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There is obviously more to our minds, pets included, than meets the eye. Inventors at times come up against the seemingly impossible. They are used to sleeping on it, and often can come up with a workable solution the next day. Some take a little longer. I’ve been there with Dog Master myself.

I’ll be commenting more on the practical use of our minds in future blog posts, like Transcendental Meditation ™, a technique that uses theta waves. It’s a very natural and effective way to combat stress.

Ok, back on topic. Some say that these animals have a special ability or gift of sorts. However that does not seem to be it entirely. In cases I have been able to examine, one factor stands out. In Oscar’s case it is his total absorption with life at this hospice. He came there as a tiny kitten and knows no other world. This seems to give him special powers.

This factor to most extents is found nearly in all such cases. In a case where a dog found his family again enven though they had moved away, they had prayed for and grieved for their lost pet, having raised him/her from a very young age. They had been very close and had never before been separated.

The same with Herb, the fire engine dalmatian. The firemen had cared for him ever since he was the smallest of puppies. He was always there at the fire station. They claimed to have had to, and I quote, ”carry him on his first fires because there was no one left at the station.”

There appears to be a factor of “total family” or mental dedicatoin here, all starting at a rather precise age. Drs. Scott and Fuller bear this out in their excellent book, “Genetics and the Social Behavior of the Dog.” Page 111 states: “the period of socialization is critical.” A puppy taken from the litter mates as early as 3 weeks and no later than the 49th day is quite certain to become “almost human.” I have found getting your puppy at 5-6 weeks works out very well, provided you can convince the breeder, and is an ideal start for your Dream Dog. These become the almost human, eager-to-learn, problem-free dogs.

-D.M.

Posted on August 28th, 2007 by dogmaste
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 Just by remembering, dreaming, loving well, I awoke one beautiful morning to my dream-come-true wife rubbing noses with me and giggling while showing me a tiny old dime. An old 1916D mercury dime that was not old at all comes to find out. Finally realizing that a not-so-old dime of the same era, something which I merely thought of as a keepsake from my boyhood in Wyoming, could itself be of considerable value, wow! Wonders never cease. She had seen it listed!

Now, my wife and I never before thought of ourselves as coin collectors, but. Due to a worldwide growth of our patents with our DOG-MASTER LEARNING SYSTEM, people would at times send us some coins with requests if we could accept “this old thing” as part of the payment.

My Pat’s pride and appreciation for a prospective orderer’s needs (often accompanied by detailed problems with their ”otherwise fine dog”) would of course have her accepting with “pay the rest later” or simply accepted “thank you and good luck.”

Most often these coins were of some bother because if taken to the bank they had to be evaluated one by one against the current coin-to-monetary schedule. So they were kept apart and “collected.” Turns out once in a while over the years, among the sheer volume would be one of outstanding value, like the Alexander the Great silver, circa 330 B.C., and a sea pirate’s treasure from the sunken Spanish galleon Santa Maria de la Consolacion.

A lot of those coins were contemporary European, now outmoded and devalued by the ”Euro,” and they were built into a wonderful, night-lit waterfall which we call The Fountain of Wishes and Dog-Master Memories, a pleasantry for others to view in front of my home. But the winged Liberty Head (Mercury Dime) first-issue 1916 Denver Mint, brilliant and uncirculated, is very special. No U.S. coin, large or small denomination, comes close to this tiny silver dime. It saw us through 2 world wars, a great depression, and a worldwide recovery!

I had put it away long ago realizing it was “new” but more likely because of memories. In my cow-boyhood days a dime had superior value. To me it was nearly everything. This tiny, diminutive dime could take me to my favorite movie. It could buy a whole meal, with a Coke! “Brother can you spare a dime?” of the 1930’s gives some feeling for The Great Depression. But even more that all that I felt I had let our milk cows, all of them, drown, and I was, yes, a failure. And yes, drowning with them, and would have, if not for a little American Shepherd named Bronzy. This dog frantically worked his utmost to save my life. As I was– I thought– dying there, seemingly growing larger in my failing vision was this mercury dime. Associated as it was with the cows whose milk would bring the family more mercury dimes. Not only that but the dime then was nearly PURE SILVER, and little known fact was that the silver in the dime when dropped in the milk would keep the milk from going sour, a daily reminder of its uncanny value.

My final (I thought) effort had been Bronzy’s paw to save me at the top of the ice, but I had realized I would only have pulled him in too, so I let go of his paw to save him. A memory that is clearer to this day than back then with all kinds of circuitries and applications, etc. One last thought was of my mother (she had recently died when I was 7 yrs old) teaching me bedtime prayers. I then voiced part of one:

“I pray to God my soul to keep…”

As Bronzy’s paw slipped from my fingers I was startled to realize that his front paw was now instantly his back paw! And with his claws dug into the ice, solidly enough for me to hold as I got my foot against a drowning cow, Bronzy inched forward, helping me pull up  over the ice, and out of that hellhole of struggling, drowning cows.

So! This tiny dime to me has more significance than any  $$$ signs now, and my Pat’s giggles were not for money alone but for the irony of it all since she knows only too well, all of this. A sort of prize, maybe.

-D.M.

