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H3N8 Fatal Canine Flu ‘ALERT’ for All Dog Owners in All States

Dogs have no natural immunity to the virus, virtually every animal exposed will be infected.

United States, July 2, 2009 (NationalDogPress.com) –

This is a reemerging pathogen in 2009 of a potentially dangerous canine flu called H3N8, and there is very little information to make predictions about it’s potential spread through the USA at this time. And it appears that the fatality rate is between 1 and 10 percent.

This deadly H3N8 canine flu has been making family domestic dogs and also racing greyhounds ill in the USA. It is known by experts to have jumped from horses in a “very rare event,” say scientists.

Dogs have no natural immunity to the virus, and virtually every animal exposed will be infected. About 80 percent of dogs that are infected with the virus will develop some symptoms, the symptoms are often mistaken for “kennel cough,” a common canine illness that is caused by the bordetella bronchiseptica bacteria.

Both diseases can cause coughing and gagging for up to three weeks, but dogs with canine flu may have fevers as high as 106 degrees and runny noses. A few will develop pneumonia, which is sometimes fatal. Antibiotics and fluid cut the pneumonia fatality rate. The virus is an H3N8 flu closely related to an equine flu strain. It is not related to a typical human flu or to the H5N1 avian flu.

Experts said there are no known cases of the canine flu infecting humans. The risk of that is low. Local veterinary health experts agree.

Still, the reaction for canine’s getting this flu can be acute.

But with the human flu season and fears about the recent pandemic human flu scares in the media there is much confusion among some dog-owners who have heard of this canine flu disease.

Just because there is currently a lack of the H3N8 canine flu cases in your city, county and state areas, is no reason for dog people to overreact, or under react to visible symptoms of a dog coughing. It also means dog owners and vets should be aware its out there in the USA, and could strike any area of the USA at any time in the near future.

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by Dean A. Ayers
Lead Investigative Reporter
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Email: Dogpressorg@aol.com

Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News ©, and DogPress.org news press services.

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A welcomed dog’s life from a chick lesson
1
07
2009
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A welcomed dog’s life from a chick lesson

GLENWOOD, Iowa, 1 July 09 (NationalDogPress.com) –

As Lead Investigative Reporter of the ‘National Dog Press,’ I am very upset by the things I see going on in our country right now. Animals are much more then a food supply too many people and it would be a crime to separate the people from the animals.

I also think it is a crime that even owning a dog is becoming a right reserved for the rich. When I was a child I was so lucky that we lived on a farm. My life as with many people was not a pleasant one, and my life as a child growing up was presented with many of life’s challenges. I mostly spent my free time staying in the barn and it was there that I learned from the animals behavior, many of the better qualities that people are supposed to excel at but so often don’t.

The one thing that kept me from losing faith and hope in this life, when I was a child was my love for our animals. As an adult I still feel that same love and concern for all our animals. I also am very sad when I think that there must be other children who really want and need a pet but are unable to have one these days due to all the rules that are being put in place.

A while back I wanted to get a purebred dog and thought I would help out and get one from a rescue group on the internet. Ha! I quickly found out that it would be easier to get a foster child with all the hoops they required you to jump through first. I think that is wrong.

I then searched to “buy” a purebred dog but quickly realized every breeder I spoke with, wanted you to pay a fortune for one and then sign a contract saying you will spay/neuter it or else they retain partial ownership of it. That is just plain not right either. What gives them the right to infringe upon my pet ownership freedom and liberty, wanting to be a responsible pet owner?

Not hurting anyone (people or animal).

I was disappointed with this type of animal sale contract, because I actually wanted to let my little dog have a litter of puppies which I planned on keeping. I wanted a litter of puppies which would have a guaranteed home as long as I lived, so then what is the crime?

I finally ended up getting a male and female mixed breed dog that I will breed and enjoy watching my little dog’s family grow, in my responsible pet owner’s home, for years to come, without having to be put through the “grinder” of many so-called “humane” animal rescue facilities, that seemingly put a human thru “unreasonable and inhumane” treatment of the person wanting to adopt a pet, just to take a good dog or pet home to love and care for. At least these mutt puppies I bring into the world will be healthy and well cared for.

