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Living in Wales, John is an experienced Direct Marketing manager and webmaster, as well as a published author.

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  • How Do You Best Feed an Active Dog?
    [Pets:Dogs] Basic requirements for an active diet for working dogs are simple - a food containing balanced quantities of protein, fats and carbohydrates. It's the same for all dogs, whether they are active or not - but it's the percentages that need to alter and that's when life can get complicated!


  • Are Specialist Pet Foods Really Worth The Extra Cost?
    [Pets] Consider this; as a dog owner I buy what is called a 'complete pet food' by which I am given to understand that this balanced food contains all the necessary ingredients and nutrients to keep my pet in the finest of health. Let me emphasize that fact - it contains ALL the necessary nutrients required, as defined by best current scientific knowledge.


  • Pet Food - Save Money Without Sacrificing Quality
    [Pets] Do you sometimes wonder at the cost of pet food, and think that maybe it ought to be considerably cheaper? Well there are ways in which you can keep the same level of quality but reduce the costs!


  • Why Does Some Pet Food Cost So Much?
    [Pets] In the UK you can buy a 15kg bag of dog food for £9.99, or you could dig deeper into your wallet and pay £41 for another brand. So why should we pay up to 400% more for a bag of food - is it justified?


  • Let's Hear It For Real Pet Food!
    [Pets] Let's hear it for a sensible approach to the nutrition of our pets. Three cheers for companies who refuse to go down the route of adding novel chemicals and nutrichemicals to their food just for the sake of it. I want to feed my pets food not chemicals. If the ingredients are not good enough and complete by themselves then why not get that right first before supplementing the diet with unnecessary things.


  • A Overweight Pet Is Not A Healthy Pet
    [Pets] The simple fact is that, in general, we are feeding our pets too much, or food that is not appropriate - and both they and we are not getting enough exercise. The cause of obesity is that the animal is eating more than it requires, the excess is stored as fat, and the animal becomes overweight.


  • That Pet Food Ingredient List
    [Pets] The ingredients list on the label is where the pet owner makes up his or her mind about whether they like what they read. Those who do or do not want to feed a certain ingredient can look to make sure it is included or excluded.


  • Is a Vegetarian Det Appropriate For Dogs?
    [Pets:Dogs] Feeding a vegetarian food to your dog is a personal decision probably decided because of your own personal preferences. the Vegetarian Society has a lot of information on feeding a veggie diet to your dog, particularly how to ensure the basic nutrients are provided. They suggest that if your dog has been brought up on a meat diet, make the changeover to a vegetarian diet gradual.


  • Are Pet Food Feeding Trials Essential?
    [Pets] In the course of a year many new dog and cat food products will be launched onto the pet food market. Some of these will be manufactured by the big boys, Masterfoods or Nestle Purina, who will conduct scientific feeding trials, but others come from small companies who really are just marketing and distributing and cannot afford such trials.


  • How Sensible Is Cooking Your Own Dog Or Cat Food?
    [Pets] The first thing to remember when considering home cooking for your pet is the simple truth that you are NOT cooking for a person, you are cooking for an animal - that might seem obvious, but so many pet owners treat their pets as if they were children. Dogs, cats and people have different nutritional needs and some foods which are fine for you can be dangerous to them - you must take this into consideration. Some pet owners begin feeding home cooked food because they find that their pet ...


  • Does Convenience Dictate our Choice of Petfood?
    [Pets] The basic choice we have when we look for a petfood for our dog or cat is whether to go for a dry complete mix, or a moist/canned food. The main criteria to consider are the place you shop, how much money you would like to spend and the level of convenience, palatability and digestibility desired.


  • Raw Feeding of Dogs
    [Pets:Dogs] The philosophy behind using BARF is that the diet a dog or cat evolved to eat - over many millions of years of evolution - is the best way to feed it. If you want to feed your dog BARF, it means not feeding your dog cooked and or processed food. That is, not feeding your dog a diet based on cooked grains.


  • Is Holistic Pet Food Just Marketing Hype?
    [Pets] It doesn't seem that long ago that there were only a couple of pet foods on the shelves of pet stores and supermarkets that labelled themselves as 'Holistic'. Now pet shops are full of foods calling themselves holistic, and even one that implies that there are holistic pets - so what do manufacturers mean by 'Holistic' and are there any regulations governing these products?


  • What is a Super Premium Pet Food?
    [Pets:Dogs] Here's an interesting question, just what is a premium or super premium food and why does a brand use this description, other than to justify charging more for its products? We're told by one manufacturer that Nutro Products, Inc. has been a leader in natural, super premium dog and cat food for over 80 years but they don't tell us what they mean by 'super-premium'.


  • The Celtic Influence - Its Relevance For Today
    [News-and-Society:Religion] It matters not whether we can claim Celtic roots or not, it is within the scope of all of us to look at the landscape with spiritual as well as physical eyes, and begin to appreciate it for what it is and for the way that it influences our understanding both of ourselves and our Creator.


  • Understanding Our Spiritual Heritage - The Celts
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Although our understanding of Christianity and organised faith in these early years is hazy and open to interpretation, we do have the evidence of some written work that is contemporary. Of all the classic writings that have been handed down to us one of the most important is the Confession of St. Patrick. This reveals a mind steeped in the Scriptures, affecting his every thought and action even to the mundane tasks of everyday life.


  • Understanding Prayer - A Celtic Viewpoint
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Prayer can take many forms, and encompass the whole range of poetic and literary styles. It can be a cry for help or a cry of joy. It can be a single word or a symphony of prose.


  • How To Write Prayers
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] In its simplest definition prayer is a conversation between the one who is praying and the one to whom those prayers is directed. For the writer this must always be taken into account.


  • Prayers - The Building Blocks
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] If we are going to be creative in our prayer time then I do not feel that there should be too many hard and fast rules about the format and content. We are all individuals with our own thoughts about style and content, and this 'individuality ' can bring a freshness and vitality into a time spent talking and listening to God.


  • The Celtic Church And Worship
    [News-and-Society:Religion] There are some lovely prayers that have survived from the fledgling Church. In the Didache (a first or second century Christian treatise on Church practice) comes this prayer. 'Just as the bread broken was scattered on the hills, then was gathered and became one, so let your Church be gathered from all the ends of the earth into your kingdom, for yours is the glory and power through all ages.'


  • Search Engine Optimization - Let's Get Ethical
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Ok, there's a lot of companies out there offering you an easy ride to the top ten! But, and it's a big BUT some search engine optimization companies use unethical and often devious tricks to artificially boost the search engine rankings of a web site.


  • How Do Search Engines Work?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Search-Engine-Marketing] Well, there is more than one type of search engine technically. There are those such as Google that automatically crawl through the internet and there are human powered directories (Humans still have their uses and the Open Directory Project is an example, where real people review a listing)


  • Search Engine History
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Site-Promotion] The whole internet owes its origins to work done for the US military in the 1960s, but it wasn't until the 1990s that the first search engines appeared. The first search engine created seems to have been Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The original intention of the name was "archives," but it was then shortened to Archie.




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