Posted on July 30th, 2007 by dogmaste
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Konrad Lorenz loved animals even mankind. He wrote about dogs, their temperaments and relationships with man. A particular insight of his is worth its own in “Pearls of Thought: For Both Man and Dog.” It’s amazing how calming and unifying just “walking a strange way together” can be or do.

I certainly agree. I’ve successfully advised clients with Konrad Lorenz’s observations for some years now. It works wonders in developing the necessary relationships so helpful to dog-Masters. And—it works 100x better if you do so without that negative leash.

In the index of the DOG-MASTER SYSTEM book there is a topic called “Quiet Dog.” It’s a how-to for beginners, of course, because DOG-MASTER dogs just don’t seem to have those issues anymore. This sure is better than having your vet come up with today’s “pill solution.”

More than 10 million Americans take antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs—drugs that are known to cause mental and physical agitation, and spark self-destructive, violent behavior. SSRI’s are so hazardous that the FDA requires that they carry a warning that they increase suicidal thoughts in young people. These drugs can also induce dissociative reactions making those who take them insensitive to the consequences of their behavior.

We should alert ourselves and not think that because some doctor prescribes such meds they are OK. Everybody beware. In a certain percentage of people given these drugs, some of their side effects can actually cause the very problem they are prescribed to aid. Doctors are not always aware that a percentage of people are more than just vulnerable. Drug company salesmen do NOT sell side effects.

There is a growing body of medical knowledge literature, clinical observations linking these meds to thousands of suicides, murders, and assorted acts of brutality and violence. We must come to our senses. Dare me to list. School shootings, remember?

1. Blacksburg, VA – April 16, 2007: Seung-Hui Cho killed 33 with more than two dozen injured. Antidepressants were found among his effects.
   
2. Littleton, CO – April 20, 1999: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold terrorized Columbine High killing 13 and injuring 23. Harris was taking Luvox.
   
3. Red Lake Indian Reservation, MN – March 21, 2005: Jeffrey Weise killed his grandfather and his grandfather’s girlfriend, then continued at Red Lake High, killing 7 more people and wounding more than a dozen, including himself. He was on Prozac.
   
4. Springfield, OR – Kip Kinkel murdered his parents, proceeded to school killing 2 students and wounding more than 20. He too, was on Prozac.
   
5. Bailey, CO – September 27, 2006. Duane Morrison went into Platte Canyon High School, took 6 teenage girls hostage, sexually assaulted some of them, killed 1 and then himself. Antidepressants found in his jeep.

Another 6 brutal murders too gruesome to describe on top of all the above but of the family type, i.e. brother and sister murdered by siblings, mothers killing their children, a husband stabbing his wife of 50 years to death. One of them on Ritalin, Prozac, and Klonopin, one on Lexapro, one on Paxil, one on Prozac alone, and two on Zoloft.

I’m going to spare you readers from the rest of my list which I’ve been noting for some time. Suffice to say the headings were under arson, etc. and other bizarre behavior using the same drugs with the addition of Wellbutrin.

The Courts agree:

• North Port, FL – November 4, 2003. Larry Smith opened fire on a gas station. He was charged with attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and using violence on police while resisting arrest. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity due to being “involuntarily intoxicated” by his antidepressant medication.
   
• Santa Cruz, CA – June 20, 2002. Andrew Meyers viciously attacked his friend of many years using a brass-knuckle-type weapon. He was acquitted on grounds of adverse reaction to Zoloft.
   
• Spokane, WA – September 26, 1999. Sharon Curry stabbed her 8-yr old daughter to death then tried stabbing herself. She was acquitted by reason of insanity—jury agreed that her meds Paxil and Adderall caused drug-induced pscychosis.

I have more of this as I’ve said. You can also visit www.ssristories.com for more.

What should we all be doing?

These drugs are unnatural chemicals to the human body therefore unpredictable. Also they all are prescribed for symptoms and do not attain nor deal with the real causes. They do not go far enough to the source of whatever the problem is. Therefore at best they only sustain and not cure.

Choose holistic doctors who do not stop with the symptoms but look at the whole body and the real cause. A holistic M.D. will start with the cause and first use NATURAL, body-friendly medication.

One last word on paranoia. Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 33 (including himself) at Virginia Tech, lacked ever having learned to form a relationship. He is a classic case of paranoia. What a God-given solution to this whole grotesque oddity is our best friend the dog. Have you noticed, dog is God spelled backwards? As Konrad Lorenz aptly puts it, an “enjoyable walk in a strange way together,” meaning, a new road taken together, not before, emphasizing new discoveries together, enjoying and developing a relationship.

The frightening lack of this ability can haunt one for life. Being a loner is a number one cause of paranoia, a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions of either grandeur or persecution, often with an otherwise relatively intact personality.

It’s the relatively intact personality that can fool doctors. The term “paranoid” should not be used loosely as it can make the situation seem almost usual or normal. Often the victim is not recognized as dangerous, and a drug’s side effects can tip the scales toward a scenario of persecution, followed by a calculated “defense” or “payback.”

The horrific aftermath of Blacksburg, VA should motivate us enough. Hope I’ve helped. Three words worth mentioning: RELATIONSHIP. HOLISTIC. NATURAL.

Thanks for listening!

-D.M.