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Events
Doglinks News
Doggie Jokes
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggy Reading
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Dog Blog
Thanks to...
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Events
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Check our calendar, and if you know of any dog event, let us know.
http://doglinks.co.nz/calendar.htm

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Doglinks News
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Doglinks has attend the New Zealand Animal Companion Conference in Masterton in Sept 08. It was well attended with speakers Bob Kerridge, Chairman NZCAC, talks about The Human / Animal Bond (An inspiring audio visual presentation of the origins of the bond, the birth of the animal welfare movement, the passion that exists between the species, and how it is harnessed to our benefit), Indigenous peoples - where the bond began, Problem behaviours and the human / animal bond presented by Professor Emeritus, California, USA, and much more.
Doglinks is now a member of NZCAC.

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Doggies Jokes
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Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
--Mark Twain.

When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama.
--Mark Twain.

A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
--Edward Noyes Westcott 1846-1898 American Banger & Novelist.

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Doggy links
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Treat dogs like kids when it comes to baths- "I read somewhere that dogs have the intelligence of a 4-year-old child," Crystal Stout, pet stylist at Donna's Grooming Salon in Prescott, said. "So there's your answer. If you let them get away with it once, they'll do it every time."
http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=59339&TM=3746.501

Building A Submissive Dog's Confidence Some games that you can play.
http://www.devinefarm.net/articles/submiss.htm

Wolves make dog's dinner out of domestication theory Dogs are no better than wolves at picking up on human cues. That's the conclusion of animal psychologists who have compared the ability of the wolves and dogs to understand human hand signals.
http://tinyurl.com/4563wn

How to Teach Your Dog Left and Right Why would you want to teach your dog this? So he knows which way to turn once he runs to the end of the driveway.
http://www.clickertraining.com/node/1169

Mutt Muffs offer hearing protection for your four-legged family members.
http://www.safeandsoundpets.com

Agility from a dog's point of view (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFYjNf-0fQA

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Non-Doggy Sites
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When is it good for you? A good little website to help you and your mates find a suitable time.
http://www.whenisgood.net/

The Periodic table of Videos The crazy academics at the University of Nottingham have put this site together. There's a video explanation including cool scientific experiments for each of the chemical elements in the periodic table. Far from being boring and nonsensical, these guys make learning about science look fun, and more than a little dangerous.
http://www.periodicvideos.com

Strange Maps: Pop vs. Soda
www.popvssoda.com:2998/ countystats/total-county.html

T@DA- check out this caravan
http://www.tada-rv.com/index.php

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Doggy Reading
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 The Well-Connected Dog: A Guide to Canine Acupressure This book does for canine acupressure what my books do for human acupressure, presenting the traditional theory in an easily digestible way and making it very do-able. Just by reading this book and trying the stretches and the point recipes for common problems, you can help your dog's health. -- Iona Marsaa Teeguarden, MA, Author

Agility Training for You and Your Dog: From Backyard Fun to High-Performance Training by Ali & Joe Canova and Diane Goodspeed (nice name for agility) is very good -- nicely illustrated, some excellent hints. Ali Roukas-Canova is known for teaching running contacts.

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Non-Doggy Reading
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Revisiting a couple of books from my youth when the spy novel boom was fresh: The Spy's Bedside Book, an anthology compiled by Graham
Greene& Hugh Greene, and You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger by Roger Hall, an exceptionally funny account of his experiences in the OSS
during WW2. I've long wondered why no one has turned it into a movie.

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Quotes of the Week
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Charlie Brown once told Lucy: "I know you think you understand what I meant.
However, I wonder whether you understood that what I meant was not what I
said."

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
  - Evan Esar

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
  - Vladimir Nabokov

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.
  - Joey Bishop

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250.  
-- Harper's Index, 10/89

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Thanks to...
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Geoff Stern for providing the doggie reading links
If you have any interesting links, send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz and your name will be here:)