainers avoid procedures that intrude excessively upon a dog&#8217;s freedom incentive (see Hydran-Protean Side Effects, the Dead-dog Rule, and the LIMA Principle). Training efforts that inappropriately restrict a dog&#8217;s ability to initiate goal-directed behavior not only adversely impact the dog&#8217;s quality-of-life but often do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pharmacological Control of Behavior</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, the introduction of a medical model of dog behavior has led some practitioners to treat adjustment problems as mental disorders having physical causes and often to emphasize the role of disease as the underlying cause of behavior problems. Although the medical model is not entirely without merit, as some valid parallels exist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cynopraxis: Allostasis, Adaptability, and Health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At every step in a dog&#8217;s ontogeny, predictive relations are refined and integrated into a base of genetic and experiential prior knowledge. These predictive relations are organized to promote stability through change, referred to as allostasis. Allostatic adjustments enable dogs to anticipate and avoid future risks to stability, thus enhancing adaptive efficiency by responding to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hydran-Protean Side Effects, the Dead-dog Rule, and the LIMA Principle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aversive procedures are legitimate and valuable tools for controlling undesirable behavior, but such techniques can be rapidly debauched into a form that substantially complicates matters. Technically, punishment results when established control expectancies are discontinued, for example, when the trainer discontinues an attractive or aversive contingency. Punishment occurs when the dog recognizes that some previously successful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scoop on Dog Food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[^ Knowing how much protein, carbohydrates, and fats your dog needs ^ Making sure that your dog is getting the right amount of vitamins and minerals ^ Getting an inside look at how your dog&#8217;s food is made ^ Checking out organic options Dogs are carnivores — meat eaters. Their teeth are shaped for biting, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proteins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proteins are the most critical component of food for your canine carnivore. They are also the most abundant component of your dog&#8217;s body. Your dog needs proteins to produce hair, nails, tendons, cartilage, and all the connective tissues that support the rest of the tissues and organs in her body. Adequate protein is important for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A brief history of dog food</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before the late 19th century, there was no such thing as prepared dog food. Lucky dogs owned by the well-to-do ate the leftovers from their owners&#8217; dinners, and street dogs aplenty canvassed the alleys, scrounging in the trash. In the 1870s, a time when transportation literally used horse power, a European entrepreneur devised a unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fats are the major source of energy for dogs. Dogs who live outdoors in the cold need more fat to supply them with the energy to keep warm. And police dogs and working dogs need enough fat so they don&#8217;t have to get their energy from carbohydrate or protein supplies. But fats do more than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cynologist.com/index.php/dog-nutrition/fats</link>
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		<title>Vitamins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dogs require 14 different vitamins. With only a few exceptions, dogs don&#8217;t make the vitamins themselves, which means they must get these vitamins in their food. Vitamins participate in numerous chemical reactions that help to release the needed nutrients from food and help the dog&#8217;s body put those nutrients to use. Vitamins can be either [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minerals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Minerals are present in small amounts in the tissues of all living things. Teeth, bones, muscles, and nerves have especially high mineral content. Although the AAFCO provides guidelines for the minimum amounts of minerals necessary for canine growth and development, each dog&#8217;s mineral requirements depend on the current nutritional state. For example, if a dog [...]]]></description>
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