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Events
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggy Reading
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Dog Jokes
Thanks to...
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Events
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Caninology is bringing the signature 2 day (May 3-4, 2008) Introduction to Canine Massage to NZ for the first time ever!
http://www.caninology.com/info/course.asp?courseid=5
RSPCA Canterbury- free desexing- March and April 2008
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=112
Tellington TTouch in Auckland - March, 2008
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=108
Alumni Family Day - Tour of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital (Palmerston North) 24 February 2008
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=98
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Doggy links
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2008 Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race, starting Feb 9, in Fairbanks AK
www.yukonquest.com
1000 miles for people who think the Iditarod is wimpy
Retriever training
M&M Drill: Mind Candy
www.ponderosakennels.com/M&M %20Drill.htm
[Memory and marking]
Peter Lewis on the founding history of agility
www.agilitynet.com/history /foundinghistory.html
Pet Business Cards -- templates for printing 'em yourself
www.petbusinesscards.com
The Human-Companion Animal Bond: The Bond and Behavioral Aspects of
Feeding
http://www.mmilani.com/behavioral-aspects-feeding.html
Retriever training for gun dogs: From eight weeks to nine months
http://www.thegundogclub.co.uk/Reference/training/firstninemonths.htm
Dog Agility in Nambia
www.agilitynet.com/internation al/namibia.html
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Non-Doggy
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100 best mystery novels:
* Mystery Writers of America
www.mysterywriters.org/pages /resources/Top100.pdf
* H. R. F. Keating
www.classiccrimefiction.com /keating100.htm
* Independent Mystery Booksellers' Assn
www.mysterybooksellers.com /favorites.html
North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission
www.ncsweetpotatoes.com
[Interesting recipes]
The Most Dangerous Road in World
www.thecontaminated.com/the -most-dangerous-road-in-world
North Yungas Road is hands-down the most dangerous in the
world for motorists. This one clearly endangers your life. It runs in
the Bolivian Andes, 70 km from La Paz to Coroico, and plunges down
almost 3,600 meters in an orgy of extremely narrow hairpin curves and
800-meter abyss near-misses. A fatal accident happens there every couple
of weeks, 100--200 people perish there every year. In 1995 the
Inter-American Development Bank named the La Paz-to-Coroico route 'the
world's most dangerous road'
A Barrel Full of Fun (Jim Wegryn)
www.jimwegryn.com
[Names, words, notions, etc.]
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Doggy Reading
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A poem by William Stafford, "Choosing a Dog":
"It's love," they say. You touch
the right one and a whole half of the universe
wakes up, a new half.
Some people never find
that half, or they neglect it or trade it
for money or success and it dies.
The faces of big dogs tell, over the years,
that size is a burden: you enjoy it for awhile
but then maintenance gets to you.
When I get old I think I'll keep, not a little
dog, but a serious dog,
for the casual, drop-in criminal --
My kind of dog, unimpressed by
dress or manner, just knowing
what's really there by the smell.
Your good dogs, some things that they hear
they don't really want you to know --
it's too grim or ethereal.
And sometimes when they look in the fire
they see time going on and someone alone,
but they don't say anything.
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Quotes of the Week
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting
convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. -- Russell,
"Dreams and Facts," in *Sceptical Essays*
The only real power comes out of a long rifle. -- Stalin [Cf. Mao:
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"]
Every man who knows to the minutest details all the complexity of the
conditions surrounding him, cannot help imagining that the complexity of
these conditions, and the difficulty of making them clear, is something
exceptional and personal, peculiar to himself, and never supposes that
others are surrounded by just as complicated an array of personal
affairs as he is. -- Tolstoy
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Dog Jokes
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A man bitten by a dog, whether the animal is mad or not, is apt to get mad himself.
--George D. Prentice 1802-1870 American Journalist & Humorist.
Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.
--Francois Rabelais 1495-1583 French Humorist.
I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark.
--Shakespeare.
About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog.
--Edgar Watson Houe 1853-1937 American Journalist.
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Thanks to...
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Geoff Stern for providing the links, articles, and quotes.
If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:) |
