Dedicated to honoring the spiritual link between mankind and man's best friend.

Scooter is showing you our prayer blankets for your pet. Take a  look on his page for more details.

The last few months have been really busy with a few adoptions among other things in preparing for the winter weather. Please visit the "Dogs" page for updates on my rescue Bullies. 

The upcoming holiday seasons are a reminder of all we have to be thankful for and gives us the opportunity to reflect on where we've been and where we're going. Having the opportunity to help dogs in need as well as their people, I feel blessed. My reward is in the eyes and hearts of the dogs as they head out to their new home with their own human companion. I'm proud to have been a stopping point and a much needed resting point for them to gather up their own God given dog energy and provide as well as recieve  mutual respect as I believe we are all meant to experience.  

God Bless you and the dog in your life. !

        Have I forgotten to hear the whispers on the wind and acknowledge my fellow creatures as they seek to enlighten me ?                                      Jamie Sams             

I feel that there is an urgent need for society to gain a better understanding of the relationship we have with our closest animal ally, the dog. While this may not be news to some or most of you, I have a misison to help people help dogs. We manipulate and shape the canine species to fit our own needs, yet seem to lack the compassion and understanding to fulfill their needs. Dogs fill many voids in the lives of human beings, many by their own choices, some we insist on ,against their nature.

Anti-dog legislation is rampant throughout our great country, shelters are full, and millions of dogs are intentionaly killed.

I don't have all the answers, but wish I did. However, if one person can gain knowledge and save their dog from the shelter or being "euthanized" ( the more delicate term for killed ) then we may be making progress to protect the future of man's best friend.

Understanding the true nature of dogs and interacting with them in a respectful way,  providing their emotional and mental needs, can restore the peaceful co-existance we have enjoyed for thousands of years. Unfortunately, we have failed in our understanding and compassion, and instead adopted the popular thinking that dogs must be dominated.

We were givin dominion over the entire animal kingdom, meaning to care for and be responsible for. Millions of dogs are killed each year across our United States, a large majority being owner surrendered due to behavior problems. By an adolecent age of 6-18 months, a puppy with no training or improper training will begin to display his or her will power. This can manifest as dominance, aggression, or hyperactivity among other disturbing behaviors. The common scenario is that the dog carries the blame for acting like a dog because the owner has shirked the responsibility to resepectfully train their dog.

Dogs provide an ideal prototype for the study of behavior in humans because they, like humans, are genetically social animals. Equally important, dogs are unique in their willingness to seek a bond of servitude with humans as strongly as with members of their own species. This trait makes them analogous to young children, at least in all the essential ways in which we need to understand the effects of early environmental conditioning.

" I have had a long, thirty-year friendship with an experienced dog trainer, William Meisterfeld, who has a kennel in Petaluma, California. For years I was impressed by his ability to take vicious dogs, and over a relatively small number of weeks convert them into friendly and obedient pets. I wondered if what he was doing could be applied to the raising of children since much of my practice, then, consisted of hyper-aggressive and rebellious children.

He began to refer the dog owners to me because we observed that these clients were having the same problems with their own children as they were having with their pet dogs. They all complained of having "no control" over their children’s behavior. Out of my conversation with Mr. Meisterfeld, I found that I could simplify the numerous theories and massive literature on child rearing and training into a few basic principles that work with consistent and dramatic effectiveness.(For both dogs and children; )

Discipline, to be effective, must be established upon a basis of mutual respect and trust, and requires minimal or no physical enforcement.

(Above quoted with permission from " The Violence Potential " by Dr. Ernest Pecci, M.D.)

 Puppies and children must be guided and taught with respect the proper acceptable behavior to become a trustworthy, stable member of society. Children who experience aggression through physical punishment become aggressive because they are imitating the behavior of the parent. Parents who use forceful, dominant training techniques with the family dog are teaching the child that physical violence and intimidation are OK.Dominant training breaks the spiritual link of mutual respect between man and man’s best friend.

Each time you create a threatening situation for your dog, you condition and strengthen the survival instinct - translated into its fight or flight mechanism which is influenced by mental and physical strength. The powerful instinct of survival will prevail, as a natural expression of self preservation.

Training with respectful, humane methods, as a responsible owner demonstrates to others, especially children, values such as compassion towards all life and instills a lifelong appreciation of man’s best friend. By applying the principles of mutual respect, the spiritual bond is reinforced.

For more information on this topic, please see " Dog Whisper" written by C.W. Meisterfeld.