Even though I am not paying some group to list their birth or their lineage (which is basically unknown) the dogs will still lick my hand, and give me the same love and affection, that I have for these mixed dogs.

I was lucky to be able to afford to buy these mixed dogs, as I am on a fixed income, (not government support income mind you), but an actual job working income, that does not go too far.

While I was shopping at a local store for material to make little doggy coats (as my kids grew up and left – I now take care of my mixed puppies, as my extended family, in my home), the lady at the checkout register told me that her 2 granddaughters had been wanting a puppy for several years but couldn’t have one. She said they lived in an apartment and could not afford to buy a small dog for the “excessively high prices” or more, in ownership spay/neuter contracts that these animal shelters and breeder sellers go for, due to all the new legislations and restrictions being placed upon them, by animal rights groups and “their” Legislators.

I thought that was really sad. The very children who would most benefit from having a dog can’t have one. I don’t suppose they have money for a lot of things that wealthier families can give to their children (lessons, Xboxes, ipods, vacations, clothes, toys). It seems now days, that love, devotion, and responsibility, in owning a pet, is “now” based upon a person’s profit, in income, and expenses in Vet Bills, to prove you “love” the pet animal, not in actual love, kindness, and charity to the pet itself, on a daily basis.

Having a little dog, mixed or pure breed, would mean a lot to kids, thanks to PETA, the Humane Society, Animal Rights Rescue Groups, Animal Rights Legislators, and Breeders caught up in pandering to all these Legislators to try and remain “exempt” from their laws, thru outrageous fees, and maintenance costs, pushes the dog’s purchase price completely out of that families reach, that would “most benefit” from owning a pet dog. I think that is tragic.

I have seriously considered finding that woman again and giving her one of my puppies if and when I get some. Some how I don’t think a person’s ability to pay almost 2 weeks salary for a dog reflects whether they would be a good owner.

Hopefully the efforts of people such as you in Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom will help enable more families like that one to enjoy and learn about life and nature from a dog, or any other pet.

Finally I would like to share with you a true story of one of the ‘lessons’ I learned while growing up in that barn, when I grew up.

I call it ‘the chicken lesson’.

I remember I had suffered through a terrible day and I was mad at the whole world.

I hated everyone that day. I wanted everyone in the world to just leave me alone and go away. It was a bad day for me, needless to say. I was exhausted and I just wanted to sleep and forget about everything for a while but I still had several hours of chores to do before I could rest.

The wind was blowing hard and it was raining sideways. It was so cold the rain was freezing on what ever it hit. Before I got to the first barn I was soaked to the skin and cold. My hair was wet and hanging in frozen strands that clinked like wind chimes when I moved. My canvas tennis shoes were soaked and my toes hurt. My mood got worse with every painful step I took.

I went to the small barn first to feed the horses that lived in that field. That was also where the ‘reject’ chickens lived. The chickens that for one reason or another couldn’t compete with the main flock that stayed around the house and at the big barn.

They survived by picking up the grain that dribbled from the horses mouths as they ate. At that time a hen had made a nest in the corner and had hatched some chicks a couple days before. The barn consisted of an enclosed feed storage area and a covered 3 sided area that the animals could use as they wished. This open area was clearly visible from the house and other barn. I fed the horses under the shed and noticed the chicks bumbling around under the horses hooves for food.

The hen was leading them into danger in her rush to get something to eat. She was big enough and smart enough to move but the chicks weren’t. I decided to toss them an extra handful of grain off to the side. I tried to drop it when the hen was looking but she didn’t see me and she kept going to the horses.

I decided to try to herd her to the grain but she thought I was going to hurt her babies and went into panic mod. She called them and started taking them out side into that freezing rain and around the corner. I tossed another handful of grain down but she still didn’t see.

