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Events
Doggy links
Non-Doggy Sites
Doggie Videos
Non-Doggy Reading
Quotes of the Week
Thanks to...
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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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Evolution of mondioring (Francis Metcalf)
www.friendsofthefamily.info/ Site/Decoy_Evolution.html

Waccamaw Supply Co. Horse Tack & Working K9 Equipment (NC)
www.waccamawsupply.com

PooopTrap - this is really weird. I wonder if I'll ever see them in use, in real life!
www.pootrapusa.com

Thoughts on "hunt theory" in search dogs (Susan Martinez)
www.swsdogs.org/Articles/ AnotherpointofviewonHuntDrive/ tabid/57/Default.aspx

The year's weirdest animals - you'll be glad to hear that it's not the dog.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16320-the-years-weirdest-animals.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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Non-Doggy Sites
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Chinese pregnancy calendar to predict gender of child --various URLs
all over the Web
* www.mypregnancyguide.com/ ChinesePregnancyCalendar.html
* www.chinesepregnancycalendar. webkbj.com

Fimoculous list of lists for 2008
www.fimoculous.com/year- review-2008.cfm
[Irresistible -- master index to all those other lists, from various magazines, Web sites, etc. You can also check the lists going back to 2001]

Crunks 2008: The Year in Media Errors and Corrections
www.regrettheerror.com/regret- articles/crunks-2008-the-year- in-media-e
rrors-and-corrections
[Don't miss the apology from Dave Barry]

Indexed -- Jessica Hagy's funny cartoons using Venn diagrams
www.thisisindexed.com

E-mail to cell phone
www.makeuseof.com/tag/email- to-sms

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Doggy Videos
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Canine shoplifter (1:46) CNN- A shoplifting dog leaves store employees scratching their heads.
http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/offbeat/2008/12/25/doggie.steals.bone.ksl

Orphan Annie Wagging As She Goes Home For Holidays A nice story of a loving little girl golden retriever that was shot and left for dead. RAGOM , retrieve a golden of Minnesota, funds have been coming in to help defray the cost of her healing process, somewhere close to $15,000.
http://wcco.com/pets/annie.home.holidays.2.894623.html

A list of webcams in NZ (non-doggie videos)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/0a26682.html?source=nav

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Non-Doggy Reading
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*The Expert's Guide to Doing Things Faster: 100 Ways to Make Life More Efficient* is the latest compendium of practical wisdom by Samantha
Ettus. It includes, for example, advice on curing a stomach ache by Crazy Legs Conti, said to be Major League Eating's 11th ranked
competitive eater. (I'm not making this up.) Conti offers a persuasive endorsement for an Italian digestif called Fernet-Branca. Who knows.

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Quotes of the Week
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If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
-- Diderot

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.  
-- Thoreau, letter

You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in
your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not
now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the
questions now.
-- Rilke, *Letters to a Young Poet*

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethos . where you have the values of courage and
tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of
nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.
-- Ezra Pound

A newspaper has three things to do.  One is to amuse, another is to entertain, and the rest is to mislead.
-- Ernest Bevin

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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:)