Clicker Training Guide
Want to learn more about clicker/marker training? We put together a training video for you to watch, as well as a downloadable document to read.
Exercise, Breeding, Health and Longevity
- Maternal methyl supplements in mice affect epigenetic variation and DNA methylation of offspring. 2002. Cooney CA, AA Dave and GL Wolff. One of the early agouti mice studies showing that focusing on optimal prenatal supplementation with methyl donors, such as folate, vitamin B12, methionine, betaine, and choline, increases longevity and improves health over minimal prenatal dosing.
- Nutrition and fertility in ruminant livestock. 2005. Robinson JJ, CJ Ashworth, et al. Nutrition affects fertility in many ways, including the formation of fetal gonads and their post-natal development, the timing of puberty, and ovulation rates.
- Nutritional influences on breeding dynamics in elk. 2001. Cook RC, DL Murray, et al. This study suggests that low amounts of food available to elk cows affects pregnancy rates by preventing estrus and ovulation rather than by inducing early-embryo mortality.
Exercise and Fertility
- Exercise affects both ovarian follicular dynamics and hormone concentrations in mares. 2011. Kelleya DE, JR Gibbons, et al. This study also shows a detrimental effect of moderate exercise on mares prior to ovulation. More support for a focused, limited exercise program for our bitches prior to coming in season.
- Embryo recovery from exercised mares. 2009. Mortensena CJ, YH Choib, et al. This research indicates that exercise can negatively affect fertility. Exercising mares in a hot and humid environment are reduce ovarian follicle development ovulation. Environmental conditions matter when we are exercising our bitches prior to estrus.
Body Condition, Weight & Fertility
- Exceptional longevity in female Rottweiler dogs is not encumbered by investment in reproduction. S. S. Kengeri & A. H. Maras & C. L. Suckow & E. C. Chiang & D. J. Waters
Pre-reproductive maternal enrichment influences offspring developmental trajectories: motor behavior and neurotrophin expression Paola Caporali, Debora Cutuli, Francesca Gelfo, Daniela Laricchiuta, Francesca Foti, Paola De Bartolo Laura Mancini, Francesco Angelucci and Laura Petrosini - The Prenatal Development of the Dog: Preimplantation EventsBiology of Reproduction, October 1, 1971, vol. 5 no. 2 194-206, P. A. HOLST and R. D. PHEMISTER
- Facilitative effects of maternal environmental enrichment on maze learning in rat offspring S.Kiyono, M.L.Seo, M.Shibagaki, M. Inouye
- Maternal enrichment affects prenatal hippocampal proliferation and open-field behaviors in female offspring miceTakashi Maruoka, Ikuko Kodomari, Rena Yamauchi, Etsuko Wada, Keiji Wada
- POLLUTED PETS High Levels of Toxic Industrial Chemicals Contaminate Cats And Dogs by Environmental Working Group EWG
Male Fertility
- A Preliminary Comparison of Semen Quality between Competing and Non-Competing Equine Stallions Megan Wilson and Anke Twigg-Flesner*
- Sperm DNA fragmentation: paternal effect on early post-implantation embryo development in ART A. Borini, N. Tarozzi, D. Bizzaro, L. Fava, C. Flamigni, G. Coticchio
- Impact of Body Mass Index Values on Sperm Quantity and Quality Hilton I. Kort, Joe B. Massey, Carlene W. Elsner, Dorothy Mitchell‐Leef, Daniel B. Shapiro, Michael A. Witt, William E. Roudebush
- The effect of obesity on sperm disorders and male infertility Stefan S. Du Plessis, Stephanie Cabler, Debra A. McAlister, Edmund Sabanegh & Ashok
- Body mass index in relation to semen quality and reproductive hormones among 1,558 Danish men Tina Kold Jensen, M.D., Ph.D, Anne-Maria Andersson, Ph.D., , Niels Jørgensen, M.D., Ph.D., Anne-Grethe Andersen, M.D., Ph.D.,a, Elisabeth Carlsen, M.D.,a, J.ørgen Holm Petersen, Ph.D.,a, c, Niels E. Skakkebæk, M.D.
- The role of oxidative stress and antioxidants in male fertility Renata Walczak–Jedrzejowska,1 Jan Karol Wolski,2,3 and Jolanta Slowikowska–Hilczer
- Effect of dietary supplementation with omega-3 and –6 on fresh and frozen/thawed sperm quality of dogs
- Influence of a dietary supplementation on the semen quality and endocrine functionality in the dog breeding
Pregnancy and Pseudopregnancy
- Effects on pseudopregnancy, pregnancy and interoestrous intervals of pharmacological suppression of prolactin secretion in female dogs and cats Jöchle W1, Arbeiter K, Post K, Ballabio R, D’Ver AS.
- Body condition during pregnancy and lactation and reproductive efficiency of mares ☆ D.R. Henneke, G.D. Potter, J.L. Kreider
- Embryo development, hormonal requirements and maternal responses during canine pregnancy.Journal of Reproduction and Fertility. Supplement [2001, 57:169-179], Concannon P, Tsutsui T, Shille V.
- Treatment of pseudopregnancy in the bitch with cabergoline, an ergoline derivative K. ARBEITER, W. BRASS, R. BALLABIO, W. JÖ
Lactation
Puppy Vaccination Protocols
Assessment of Body Condition Video
Weight Loss
Weight Loss Strategies Video
Skills Activity Training
Nutrition By Stage
