Sue Murray-K9COMMS -Tips for Christmas/New Year
Wed, Dec 19th, 2007 12:08:15 am
Hello to you all,
Yes, it is fast approaching Christmas and the end of another year.
Of course a lovely time to be sharing with family and friends but also a time when the SPCA'S are full to overflowing and when puppies are considered as Christmas presents.
Things I feel that we should be mindful of at this time of year:
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Remember not to leave your canine friend in the car - best they stay at home where they can remain cool and relaxed.
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Puppies and dogs are a lifetime commitment so if you are considering giving one for Christmas consider if the person is prepared for that commitment and it is not a 'SPECIAL SURPRISE' for them. Â
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This can also be a great time to take in one of those less fortunate dogs from your local pound, SPCA or Rescue centre.  If you are not planning to go away it is a perfect time to really bond with your new friend and spend time 'getting it right'.
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Remember if you are taking your dog to the beach do observe the restrictions in place and ALWAYS clean up any mess your dog makes so that everyone can enjoy our little slice of paradise.
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Last but certainly not least, have fun with your beloved pets and spend time with them.  If you have some free time you might also like to help out for an hour or two at your local SPCA - they would certainly appreciate any donations of time, food or blankets.
Lastly, I would like to thank ZIWIPEAK for the assistance they have given me this year to help dogs through my Trust - dogs that are abondoned or ill treated.
Thanks too for your support at the Jan Fennell events I have organized this year.  I look forward to taking this to a new level next year.
Have a safe and cheerful Christmas with your family and friends, human and canine.
See you in 2008.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Sue Murray
K9COMMS
New Zealand
Tucker the Yorkshire Terrier
Fri, Nov 30th, 2007 12:06:16 am
We asked our consumers in the global market why they feed ZiwiPeak.
Norma Francis replies for 'Tucker the Yorkshire Terrier'.
Well let me be the biggest fan in North America.
I started using the 'Venison Dog Cuisine' food recipe just three weeks ago and my 11 year old Yorkshire Terrier - 'Tucker' is living proof your product works.  I had to put Lexus, Tuckers mother to sleep just recently and he wouldn't eat his Royal Canin Yorkshire #28 or any other food I put in front of him.
I received a few samples of the ZiwiPeak 'Venison moist canned' recipe and he was off eating again.  I am now also adding the air-dried Cuisine with the moist can formula and he loves it.
The other day I gave Tucker a bath and his coat is shinning and bright and that is just after three weeks on your product! It used to take at least two or three days after a bath for the shine to come back to his coat.
I've had so many compliments on him from strangers and other Yorkie owners.  I am selling your praise high, low left and right.
Tucker never looked 11yrs old but now he looks super great!
Thanks for a great product and if you ever need someone in the Puyallup, Washington area to represent your product I'll be your person.
Sincerely
Tucker Yorshire Terrier and Norma Francis.
Jan Fennell-'The Dog Listener' & Sue Murray-K9COMMS
Sat, Oct 27th, 2007 12:04:01 am
Hello again,
During the later part of September and into early October, I hosted Jan Fennell, 'The Dog Listener' from the United Kingdom as she toured to New Plymouth and Auckland in the North Island of New Zealand holding a series of talks and courses.
As you can imagine, it was a hectic time but wonderful to see so many people now searching for a kinder and more natural way of solving those behavioural problems.
I would like to thank ZIWIPEAK for their kind and generous donation of bags of Cuisine dog food, dog treats and moist Cuisine canned food which contributed to two wonderful raffle prizes at each of our talks.  The proceeds from these raffles went to two well deserved organizations namely 'Hearing Dogs for Deaf People' and 'The Auckland Zoo Conservation Fund'.
I would also like to thank ZIWIPEAK for the giveaway packs which each attendee at the talks received.
Once again, it was wonderful to be supported by such a ultra premium All Natural brand from New Zealand.
