Canine Affinity

03/26/2022

Delta du Champ des Legendes (Captain d.C.d.L x Dominica d.C.d.L) shown at 7 weeks. Available to working home or family in Chicagoland Area.

03/13/2022

03/09/2022

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ATTENTION Pet Parents!

A chemical used in Milk-Bones, Ol’Roy, Kibbles’n Bits, Hill’s Pet Food and other pet foods should no longer be considered safe for consumption due to concerns about its ability to damage DNA according to a new animal-model study.

According to the Environmental Working Group: “A scientific panel created by the European Food Safety Authority found that titanium dioxide “can no longer be considered as safe when used as a food additive.” The panel, citing concerns about titanium dioxide’s genotoxicity, or its ability to damage DNA, based its conclusion on a review of hundreds of scientific studies. EWG called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly consider whether to ban titanium dioxide from use in food."

A chemical that may damage our pet's DNA should not be fed to pets.

Titanium dioxide is on The Forever Dog’s Dirty Dozen list of additives you need to avoid in your pet food. www.ForeverDog.com/about

03/07/2022

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Posted • Recent Study highlights that one of the most popular Flea & Tick treatments💦 in the world may negatively affect your pet’s behaviour.😾



Fipronil is an insecticide⚠️ and one of the most popular veterinary drugs used to control fleas and ticks🦟 and is available worldwide. Recently, researchers wanted to know why dogs & cats appeared to be restless and excited following fipronil administration, so they conducted a study which was published by Science Direct. The results are pretty alarming.



According to the scientists:



“The behavioral activation observed in the present study may be due to an increase in dopamine levels in the striatum. Therefore, we theorize that fipronil also affects emotional and cognitive behaviors in dogs and cats, particularly as many appear to be restless and excited following fipronil administration. 



However, the pharmacodynamics and neurotox- icity from the usage of fipronil as a veterinary drug has not been greatly explored. Neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, reproductive toxicity, and disruption of endocrine function have been reported in mice and rats after oral administration of fipronil. Additionally, fipronil is reported to affect their emotional and cognitive behaviors (Godinho et al., 2016; Terçariol and Godinho, 2011). In the above mentioned toxicity tests, the effects of fipronil on the nervous, circulatory, blood, and endocrine systems were verified. However, sufficient toxicity studies have not been conducted on the effects of fipronil on the emotional and cognitive behaviors of mammals.


The present study is a new approach to toxicity testing. Moreover, based on the results of our study, extrapolation to dogs and cats and further verification are necessary, particularly in understanding the ef-fects triggered via fipronil treatment on emotional and cognitive behaviors.”

Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004835752100078X?via%3Dihub

03/03/2022

Spring is Here, cheer up!

02/02/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaOT35_q518&t=132s
This is what Adrian has been up to since leaving Canine Affinity; Training advanced working dogs for service and for police. He also has introduced a new raw food called RaFoBa (raw food basics) available in Chicago. PM us for details on training availability, and dog nutrition.

This video is about how we work our dogs on a daily basis, they live to work, they live to please. Our dogs excel as family guardians and are trained to adap...

12/29/2021

Merry Christmas from me to all my friends from Canine Affinity!

11/25/2021

Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends and family. We have lots to be grateful for this season!

08/25/2021

Looking for a forever loving home, for one of our retired boxers. Please PM me for details and consideration.

07/06/2021

Keeping your dogs cool in July can be fun and makes a great bonding experience for you both.

02/26/2021

Happy Birthday to my pups who are 4 weeks old today!

02/18/2021

My Belgian Malinois named Krunch. Born in 1/21/20