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What's new
Events
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggy Reading
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Dog Blog
Thanks to...
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What's new
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Doglinks' has a new mind map. Now it's easier than ever to find information.

http://www.doglinks.co.nz/mindmap.htm

 

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Events
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Check our calendar for the latest dog events
http://doglinks.co.nz/calendar.htm

Send in your dog events. No charge for listings...


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Doggy links
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Truth About Pet Food
http://www.truthaboutpetfood.com/

FDA Gives Pet Food Companies a Loophole to By-Pass Law
http://www.naturalnews.com/024413.html

Building PVC jumps
http://www.geocities.com/ secretsdarkandstrange/jumps

How does my puppy learn? (John Rogerson)
www.johnrogerson.com/puppy. html

When puppies play, it's ladies first During puppy play, young males sometimes put themselves in a position where they can be taken advantage of by their female playmates. The early behavior could serve them well later in life, say researchers.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27102810/

Way to Weave -- agility weave poles
www.waytoweave.com

Fossil of world's first dog -- over 31,000 yrs ago -- in Belgium
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27240370
["Remains for the older prehistoric dog, which were excavated at Goyet Cave in Belgium, suggest to the
researchers that the Aurignacian people of Europe from the Upper Paleolithic period first domesticated dogs."  So, the first domestic
dog was possibly un berger belge --
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/ 2008/10/17/paleolithic-dog- skull.html

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Non-Doggy Sites
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Are you on Facebook?- The following is a good read Facebook in a Crowd It makes my real life feel real now.

Whole Latte Love online store for coffee, tea, and equipment
www.wholelattelove.com

Recumbent bicycles -- various:
* www.bentrideronline.com
* www.cruzbike.com
* www.sunbicycles.com

Figures of Reasoning
http://rhetoric.byu.edu/ Figures/Groupings/of% 20Reasoning.htm
Enthymeme, sortites, anthypophora (a favorite of Donald Rumsfeld's)....

Snowy Tree Cricket Snowy Tree Crickets can tell you the temperature (no kidding). Just count the number of their chirps in 13 seconds (okay, I'll admit, you often have to record them and slow it down to count!) and add 40, and you've go the temp in F. (taken from Patricia McConnell blog)

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Doggy Reading
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Dog Talk: Lessons Learned from a Life with Dogs by Harrison Forbes is pleasant reading with some interesting insights and reminiscences of some quirky, difficult dogs. Forbes has a syndicated radio show, "Pet Talk," which doesn't seem to be carried around here. He got started in dog training with a neighbor's Terv. (Warning: the story ends sadly, as I suppose all boy & dog stories must.)

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Non-Doggy Reading
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We are accepting your reviews here.

Send them to natalie@doglinks.co.nz
Subject line: book review for Doglinks

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Quotes of the Week
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The way to teach a young dog is to address yourself to it as one
personality to another, to speak to its soul, and to credit it with
the capacity to understand and to respond.
-- Lt. Col. Richardson

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the
things I don't.
-- Maugham, *The Painted Veil*

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do
anything.
-- Floyd Dell

The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of
trolls.
--Father Robert Capon

But I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my
mind.
--Eric Hoffer, *Before the Sabbath*

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Dog Blog
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Patricia McConnell , Ph.D., a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist. She is known worldwide as an expert on canine and feline behavior and training.
[i love reading her new blog. Some gems that come out of her blog...: "Did you know that most dogs are 'left pawed' but ones who are ambidexterous (holding down a Kong with either paw) have a higher incidence of separation anxiety, just as people who are ambidexterous have a higher incidence of generalized anxiety?". And she's coming to New Zealand in 2010.

Growing up Wolf at the Red River Zoo This blog is intended to keep you updated on the growth of our wolf pups.

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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:)