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One
of the major assets of Greenies® is the aid to digestibility
of other foods.
There
is no doubt that this does occur (trials show 10% less food
needs to be fed when animals are getting 1 Greenies® per day)
but there has been some speculation as to the mechanism.
Lon Lewis, nutrition guru from the USA, has a rational explanation.
Greenies® are made from concentratedwheat protein.
The process of concentrating the wheat protein means removing
all the wheaten flour or starch.
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This
not only leaves concentrated protein but also concentrates
the soluble fibre.
The high level of soluble fibre is a valuable source of volatile
fatty acids in the dog’s gut.
These
volatile fatty acids are used as an energy source by epithelial
cells in the intestine and this provision of high levels of
energy means that the epithelial cells are much more active
and so absorb nutrients much more readily.
Hence the increased digestibility of dog food when Greenies®
are fed!
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With
the launch of Greenies® taking some intense training of representatives
it was decided to use the whole rep force, while they were
in the Auckland region, to call on virtually every practice
in the city on the one day.
The
team of 8 was split up 2 per car and sent on their way.
From such a situation it was inevitable that a story or two
would emerge from the chaos and our intrepid southern pair
certainly did not let us down on that score.
The two area managers from the South proved to be country
boys in the big city when they were accidentally caught up
in the middle of a real life armed offenders alert.
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are cops running up behind us with guns!" |
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In a scene reminiscent of the Biggin Hill control centre during
the Battle of Britain, their excited and garbled voices were
actually heard over an in car speaker phone during the engagement.
First
of all Simon Couper was in the middle of a run down about
one particular call when he suddenly shouted, “there are cops
running up behind us with guns!”
Nagy
Kostandy’s voice could then
be
heard talking about yellow lines,
which only added to the confusion.
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It turns out
that there were police with guns, materializing all around their
car after they
had parked to the side of the road.
Nagy, in his
rural innocence, first thought they were targeted because they
were parked on a double yellow line and wanted to move the car, and then
was most concerned that he did not have his seat belt on.
Fortunately for our heroes,
they did not have to worry about explaining away their crimes. The armed
police rushed right past them to stop a ute and drag the driver from the
car, forcing him to the ground at gunpoint.
We never found out what this
individual was arrested for but can only assume it must be for a crime
far more heinous than stopping by a yellow line.
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