Sue Murray
KPCOMMS
New Zealand
The Complete Diet
Thu, Oct 25th, 2007 12:02:06 am
Anton Sosic from Western Australia email our 'ZiwiPeak Vet ' to talk about differences in Cats and Dogs diets.
Anton asked as follows:
Do you have cat specific meals?  I have been lead to believe dog food should never be given to cats due to fat content differences and some ingredients that are deemed dog safe are toxic to cats.
I am very interested to learn more about your product so we can commence our two 7-month old Burmese kittens on a healthier, more nutritional diet.  Currently they enjoy fresh beef and eukanuba biscuits but we have been enormously disappointed in the quality of 'high-end' brands of canned food.
I look forward to your reply
Best Wishes Anton Sosic.
ZiwiPeak replies:
Meet Elvis - He's in New Zealand
Mon, Oct 20th, 2008 11:56:01 am
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Hi Kimberly and the ZiwiPeak team.
I am writing to you to thank you for the box of ZiwiPeak pet food that you so kindly sent me.  Next time I see you at Joe's Garage in Queenstown I will give you a big lick to express my appreciation for the delicious food and treats that taste soooooooooo good and 'REAL MEAT' hooray someone has finally worked out that we dogs need meat.
I was wondering if I could do a spot of marketing down here.  I have lots of dog friends and we all meet at Joe's with our owners for a catch up most days so would love to spread the word about ZiwiPeak and pass a few treats around.
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The Venison and Green Lipped Mussel are the best, in fact I feel like a spring chicken when I have eaten these.  I am bouncing around annoying everyone especially Ken my dad as he likes to think he's got control of me but guess what I am in control.
I think I'd be a great looking ZiwiPeak dog for the Queenstown area so look forward to catching up over a latte and a treat next time you are down.
Wooff, Wuff ,Wuff to all you fellow dogs out there and
'GO ZIWIPEAK'.
Stopped Eating- from the USA
Fri, Oct 19th, 2007 11:49:03 am
My name is Catherine Tancrelle from Raleigh in North Carolina.
I have two dogs and one of them, my female has stopped eating for the last week and a half.
The other one has become very picky which is very unlike him. Â
I decided to try your ZiwiPeak-Venison and they are now both back eating.
My female dog also has some immune deficiency issues and in just the few days she has been on ZiwiPeak I can see a difference.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for making a food that is good for them and they will eat.
Sincerely,
Catherine Tancrelle.
ZiwiPeak and K9COMMS
Wed, Sep 5th, 2007 11:44:01 am
When Sue Murray- K9COMMS rang me to tell me about her business I could hear the same passion in her voice that ZiwiPeak has so I asked her to come and have a further talk and to experience ZiwiPeak first hand.
Straight away I could see a fit between the two of us as Sue had the same ideals on nutrition for Dogs & Cats and could really understand how we had based ZiwiPeak on what a wild animal ie. the Wolf would eat in the wild.  The other point that appealed was her working with Jan Fennell the 'Dog Listener' from the UK as Sue identifies with Jan's methods from the Wolf pack when she rescues dogs or is taking her obedience classes.
From our initial meeting we have asked Sue to be part of the ZiwiPeak website so we can keep up with her wonderful progress.
I give you Sue Murray-K9COMMS.
My name is Sue Murray and I would firstly like to thank ZiwiPeak for the opportunity to contribute to this website.Â
I started up my business ‘K9COMMS' which is based here in Tauranga, after returning from the UK having completed the Foundation and Advanced Canine Courses with the world renowned Dog Listener ‘Jan Fennell'.Â
My business is built around Jan's principles of showing that you are the leader of the pack, but doing so in a kind and gentle way with no need for gadgets, drugs or any harsh treatments of any kind. Jan has modeled her methods on the wolf pack and how they elect their ‘Alpha leader'.
I now offer private consultations so that anyone who cares and wants the best for their dog, can learn this method too. The result, A Stress Free Happy Dog.
