Dog

Humans and animals can get probiotics from certain foods, like fermented foods, or by taking a probiotic supplement. Commercial dog foods don't contain ...

A tablespoonful of one of these foods in your dog’s food will help seed their gut with probiotic bacteria that they don’t get from commercial dog foods. - “Clinical effect of probiotics in prevention or treatment of gastrointestinal disease in dogs: A systematic review” by Anders P. Dogs that eat commercial dog foods can easily suffer from constipation, diarrhea and other bowel problems and these foods don’t contain probiotics for gut health. Your dog may benefit from a probiotic, especially if they have digestive issues, but choose their probiotic wisely to ensure it contains viable organisms. One concern about the available dog probiotics is whether the bacteria survive in high enough quantities during storage to be of benefit. And when you have a dog in your home, you have the added worry of ensuring that there is a proper balance of bacteria in all that fur. Since 70% or more of a dog’s immune system (and a human’s immune system) is in their gut, probiotics could be beneficial for maintaining immune and digestive balance. Also, probiotics during antibiotic therapy may reduce the incidence of diarrhea, a common side effect of antibiotics. Veterinarians also point out that giving a probiotic to a dog during stressful times, such as boarding, may be of benefit since stress can cause disruptions in the gut microbiome and gut health. Humans and animals can get probiotics from certain foods, like fermented foods, or by taking a probiotic supplement. So, dogs don’t get many of these friendly bacteria if they eat a diet of commercial dog food. While pet probiotics aren’t as popular as their human counterparts, you can still find a wealth of probiotics made for dogs.

With a program of performances, the event and includes education on responsible dog and pet ownership and adoption, as well as agility demonstrations, training ...

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Nonhuman-human relationships shape and are shaped by nation, race, colonialism, gender, and sexuality. Structural violences that harm humans also harm the ...

[racism](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/bias) inform the idealized [adoptive family](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/adoption)-home central to these spaces. If we understand justice as practices and ways of thinking that dismantle structural violences and build better worlds, my hope is that, by questioning the class and racial norms that subtend the moniker “bad dog” and, more materially, by promoting practices such as free veterinary-behavior clinics or force-free shelter playgroups, we can begin to build towards a multi-species justice. Drawing from the increasingly contentious world of human-dog politics and featuring rich ethnographic research among dogs and their advocates, Bad Dog explores how relationships between humans and animals not only reflect but actively shape experiences of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, nation, breed, and species. Queer-of-color critiques of heteronormativity as policing not just overtly gay-queer behavior, but also behavior by straight-reading folks of color—for example, Cathy Cohen’s writing about the Reagan-era rendering of the supposed “welfare queen” as a threat to be controlled by incentivizing [marriage](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/marriage) and long-term birth control or sterilization, aka eugenics—shaped my understanding of how the structural violence that harm humans also harm the animals we live with. [book](https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Dog-Politics-Multispecies-Technosciences/dp/0295748028/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39CNK300NG0BQ&keywords=harlan+weaver+bad+dog&qid=1663516110&sprefix=harlan+weaver+bad+dog%2Caps%2C157&sr=8-1) Bad Dog: Pit Bull [Politics](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/politics) and Multispecies Justice.1 And I realized that my knowledge of dogs who are called "bad" is extremely limited. [testosterone](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/testosterone) and began to read as not-woman but not quite male. Perhaps it’s impractical, but I am actually hopeful that we can build a world where “bad dogs” won’t emerge as such in the first place. More generally, there isn’t enough writing that connects what seem to be human-specific social justice questions to our relationships with nonhuman animals, especially when the relationships in question are about living together rather than eating—I hope my contribution can help change that. cities) join imaginings of what a world where shelters are not necessary would look and feel like. The book’s first chapter is definitely in this category; in it, I examine the saviorism driving rescue and shelter work and ask readers to consider how colonialism and Prior to the project—funded by the NSF in its first year—I had volunteered at a number of shelters, which I expanded into ethnographic research in both shelter and rescue worlds. These experiences made me realize that, at times, “my” gender was made possible by Haley, while her experience of breed was shaped by her connection (or lack thereof) to me.