I tried to run her back but she just went all the faster and took the chicks out clear around the corner and to the other side of the barn.

I was still mad, tired, wet and cold, and I thought “fine you stupid chicken- go with out food! Let your chicks get all wet and freeze to death. At that moment, AI was in so much distress, from being exhausted and having a bad day, and being mad, that I thought to myself, I don’t care!”

One of the permanent rejects at the small barn was one big and very old red rooster and I consoled myself with the thought that he had at least seen the grain I had thrown down and was enjoying it even if the hen was too stupid to know who her friends were.

It was at about this time that the rooster started making a bunch of noise and hopping up and down flapping his wings like chickens do when they are excited because they found something good to eat. I couldn’t believe it! I thought what a stupid idiot he was.

He was wet and cold and hungry and he had food but he was squawking and telling the whole world about it. If he didn’t shut up the other chickens would see and come and chase him from the grain pile and he would get nothing.

I was watching him in disgust when I noticed he was doing something even stupider, or so I thought. He was picking the grain up but then he would drop it back into the pile. And all the while he is making noise and jumping up and down. I knew that old rooster was hungry so why wasn’t he eating I wondered? This was very strange to me as I had never seen a chicken play with its food before.

At that moment, I forgot to being mad at the misery in my own life, and watched to see what would the crazy bird would do next. He kept picking up the grain and dropping it as I watched. It seemed he never actually swallowed any. I was waiting for the other chickens to see and come running but before they did, here came the hen cautiously leading her chicks around the corner of the barn.

The poor little chicks were all wet and miserable so I didn’t move because I didn’t want to spook them back out into the rain. As I watched I slowly realized what the rooster was doing. The rooster kept picking up the grain and dropping it and calling.

Finally the nervous hen noticed him and saw the grain. She rushed over with her chicks to the feed and when she did the old rooster, who had never swallowed a bite, moved back out of the way to let them eat. He stood there with his wet frozen feathers dropping from the rain and ice and watched over them as they ate.

I stood in awe of that chicken.

Suddenly I didn’t feel cold and mad at life, anymore, but I felt a warm feeling instead and I just knowing, in my soul, that if God could make an even chicken with that much love and compassion for others that he must have also placed some loving kind humans into the world also.

That was the last time that I ever got mad at the misery in my life, feeling sorry for myself. Now when I get to thinking the world is a terrible place I just remember that old red rooster and I stand corrected.

That was one of the lessons I learned from the animals and one of the many reasons I think it is very important for people, especially children, to be with pets and animals. So let me thank you and thank Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom again for all the ‘flapping and calling’ you all do. It really does mean a lot to me as Director of this powerful and honorable National Organization.

I say, “Never under-estimate the power of one.” “That’s YOU!” ~ Dean A. Ayers’ Quote.

Copyright © 2006-2009, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization, All Rights Reserved

Article by Dean A. Ayers
Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Dean A. Ayers is a prior United States Air Force Special Agent for the AFOSI. His duties included that of law enforcement specialist, criminal, fraud, and counter-intelligence. He was assigned to felony crimes in federal government, fraud, waste and abuse investigations of the military branches of service, and counter-intelligence in overseas locations. Dean was also a former Texas State Commissioned Alamo State Park Armed Ranger.

Dean is currently Director, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization and Dean is also a Lead Investigative Reporter for the NationalDogPress.com Headline News ©, and DogPress.org news press services.

Fair Use Notice: Pursuant to Title 17 U.S.C. 107, other copyrighted work is provided for educational purposes, research, critical comment, or debate without profit or payment. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for your own purposes beyond the ‘fair use’ exception, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

Legal Disclaimer: The information, articles, or links (posted, embedded or otherwise) to the above postings are provided to give readers more information on general dog-related or associated subjects and are not intended as legal advice. All individuals are urged to contact licensed attorneys in their states regarding specific legal issues.

Copyright © 2006-2009, Animals C.L.U.B.- Freedom National Organization, All Rights Reserved