I also work with one of the local vets teaching puppy owners how to implement this method through our ‘puppy classes'.Â
I am able to speak from experience as some years ago I took into my care a ‘rescue dog' as they are so commonly termed. The problem was that I had no skills to cope with the myriad of behavioural problems she presented me with. I was ill-equipped to show her that I could be the leader of her pack because I tried to communicate with her in my language and not hers. That is where I was going wrong.Â
With the best of intentions, I sort the help of traditional obedience classes but they just didn't teach me how to live with her in my own home, how to overcome those classical problems which I see at most consultations, the pulling on the lead, jumping up on people, barking, the list can be endless.
I went down many avenues, all with the same result. Some treatments I found too harsh, some I just hated but was told that ‘this will work' and in the moment of frustration, I felt I had no choice.
So I began a journey searching for something that did work and when I saw Jan Fennell on the television some years later, I just knew that this was it, a gentle way of getting your dog to co-operate with you because he/she wants to.
So now I have five dogs of my own and take in dogs from the Western Bay of Plenty pound which are going to be destroyed. I do this through the Charitable Trust I have set up called ‘K9COMMS - ADOPT CHARITABLE TRUST'.
They live in my home with my very understanding husband, two young children, two cats and I also can see how they behave around our chickens and stock. This helps me to get to know them and place them in the right homes.  Â
I would like to thank ZiwiPeak for supporting this work by supplying the food and the treats I use as positive reinforcement. To be able to feed these dogs, some of which come to me in such a terrible state, a high quality food such as ZiwiPeak, is a truly wonderful.  I like to feed my dogs the type of food a wolf would eat in the wild, i.e. a balanced real meat food, with bones, instead of a food thats highly processed and full of additives and preservatives.Â
I look forward to sharing more of my stories and experiences in the months to follow.
You can learn more about this trust on my website www.k9comms.co.nz.
Thank you, Sue Murray - New Zealand
ZiwiPeak seeks European Distributors
Tue, Sep 4th, 2007 11:42:12 am
ZiwiPeak seeks European Distributors to Expand Brand Availability.
ZiwiPeak is expanding its global market in Europe.  Already the ZiwiPeak brand is available in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Holland but ZiwiPeak is planning to grow the brands European presence and ensure Pet lovers in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Scandinanvia are also able to buy ZiwiPeak at their local pet food stores and Holistic Vets.
If you know a reputable pet food distributor servicing any of these markets or an interested retailer we would love to hear from you.
Please contact us at www.ziwipeak.com and help us bring the ZiwiPeak advantage to the world.
ZiwiPeak - The Science is Simple - REAL MEAT - as Nature Intended
Thanks
The ZiwiPeak Team.
Ferrets Anyone?
Wed, Aug 1st, 2007 11:38:01 am
Teresa writes:
I just wanted to share with you all why ZiwiPeak Cuisine is proving so important to us.
Over the past several years, we have had the joy of owning several ferrets in fact 16.  At the current time, I have 7 fur faces and have always fed them the dry food called Totally Ferret which was recommended by the local "Ferret Aid Society".
While I truly love having Ferrets as pets, I have however, encountered quite a lot of medical problems; adrenal gland disease and insulinoma.  Several of my Ferrets were receiving monthly injections for the adrenal gland and several were being monitored for insulinoma.  A few of the Ferrets receiving the injections were no longer responding and we were considering the next course of action as well as looking at what our options were to deal with the insulinoma.
I was not completely convinced to move forward with the traditional medical choices offered and started investigating alternatives.  I found quite a bit of information on the higher incidence of these medical problems in North American Ferrets compared to their European counterparts.
There are different theories as to whether these problems are genetic or diet.  As I could not do anything about genetic, I opted to investigate the diet route.  Research told me that Ferrets are true carnivores and cannot properly digest grains, vegetables or fruit.
