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Events
In our Forum
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggy Reading
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Thanks to...
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Events
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Susan Friedman PhD- Auckland- July 2008
http://doglinks.co.nz/events/Susan_Friedman/index.htm

Free Dog Food
http://www.beneful.co.nz/content/default.html

Dog Day Out Christchurch July 2008
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=187

ANY other EVENTS?? let us know... natalie@doglinks.co.nz

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In the Forum
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Controversy over The Dog Whisperer's training methods- have your say
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=178

Introducing a new puppy into the house
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=184

Dog- free to good home
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=185

Dog Walks- where do you think?
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewforum.php?id=15

Should you vaccinate your dog?
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=180

Banning dog breeds, is it the answer
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=183

Training Search & Rescue Guy & Dog need a home!
http://www.doglinks.co.nz/myforums/viewtopic.php?id=181

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Doggy links
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Ear Cleaner recipe
www.milbroseretrievers.com /purple_ear_solution.htm

Working Dog Photography
www.workingdogphotography.com
[Terrific pictures, all of 'em]

Small Dog, Big Attitude
www.deesdogs.com/documents /smalldogbigattitude.pdf

Temperament in Dogs: Its Role in Decision Making
* www.videxgsd.com/PDF/Understan ding%20Dogs.pdf
* www.videxgsd.com/understanding _dogs.htm

Mating Strategies and Selection Indices: How to Pick Breeding Animals for the Next Generation
www.doggenetics.com/selection _index.html

10 Rules for Dog Training
www.canadianshihtzuclub.ca /Articles/10%20Rules....htm

Advice on exercise for your dog
www.veterinarypartner.com /Content.plx?P=A&A=2266 , 1396, 2477, AND 1719
[Esp. useful hints on case where the dog has some physical limitations
or when the handler does]

The Ultimate Guide to Your Very First Obedience Trial
www.briard.com/articles /jtbakcfd.html

The intelligence of dogs They're smart, but not in the ordinary way
How smart are dogs, really?
http://www.dogsincanada.com/Default.aspx?tabid=64&iID=61

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Non-Doggy Sites
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Swooping -- "extreme skydiving"
* www.swooping.net
* www.skydiveworld.com/english /swooping.html
[See also www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09 /sports/othersports/09canopy .html ]

Hummingbirds.net -- information on attracting, watching, feeding hummingbirds
www.hummingbirds.net
[Ever see a couple of 'em fight? Pit bull terriers look wimpy by comparison]

*Ulyssses* for Dummies
http://home.bway.net/hunger /ulysses.html
[June 16 is Bloomsday]

Strange Maps: Manhattan neighborhoods
http://strangemaps.wordpress .com/2006/09/24/10-manhattan -neighbourhoods

Recipes: A white sport coat and a pink crustacean

        Barbecued Shrimp with Cheese Grits
www.foodandwine.com/recipes /barbecued-shrimp-with-cheese -grits
AND cheese-grits

        Spicy Sautéed Shrimp and Cheese Grits
www.gumbopages.com/food /seafood/crooks-shrimpgrits .html

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Doggy Reading
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Two new books which look to be superb:
Diane Bauman's long-awaited Agility Start to Finish, and
Betty Mueller's About Tracking Dog Training: Creating a Problem Solving Partnership.

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Non-Doggy Reading
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I don't know if years from now, people will read Wendell Berry or dismiss him as a minor primitive. I think he's more than that. Here's a couple of stanzas from one of his Sabbath poems:

          IV

        Ask the world to reveal its quietude --
        not the silence of machines when they are still,
        but the true quiet by which birdsongs,
        trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms
        become what they are, and are nothing else.

          VI

        Sit and be still
        until in the time
        of no rain you hear
        beneath the dry wind's
        commotion in the trees
        the sound of flowing
        water among the rocks,
        a stream unheard before,
        and you are where
        breathing is prayer.

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Quotes of the Week
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build
and nobody wants to do maintenance.
-- Vonnegut

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are
surrounded by what we desire.
-- Rumi

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people
in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the
manifestations of their aggression.
-- Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

True affluence is not needing anything. -- Gary Snyder

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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:)