Choosing a Pet Is a dog right for you?

Take the breed selector

How to Select Dog Breeds

"What is the right dog for me and my family? What would be the perfect breed?" Some great questions to ask yourself before getting a pet.

What kind of dog would you get, and say why you would get it. Send a small picture too.

(example: small house, hunting skills, want to do agility, lazy person for a lazy dog, time for lots of walks, rabbit hunting skills, etc)

Take the The Responsible Pet Quiz

Click on Pet Needs

Is This the Best Time To Adopt A Pet? Pets add fun, companionship and love to our lives, but they're also a big responsibility.

Rank the 6 most important things that you think makes a great pet owner.

Why did you rank them the way you did? Why is what you wrote for #1 more important than #3 or #6?

Find out how much a dog eats?

Make a list in a spreadsheet or in Word on what it will cost to have keep/care for a dog.

Example: a bowl, food, toys, collars, leads, training, boarding kennels or pet sitters, vet, immunisations.

How to teach a dog old tricks, and new dog tricks?

Lots of ideas for you and your dog.

Tell us how you trained your dog to do something... Write a step-by-step guide.

For example, how do you train a dog to roll-over? to sit? to come when called? to stop digging in the garden?

12 General Rules for Training Dogs Rules You Should Know

Some training rules

Matty's Training Tips

Some question and answer to some dog training issues.

Play Go Fetch, and see if you learned what Matty said in the Q and A section. It's sort of like a quiz section.

What are some things you need to remember when you train a dog?

Name 8, and explain what you mean, or give examples.

The Do's & Don'ts on being safe around dogs and what responsible dog ownership is all about.

Go to page 5 out of 7

Make a poster on paper or on the computer to tell kids how to be safe around dogs.

Make it on an A4 page so that it can be scanned on placed on a website

Our dog's body language-- some pictures

Talking Dog: Body Language Understand what dogs are "saying"

Take the "body language" quiz

Did you know that when a dog yawns, it's calming itself. What are the other signs?

Observe two off-lead dogs when they first met. These dogs should not know each other.

How do their ears look, their body posture, eye contact...? Observe how they communication.

Write your report in Word.

Remember: Go with an adult to watch the dogs interact.

EXTRA

Take the animal quiz at the RSPCA in Australia.

Kids, Animals and Fun have painting, puzzles and fetch activities online.

Wolves and Dogs: Fact and Fiction Think you know where dogs came from? How much they have in common with their ancestors? Or what they're really trying to tell you when they bark? Take this quiz and find out.

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So You Say You Want to Become a Veterinarian ...Here's How

Here's some information on what it really takes, and some helpful hints on how to determine if this is really what you want. And if you decide it is, I've included some tips on how to get there.

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Check out the
Animal Cams

How smart is your dog? Take the hands-on quiz.
And there are videos

Are you Talking to Me
The very interesting transcript about dog and cat language

Have you seen this movie?

Dogs at Work!

Email me a picture to put in here

natalie@doglinks.co.nz

Seeeee... dogs can read!

OTHER RESOURCES:

dogchow.com

www.dogbreedinfo.com

www.thepetcenter.com

www.kidsanddogs.com

www.peteducation.com

Links updated in Feb 2009. Let me know if you find others that don't work

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