I ruled out live food as the Ferrets probably wouldn't know what to do with it.
The pet food stores have a wealth of product available, but much of it contains grains, fruits or vegetables.  I even had one store tell me that it was the same as a wild diet.  I'm not sure where they're getting their information from but there is a difference between eating a rabbit who has partially-digested vegetable matter in it's stomach or intestines to adding a carrot to chopped up chicken meat.  I even tried buying a whole chicken and cooking it and grinding it myself.  It turns out Ferrets are terribly finnickty eaters.
It's hard to get them to switch.  I tried several different frozen and wet products.  None of these were my favourite choices as Ferrets eat often and they love to store their food away.  I wasn't crazy about the thought of coming across week old chicken under the couch.  I needed a dry product so I could free feed.
I continued keeping my eyes open and finally came across your dried ZiwiPeak product for cats and started using a combination of the lamb and venison recipes. Â
After many months of weaning the ferrets off kibble, this is now their entire diet.  I can't tell you how much of a difference this has made.  They have never been healthier.  None of the Ferrets are receiving any injections for adrenal gland now.  All the hair loss has grown back (except my oldest).  Their coats are beautiful and they are stronger, more active and alert.  I have one old Ferret who had quite extreme symptoms including total hair loss, a strong offensive odour, lack of energy, aggressive behaviour, odd fixations and bouncing between extreme fat gain and extreme weight loss.  She is now a totally happy, strong and active Ferret, except not all her hair has come back. I am told it may never grow back but we'll wait and see.
Thanks for helping me with your ZiwiPeak Cuisine food for my Ferrets and I look forward to them enjoying a long, healthy life.
Teresa Medeiros,
Burlington. Ontario. Canada.
Laurie Steyn-Letter from North American consumer
Thu, May 17th, 2007 11:34:01 am
Laurie Steyn wrote to our gal on the ground in the USA Kathy Long/Director of Marketing & Sales to tell her about her cats and how they have changed since she started buying ZiwiPeak Cat Cuisine.
Laurie writes:
Dear Kathy,
We just started using your food due to the latest Royal Canin recall of our allergy dry cat food.
In just a few days I've noticed a drastic improvement in our cats health, in particular one of the cats has a herpes eye infection that was causing sneezing and coughing. After only one day on your food her eyes stopped running and sneezing stopped and she is very energetic again. The other cat who has the allergies is also doing fine with none of the usual side effects of food change.
We buy at GLOBAL PET FOODS here in Toronto.
Thanks
Laurie Steyn.
Coco's Birthday
Thu, May 3rd, 2007 11:27:25 am
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Well look at me, I am all grown up and I am now 1 year old and just love my life.
I didn't know when I was a puppy that I was joining the ZiwiPeak family but I do now and boy have I had a great 1st year.
I live on a golf course, 800 feet above sea level and look out from my country kennel at the surrounding area of rolling hills, forestry and the beautiful sea and islands that they call the Bay of Plenty.
Mum spoils me quite a bit since the boys have all grown up and left home so I am her girl and go everywhere she goes even into restaurants and cafe's.
I even have a godmother at Pacifica Garden's called Bonnie. Mum called in to show me off as a puppy and when she saw me it bought back all the memories of her departed Labrador so Mum said would she like to be godmother to me and she said yes and so I am and its cool.
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I eat the best food & treats in the world ZiwiPeak and have plenty of bones and we hunt for rabbit's on the golf course so I get plenty of exercise and a treat at the end of it, if we catch anything.
I have lots of friends & family that visit or come to work. Benny my Fox Terrier friend is our green keepers dog and I see him daily as he joins me for breakfast and if the weather is really nice I spend the day with him and his dad Rod on the golf course.
Then I have Belle another Fox Terrier but a girl like me and she has lots of whiskers and she comes to work say twice a week. Her Mum is Karen and she works for ZiwiPeak as head of documentation for all our exports. We have great fun at ZiwiPeak running around and messing the place up, have treats usually ZiwiPeak Venison & Green Mussel and Mum takes us down to the park for a rabbit stake out for exercise.
I have my very own cousin's.  There's Hunnie, she's a Dachshund real small and tan and Peggy-Sue she's an older dog and they live in Whangamata which is a cool beach resort with lots of surf and sandy beaches.
We see them quite a lot because Mum's family lives there and we always have real exciting adventures, like beach walks and throwing sticks in the big waves and I have to go in and fetch them.  Sometimes it can be real scary but Mum is always there keeping an eye on me.  We sometimes have parties and the cousins and I dress up with hats and new collars and we really get spoilt.
I see my Mum (Lucy Prole) quite a bit as her Mum and my Mum are friends so she comes and checks me out to make sure that I am behaving myself and gives me the quiet cuddle on the side and a few words of wisdom as I am still learning alot.
Oscar, is my new brother and he's a furry cat.  He's grumpy all the time.  Mum gave me a teddy for Christmas and I have been trying to get him to play with me and my teddy but he's not interested. His kind of game is baiting me around corners and attacking me with his claws which hurts but I am no fool now and if he does this too many times I get him back by getting to his food bowl first and eating all of his ZiwiPeak and that really gets him upset.
My birthday celebration was the best. Mum & Dad and my doggy Mum (Lucy) got friends over for a luncheon and they cracked a bottle of Moet and sang Happy Birthday to me and Lucy and I got a feast of Venison and ZiwiPeak for lunch and a special birthday cake with candles. It was the best.
I still have a lot to learn and realise that I am only young and have at least another year before I am fully mature but I am enjoying the journey and who knows in the future I may have a family of puppies myself.
Love Coco
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Coco & Belle-My friend
Sat, Mar 3rd, 2007 11:15:01 am
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Here's is my girlfriend Belle.  She visits ZiwiPeak Limited a couple of times a week for games, treats, bones and lunch.  We have so much fun at the ZiwiPeak headquarters.
We had to pose for photos the other day and Mum told us that it was going on the website so look really gorgeous.  Well this wasn't an easy task for us as posing is hard, (tummy in, tongue in, and if possible smile).  Well a lot to remember for two modern ZiwiPeak girls.Â
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Love Coco   xxxxxxxxxx
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Contaminated Petfood Scare in the USA. Comments from our General Manager and Team at ZiwiPeak New Zealand.
Fri, Mar 30th, 2007 11:13:23 am
With the recent tragic events across the USA from contaminated products out of China, I really feel for the pet owners concerned and hate to imagine being in the same situation.
I know my pets are safe because they eat ZiwiPeak and that made me decide I needed to put this knowledge down for other pet owners that feed their pets ZiwiPeak, to set their minds at ease.
As the list of ingredients increases that are being added to petfood, I can again state that the only additives to ZiwiPeak are for health reasons, including essential vitamins and minerals.
The sources of these are long standing companies that are (like us) continuously audited.
The main ingredients, the meat and organs are from animals bred, born and raised in New Zealand, are naturally pasture fed without hormones and growth enhancers and processed under very strict Government supervision.
Our aim is to make the best petfood in the world, based on what a hunting animal would have eaten in the wild and we can produce this using the safest of raw ingredients.  Rest assured.
Some questions that I have been asked lately:
What has this current situation done for ZiwiPeak?
It has of course elevated its profile, interest and sales.  People are moving to a RAW MEAT DIET THAT NATURE INTENDED.
What will this do to the industry?
Hopefully more than just increase regulation.
What will people think?
They will realise the dangers of having unnecessary, unnatural or foreign additives to their pet's digestive system.  Dogs and Cats never ate grain, rice, fruit and vegetables by choice, let alone any of the "binders or fillers" that get added to help form these petfoods.
What will happen next?
Hopefully more people will feed their precious pets ZIWPEAK.Â
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